It seems that as the hype surrounding coffee grows ever larger people are starting to use creative techniques to incorporate the black brew into their everyday lives, and trust me, it's not what you would think.
Hayes-Bohanan, a geography teacher at Bridgewater State College, teaches two subjects. One is the Geography of Coffee, with study tours to Nicaraguan coffee farms, and the other is the Secret Life of Coffee, in which students make connections with a map, photograph and mug of brewed coffee. Students learn how to prepare and drink coffee, and must scavenger hunt for good coffee shops and find out how they appeal to people, connect them to the community and compete with the big chains.
It's really fascinating to see how a slit-my-wrists boring geography class can be turned into a consumer, social, community based geographic lesson on goods around the world. And what better way than to use the #1 consumed beverage and #2 most traded commodity in the world. Hell, if all classes used this method there'd be no reason to sleep in class ever again. Genius.
1 comments:
Thank you for the nice coverage. I invite your readers to have a look around my web site to see that geography is far from boring -- even if it does not cover coffee!
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