Teaching high school science to homeschoolers can be a bit intimidating. Even for parents who are comfortable with biology, chemistry, and physics, recreating the lab experience at home can be daunting. Here are some resources you can use to teach high school science. If you want a no-muss, no-fuss outline for high school science, Glencoe.com has great online resources meant to be used in conjunction with their textbooks, but they are also great for stand alone study. High school ace also serves as a great outline, complete with numerous links to useful sites that help you teach and demonstrate science … Continue reading →

I have to tell you first that I’m not being paid to write this! When I like products I like to talk about them. I don’t know about you, but I like to hear from other parents what works, what doesn’t and why it did or didn’t work for them. Once upon a time, when I was first starting out, someone told me that they hated Sonlight because it was ‘too flexible, too much reading out loud, and too many stories from other cultures.’ I knew by that comment, that Sonlight was a curriculum I definitely had to check out … Continue reading →

I really admire people who home schooled when home schooling wasn’t quite legal and when you had to get very creative with your resources. I have never doubted my ability to educate my children well but when the issue comes up (as it frequently does when talking about Alex) I often talk about how there are so many resources and curriculums out there now, that it’s not important that I know the ins and outs of chemistry. We’ll get there and I assure people that I don’t have to make it up. I don’t have to make it up, but … Continue reading →

I recently read a well articulated blog about all the evils of home schooling. No socialization. . .students subjected to poorly trained teachers. . .and horror of all horrors, right winged fundamentalists raising an army of creationists. . .are all things that topped this guy’s list. I have many aspirations and goals for my children’s education, however, being in an army of creationists is not one of them. On the other hand, this gentleman would probably classify our family as one of those ‘right winged fundamentalists’ and we do in fact teach creationism and so I decided the comment made … Continue reading →

In just two hours, we will be on our way to our home schooling co-op for a lesson in physics (compliments of my husband) and the fine art of gingerbread making. Well, technically we’re using graham crackers. . .but we’re using real frosting and we’re using real candy to build a winter wonderland of gingerbread structures. Maybe it’s just me, because we live in a city with tons of bridges, but the study of structure has fascinated me. It actually started to fascinate my highly observant son who noted that most bridges are made out of triangles–which is true. This … Continue reading →