Jamee
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I wish GC had a government series. I agree with aaghomeschool, Crash Course. My boys find these much more tolerable than GC lectures.
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That's a really good idea. Probably should suggest that to my other daughter who's moving to LA for her PhD.
I was here for the Tohoku earthquake and am originally from CA. I figure if I had to go through a "big one" I'm glad it was here and not in So Cal. I couldn't even imagine the chaos that would take place compared to the calm and orderliness I saw of the Japanese. I would say it's a good idea to be prepared either way though. It shakes A LOT here.
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Anyone have insight on these? I found a few at our library. Otherwise, I've been using REA too.
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An Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology
L. Greer Price
ISBN 9780938216681
It was in a set w a book on prehistory.
Thank you!
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I live in Japan and am freaked out about visiting the US this summer, let alone the idea of having to send DS there to college in a couple years. I love it here, and yeah nothing has changed regarding anything.
ETA: yes, the bigger threat is natural disaster as we remember the Tohoku earthquake today. It's been six years.
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My husband works for the National Park Service, and I can share what we have done in the past:
We road-tripped for about a year and a half, hitting a lot of national parks and national historic sites along the way. I gave a full credit to my high schoolers and called it "Experiencing America" and listed it under the social studies heading. Here's my course description:
"This nontraditional immersion course exposes the student to the many varied facets of American life which cannot otherwise be experienced except through intensive travel. By exploring the country, the student is exposed to a multitude of historical landmarks, experiences the geographic variances of the country, is exposed to multicultural diversity, and witnesses the workings of the three branches of the federal government. The student travels for a full year in two loops: Eastern United States and Western United States. MATERIALS: Passport To Your National Parks by Eastern National; various materials, maps, and guides from the National Park Service"
In addition to this, with one of my high schoolers we did a half-credit course called "History of the National Park Service" which I put under the electives heading. Here's the course description for this one:
"This course traces the origin of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memeories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, this course chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction. MATERIALS: The National Parks: America's Best Idea (a film by Ken Burns); accompanying lesson plans available at http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/for-educators/lesson-plans/ "
And lastly, with my current high schooler, I am granting a physical education half-credit for hiking. We live in a national park and do a lot of weekend hiking, so it seems apropos.
Hope this helps to give you some ideas!
This is fantastic! Thank you for the input. I really like the Experiencing America idea.
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Check the NP bookstores for park-specific geology books. The best one we purchased came from Grand Canyon.
Do you have the title? Grand Canyon is a must see on our trip.
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I went to Sonoma State and it's a great school. Small cal state. The campus is gorgeous and the "dorms" rated some of the best--they're townhomes. There's been so much construction since I graduated I didn't recognize some areas.
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Not sure about online, but in college I took a 20th century world history class. Is that what she's looking for? Sounds like a great idea.
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We are road tripping across the US this summer hitting as many parks as we can. If I want to give my son high school credit for a course, how much should we be doing? Anything to add? We'll do the Geology of the National Parks GC lectures and I just ordered a Geology text. His math skills are lacking so he's not really had a physical science, and I was thinking this might be a better alternative to chemistry. (He's slowing making his way through Fred Chemustry.)
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My mom used to use this in her geometry classes ages ago.
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I purchased an older edition of Prego, an Italian text book, and managed to find some of the accompanying materials too. Another one is Ciao!
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We are road trippers and my teens are really looking forward to one next summer. We didn't find much to stop for in Texas, but in New Mexico, White Sands, Carlsbad, and Roswell were fun. Those are Southern New Mexico though, so you'd have to go north to get to the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon. In LA, I'll second the La Brea Tar Pits--my boys like to go there whenever we're back.
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Celebrated as a federal holiday. It also coincides with Japanese Sports Day which really catches the Americans off guard thinking they've chosen a good Monday to go do something fun.
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I had the opportunity to read through the first half of the American history course from Pandia because I was helping to edit it. It is a very solid, well-developed American history course. It uses an online textbook as it's main spine. It is probably one of the best homeschool high school history courses out there right now. I was very impressed with it.
Is it at the AP level? Honestly I am not sure, but it would be a good jumping off point. You could always add a few resources to it to make it an AP course. Or maybe just use it and add an AP study guide to it. It is definitely a better developed course than the other History Odyssey courses in my opinion, and I will be using it with my youngest when he gets to the high school level.
Wow! What a great link. Thank you. We are doing US history this year and will need to look into this more.
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Thanks for this thread. I have a second generation Kindle--I think that's what it is--and it's suffering a slow death. Been wondering if I should upgrade it. I LOVE that I can read it in the sun.
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Thank you so much. I was heading in that direction and her dictionary actually explained "the first time" as a conjunction--something I never would have guessed.
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I'm working with an ESL student. How do you diagram this sentence: "You couldn't really expect a person to prey very well the first time she tried, could you?" It's from Anne of Green Gables. She's finding the structure very awkward, and I'm not sure how to explain it. Help. LoL
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We're reading an AP Government book we found free online combined with Crash Course videos and discussion. Seems to be going well. We are doing it a year ahead of time given the election and all this year.
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1912 was pretty fantastic too.
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I LOVE my Fitbit One. I like that it clips to my pocket or bra and I don't have to think about it. The wrist ones calculated too many steps while knitting and not enough while shopping. ;) (My friend wears hers on her ankle since she's always pushing a stroller.) It counts flights of stairs too. I'm trying to convince the hubby to get one too. It doesn't work in the pool, nor while biking or on the elliptical. (But I enter those manually into MFP, and all is well.)
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I just started my GCP subscription and am in LOVE. However, I seem to be having issues watching it through the app on my Fire Stick. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? It'll stream fine through my iPad, but the last few times I've tried on the TV, I get a "can't view video" error.
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It is my understanding that an AS is your first two years of college. I'm confused as to why you'd want to repeat those two years if you've already completed them?
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French Kiss
Which Big History?
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@SanDiegoMom in VA I just started watching the Big History of Civilizations yesterday and have been really enjoying them. We are getting ready to start BHP next week and are really looking forward to it. I'm also thinking of adding in SWB History of the Ancient World, et al. on audio. Anyone else adding in more world history? Does BHoC cover much of that same info? We are hoping to also get in an year of Western Civ with this as well.