Sharing Our Science Studies

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  • March 14, 2012 at 6:20 pm
    amandajhilburn
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    I just posted resources for studying Thomas Edison on my blog. I plan on making this an ongoing thing and share links every week for our studies. We will explore different fields of science and a famous scientist that accomplished great things in these fields.

    Here is what we’ve done this week: http://teachthemdiligently-amanda.blogspot.com/2012/03/sharing-scientist-studies-part-1.html

     

    Hope this is helpful to someone! 😉

    Amanda

    March 23, 2012 at 1:54 pm
    Sue
    Participant

    Amanda, I love seeing what you are doing with your science studies. This was very helpful, especially the pictures of your daughter’s science notebook. (I also visited the trojan horse while on your blog–wow!) This gave me some good ideas for how to approach science with my kids. I don’t remember if you mentioned the ages of your children, though, and I’m curious about that.

    This brings me to another question. I have just switched to using living science books for my youngest two, dd 11 and ds 12 (who is mildly autistic and definitely needs shorter lessons and quite a bit of read-aloud). I have gathered several living books for science (no biographies yet, need to decide on those), but I’m not sure what to do next other than just pick up a book and start reading.

    Would any of you be willing to share what you do beyond just reading living books for science, especially if your children are in the 9-12 age bracket? Also, I would appreciate any scientist biography recommendations for that age group.

    Thanks,

    Sue

    March 23, 2012 at 2:44 pm
    amandajhilburn
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    I’m glad our studies were helpful to you, Sue! 🙂  I do have to admit that the Trojan Horse was a pain!! LOL! It was very hard to do and I ended up breaking out the hot glue gun. They did a lot of it, but I ended up having to be the glue gun lady 🙂

    My children are ages 9 and 11. I was having a really hard time finding a science “program” that we liked so the living books approach sounded good to me, too. For the past 2 weeks we have picked a scientist and then went to the library to get books about him and/or the field in which he studied. We read together, the kids read some on their own, I have found some copywork related to several scientists that we use, I look for any educational videos at the library that would compliment the study, and then we do an experiment or 2 from some books we have at home. On Fridays I have them use a notebook page to write all that they can remember about the scientist we have studied. 

    I have been VERY impressed by what they write. This way of studying is working out great for my kids! I’ll have our new post on Galileo up today on my blog 🙂

     

    March 23, 2012 at 3:01 pm
    amandajhilburn
    Participant

    Here’s #2

    http://teachthemdiligently-amanda.blogspot.com/2012/03/sharing-scientist-studies-part-2.html

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