Homeschooling Science? You Need to Know About This
If you’re teaching science at home and need excellent curriculum resources, you need to know about The Teaching Company. So far I have ordered three courses from them:
- Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe
- Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality
- Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
Every single one of these has been excellent and I plan to order many more. They have courses on history, philosophy and a few math courses as well.
For those parents who have a particularly difficult time with teaching science at home, and especially if your kid is precocious in the subject, you won’t regret ordering ANY of the science and math courses.
This company seems to go to great lengths to offer subjects taught by the best teachers at universities from all over the country. I have become addicted to them.
The way I’ve been using the courses at home is we watch one lecture and I pause it whenever I want to make a comment or if there is a question. We then use the discussion questions at the end of each section in the study guide to go further into a topic.
Sometimes I’ll make up some problem sets or little questions of my own for them to write about. At the end of the week, I have them write up a short summary of what they considered the most important concepts.
I can’t recommend these courses enough to anyone, not just homeschoolers, but they are a wonderful resource that should be utilized by them in particular.
Another great resource is SciToys.com.
This website has a lot of pre-made kits that can be purchased to build things like film cannons, Gauss Rifles, simple heat engines and loads of other cool projects.
I often recommend starting at this website whenever a student is considering ideas for a science fair project.
I’ll be blogging in more detail about this site as time goes on as I just placed a huge order with them and I wanna play with my new toys.
Oh, and the kids too… Yeah, they wanna play too, I guess.
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