We were invited to go crawdad fishing with friends last week! It was so fun! We never knew how easy it was to catch crawdads. Just fishing line and some raw bacon.
They caught 50 in the few hours we were there!
Of course all that crawdad fishing led to sooooo many questions, thoughts, assumptions, etc... about crawdads on the way home that when we got home Gideon couldn't wait to google all the answers to his questions and I was curious too. He always has amazing thought provoking questions/thoughts and they get me wondering too!
One of the things we learned is that crawdads are classified as Arthropods. Gideon found out out what an arthropod was and ran with it. Now, everything he catches he questions and concludes whether it is an arthropod or not. Does it have an exoskeleton? Body segments? Is it an invertebrate?
Anyhow, I love that he knows all of these high science terms/info and all because he spent the day crawdad fishing. Today, we went to the reservoir for a picnic and Layla and him found so many dead crawdad shells: heads, legs, claws, etc.. So many that they decided to collect them and then put them back together to re-create the crawdad. It was very cool. Wish I would have had my camera. Gideon was telling his sister all about arthropods and how their bodies are segmented, etc... LOVE IT!
Again, one thing led to another and on the way home we were talking about crustaceans vs. amphibians>>>frogs>>> dissection>>> and now we are ordering frogs for dissection next week! We came home and found an awesome Virtual Frog Dissection site that allows you to actually dissect online while we wait for the real thing. Very cool!
That is how unschooling works.
Learning through life as we walk, talk, live.
