The Brief
- The Earth Dome stopped at an elementary school in Richardson on Thursday to give students a unique geography lesson.
- The 19-foot-tall balloon is covered in real satellite images that were stitched together.
- Students also got the chance to go inside the balloon while learning about the continents.
RICHARDSON, Texas – Some North Texas elementary school kids are getting a look at the Earth on a whole new scale.
A nearly two-story-tall inflatable Earth Dome that is used at schools around the country stopped to help them get a better understanding of geography.
The Earth Dome
Mobile Ed Productions’ Earth Dome is an inflatable dome that stands 19 feet tall and 22 feet wide.
In a world filled with information on flat screens, it was a different sort of geography lesson for the students at Canyon Creek Elementary School in Richardson.…