July 27, 2026

Category: Economics: Global

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Bugz & Her Explorations, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Decimal, Economics: Global, Equivalents, Fraction, Geography, How We Learn Best, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Playing, Political Science, Questions from Lily's Brain, Reasoning

Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster

Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Botany, Chemistry, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Earth Science, Economics: Global, Engineering, Geography, Global History, Government, History, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Questions from Lily's Brain, Resources, Responsibility

She Asked… Oil

She asked about oil, where it comes from and how it gets processed so we can use it in cars, etc.. We have spent most of today exploring how crude oil has formed, how it is extracted, refined, and finally delivered for our consumption. We’ve also talked about fracking for natural gas, the uses of […]

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Atmosphere & Americans

Yesterday, Lily inquired, as we were on our way to our Alamosa group for play and discovery, about the atmosphere and global economics. She indicated she understood the concept of the water cycle, mostly.  Though I think she is skeptical at just how cyclical the whole thing is, but mostly, she questions where the water came from […]

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