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5 Steps to a Successful Field Trip
Summer is a great time for field trips. Your schedule may be a bit more flexible, making it the perfect time to head out and explore! Field trips are an excellent way to enhance the learning done during the previous school year and inspire future learning. Planning and enjoying a field trip for a group or for your own family is easy. Here is a list of ideas to make the most of every experience.
Reaching the Homeschool Market
A look at what homeschoolers buy and different ways to reach the homeschool market.
The Characteristics of Homeschooled and Nonhomeschooled Students
One way to examine how student, family, and household characteristics are related to homeschooling is to compare the characteristics of homeschooled students to different populations of students. This study provides a comparison of homeschoolers to non-homeschoolers, both public schooled students and private schooled students, by student, family, and household characteristics.
Ten Tips from Homeschooling Moms of Four or More
Parents of several children engage in some seriously creative thinking to accomplish ordinary day to day tasks. This article is a collection of tips, gathered from ‘Moms of Many’, and is intended to supply helpful suggestions for homeschooling, maintaining your home, and generally keeping it all in balance.
Homeschooling Horizons
At Homeschooling Horizons Magazine, their goal is very simple: to provide you with the encouragement and tips needed to provide your child with a superior education. Whether you are new to home education or a veteran of many years, Homeschooling Horizons Magazine has what you need. If you are using a traditional curriculum or unschooling your child, the articles, tips, activities and stories are sure to have you nodding in agreement and learning from their varied columnists.
African Centered Resources
Great youtube video discussing various African-centered resources for homeschoolers.
Getting Organized Part 1
This article includes great organization tricks and tips for getting organized, including organizing around themes, how less is more, how to plan in blocks of time, and a discussion of storage solutions.
Unschooling Basics
A list designed for those new to the philosophy of unschooling. Ask experienced unschoolers all those niggling questions, and find out how unschooling works in real families. If you're familiar with John Holt's work, but unsure of how to begin or what an unschooling day really looks like, this is a place for you to discuss, question, ponder, and become deeply familiar with natural learning and how it affects our entire lives. From parenting issues to learning from the whole wide world and beyond, come explore the issues that unschooling families have dealt with in the past and how to get beyond "school-think" to a joyful unschooling lifestyle.!
Activities for Kids: Car Games
A short list of some fun games for traveling by car. Includes "Odd or Even," "I Spy," and others.
How do Unschoolers Turn Out?
Is unschooling successful? This article details the results of surveys of unschoolers, looking at their experiences as children and their successes as adults, including pursuing higher education and careers. The authors of the survey conclude that unschooling works well when there is high levels of family engagement and involvement, there is effort at social connection, and a dedication from both parents and children to work together to further their educational goals, while still learning freely.
