WHAT'S THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ZOO?

While we were looking at the website of the National Zoo in D.C. tonight, Nicholas said, "Dad, you said we could look up the largest zoo in the world!" I asked him, how he proposed to find that out. He responded, "Let's "google" it!"

That we did. It turns out that the Berlin Zoo has over 1500 different species of animals and appears to be the largest zoo (based upon number of different species) in the world. We will not be doing that zoo anytime soon.

When I reflect upon my own facility with computers versus Nicholas', I am amazed. I grew up with computers and am pretty savvy, but it is incredible to see Nicholas' generation's familiarity and dexterity with computers.

Perhaps because of the omnipresence of technology, we purposely chose the Arbor School for elementary school for Nicholas because they neither have laptops in the rooms nor a computer lab. Conversely, their focus is on acquiring critical thinking skills rather than information gathering skills.

I have a feeling we will be "supplementing" at home on google.com, sesamestreet.com, etc, etc, etc..., but finding out what questions to ask seems way more important than acquiring the answers on the web... or elsewhere.