egao_gakari Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 So, we've been using BFSU. I love it! I feel like I'm getting the science education I never had, and learning something new every time I plan a lesson. DS11, though, isn't loving it as much. He's OK with it, but he's asked several times now if we can study space science. BFSU has almost none, and most of it comes it Vol. 3, which we won't get to for a couple of years. I'm not confident I can teach a BFSU-style lesson about the kind of things my kid wants to learn about, without a BFSU chapter to go by. He wants to know about neutron stars, black holes, that kind of stuff. Anybody have any recommendations? Books or videos or anything I can use to design a few lessons around spacey topics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Stephen and Lucy Hawking's George series - fiction with a ton of science woven in Mary Kay Carson's Beyond the Solar System - includes hands-on projects NOVA videos, Stephen Hawkings videos, NASA website 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 I am reading Dava Sobel's The Planets now and I think a motivated middle schooler could read it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 The Planets is great. Another middle school level pop nonfiction read that ds enjoyed parts of was Packing for Mars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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