Zak; great idea for teaching your children all about the gold rush / gold fever ! Also they got an idea of how much work was involved in finding the gold, not just picking it up off the ground. Their is a fair amount of work involved in processing the dirt in order to find the gold - a great lesson to teach. I enjoy your homeschool posts.
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Yeah, they learned that its a bit of a chore. I think the 5lbs was enough to keep their attention. But any more I think it would have really felt like work. Plus this dirt was pretty much guaranteed to have some flakes in it where most of the miners would pan all day and find nothing. So it was a good lesson.