Homeschooling Education Articles for Teachers - Page 5

I might be wrong, but I think that as a child, I spent more hours dreaming during the day, than I did at night. Often, a thought unrelated to what I was supposed to be thinking about, would distract me. And off my mind went, willingly, on the journey. Unfortunately, I would come out of the day dr...

My 8-year-old son is not yet at the point where he can calculate numerical extremes. He has no concept as to the mind-boggling vastness of the universe, or the inner workings of an atom. This kind of knowledge will come a bit further down the road. Lately, he has been learning about place value a...

Homeschooling is a tricky endeavor that requires the ability to adjust. There is always something new that enters into the equation. Just when I thought things were running smoothly, the middle school years arrived. Who knew that middle school would completely change our homeschooling experience?...

Discovering the Water Cycle Water - 97% of it is in the world’s oceans. The remainder can be found within the Earth itself, and on the surface in rivers, lakes, and streams.  Water goes up. It comes down. Then the cycle repeats. This seemed to be a simple enough topic to teach for someone like m...

Testing smesting, that is what I used to say. If you homeschool, why would you need to give your students tests? Tests just create anxiety and take the fun out of learning, right? My grinchy self did not find merit in this technique, and nobody would make me change my mind. In my experience as a...

One of the hardest parts of studying is knowing how to do it right. This is one of those elusive skills that is rarely taught, but students are expected to know how to do. Study skills can be tricky to teach because studying properly involves a variety of factors. Primarily, each person must disc...

While not a hypothesis based on scientific investigation, my own personal observations on how the gene pool works have led me to believe that it functions like a slot machine. You drop in a couple of chromosomes, pull the handle, and wait for the jackpot. It’s a bit like gambling in Vegas as you ...

Halloween has grown in popularity by leaps and bounds since I was a child. The decorations and costumes appear earlier and earlier in stores each year. This year, I noticed fall scarecrows in August! As the temperatures start to cool, it gets my mind turning to the trifecta of holidays that are c...

The microscope was always a tool that I found both fascinating and a little off-putting. In my schooling, I didn’t come into contact with one until high school biology. Even then, I only spent a couple of class periods looking at slides. My education wasn't mediocre; microscope use just wasn't an...

All great science lessons have to start somewhere. It usually begins with a great idea, that may or may not be practical, or easy to execute. And, yes, I'll admit that the someone who comes up with these great ideas is usually me. I send for that science kit, experiment, or do it yourself robotic...

With homeschooling, like with anything in life, there are good days and there are bad days. Sometimes you might feel like you are on a roller coaster. One day you may feel the rush of excitement from making a new discovery, while the next the sinking feeling you get when you've taken the plunge, ...

When I reread the fairy tale Cinderella, now as a mother and home-schooling parent, it makes me think the stepmother might have gotten a bad deal. When money is tight, and there's not a lot of help around, there has to be a way to achieve Cinderella's accomplishments in the Grimm Brothers fairy t...

Homeschooling parents and children may experience what I like to call the “summertime blues.” It is hardly worthy of the crooning of Billie Holiday or Big Maybelle. However, I could really use their rich voices to convey the sad melancholy we’re all feeling. Some homeschoolers may be familiar wit...

Solemnity is one of the words you can use to describe the feeling that overcomes you when you walk into a cemetery. The ground holds lost loved ones who may be gone, but not forgotten. Many of these sites are also the resting places for men and women who served our country valiantly. The last Mon...

Ruby Bridges  is one of those people who have an incredible story to share. She was an instrumental player in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of six just by showing up to school. Ruby Bridges was one of the African Americans who helped to integrate the school system by attending a previously...