Today Courtney started Chemistry Camp with the boys. Since the last month of our fall semester was a bit hectic with the History & Geography fair and my mother’s visit, we decided to drop science and make it up during the break. For some subjects you need a certain continuity to make progress, like math and English, but I think science is one of those subjects you can do a lot of all at once, over a couple of weeks, and then retain by a recap or two later on. Since the boys are so young too, we thought it would be fun for them to make it a bit of a project - an intense study with lots of experiments - and really, because we’re homeschooling we can do it pretty much however we want, right?
So, for those of you who are interested (not that many, I’m afraid – sorry, all the rest of you), here’s our Science Basic Chemistry curriculum for this academic year (our goal was to do approximately one subject/two weeks):
1. Atomic structureThe books we use are the following:
- - The Usborne internet-linked Science Encyclopedia
- - Real Science-4-kids, Chemistry Level 1
- - Adventures with atoms and molecules
Apart from the weekly lessons, we will also prepare something special for the Cairo Homeschoolers’ Science Fair, which usually takes place in May. I don’t know how far they’ll get down the list, but since Courtney has January off and you can get a lot done just by spending an hour or two/day, I’m hoping we’ll have the bulk of the work done early in the semester, so that we can concentrate on other subjects.
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"Cairo Homeschoolers' Science Fair"! How cool is that!! Where is it held?
I didn't know there was a homeschooling community in Cairo
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