The interesting thing about studying Africa is how recently many of these countries have formed, and how poorly country lines were formed. A lot of this is a result of European colonization, and arbitrarily drawing up lines. This causes things like having two countries with the … [Read more...]
Venezuela Unit
Venezuela is a nice little, little being a relative term, country in South America, that I happily got to learn a little more about, but sadly because it is so late in the alphabet, most of our usual sources do not have materials for the unit, so I had to get a little creative … [Read more...]
Central African Republic Unit
Part of what I was thinking as we studied the Central African Republic is the initial spell CAR. I think there was even a joke about that in the Geography Now video. Either way, it's amusing and I enjoyed our geography lesson for our Central African Republic Unit. (there are … [Read more...]
Somalia Unit
Finding pictures of Somalia is tricky. First there are the pictures of people on vacation in some sort of variation. Then there are the pictures of the results of the civil war, and I'm sure Somalia doesn't want to be known for war. Finally, there are random landscape pictures, … [Read more...]
Kiribati Unit
The interesting thing when I'm looking up many of the Oceania Units is discovering how very small these countries are, and how similar many of these island nations are. This can be tricky when looking for recipes for the countries, but that's another story. All in all, I was … [Read more...]
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