The children, and I watched Dirt! The Movie on instant view through Netflix. Apart from being from a big bang, evolutionary, and extreme environmentalist viewpoint, it's a pretty enjoyable documentary about the importance of taking care of the soil, with some cute, and engaging animation. I don't think the children are going to forget there are microbes living in the soil, anytime soon.
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I decided to simplify things even more for the children, with a cookie and pudding parfait style snack.
The bottom layer was sugar cookie "bedrock".
We topped that with a few smaller sugar cookies (made from the same batch of sugar cookies, just rolled into small balls, before baking), to represent a "c horizon" of weathered parent rock...
...with room for seepage of soil from "b horizon"...
...which was made by mixing the pudding "topsoil", with cookie crumb "gravel".
With a final layer of pudding...
...topped off with nuts and butterscotch chips, for a smattering of "organic material".
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It's great to be a homeschooler.
6 comments:
Somehow, when I saw your first post about dirt, I knew a pudding snack was coming, but I had no idea it was going to be this wonderful!
Mmmmm...... pudding.
I remember back before Brainpop was subscription and used it all the time as a teacher.
And it looks like a very tasty desset!
Ticia - It's the one subscription site I keep renewing - we use it all the time.
Is there anything that you cannot remake into terrific dessert? By the way, I am curious - do your kids ask questions when they encounter evolutionist point of view? Anna asks very interesting questions every time we run into God in books and movies.
Natalie - We've kind of covered the whole not-all-scientists-are-Christians thing, so they know not everyone beleives in a Creator. We try to focus on the facts of what is being taught - "Do they really know that, or is it a theory, based on a belief of spontanious creation?", "What facts might they be overlooking, because they don't believe in a young earth, or in the flood, or that sort of thing?" I think it's important for them to understand where popular science is coming from, and to be able to realize that all science is a process of trying to "shine light into dark corners", but that there are still a lot of dark corners, and mis-steps to be made, and that doesn't mean scientists are deliberately trying to deceive people - they are making educated guesses based on the best facts we have available right now.
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