🧬 How I Teach Science:
1️⃣ Communally
Observation, Discovery, Exploration, Wonder… all of these are best in community. I have intentionally structured science for our homeschool that provides what my oldest needs for High School credit and also appeals to and engages all ages.
(I’ve posted previously about how exactly I’m doing this.)
2️⃣ In Streams
Ideas talk to each other, and science’s various fields and disciplines overlap and intersect. We always have multiple streams of science in our homeschool schedule.
3️⃣ With a Combination of Natural History and Formal Science
In addition to Formal Science Streams, we complete a Special Study per term, we Nature Journal, and we read Nature Lore.
These are all Science, but they’re distinct. (I have a post detailing each, that I will save to a Science highlight.)
This ensures that we maintain a sense of wonder and the habit of observation while also learning that science is a discipline and requires investment as such.
4️⃣ With a Variety of Resources
We use textbooks, various curriculum, living books, reference books, experiments, videos, websites, reports, lab manuals, and more.
It all provides a different facet of varied instruction.
💡Here is how this looks this year: (9th & 5th)
🧬Weekly Lessons:
1. Special Study
We use DF Special Studies for this, one each term.
This term we’re using Animal Senses and Defenses.
1️⃣ Communally
Observation, Discovery, Exploration, Wonder… all of these are best in community. I have intentionally structured science for our homeschool that provides what my oldest needs for High School credit and also appeals to and engages all ages.
(I’ve posted previously about how exactly I’m doing this.)
2️⃣ In Streams
Ideas talk to each other, and science’s various fields and disciplines overlap and intersect. We always have multiple streams of science in our homeschool schedule.
3️⃣ With a Combination of Natural History and Formal Science
In addition to Formal Science Streams, we complete a Special Study per term, we Nature Journal, and we read Nature Lore.
These are all Science, but they’re distinct. (I have a post detailing each, that I will save to a Science highlight.)
This ensures that we maintain a sense of wonder and the habit of observation while also learning that science is a discipline and requires investment as such.
4️⃣ With a Variety of Resources
We use textbooks, various curriculum, living books, reference books, experiments, videos, websites, reports, lab manuals, and more.
It all provides a different facet of varied instruction.
💡Here is how this looks this year: (9th & 5th)
🧬Weekly Lessons:
1. Special Study
We use DF Special Studies for this, one each term.
This term we’re using Animal Senses and Defenses.
2. Science 1
Zoology
(1/3 Biology Credit for 9th Grader)
3. Science 2
Ecology
(1 Credit for 9th Grader)
4. Science 3
Climate Science
🧬 Science Elsewhere in Our Schedule
I also intentionally curate resources and incorporate our science topics into our Evening Basket.
and also Biography, Fun Facts (we start our mornings with these), Career Studies and Nature Lore.
🧬 Scouting
We also have had weekly Scouting lessons for many years, but this year we will be doing this monthly at School With Friends. (We use DF Scouting curriculum for this.)
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