This Week in School, Day 1, 7/24/2016 The next series of posts shares part of our journey while studying politics. It is political, because we studied politics. We are using the eclectic methodology called Project-Based […]
Tag: homeschool secular
Handcrafting High School: Year 2: Month 1 (Post 1 of 3 – On the Way to the Service Project)
The first month of tenth grade might have been the best month we ever spent homeschooling. You might be thinking, “Well, Yeah! You were traveling and hanging out. How could that not be great?” 🙂 […]
Science and the Secular Homeschooler
I live in Southern California. I taught science at community college, and now I write about it. Those two sentences convey a lot of information about how easy it is for me to negotiate my […]
Handcrafting High School: Year 1, Month 9 through the Year’s End
We school year round with lots of breaks. That doesn’t matter to a planner like me though. Every year I have a start date and an end date. The year-end date for this year was […]
Real Science Odyssey Lab Photo Journal 1
My favorite emails to receive are photos of labs from my courses! I love them. It makes all the hard work of writing worth it! This is a scrapbook of photos I have received since the beginning […]
Secular Academics for Homeschoolers
I was so busy moderating the session, I did not really listen to it until just now. What a great talk! What an amazing group of homeschooling parents! WOW! You can click on this link […]
Handcrafting High School: Year 1, The First Four Months: History
History: A Repeat of a Favorite Class and Volunteering The Course: A Brief History of Humankind: This is a Coursera course, https://class.coursera.org/humankind-002, that repeats regularly. It is the best history course I have ever taken. The instructor, […]
Handcrafting High School: Year 1, The First Four Months: Science
Science: A Parent’s Passion I LOVE science‼ My son likes science. This is the main area of handcrafting Sean’s education that has focused on the passions of someone in his family besides him. (My […]
Learning Science
Homeschooling and Science A Winning Combination I am reposting this article in response to an article in the New York Times. There is a link to that article at the bottom of this post. The […]
What happens to scientific theories when definitions change or new information comes to light? A question in the Co-op
I love this exchange, and I thought many of you would too. There has been quite a bit of interest about homeschooling science co-ops based on the number of hits the co-op blog posts on this […]
The Secular Alliances Committee of the National Alliance of Secular Homeschoolers (NASH)
What a weekend! It is difficult to capture in words the energy, passion, and level of commitment to secular academic homeschooling I found at the National Alliance of Secular Homeschoolers (NASH) Conference. This is the fourth […]
A Handcrafted Education, a Brief Video Interview
Of course I was early to my talk at HSC. I am always early for those sorts of things. I was curious about what was going on in other rooms around me. I began talking […]
Homeschooling and Science Talk
This is a talk I gave on August 7, 2014 for the Homeschool+ Conference. In this talk I discuss the best and most effective way of learning science. I also discuss the reasons for getting a […]
How Two Homeschooling Moms Used REAL Science Odyssey Biology 2 in Their Co-op
An Introduction from Blair: One day while figuring out what it meant when someone Pinged a blog post I had written, I came across a discussion about R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey Biology 2. One of the […]
Delhi Day 5, 12/12/13, post 2 of 2
This is the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara Sikh Temple. But first… We started the temple tour with a mosque. The mosque is the Jama Masjid, it is the largest mosque in India. It was built between […]
