Grocery Store Schooling

You may be surprised by how much math, geography, science, and economics can be taught at the local grocery store.
Grocery Store Schooling
An errand to the grocery store can be turned into a field trip and a lesson at the same time. Image Source/Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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Sometimes, we become so accustomed to the wonders of our world that we cease to wonder at them.

We carry a storehouse of information larger than the Library of Congress in our pocket without batting an eye. We pop a carton of frozen food into that gizmo above the stove, hit a couple of buttons, and presto, we’re eating a piping hot meal.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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