I did an activity with Brownies last night and was quite taken aback by some rather shakey geography. The girls were looking at the packaging on some food and then finding the countries of origin on a world map. Now I never expected them (for one second) to know everything...and I know it's not their fault...but we had one group looking for Italy in the Americas. (Apparently it's near Mexico.) and another group looking for the "country" Africa. I don't think any of them had even heard of Israel. So how good are your dcs at identifying countries? what has made them good/not so good? do you care? did I come up with a stupidly difficult activity for their age group? just set me wondering.
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does your 7/8/9 year old know where Italy is? does he/she know that Africa is a continent?
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hatwoman · 15/10/2009 21:32
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