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Posted: May 23 2009 at 7:41am | IP Logged Quote amarytbc
Leonie or anyone else. I pulled out some old JN that I used with my oldest when he was in middle school. Since he was close to 12 when we started the program, I was a resource person and followed his lead more or less. I'm considering using this with a younger child (9) who can never get enough science. What is the youngest that your child(ren) has enjoyed the material and can you tell me more about how you used the program?
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My youngest is 12 - but I think Lissa, over at Here in the Bonny Glen shares details of using the ideas with mixed ages and with a group of other homeschoolers.

We followed the steps in the program - and each week checked the extra activities for students and teachers. We looked for library books on related topics - weather, the sun, geography, the equinox...As we gained clues of each mystery class, we chose books about the area, foods to try from that region, novels set in that area..eg one Mystery Class we suspected was in Adelalde Australia (we were right!). We re-read some books by Colin Thiele, books set in South Australia, giving us a picture of the geography ( Storm Boy) and the history
( Sun on the Stubble).

Some of the books gave us experiments to try, to illustrate concepts - like Lissa's egg equinox demonstration in the link above.

I hope this helps a bit!

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Posted: May 23 2009 at 10:47am | IP Logged Quote amarytbc
I meant to write Jason Project and don't know how I came up with Journey North. We started JN a few months ago and lost track of the project because of illness. Your post is a good reminder to get back to it. Thank you for the suggestions, they have helped.
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