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roomintheheart
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Has anyone used this? I'd like to know a little more about it.
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roomintheheart wrote:
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What is the L.P.H. Resource Center?
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roomintheheart
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Here it is.
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Bump - anyone use these online classes?
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I just saw this...from December...! Oops  But ive just re-activated here after 5 year hiatus so that's my excuse and im stickin to it haha. Anyway, are you still interested in LPH? We have used it a lot in the past and I'm happy to give you the long version if you are still interested.
The short version is Yes-it's a good little resource. Inexpensive, good for the younger set as they feel "big" to be taking an online class, tho the tests are just easy multiple choice. I find the courses only cover the basic info, but as such, are very helpful as a "spine" to keep you on task. I have primarily used LPH for Geography classes where it was very helpful keeping us marching along. I even used it for highschoolers for that reason, but added "mature" readings and activities to supplement it. And you can't beat the price!
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Id love to hear the long version if you are able!
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Kelly wrote:
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Well, I don't have anything to add to the topic but wanted to say, WELCOME BACK, Kelly! So good to have you reactivate. Anything this lady has to add to a conversation is well worth it - so yes, to the long version. 
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Kelly, have you ever used their science?
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Sorry it took me a bit to get back here. I'm still maneuvering my way around and wrote 3, yes THREE looong responses to the LPH post, but accidentally DELETED each one-sort of daunting! OK, so here's attempt #4 and I'll start with the Science question. Keeping my fingers crossed this post makes it!
I think the only Science class we did was the Science Experiments class. We tried to do it a couple of times and it just didn't work out for us. We never seemed to have the right materials available (even tho they send you a materials list the week before, if I remember correctly) so that's more a reflection of our chaotic lifestyle than a mark against the class. What my mad scientist dd DID manage to do, she enjoyed.
The classes that worked best for us were the History and Geography classes. I noticed their creative writing classes fill up really quickly every time, but we never tried them. I believe we did the Science History class, too... or maybe that one is still on our wish list lol, but we have done most or all of the Geography classes and the American History class, as well as the class on the Mass. All of these classes have integrated well into our little homeschool.
I found the History classes-while very basic-provided a good framework for the subject and forced us to KEEP ON TASK. You have the weekly syllabus ahead of time so you can plan extra activities to augment the LPH work (which is short, multiple choice in format)so you can dress things up or down or not at all, to your liking. The negative is that we inevitably got distracted by rabbit trails and wanted to divert-sometimes we did and had to scramble to get back on task, and sometimes we just plain floundered! BUT the positive is that the syllabus kept us on task and made us push through-which is something I needed, having spent at various times in our HS career 2 years rabbit-trailing thru Egypt, and another 3 years on the Civil War! I constantly fight "swamp syndrome"...getting swamped in an epoch! So LPH is great for the overview, hitting the hot spots, moving things along. And very easy to supplement with other activities, readings etc.
This same principle applies to Geography. For us, the Geography classes were the Big Winners at LPH. When we planned trips, I made special efforts to sign up for the appropriate Geography classes, and they really worked out great. We were planning a big cross country trip, so we signed up for the American Geography class-if I remember correctly, the first half was US Geography and the 2nd half was Central and South American Geography-or maybe it was the opposite, but in any event, we only did the half pertaining to US and Canada, since that pertained to our driving trip (tho you may have to commit financially to the whole tamale-I don't recall-but the price is so reasonable that it was worth it, imho). By the time we did our trip, the kids had a sense of where they were going and what they were seeing.
We did the same thing with the Africa Geography class in conjunction with a couple of trips we made to Africa. With the younger kids we did the basic class, along with other map exercises like games such as 10 Days in Africa,or African map puzzles, or even just bounced a kickball back and forth to each other as we shouted out country names and corresponding capitals. We also did a notebooking exercise where we printed out outlines of each country we studied and colored them, identifying the capitals. We would also print out a B&W pic of something pertinent to the country (like a Coelecanth for Comoros, or the Mosque of Djenne in Mali, or a typical tribal mask for Cote D'Ivoire or something)and the kids would label and color it. Sometimes we printed out little maps of the African continent with the location of the country in question for us to highlight. Often we picked one "fun fact" that we put in the notebook, too (often the same thing as the picture they colored). My little kids enjoyed doing their African notebooks tho sometimes the number of countries was overwhelming! Still, they learned a lot, and again, LPH kept us marching along so we didn't get stuck.
The older kids -who moaned and groaned about doing "baby" work with LPH- memorized capitals, played Ten Days in Africa & helped the little guys with puzzles, but were ALSO assigned readings in keeping with the region under study. EG they read "Left to Tell" when we covered Rwanda, "Mukiwa" when we covered Zimbabwe etc. I accessed the Columbia U reading list for their African Studies/Lit course back then and used that, as well. They also had to do an extensive Journal of our trips, and wrote papers on various aspects of life in S & SW Africa. All this, in conjunction with map practice, lots of movies about Africa and the LPH "spine" made for a pretty darn thorough African Studies class.
For the Mass class, I assigned them the very easy looking, almost comic-book-y format book, "Know your Mass" to read in conjunction with the LPH course. This book, tho easy looking, was stealthily very informative! Even though it focused on the traditional Mass, there was so much good general info that it was a great add-in resource. I forget where we bought this book, but between that, the LPH class and just attending Mass, we were able to tailor-make a very instructive class.
Oh, we also did the Greek Alphabet class for my 8 yo. It was very basic, but again, LPH just provides a grounding in the subject. She learned to write the letters, upper case and lower case as I recall, and the English equivalent sound. Nothing mind boggling, but she enjoyed it and felt like she was doing a "Big Kids On Line" course. LPH is very safe, no chat stuff (tho I think you can opt to log onto some sort of chat forum with other members of LPH but we never did that)The administrator of the forum was always very quick to get back with us, and helpful on the occasions that we missed a class by giving us access to the week's link, but after the fact.
All in all, I think LPH is a great little resource and certainly cost-effective. Is it an accredited class for upper school? No. Is it fancy with lots of bells and whistles? No. Is it deeply intellectual& analytical? No. But as a user-friendly, introductory framework kind of course for younger kids (even ones too young to read: we read it out loud to the super little guys, but its short and sweet and doable), for middle kids (with some add-in work) and even for older kids (with lots of more in-depth add-ons!)...we found it to be very useful, and a great tool.
Closing my eyes and hitting the "Post" button now...
Kelly in FL
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We used this for our oldest, and she liked all the classes she took. It's been quite a few years since we used them, but we really liked it.
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Awesome review Kelly...thanks! 
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