Skills a Homeschool Student Develops Playing Games in the Classroom
Games are not a waste of time. They can be a fun tool to teach your homeshcool students a multitude of skills. Here are some skills that will be developed in your kids when they participate in educational games in the homeschool classroom. Of course they will also...
Why You Need to Play Games in the Homeschool Classroom
There are a lot of resources available on running a homeschool classroom well. You have organizers, schedules, lesson plans and a whole bunch of other stuff that tells you what all you need to do, how you need to do it and how much time you should do it in. Now...
Cold Light Experiment
Mix together three colors of liquid light! When you mix three cups of red, green, and blue paint, you get a muddy brown. But when you mix together three cups of light, you get white. Here’s a trick question - can you make the color “yellow” with only red,...
Stanford Linear Accelerator
Aurora is also a part of the Central Coast Astronomical Society, and she arranged for the club to have a special tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator on January 26, 2017. Here's a report from a club member about the trip: The Central Coast Astronomy Society...
Homeschoolers and MOOCs
Distance learning has become much simpler with the number of MOOCs being offered on the internet. MOOCs refer to Massive Online Open Courses. These are taught by renown professors from some of the best colleges and universities around the world. While some of these...
More Hobbies and Activities for Homeschoolers
While traditional hobbies are good to have, some new ideas that help the homeschool students think for themselves are always welcome. Everyone loves a good mystery. Get your homeschool students involved in solving mysteries in different manners. Here are some...
Interesting Hobbies for Homeschool Students
Playing a musical instrument, learning dance forms, picking up a foreign language and learning how to paint are common hobbies. They help children explore their creative side and also give the homeschool teacher a break from the regular syllabus and studies. However...
Didactic Activities for Homeschool Families
Formal lessons for reading, writing and arithmetic aside, there has to be place for having a good time with your homeschool students. Some activities that may be enjoyed by the whole family, but may still end up being learning opportunities are explored over here. You...
Celebrate National Engineer’s Week this week!
Once a year, engineers and scientists all over the world go out into the community to inspire and educate the public about engineering, showing them how exciting it can be! When I was teaching at the university, our engineer engineering department would go out into...
Finding Friends for Homeschool Students
Socialization is by far the most discussed issue regarding homeschooling. Those who do not homeschool their children feel that without regular school children will not know how to interact with their peers and authority figures.Time and again homeschool families have...
