Electricity facts my teacher got wrong
I just ran across this website detailing science myths in K-12 textbooks and popular belief. This post about electricity popped up on del.icio.us popular today.
How does 'electricity' work? If you've learned about electricity from grade-school textbooks, then first we have to do some "debunking" and find out how electricity DOESN'T work. Sorry if the following is a bit contentious at times. I wrote it in an attempt to get some things off my chest. If you keep watching this site, I'll probably clean it up and make it sound a bit more professional. Read more...
Labels: homeschool, schools
Carnival of homeschooling: Mothers day edition
Melissa's Idea Garden hosts the carnival this week and has a mothers day theme complete with a history of the holiday.
Wow! It is amazing to me that over two years ago, Janine and Henry at Why Homeschool had the idea to create a Carnival of Homeschooling. And here it is, still going strong! Each week, there are wonderful articles by homeschoolers from around the globe sharing what works for them. That is one of the great strengths of the homeschooling community...we all are more than happy to share our experiences and knowledge with other homeschoolers!
Many homeschools are run by moms. Dads participate as they can, but usually they are the ones working to support the family so the children can be homeschooled. Since Mother's Day is just around the corner, the theme for this week's carnival will center around that. Read more...
Labels: Carnival, homeschool
Who better to teach about unschooling?
An unschooler named Andi wrote this comprehensive how-to on unschooling aka"worldschooling." It's fairly balanced and informative for anyone who's considering homeschooling or unschooling. You can even add to parts of it.
Hi, I'm Andi. I wrote this lens. (In case you don't know, a 'lens' is Squidoo's name for a user-made page about a topic.)
From the time I was six, I was homeschooled. From the time I was twelve, I was worldschooled. Then, this spring, I graduated.
So I've been through the whole thing - all the way until I was accepted into my top choice college and awarded 60% tuition in grants.
And you know what? You can do it too. You can follow your interests during your teens years and have an incredible launch into your adult life.
That's what this lens is about. Read more...
Labels: College, homeschool, unschool, web
Homeschooling in the news
Wayne S. Walker sent us some news.
The Wichita Falls Times Record News, has been running a series of articles about homeschooling this week. They’ve been upbeat and positive.
Home-schooling mothers find endless choices with technology, Internet
Home-schooled children exempt from state tests
Labels: homeschool, media
Odysseus and the homeschooler
I just got this via email. It's tool cool not to share.
Emily Salva, age 7, of Franklin, TN, is a homeschooled student. She was studying Greek mythology this year. She wound up making this short video for part of a presentation:
She’s responsible for all the graphics and the narration. Emily is seven years old.
This video short was selected to be screened at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival. (I thought this was kind of a big deal, especially since the video that Emily’s Dad entered got turned down.)
Just about all of the entries in this festival were made by adults. No one else even close to her age had an entry in this festival.
Along with being on the local television news, she also got some attention in some area papers.
Labels: Gifted, homeschool, Tennessee
Carnival of homeschooling: Visions of the future
Welcome to the April 29, 2008 edition of carnival of homeschooling.
Where's my flying car?
When I was a kid, the future was promised to bring us flying cars. I suppose we have only ourselves to blame. After all, we were the kids who grew up and created the present day world. Despite the mundane transportation, there are quite a few cool innovations since we were kids. Your kids will grow to create the next future. Some of us may live to see the era of flying cars. Until then we can only teach our children well.
There are plenty of bloggers this week with advice on teaching, family and othe realated topics. Enjoy this week's carnival of homeschooling.
Dawn Adams presents Another Day, Another Homeschooling Critic
Summer presents How To Hate On Homeschoolers Properly "A sarcastic how-to for writing the perfect anti-homeschooling rant."
Alasandra presents Increase the educational choices for all Instead of trying to limit educational choices we should all be working to increase the educational choices for all.
Heather Johnson presents 2008 eLearning Symposium
Dana presents Homeschooling cuts children off from oversight
Cristina Payne presents Home Spun comic strip #216 Distractions we face in homeschooling, and why they may not be a bad thing.
