Homeschooling Downunder
Homeschool Science & Nature Ideas.
When the time came to introduce science into our homeschool, I didn’t know where to start.
I settled on a popular pre packaged science curriculum. We completed the work but lost the sparkle for the subject. It was DRY and it lacked Australian content..
After I read Charlotte Mason’s ideas on science and I decided to give them a go. One week later I knew we were on a winner.
Her ideas of nature study, nature journaling and using living science books are the core of my children’s science curriculum.
"Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life." Charlotte Mason |
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Home Grown Living Science Books |
‘Books dealing with Science...should be of a literary character, and we would probably be more scientific as a people if we scrapped all the text books. Where science does not teach a child to wonder and admire, it is perhaps of no educational value. ’ Charlotte Mason |
Nature StoriesNature stories educate us about places we have never been and places that we have. A nature story brings with it the literary strengths of descriptions, rich metaphors and detailed observations. |
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