An example of what you can do when you’re homeschooling and talking about crystals. Having done the crystal experiment, we watched a short video on minerals. The subject of diamonds was brought up.
Beautiful diamonds.
Which have a troubled history.
I thought it unbalanced just to see nice pictures of African diamond mines where no miners were observed. So we looked up some other material on De Beers and diamond mines. Read part of an article on them (just couple of paragraphs, I didn’t want it to get too intense) and looked at a few photos, most of which were of children working in the mines.
We talked about this aspect of diamonds. And I pulled up some ads for diamonds of beautiful models at their glamorous best showing off diamonds so that these photos were sitting alongside the photos of the children in the mud mining for diamonds.
Quite a contrast.
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