Elena LaVictoire presents Ben Stein's Expelled My review of Ben' Stein's movie, Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed and how I think it connects to education. I think this is a must see for homeschool parents and high school students.
Amanda Dixon presents A Homeschool Senior?s Favorite Resources The favorite resources of a homeschool senior.
education
Maria presents A review of a high school geometry course with Geometry: A Guided Inquiry with Geometer's Sketchpad and a Home Study Companion.
Rose presents Trendy, green, frugal, and homeschooling
Eric Koshinsky presents How to Teach Speaking
Overwhelmed Mom presents How can you find anything in this mess? This post discusses different learning styles and how they are perceived.
Sheri presents The Ocean
Debbie Phillips presents Henty I only started my blog on Sunday the 20th. So far on my blog there is an article on G.A. Henty, links and info about the UHSE, photos of flowers, and a video of a ballet that is great.
Jacque Dixon presents Gardening 101 - You *Can* Teach Your Children!! Gardening is one of the easiest ways to homeschool, especially throughout the summer!
Henry Cate presents a Book review: Bootstrapping Your Business saying: Do you have a budding entrepreneur? Teaching your children to manage money and start a business is just as important as academics
Mrs. C presents Homeschooling With Lotsa Kids Yes, you *can* homeschool if you have younger children as well. It just takes time!
Barbara says I Should Have Known saying An urban agrarian family with a popular web site reveals its homeschooling past.
Bettina Colona Essert presents Homeschooling in North Carolina Bettina explains how to homeschool in North Carolina.
The Tinker Box suggests Putting aside broken mechanical and electronic devices for kids to take apart later.
Rebecca presents The Orioles Are Coming! Bird watching can be a fun homeschooling activity. Here's how to attract Orioles and how to track their migration north with your kids.
Ramona presents No Screen, No Fun.
Book of Life My son has been devouring biographies lately, and he wanted to recommend a few of his favorites.
Who Is This Kid? My workbook-hating son astounds me by suddenly deciding to do ten Singapore Math 1a lessons in one sitting, with his own special boyish twist.
Hands On = Brain Off? Sebastian at Percival Blakeney Academy reacts to a report that math manipulatives may not improve learning.
Renae presents How to Add Art to Your Blog
Orlandrea Wilson presents Help For The Frazzled Homeschooler
Nancy Sathre-Vogel presents Roadschooling My husband and I will be taking off soon to ride our bikes from Alaska to Argentina with our 10-year-old twin boys. In this post, I talk about how we deal with the boys' education on the road.
christinemoers presents Those unschoolers are smart little cookies Take a bite out of some unschooling. It's quite delish!
Tim Power presents Classical Education, Logical Fallacies, and Mushrooms I recently came across a critique of Classical Education (specifically, the Trivium model), and take a stab at debunking it. In the process I wind up enmeshed in a debate with an Objectivist about Religion, Objectivism, Faith, Reason, and the nature of reality.
Melissa presents Books: Using Your Resources
Denise presents Non-metric measurements, and poetry Two great ways to teach non-metric volumes (read the comments for #2!), and math poems in honor of National Poetry Month.
ChristineMM presents I've Been Learning About Convergence Insufficiency (an Eye Tracking Problem) ChristineMM shares some information she has learned about an eye tracking problem after one of her children was recently diagnosed with convergence insufficiency.
family
Janice Campbell presents TV Turnoff Week: Fast, Cheap, & Easy Life Enhancement! posted at Janice Campbell- Taking Time for Things That Matter, saying, "TV Turnoff Week is a holiday that ought to be celebrated for much longer than just a week. Doing and being, rather sitting and staring is a quick, easy way to enhance life. Extend the holiday, and just do it!"
Malia Russell presents The Easily Distracted Child » Homemaking 911
Melitsa presents Tip: Sound communication
Jennifer in OR presents A Strawberry Tea Party Hosting a fun tea party, including a bit of the history of tea.
