Bahamas Unit

My main association with the Bahamas is people going on vacation. There’s a bit of a stereotype of people going on vacation there and drinking way too much and probably doing something stupid. However, there are some pretty cool things going on with the Bahamas, and it turned into quite a fun geography lesson as we went through our Bahamas Unit, even if I originally forgot to cook the recipe (or maybe I cooked one and lost it, I had a memory of cooking something).

(there are affiliate links in here)

Bahamas Unit resources

I found some amusing things about the Bahamas.

Interestingly, according to grammar check you need to have the word “the” in front of the Bahamas.

Excuse me, for a moment, I need to go get the next step of dinner started.

I’m now back 4 hours later, I ended up going to help Lorehaven at Teach Them Diligently.

Here are our fun facts for the Bahamas:

• 20 Fun facts about the Bahamas– probably aimed more towards encouraging you to travel there, but it has some fun facts, and swimming pigs
• National Geographic Bahamas facts– Nice straightforward facts
• Kids’ World Travel Guide– This has some great pictures of the country that make me want to travel there

And of course the videos:

And then Geography More, I’ve cued it to start up when the Bahamas starts.

Now let’s head on to the recipe!

Bahamas unit recipe: Sesame Seed cookie, Benne wafers

Okay, so apparently when we first studied the Bahamas I did not cook a meal, nothing. So I started to write this Bahamas Unit post only to discover I couldn’t yet. I did a quick search and found these Benne wafers, or sesame seed cookies. They are delicious. I’m actually eating one right now along with a cup of tea.

Bahaman Benne Wafers ingredient list

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 tablespoons sesame seeds

Making the Benne wafers

• In a hot pan, toast the sesame seeds until golden brown.
• While the seeds are toasting cream together the butter and brown sugar. Add in the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the vanilla and mix again.
• Add the flour, salt, and baking powder, mix until incorporated.
• Mix in the sesame seeds
• .Drop roughly teaspoon-sized scoops onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet, leaving plenty of room for the cookies to spread out.
• Bake in the oven at 375 for 12-14 minutes.

Seriously these cookies are delicious.

The Bahamas Unit notebooking pages

We used the North America notebooking pages, and I’ve got a whole section for dependent territories, so we’ll never finish it because I’m running out of time, and I’m emphasizing the countries before they graduate. But, if I had time, I might go back and learn about some of them myself later.

All right, let’s look at the fun facts. This was earlier in the alphabet, so there aren’t quite as many facts to get from Geography Now, but I still found some fun facts.

• they get to have lots of hurricanes, so much fun
• there’s a beach with pink sand!
• it has world-famous swimming pigs, that is so much fun
• pirates, it was known for pirates
• Bahamian Hutia (native pig)

More learning fun

Let’s see I’m going to choose a bunch of cool things we did in 5th grade

• How to write a research paper
• How do stomach acids work
• Protestant Reformation Unit
• Skeleton Unit
• Alice in Wonderland book club

The post Bahamas Unit appeared first on Adventures in a Messy Life.