Can you tell me more about Science Olympiad? I went to the webpage, but am having trouble figuring out exactly what it's all about.

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So, in researching Mortensen Math I found that calculus is taught to kids from the get go. As I am not the mathy type I'm having trouble understanding what types of concepts one would teach at such a young age. I'd love to hear from anyone who has used the curriculum. I know I can purchase the books, but they're really pricey. Does anyone know of another curriculum that introduces these topics so early? Thanks, Debbie

Are the teacher's guides necessary for the Memoria Press guides?

How do I find one?

So, I was planning to do Earth and Space science with my 2nd, 5th, and 7th grader, but they all are interested in learning about robotics. I've found some curriculum put out by 4-H called Junk Drawer Robotics and would like to use that. What I'd like from the Hive is help pulling together a scope and sequence tying it to Earth and Space science. Dh also had the idea of discussing how science fiction helps drive scientific discovery. Ideas? :bigear: PS I've got RS4K Astronomy level 1 to help with introducing topics to the 2nd grader.

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Has anyone seen and/or used the book Teaching Math With Manipulatives that is advertised on this site? Is it worth the $? :bigear: http://www.geoffwhite.ws/

Just wondering if anyone has seen/used this with their kids. My best friend just told me about it tonight. Thoughts??? http://www.dragonboxapp.com/video.html

From reading the description on the Critical Thinking website it can be used over two years for middle school or done in one year for high school geometry.

Thanks for your help.

So, what do I do as far as tests if I go with the 1991/1992 Nichols edition?

Thanks for clearing this up for me. I thought I was going crazy. ; )

You may want to let him know the questions up front so that he knows what to listen for or ask the relevant questions after each paragraph. Dd 15 just last year had an "aha" moment with reading comp in regards to science. I had her bring me her science book and we read a paragraph sentence by sentence and I asked her to pull out the important points for each sentence. In the past she had had trouble figuring out what the "important" parts of the text were. She'd always come back to me with trivial information. UGH! She also is very independent and didn't want help. Anyhow, when we read sentence by sentence she said "huh, I was waiting until the end of the section until I tried to see if I understood the information. It's so much easier doing it this way.

BUMP MyThreeSons If you wouldn't mind sharing the answer key I'd really appreciate it. Thanks ; )

Do you happen to have an ISBN # for the 1991/1992 edition? The only thing I can find with the name Nichols on it that says 1991 has the title Holt Geometry 1986 is this what I'm looking for? http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-1986-Eugene-D-Nichols/dp/0030054079/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375669550&sr=1-3&keywords=holt+geometry+nichols I can't find anything that lists a publication date of 1992. Thanks again ; )

Jann, Is the 1991/1992 the only older edition you would recommend? I'm trying to find a used copy and am wondering if there are any other years that the text was published and was basically the same content. Is the most important thing to be sure it is a Nichols edition? When searching it looks like the 1986 version may be similar. Thanks so much! Debbie

Just FYI, the links to the lab manuals aren't working.

Hello All, I'm looking for Geometry text recommendations for a 9th grade kinesthetic learner whose strong suite is not math. Thanks in advance, Debbie

Okay so it looks like through week 26 corresponds with chapters 1-15. So that's 10 weeks of wiggle room for rabbit trails :D. No, not really, but that gives us time to read some books on food science and see where the connections are.

Dicentra, From what I've gathered from the following two posts it seems that I should be able to use the syllabus that's already planned so nice and neatly and just drop the last three chapters (along with any correlating labs) and be on par with a regular chemistry course. Does that seem to be true? Just checking to see that I haven't misread something. A couple of big reasons for using one of the Zumdahl texts is that I keep hearing wonderful things about it and I can get it used and very inexpensively. As far as labs, I've found this The Gourmet Lab since posting here...real lab equipment, real cooking experiments- not just experiments that use food. I don't know if these would be enough so that's why I'm asking for the help of the hive. I also thought there might be others who would like to be able to supplement a high school text with cooking experiments. HTH, Debbie

I want to do kitchen chemistry because I feel that my daughter will better connect to chemistry if it is related to something practical like cooking. She very much enjoys cooking and gets into Good Eats so I thought I'd take advantage of that. No, dd is not planning on going into a STEM field. Her biggest interest is dance and the only other thing she's talked about doing after graduation other than dance is going to massage school. Thanks for your help!

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So I went to https://sites.google...rnthehousedown/ and made note of which labs she used and have listed the names of the labs here in hopes that someone can help me come up with Kitchen Science labs that would illustrate the same ideas. I do understand that not every lab may be able to be substituted with a cooking counterpart but I figured I'd include the list in it's entirety in case it would be useful to others. Thanks so much for your help...I hope that this is the right place to post this. 1. Differential Solubility 2. Distillation 3. Recrystalization 4. Chromatography 5. Make up a Molar Solution of a Solid Chemical 6. Make up a Molar Solution of a Liquid Chemical 7. Determine Concentration of a Solution by Visual Colorimetry 8. Determine Molar Mass by Boiling Point Elevation 9. Determine Molar Mass by Freezing Point Depression 10. Observe the Effects of Osmotic Pressure 11. Observe a Composition Reaction 12. Observe a Decomposition Reaction 13. Observe a Single Displacement Reaction 14. Stoichiometry of a Double Displacement Reaction 15. Reduction of Copper Ore to Copper Metal 16. Observe the Oxidation States of Manganese 17. Determine the Effect of Concentration on pH 18. Determine the Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate 19. Determine the Effect of Surface Area on Reaction Rate 20. Determine the Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate 21. Boyle's Law 22. Charles' Law 23. Gay- Lussac's Law 24. Determine Heat of a Solution 25. Determine the Heat of Fusion of Ice 26. Determine the Specific Heat of a Metal 27. Produce Hydrogen and Oxygen by Electrolysis of Water 28. Determine pH of Aqueous Salt Solution 29. Observe Some Properties of Colloids and Suspensions 30. Produce a Firefighting Foam 31. Prepare a Gelled Sol 32. Build a Voltaic Cell with Two Half Cells