Elisheva Levin presents We Found It on Chupadera Mesa...! A weekend get-away leads us to a four-year plan for sustainable living.
Jocelyn @ A Pondering Heart presents Homeschool Boutique
Activities Coordinator presents New Horizons .
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of homeschooling using our carnival submission form. The next carnival of homeschooling will be hosted by Melissa's Idea Garden.
Labels: Blogs, Carnival, homeschool
Homeschool is not just a white thing
The Charlotte Post has yet another story on African American homeschooling. How long before the media stops treating this as an oddity? If you read the article, the reasons for homeschooling are fairly typical of any homeschooler. The article cites 2003 statistics that about 9% of all homeschoolers are Black. That's approaching current demographics of ~12.4% of the general population (USA) (considering the 5 years old figure.)
Angela Fulton’s children don’t have to leave their Weddington home for an education.
Fulton’s children – fifth-grader Aris, fourth-grader Christian and 4-year-old Carlyle – are homeschooled, part of a growing trend among black families.
“It’s not for everyone, but I know where my children are academically,” she said.
Although numbers vary nationally, more black parents are opting out of public education for homeschool. A Charlotte group, Families of Color Uniting Scholars, counts 75 families among its membership. Read more...
Labels: homeschool
The Carnival of Homeschooling... Baggage?
Hosted today by Dana at Principled Discovery. Next week, we are hosting here at Homeschoolbuzz.com.
Welcome to the 121st edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling which has grown a great deal since I first heard of it while I was still blogging over at HSB. It is even beginning to attract its own spam, the first mark of recognition in the blogging world. This week’s carnival is inspired by a post by Irene of Taschek Tales, a woman too busy to blog regularly but who seems to have kept her humor through it all. It is with her gracious permission that I borrow a few of her bags, her photo and a bit of her title as the Carnival of Homeschooling honors:
The Homeschool Bag Lady Read more...
Labels: Carnival, homeschool
Contribute to the next carnival!
The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted right here on Homeschoolbuzz.com. The theme this time will be Visions of the Future.
Hopefully, you are preparing the homeschooled kids of today to be the creators of tomorrow. OK, enough clichés. Whether you see the future as sublime or perilous, or just trying to get through another week, contribute your post. It doesn't have to be about the future but I plan to weave it into the theme somehow anyway.
I prefer the submission form over email because it makes it easier for me. I know many submissions will come via email anyway so don't sweat it.
Labels: Carnival, homeschool
New Reviewer!
Homeschoolbuzz.com is thrilled to welcome Michelle Kearns to our book review team. Michelle is an enthusiastic Christian Homeschooling mom to 4 children: Audrey, 8; Cecily, 6; Eich, 4; and Sophie, 3. And, one of her passions is books! She says:
"I read as many books as I can possibly manage from every genre; I even listen to audiobooks when I do housework! As a homeschooler, I make it a point to read every book my children read so I can discuss it with them, and since my two oldest are crazed bookworms, we go through a lot of books here."Here’s Michelle’s “debut” review, please take advantage of the comments section to welcome her aboard! Michelle joins our veteran reviewers Kathy Davis, Cynthia Clarke and Wayne S. Walker.
Labels: homeschool, Reviews
Homeschooler courted by top universities
In what has been called the most competitive year ever for college admissions, Chelsea Link defied the odds to get accepted into Yale. Then Harvard.
Then came the fat envelopes from Princeton, Columbia, University of Chicago, Stanford and Northwestern University.
Making that feat still more extraordinary, Link has been home-schooled since age 5. Read more...
Labels: College, homeschool
Homeschool math
Homeschoolers have reacted angrily with e-mails, phone calls and demonstrations at the state capitol, to proposed legislation that would require them to register with their local school district. On the surface the bill seems a harmless form of accountability, but legitimate fears of a slippery slope to much more regulation warrant an in-depth discussion about valid points raised on both sides of the argument. Read more...
Labels: homeschool, Michigan
