Recently, class 5B was asked to do an experiment in geography. We picked 10 people who represented 10% of the world's population. We then tried to respectively put the right amount of people on each of the 7 chairs representing the 7 continents. As hard as we tried, we were still a bit wrong in some parts: we didn't attribute enough people to Asia, and consequently a bit too many to other continents. But there was one thing we got right: the Antarctica chair was left untouched.
It really surprised us that such a great amount of people were living in Asia. We had guessed it would be a bit more densely populated than other continents, but we would never have thought of that amount: 6 people had to stand on the chair at once.
Then we did the next phase of the experiment. We were given 10 balls each representing 10% of the total world's GDP and we had to distribute them between the continents. And, well, we did even worse that time. Although we had already thought we had too many balls in Europe, it turned out we didn't even give it enough. We also neglected Africa, which we shouldn't have, and we have America way too much importance overall.
I think we all found it interesting, we each got very involved in the task and it was a wonderful teamwork. I had a lot of fun trying to put puzzle pieces together in my mind to try and guess information about countries. I would gladly do it again.
Emilia S. , 5B
