Potential Drawbacks of Homeschooling
It would be great if life always went to plan. Everything you wanted to do, got done. No one messed up the day's schedule and all was right as rain every single day. Unfortunately a homeschool teacher will know from personal experience that things rarely go according...
Iodine Clock Reaction Experiment
First discovered in 1886 by Hans Heinrich Landolt, the iodine clock reaction is one of the best classical chemical kinetics experiments. Here’s what to expect: Two clear solutions are mixed. At first there is no visible reaction, but after a short time, the liquid...
Can You Afford Homeschooling As a Single Parent?
Yes it would be much easier to afford homeschooling if you could depend on two incomes, but most homeschooling families survive on a single income. So if you are a working single parent and want to homeschool, no one says it's easy, but it's totally possible. Have a...
Hot Ice Sculptures
Did you know that supercooled liquids need to heat up in order to freeze into a solid? It's totally backwards, I know...but it's true! To supercool a liquid, you slowly and carefully bring down the temperature to below the normal freezing point and it’s still a...
Homeschooling As a Single Parent
There is a general consensus in public opinion that homeschooling is only possible when there is a two parent family, where one goes to work and the other stays home to homeschool the children. The idea of a single parent, working as well as homeschooling, is...
Helping Homeschool Students Write Better
Writing is a primary skill that every child needs to master in order to get anything done. A homeschool student needs to be taught the proper process of writing to ensure that he develops the skill. Here are the steps that they should be taking. Think About the Topic...
Coping with Homeschool Teacher Failure Syndrome
There are days when the elder one doesn't want to read the day's assignment, the younger one spills glue all over the week's worksheets, the laundry really needs to be done because no one has anything to wear, the neighbor returns the dog who got out of the back yard...
True Cost of Homeschool
Many first time homescooling parents go into the process believing that teaching their children at home is going to be less expensive than sending them to a public school. Unfortunately, they soon realize that this is not true. Here are a few heads under which a...
Making Infographics for Homeschool Students
An infographic is a visual representation of a series of related facts. There is a lot of data that a homeschool student needs to learn and process. By using infographics it becomes easier for the homeschool student to make sense of the data and assimilate it better....
Homeschool Classroom Completion Report
Writing down a to-do list is just a tool to help you stay organized in the homeschool classroom. It is however only effective when followed up with a completion report. Just as you have a list of things to be done in a week on your to-do list, at the end of the week...
