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The lady who runs it, Lisa Nehring, is in a Facebook Group with me and it looks like their classes are very good. I know they aim at providing quality tuition. But as I haven't had actually used them I don't have personal experience.
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I used a number of things - Sister Wendy videos, plus Annotated Mona Lisa (book). And I can't remember what else now.
Also look at Take Time for Art videos - I think I may have used those had they been around when my daughter did Art History.
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It would probably be overkill to do AP as well, but not all universities accept DE credits. My niece homeschooled and went to Furman and she had had done DE through 2 different 4 year colleges and Furman wouldn't accept any of the credits. On the other hand, my kids did AP instead of DE and they didn't have a problem.
If she knows the colleges she wants to apply to and knows they will all take her DE classes, then no point at all.
And as for showing her academic ability, that depends on where she is doing the dual enrollment. Our local community college is not great in most departments, and I know the Spanish and English my kids did at our co op and at home was a lot more rigorous. Standards can vary a lot but typically doing DE at a 4 year university would show your student is capable of college work - but 2 year community colleges, not necessarily.
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17 hours ago, cintinative said:
Could you please clarify what NEEC is? I googled NEEC and economics and none of the hits seem to be right.
Sorry - should be NCEE - National Council for Economic Education - that was a typo
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I teach Economics at co op and online and one of the activities we do is play the Stock Market Game. I play the official student one with them, but if you want a free version you could use How the Market works. Also NEEC has good materials with simulations you can use. I am on the road for the next 2 1/2 weeks but there is a book I use with the sort of activities you are looking for that I bought from them
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My oldest daughter did Psychology at college and they used David Myers. I just went and checked (as I know have it) and it was the 8th edition (it wasn't an AP edition). Here is the link https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-David-G-Myers/dp/0716728303 (she graduated a few years ago so there are more recent versions)
She really liked it.
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Yes you should definitely give it a try! All my kids did it and loved it and I enjoy it so much (even though I am a German / English major) that I have continued coaching even now that my kids are graduated. Students can learn so much science in a "practical" way and medals they might win look good to colleges! Our team (along with a few other homeschool teams) are off to Nationals next week after winning our State championships.
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If you have kids who are good at math, the Purple Comet Math contest is still open for registration and participation for a few more days. Kids can work alone or in teams of up to 6. It's free and for middle or high school.
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I use Canvas for my online classes (and my co op classes). It has a lot of functionality but isn't super user-friendly. But if you Google for answers you can usually do what you want to do. It allows rubrics, peer reviews, weighting grades, dropping lowest grades, etc. We also used Engrade but stopped when they started charging. Now the teachers use a mixture of options but about 1/2 of us use Canvas
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I used a variety of math over the years with my kids and eventually ended up with LOF - and from Algebra 1 we used it exclusively for 1 of my kids and partially for 2 more (one started on TT and had to redo lot of it with LOF and the other went to public school after 8th grade - she tested into Algebra 2 after doing LOF Algebra). My kids scored well on standardized tests and used math a lot in the Science Olympiad competition. LOF gives practical applications and they liked that and it worked for them.
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I am the head coach of the teams @ClemsonDana is talking about. It is very doable as homeschoolers BUT as has been mentioned Science Olympiad has a rule that you can't have more than 2 counties on a team. We just had our regional competition and in the middle school division homeschool teams finished in the first 4 places. And in first and third in the high school division.
A team can be up to 15 students. But you can manage with less. I belong to a homeschool coaches faceboook group and some of the teams have as few as 7 students. Also, we use students as young as 3rd and 4th grade on our middle school team (the little ones all went home with plenty of medals even though the school kids are much older)
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Well, I teach an online class, so if that is what you are looking for - I can help. Each module has one main project which I show how to do (recorded videos).
If you are looking for free or cheap, Codeacademy has tutorials in Python. And of course, there are many books you can find on Amazon. So if your child doesn't need his work graded and he won't need help as he works through the tutorials, that would be the way to go. My sons taught themselves every language but the first one (I gave them a book which was a course in Visual Basic) - so it is very doable
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Definitely - as long as she spent about 65 hours (or whatever your state suggests for the number of hours for a 1/2 credit) on the class, it is definitely credit-worthy and can be used as a Fine Arts elective.
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19 hours ago, ballzy said:
Thank you for the suggestions, HollyDay.
Thank you, merylvdm. Your unit studies look great! Does it matter which one we do first for WWII? Too bad I missed your sale 🙂.
Not really - though I supposed the Year by Year one would be good to get the overview of what happened and then you can get more specific with the Who's Who.
