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Making Time Joe:
Developing a curriculum can be a daunting task especially for the novice. Do you have
any tips in the area of science that someone can use?
 Shari:
Up through the middle years, read, explore, and experiment.
- Many science books available
There are many well illustrated and child-friendly science books on the market
now (check Dorling-Kindersley, Usborne, and Eyewitness publishers for starters).
- Visit nature
Also, take long walks, equipped with field guides, nature notebooks (to sketch
and take notes), and binoculars. My children would add that you must take along some kind
of sack, too, in order to carry all sorts of stuff home!
  Use a camera & make a scrapbook
Bring a disposable camera and take pictures. Mount the developed photos in a
scrapbook later, accompanied with a report on what you saw (Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook
Workshop is a wonderful tool to help children learn to create scrapbooks worth saving).- Cultivate a spirit of adventure
make room in your freezer for that special icicle or buy gear so you can walk in
the rain. Visit science museums. Use television and the internet (if you don't live
near a science museum, visit one on the web). Your children will learn to love the
world of science and they will enter the upper grades equipped to tackle the more
technical and focused work.
Go back to the beginning
  Introduction
The Human
Body:
A Science Workbook for Ages 4-6
(Gifted & Talented)
by Mary Kraynak Bozansky
 
The Human Body introduces the major systems of the human body, as well as teaches
the facts about food nutrition including the basic food groups and vitamins and proteins
that the body needs. The workbook includes a 16"x20" full-color poster complete
with diagrams and fascinating facts, and a glossary of important scientific terms.
Illustrations throughout.
Animals:
A Science Workbook for Ages 4-6
(Gifted & Talented)
by Mary Kraynak Bozansky
Animals delves into the world's various scientific classifications of animals:
mammals, birds, fish and reptiles. Animals' habitats, rituals, eating habits, and physical
characteristics are also explored. The workbook includes a 16"x20" full-color
poster complete with diagrams and fascinating facts, and a glossary of important
scientific terms. Illustrations throughout.
Meet the Author
Homeschooling: The
Early Years
Your Complete Guide
to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
by Linda Dobson, Jamie Miller
Interview & FREE Excerpt
 
The formative years are the most critical to a child's education. They lay the foundation
for developing learning skills that last a lifetime. For that reason, homeschooling during
those early years takes on considerable importance to parents dissatisfied with
traditional schools.
Meet the Author
"The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling"
by Marsha Ransom
hosted by Joe Spataro
interview & FREE excerpt
  Marsha
Ransom, author of The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling, is the mother of four children,
two of whom have always been homeschooled. She serves as a homeschool resource for her
local library and writes articles for Home Education Magazine, The Link: A Homeschool
Newspaper, Women's International Net, and Homeschool Dad Magazine. In this interview on
the Zone, Marsha discusses how she came to write this book,
developing your program, homeschooling
on a budget, what is happening with her homeschooled
children, her future plans and a FREE
excerpt which tells you how to set up a homeschool cooperative. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
All the Math You'll Ever Need:
A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)
by Steve Slavin,
Review by author Rebecca Rupp
It's a self-teaching guide for math basics, supposedly targeted at
teenagers and adults who need math review. It covers multiplication and
division, decimals, fractions, percents, negative numbers, algebraic
equations, exponents, square roots, ratios, basic geometry,
rate/time/distance problems, interest rates and some other business
math, simple statistics.
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