08/22/2026
🍋🌋🍊🗺️ Last week, our learners explored science and geography through hands-on experiments!
Our Bright Pod created lemon volcanoes, then recorded their observations and answered questions about the chemical reaction they witnessed. Science is even more exciting when it bubbles over!
Our Height Pod tackled a much bigger question: Why is it so difficult to represent Earth accurately on a flat map?
Using an orange peel, they saw firsthand how challenging it is to flatten a spherical surface without stretching, tearing, or distorting it. They also used a flashlight-tilting experiment to explore how the Mercator projection enlarges areas farther from the equator. Finally, they compared and contrasted the Mercator and Goode homolosine projections, discussing what each one represents well—and what gets distorted.
From tiny volcanoes to the shape of the entire world, our learners aren’t just reading about concepts—they’re experimenting, observing, questioning, and discovering for themselves. 💡
