Saturday, March 5, 2016

New geography enrichment class

We today commenced our Saturday morning geography enrichment class, for 11 of our Harvey uber-readers in the fourth and fifth grades. Class consisted of 75 minutes of new-to-us material, on topics including continental draft, geologic time, latitude and longitude, the dissemination of humans out of Africa, and how the heck does GPS work.

Everyone received a pocket world atlas, a copy of Australia to Zimbabwe, and blue paper for map-creation. After class, each student collected a mini-mineral collection of opal, Petoksey stones, ammonites and jasper. A pizza lunch concluded the session.

Next week, we will start our country-intensive sessions. First up: India!








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