There are so many cool countries in the world, and I have to admit I wish I had a much bigger travel budget, and more time than I do. Looking at pictures of Ecuador I want to see it, it looks amazing. Let's dig into our Ecuador Unit for geography lessons as part of a South … [Read more...]
South America Unit
Before we started learning about South America for our geography. I knew a couple of things. I knew about the Amazon River and the rain forest. You can't have grown up in the 90s and not heard about the rain forest, and how we were going to DESTROY IT NOW! Fern Gully, evil … [Read more...]
Chile Unit
Just think of all the puns you can make with the country name. What are you doing? Nothing much, just Chile. Actually now that I think about it, they're pretty much all variations on that. So, not lots of puns, just one very versatile pun. That being said, it was a fun geography … [Read more...]
Colombia Unit
Currently, I'm listening through the South American revolutions led by Simon Bolivar with my son, Superman. What will become the country of Colombia is right in the middle of it all, and so as we learned about Colombia I was thinking about all that I was hearing in Revolutions … [Read more...]
Who writes history? Do you know who Juan Elcano is?
Did you ever have a dream? Christopher Columbus had a dream. He believed if you sailed far enough West you would reach India. He never succeeded. History records his discovery of America, even though he never set foot on the continent. Columbus did pass his dream on to a … [Read more...]