Homeschool Fiction

I’ve recently had the opportunity to view several different craters. Looking at a crater in real life is a completely different experience than seeing photographs; go see one if you have the opportunity. Craters can be created from meteorites (comets, iron, asteroid), salt domes, or volcanoes. Can you guess which crater below was created in [...]

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From yesterday’s photographs: The first is white sand from White Sands National Monument just west of Alamagordo, New Mexico. This sand is made from gypsum. These dunes look like snow and are perfect for sledding on. The second is yellow sand from Arches National Park just north of Moab, Utah. It looks more yellow in [...]

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Here are photographs of sand. I’ve taken all these photos in the Southwestern United States (in five completely different locations). Guess where they were taken and what the sand consists of. Answers tomorrow.

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My family and I recently went to U-DIG Fossils, a trilobite fossil quarry in central/western Utah near Antelope Springs (although we never saw that town or any town near there). Go with a full tank of gas and plenty of drinking water (and food), as there are no services of any kind (including bathrooms with [...]

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