And a Few Things I’ve Learned about Art in our Waldorf-inspired Homeschooling Journey A couple of years ago when we did our Botany block, I did a chalk drawing that had a number of trees, a stream, and plants. Most of the drawing was from imagination and had little of the species that we see…
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Exponent Work for Homeschool Math
Playing with Doubles in Cellular Biology In our last block, cellular biology, we ran across something in our reading that talked about how some bacteria are able to double every 20 minutes. I thought to myself, “That would be some fun math for the day.” I scrapped my previous math plans, and wrote a few…
A Microscope Lab
Learning How to Use a Microscope as an Intro to Biology for our Homeschooling As part of our Intro to Biology Block for seventh grade, we are doing quite a bit of work with the microscope. One of the labs was learning about the microscope and viewing various things that we collected under the microscope….
An Introduction to Genetics through Botany
Our Botany Block offered the perfect opportunity for an introduction to genetics with the work of Friar Gregor Mendel. Mendel is the person that bred several generations of pea plants to discover the basic understanding of genetics. In this book Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, the story of Gregor Mendel is told and…
A Time-Sequence Graph
When my son was in eighth grade, I compiled several resources to make a “How We Learn/How to Study” course in preparation for High School. It went over thinks like memory recall, reflection, interleaving, and notetaking. One aspect that we spent some time on were graphs and using them for study, understanding, and notetaking. In…
Making Mushroom Spore Prints
We love to go mushroom hunting. Our mushroom hunts are for spore prints. We do NOT eat our mushrooms. I wish I knew which ‘shrooms were edible and which were not, but alas… Goals! Spore prints are a favorite around here. I do not know how I made it all the way through my college…