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Posted on March 30. 2012 | Tags:chinese checkers board, crayola dry erase board, how bread is made, how wheat flour is made, how wheat is harvested, natural resources, rightstart math, where wheat grows,

Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Lesson 4: Natural Resources Today we learned about natural resources, what they are and how they impact human life. AA matched some natural resources to the products ready for human consumption.  AA then created an outline of the US and glued some actual items like peanuts, popcorn, cotton, etc. to the geographic area such items are found.  Fun hands-on activity.  He also needed to select one product and research more about it. He chose wheat and so we researched on the Internet about it:  brief history of wheat, where in the US wheat grows, how people use wheat, etc.  This was actually very enjoyable to learn about.  Lastly, AA did a few natural resources math problems.         [...]

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Posted on November 15. 2011 | Tags:change, human resources, natural resources, progress, rural, urban, | 2Comment

Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 1, Lesson 10: Communities Change   Today we studied the meaning of history, natural resource and human resource. We learned how communities change as time goes on. MBtP selected the classic book “The Little House” by Virginia Lee Burton to convey the idea of change over time. It was a delightful story. AA couldn’t help feel the emotion of the little house’s transformation:  From being at a core of a lovely rural area to finding herself crammed into a crack of a buzzing city full of high rises, metrorails and hurried people. After reading the story we answered questions evaluating what ‘progress’ and ‘change’ means in a community.  We created a seasons wheel, made lists of natural and human resources found [...]

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