Geography Fair!

It's that time of year again - time for our co-op Annual Geography Fair. Our numbers were down a little this year, but we still had a lot of fun!

Alex chose to do Madagascar. We learned so much, especially about the animals that live there.


On his board, he has the flag, branches of goverment (which are very similar to the USA's), facts including population, religion, national language, etc., a map of Africa showing where Madagascar is, a larger map of Madagascar (also shown below) that shows the capital, oceans and resources, a Baobab tree and a couple pictures of limestone along with some animal pictures to fill in.

Alex did a notebook that included about 20 animals that live in Madagascar - he separated them by mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish and invertebrates. Above is the Aye-Aye, a type of lemur and below is the Chameleon.

Here is a game that is similar to checkers.

Two of the main exports from Madagascar are cloves and vanilla beans. Below are Banana Fritters - a popular snack in Madagascar. Bananas are plentiful there.


Nicolas chose to Ghana, a country that his Aunt and Uncle have visited, and we have friends (relatives of his Uncle) that live there. They let him borrow many things from Ghana for his table.

On his board, he had National Holidays listed, the meanings of the flag colors, a small Africa map showing where Ghana is located, 2 clocks - on showing our time, the other showing Ghanaian time, a larger map of Ghana showing the rivers and ocean, facts about Ghana, including population, religion, national language, etc, the branches of government (which is similar to ours), a flap book showing what your name would be depending on the day of the week you were born, and some pictures of Accra, the capital and a Baobab tree.


Above is Adinkra cloth made by the Asante people. Each stamp has a special meaning - the hears are love, the pluses are strength and the "I"s are rhythm. Below is cloth that has been batiked by Nicolas's aunt in Ghana and made into an apron.

Nicolas did 4 lapbooks from Homeschoolshare of animals commonly found in Ghana.
Nicolas had plantains for people to try and below is Groundnut Soup. Peanuts are called Groundnuts in Ghana and this soup is made with peanut butter, tomato sauce, chicken, onion and some spices. It wasn't bad, but definitely different.
Other countries that were represented were: