We are talking about Texas in kindergarten this week. One of the items on their report card that went out last week was if they knew the name of their city. So, we pulled down the map and asked them what was bigger, a city, or a state. (you would be surprised at how much probing and hinting it took for them to realize that a state is in fact larger than a city... oh well that's first grade stuff!)
So pulling the map down intrigued them, one thing led to another and we were pulling down the world map and showing them the whole world and where Frisco is on the map. Then came the teachable moment..
On the flat wall map of the world...
"What would happen if Ms. Conn got in a boat in California, and just started sailing that way?"
I take my finger, make some boat noises, and slide it west to "the end" of the world....
Kindergartner: "She would die!"
another kindergartner: "She would fall off the Earth!"
and a different kinder kid: "She would fall down a waterfall!"
Me: "Is the Earth flat????" points at globe...
kids: "NO!"
"So you're saying I would just fall of the Earth and be in space?"
"uhmmm noooo.."
showed them on the globe that I would actually end up in Japan, and that the wall map was just a globe map, cut in half and spread out flat to be on a piece of paper.
this whole process took out a good 20 minutes of our morning...
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