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Do you want graded? Self-paced? Photography, Photoshop, Music History / Appreciation, Intro to Theatre, Writing Clubs, Debate, Programming - so many options.
I suggest that once you have a number of ideas that you are happy to pay for and you think will work, show your dd and let her select. I did that with my kids and they were a lot more enthusiastic if they chose something. We did things like Linguistics and Game Theory as well as some of those mentioned above. I created most of them myself but obviously, you don't want to do that.
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This Poetry and a Movie class looks awesome - https://www.hidethechocolate.com/product/poetry-and-a-movie/
And Music in our homeschool has music history / appreciation online classes that look awesome - https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses
Photoshop, Photography and Visual Literacy are all fun classes to take too
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There is a Twitter account that tweets as if it was WW2 - https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII. It would be fun to follow that.
And I posted a host of ideas on fun projects in another thread in this section of the forum that is related to interactive history. I have taught WW2 at our local co-op and I have 2 unit studies I created on it and there is no shortage of material and cool things to do. There are a number of Choose Your Own adventure books for example. And there are some online games and simulations. You can put together a really awesome year that he will never forget!!
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I teach history classes and I don't use tests or essays. There are plenty of other ways to evaluate understanding. I do like to use a lot of primary resources and I have the student answer questions (written) but you could things like that as a discussion.
Here are other ideas:
- Create Facebook profiles of the main characters (Classtools.net has a nice template)
- Create tweets as if an event was happening now
- Make videos using Powtoons (animated)
- Make videos using Mysimpleshow (another animated tool)
- Create a picture ebook to explain a topic to younger children using Storyjumper
- Create a poster using Canva (eg war propaganda)
- Write a postcard from a historical event
- Build a battle scene from legos
- Write a song / rap (you could provide a tune)
- Make a website (National History Day - nhd.org - is a history contest so you could incorporate that. He could make a video instead of a website or even a posterboard or performance - they have categories for all)
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Yesterday I got an email from one of the students who had been on the Science Olympiad team I coach. He emailed to say that last year he participated in https://www.gmgenius.com/ at my suggestion (I have a vague recollection of seeing this and sharing it with the team) - and he won a $500 scholarship. He said there aren't a lot of people participating.
So I thought I would pass it on here. None of my own kids have done this but from the FAQs it seems they have to watch video lessons on decision making before they get to "play" each week. It opened yesterday but it seems it is fine to start late as only a student's best 12 weeks count.
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On 8/22/2018 at 1:17 PM, Rachel said:
Oh goodness, our team does not meet that frequently! They meet once a month until the competition gets closer and then a couple times a week until about two weeks before the competition. Our kids only do a district meet and the state fair. Some of the older kids in the state do more competitions.
I will say that our 4H agent needs more help with this club and so it’s pretty laid back. My husband and I have discussed volunteering to lead it next year but neither of us knows much about programming.
I would say it could be a plus if you don't know much about programming - it will force the kids to figure it out for themselves. I coached an inner city First Lego League (robotics) team for 3 years. I am a programmer and teach programming - but I don't know the language used by the EV3 robots. And I intentionally didn't try to learn it. The kids knew I didn't know it and that forced them to figure it out. And FLL is all about the kids doing all the work and not the coaches. Their robot never did all the things it was supposed to, but it did perform many of the tasks. And in the 3rd year, they did well enough to get through to State. They felt so proud of what they had achieved because they knew I hadn't done any of it!
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Look for asynchronous classes - they won't have chat boxes as the lessons aren't live. If you want to have deadlines and the work graded, then make sure they aren't self-paced, but you can find classes that aren't live and won't have that chat bar.
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If he likes being on the computer - have you consider Programming as an elective? It looks like you got lots of good suggestions so my only other one is to present him with some choices (you work through them and find what you think are the best options) and let him make the final selection. I did that with my boys and getting their "buy in" helped a lot.
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Got back to this thread at last - been moving my youngest into college. Some more movie ideas:
13 Days - Cuban Missile Crisis
Invictus - end of Apartheid / Nelson Mandela
Good Night and Good Luck - McCarthyism
Bridge of Spies - Cold War
I loved the whole JFK mini series
And I haven't watched it yet but The Butler looks great and spans most of this period.
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On 8/13/2018 at 12:24 PM, HomeAgain said:
There is a scene where a woman's self-pleasure is implied, so you may want to watch it ahead of time.
I used this in my US History class and the movie is very good and on the whole accurate. This scene is pure Hollywood and it is very annoying it is in there. There is a version on Youtube that a teacher has edited - and edited that part out. I used that one, but the problem is the sound disappears at the end of that version, so I had to tell them to finish watching the original (it is an online class).
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