I knew pretty much nothing about Burkina Faso as we started our Burkina Faso unit, primarily because I hated geography when I was in school. My 6th grade geography unit was horribly done, and primarily consisted of all the incredibly boring stuff about countries, nothing that … [Read more...]
Africa Unit
Sometimes we form odd associations. There is this absolutely silly video of countries playing Risk at the end of the video the different countries playing all decide to invade Africa, because that's what all of Europe did in the 1800s. I'm not really sure why it didn't happen … [Read more...]
Eritrea Unit
Our study of Eritrea was not a happy one. I know, this is a strange way to start off the post, but sometimes geography lessons make me sad when I learn about the country. Our Eritrea Unit made me sad because there are so many things that could be going great with the country, but … [Read more...]
Djibouti Unit
Prior to learning about Djibouti, I had no clue how to pronounce it. Apparently, I'm also randomly adding an extra "I" because autocorrect told me my spelling was wrong. Sigh, okay but seriously, it's an interesting country to learn about and our Djibouti Unit was a great … [Read more...]
Angola Unit
Growing up I watched Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. At the end of each episode, the winning team would have to put beacons on a map in a minute. Every time Africa came up the kids would groan and everyone would think, well that's it, they're not going to do well. How is … [Read more...]