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Anne McD
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Posted: Sept 13 2010 at 1:52pm \| IP Logged

Another curriculum question

Someone mentioned this in another thread, and I realized I had it! Has anyone taught science using this?

Thanks!!

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Posted: Sept 14 2010 at 8:35pm \| IP Logged

Anne:

I'm the one that mentioned it in an earlier thread. My science fan picked it up around your oldest's age and it is still his favorite. I will warn you, being old, there is a lot more information in there than is available now. IE - you may want to look closely at safety so you can set rules beforehand rather than after the fact.

Of course me being dense and son getting away with a thing or two probably lended something to the interest and excitement for the guy - and many of my gray hairs.

Sorry I cannot give you a hand in terms of using it as a science curriculum. In many ways that coupled with some nature guides and a couple of more current books in fields of interest was my son's sole elementary science - but I had very little to do with it. He was very hands on and tried to build or imitate most of what was described in whatever he read. I pulled him aside once and asked him to tell me how he learned science so I could plan lessons for the youngers - his response is that he read stuff in books, then tried to figure out ways to test whether or not what they said was true. He (now 13) is the science teacher for the youngers in this house.

I simply provided a plethora of books and supplies and opportunities. They help dad with house repairs (wiring, plumbing, fixing the broken VCR, DVD or whatever or pillaging the parts and motors if they cannot get the original item to work). My husband has an EE background so he could guide them in testing parts and also parameters for use (ie some of the microwave parts had limits on them or my husband claimed them for himself or ditched them for safety reasons). Many times I wasn't sure which books were helpful and which were not, but as I purge my shelves this year, my science fan is telling me which I can ditch. Growing with Science continues to be an all time favorite and one he says he learns a lot from still. It is a great book series to have around. I will admit that science was often this son's nighttime reading - though Growing with Science is not one he had me read aloud - devious guy, he didn't want me to know about some of the things they told the kids before he had a chance to try it out himself.

Our younger ages we really spent our time with hands on, practical science that they could build and see. It might have been older technology - but it set the foundation for understanding the more modern technologies which don't always lend themselves to as much hands on, but using the older stuff, the children knew how it is done. (Microchip is harder to comprehend than an electronic circuits kit but you won't understand a microchip without understanding electronic circuits kind of stuff).

I hope someone else will step up and give you some ideas - but honestly in our house, science isn't on the radar. Somehow my boys have really developed quite a bit in science without any "program" just from doing.

Janet

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