KIN Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I'm looking at the book Physics Experiments for Children and wondering if you like it for Physics. Are you also using the science encyclopedia as recommended in the WTM? Any other thoughts????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennyt Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I've just spent the past year doing Physics Experiments with Kids and using the recommended Usborne reference books. I did it with my dd9 and dd6 and we all loved it. They learnt a lot - we have a great folder with scientific reports for the experiments and notes and diagrams from the reference books. We used some extra kits I'd picked up from garage sales - electrical, optics and magnet kits, but apart from that, we only needed the 2 books + lots of books out from the library. I thoroughly recommend it. Jenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIN Posted November 22, 2008 Author Share Posted November 22, 2008 we only needed the 2 books + lots of books out from the library. What kinds of books did you check out from the library? Our library system is uh, not good, at all. I need to purchase most of the books I want to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennyt Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Hi, Our library system isn't strong on Physics books either. I picked up a few books second hand which have probably been just as good as anything I've gotten from the library. I've probably only done it a couple of times this year - sat down with another book with the kids and worked through it with them. On the whole, we've been flat-out just getting through the experiments in the book, and looking up the relevant double-page spread. We do science twice a week for an hour each, and I'd say our routine was pretty much 3 hours of experiments, including the write-ups, and then 1 hour of note-taking and diagrams to consolidate what we'd learned. So we only had one note-taking hour every 2 weeks. I found we needed a full hour to read, discuss, write notes and draw a diagram. This worked really well for us. I'm an ex-science highschool teacher and I learnt a lot this past year! HTH, Jenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen in NS Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 We used the WTM physics recs, too, and had a great year exploring physics. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. As for lib. books, I just tried to find books that related to the week's topic - and it there were none, that was OK. We learned tons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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