Fiction Writing: I entered a contest in a Homeschooling magazine my mom gets. Each month they give out a topic, and the 10 kids with the best stories get published and win a prize. This month's prize is a spaceship sticker book. Topic: Your long-lost great uncle left you enough money to open your own store. Tell us about it.…
Tag: Discovery Education
What I Learned Today 9/9/14
By Sage Hamilton Erosion by Water Yesterday my mom and I went out into our backyard in a forest near a creek. We looked around at everything that was weathered and what was eroded. The things that were weathered were wet and easy to break, like old branches. The things that were eroded were already broken and had been moved…
Earth Science: Erosion by Water
CONCEPT: Erosion by Water Lesson Objectives: By the end of this lesson, Sage should be able to: Define erosion by water. Distinguish between weathering and erosion. Identify landforms caused by water erosion. Describe erosional land features created by waves, longshore currents, rivers, floods, and glaciers. Overarching Questions: How and why is Earth constantly changing? Focus Questions: How do the properties…
Curriculum Tweaks
Of course, being new to un/homeschooling, I couldn't expect every choice to be perfect. I found the Geography book we ordered will be good to test rote memory, but I didn't feel it would give Sage an in-depth understanding of Geography, so I went back to the drawing board and did more research. We have decide to use Mapping the…
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