Sunday, September 22, 2013

Continent Maps



One of our projects this week was making maps of the continents and oceans. (Ask your Explorer to sing you the song we learned to memorize the continents; we'll be performing this with the Navigators at Gathering next week.) Note the beautiful details like compass roses, sailing ships, sea serpents and other mythical creatures ("Beyond here there be dragons"). We folded this map in the center to show how the early explorers thought they would sail from Europe to the Indies and then ran into the New World instead -- Surprise! Just goes to show that sometimes mistakes can lead to amazing discoveries.













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