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By Carolyn
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It would take me awhile to collect the stuff, but I think your kids would enjoy looking at some of the things I have described. I live on the state line (on the NC side), and we have heavy red clay soil (NC is the brick| capital of the US!), which would probably be as interesting as the sand I could collect from SC. It is interesting here. North Carolina has a lot of heavy red clay soil, but as you drive a bit farther south into South Carolina (such as where I work), the soil is sandy. South Carolina, your kids would learn, was once covered to a great extent by the ocean. Columbia, now very much an |
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inland city, could have been an oceanfront town. We also have magnolias and crepe myrtles. Peach trees are plentiful. I used to live in Pennsylvania (until 1997), and I see other types of rocks and vegetation here which don't exist in the North. This sounds like an interesting project. I am sure your kids could write descriptions to describe what's in the box. Can you imagine a box from Washington State? Volcanic ash from Mount Saint Helens? Tropical shells from Hawaii? Gold nuggets from Alaska? I think you've got a good thing going here, and I hope you can get others to participate.
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