| 5 Good Reasons to Use Science Notebooks |
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A study group formed to assess what teachers wanted to achieve through the use, practice, and effectiveness of notebooks as they incorporated them into their science curriculum. Now, we’re ready to share their “noteworthy” discoveries. While there are many reasons to incorporate the use of notebooks into science,
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| Ditch Your Curriculum for these 13 Competitions Instead |
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As a homeschooler, what do you have your kids do for PE? You could design fitness curriculum that includes exercises and an introduction to various sports. Or maybe you include some form of physical fitness as part of your planned unit studies. Or more likely, your kids join a local basketball team or take a class at the YMCA. And in doing so, you don’t worry too much about justifying it as fulfilling a PE requirement—it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? The same opportunities exist for subjects other than PE. |
| Fruit Bats, Cats, and Naked Mole Rats: Lifelong Learning at the Zoo |
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This digest focuses on how learners process information and how professional staff and visitors can promote learning at the zoo. |
| Fundamental Skills in Science: Observation |
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Though human senses are limited in range and are easily deceived, observation remains at the heart of science and is the final arbiter in
constructing and testing scientific ideas. Observation in science is more than "seeing"; it refers to skills associated with collecting data using all the senses, as well as instruments that extend beyond the reach of our senses, and it is influenced by the assumptions and theoretical knowledge of the observer. |
| Helping Your Child with Science |
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"Being "scientific" involves being curious, asking how things happen, and learning how to find the answers. Curiosity is natural to children, but they need help understanding how to make sense of what they see. |
| Science in the Home School |
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If your child is among the 700,000 to 1,150,000 currently being schooled at home in the United States, you may have questions about the science he or she should be learning. |
| Science Matters: 7 Free Energy Curriculum Resources for Homeschoolers |
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There is a lot of free stuff on the web and some of it is actually pretty good. But who wants to spend the time looking up each site to find out what is actually on it? Right. So I've done it for you. I admit I didn't go through all the gajillion results but I did get through quite a few of the pages of an "energy curriculum" search. |
| Science Notebooks: Tools For Increasing Achievement Across the Curriculum |
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With the implementation of science notebooks, students become actively involved in their own learning. Students are afforded the opportunity to investigate content in which they are naturally interested and to wrestle with authentic problems. It only makes sense that achievement is enhanced in all areas of the curriculum. |
| Secular Homeschooling Curriculum: High School Science |
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As far as I can tell, these resources do not advocate a specific religious world view. |
| Teaching Archaeology |
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By using archaeology in the classroom, educators can lead students on learning adventures while engaging them in thinking about life in the past and who we are as humans today. |
| Teaching Science in the Field |
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How frequently do students study the natural world "outside?" Teaching science in the field provides unique opportunities to investigate the natural world of students' everyday lives. As in the classroom, lessons designed to foster "meaningful learning," provide "hands-on activities" and promote student "inquiry" can be effectively implemented in the world's largest laboratories, the natural and built environments of the outdoors. |
