2014-15 Homeschool Plan: Science, History & Geography
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 01:32PM Powering through... ;)
SCIENCE: We're taking a unit study approach this year. The way I have things broken out, we have six roughly six week sessions. So, we're taking six different topics...lockpicking, astronomy, Ellen McHenry's physics labs, physics, catapults/trebuchets, and architecture.
(Last year, we did manage to work through two of the curricula planned. Human Body Detectives ended up being too annoying to me, as I had to correct grammar as I was reading it aloud. Ellen McHenry's Elements, though, was pretty good.)
HISTORY: I decided to combine world and US history this year, tackling things in six sessions again. Moving right along after last year, I took Reconstruction (1865) to 2000 and broke it into six chunks. Within each of those, I'll use Story of the World Volume 4 and The Story of Us (books 7-10) as the framework. I'll also add supplementary books. I'm actually geeking out a bit and thinking that this approach will be more fun and more memorable...and will help me remember to stop and review regularly. :)
GEOGRAPHY: Like last year, I'll cover both world geography and US geography. For world geography, we'll use Mapping the World With Art by Ellen McHenry. For US geography, we'll use 50 States and Where to Find Them. Both of these are new to me, so fingers crossed. :)
Reader Comments (1)
Love your posts--its fun to see what else is "out there" and you always have some good ideas. We used SOTW for the last three years, but last spring I kind of needed a break. So, we are now doing basically what you are--we are using Hakim's US books to study American History, and then hopping back every 4-6 weeks to SOTW to see what else is happening in the world. Much more fun. Have a good year and thanks for sharing. I would love to hear your critique of Cover Story sometime--I am thinking of using it next year. Thanks again.