Visiting a friend who moved to Australia led to a trip with new friends to Kuranda. Others showed me a local bird, and I showed someone the photo, and she identified the crank. Three days later, I saw a real one, and then looked it up, and it led to the Olympics, and the history of Australia, and post-WWII housing booms, and… those all connected to other things I knew.
You can do this, too. You might start with a bird and a clothesline, or it might be any other two things on this planet, or off.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Connections is one of my best bits of unschooling. This week we had James Bond leading us in many directions and back again!
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