Michelle My Bell Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 We are primarily Charlotte Mason style homeschoolers but I am in college and I'd like to look into some sort of science program for my 11 & 8 year olds next year. Something fun but not overly time consuming. I don't mind experiments as long as they are easy to implement. Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Halcyon Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 my kids are the same age as yours. For younger, we use SYRWTLS BookOne and Young Scientist Club Kits and lots of living books.Older is doing the Brain and lots of reading of science books. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 If you are Charlotte Mason style homeschoolers, why not just go outside and do nature study? I brainstormed this list a couple of weeks ago for someone else. They are all just go outside kind of things, without needing any prep besides perhaps getting a book from the library. They really take as long as you want them to take. Star gazing: 5 mintues or 2 hours, your choice. Ants: just watching them for 5 minutes, or taking a few hours to build your own ant farm. Or you could just plan to read once a week for 1 hour, and then take 1 more hour to look for what you read about. If this is not what you want, I'm happy to try again. Just tell me what your goals are. And your restrictions. Ruth in NZ Biology Botany -make a garden,do a survey over 2 months of all the mushrooms in the woods,Do a mushroom printgrow a seed in plastic bottle so you can see the rootsZoologysurvey insectsMake an ant farmVisit the rocky intertidal and look for sea creaturesGet a bird list and see how many you can findwatch how bees pollinateGeneticsDo a genetic chart of your extended familyMicrobiologyGet a microscope and learn to use itGet samples from local streams and learn how to measure little creaturesLearn how to categorize and identify little creatures and plantsHuman bodyCompare heart rates between people, or within yourself depending on exerciseCompare reflex speed, or distance you can throwStudy your sleep patternsGet a skeleton and try to figure out what each bone doesEarth Science Astronomystar gazingchart the moon cycles, try to tell the time based on the phase of the moon and its location in the skyChart the sun over 6 monthsGeologyFind rocks and identify themLook at road cuts and look at soil strataGet a book out of the library and visit all the interesting rock formations in your areaGo to a volcanic siteMeteorologyStudy weather mapsMake your own set of weather measurement gear (wind, rain, pressure) and chart daily weatherlearn how to predict rain using cloudsOceanographyGo to the ocean and study how the waves break on the sandVisit dunesStudy tide charts and chart tides in your areaPhysics (running out of time, but will get back to this)Make homemade kite and study how you can adjust it to improve its flightMeasure who has the grippiest shoes using a spring scaleVideo tape a ball in projectile motion, slow it down with software and compare it to textbookGo to many locations and compare echos, why do they vary?Look at how light reflects and refractsPlay with magnetsAck... Chemistry is next. Will come back. (ETA: and I never did, must get onto that!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Real Science 4 Kids: the labs for chem especially are so fun. We are skipping the bio labs. I draw the line at live things. Elemental Science: Classic or Living Books. Very easy to implement and the 'labs' are totally optional. Lots of extra book suggestions. K12 Independent: just pick a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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