“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao-Tzu Humanity has disrupted nature’s path of least resistance by creating cities, structures, roads, and even political systems that defy natural conditions. We [...]
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Learning by the Path of Least Resistance
Posted by ginac on October 31st, 2011
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Interdisciplinary, Reading, STEAM, Unit Study 
Tags: constrtuctivism, creativity, Homeschooling, Learning, play, Project-based learning, technology, Unschooling, whole learning 
Comments OffProject-Based Home Learning
Posted by ginac on September 9th, 2011
Remember the masses of young Harry Potter fans who stayed-up all night reading J.K. Rowling’s newly released books, then learned everything about all the characters, Hogwarts, the magical creatures, and the spells? Imagine capturing that passion, interest, and engagement through learning of all sorts. Project-based home learning is a more than viable alternative to traditional [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Interdisciplinary, Learning Methods, Unit Study Tags: child-led learning, homeschool, Learning, Project-based learning, Unschooling Comments OffAwesome Stories: Quality Learning Tool Based Around Stories
Posted by ginac on August 17th, 2011
Awesome Stories is an online collection of stories around historical events and people, mostly on the U.S. Awesome Stories presents all topics in a story format, leading the learner through the subject as the story unfolds. Additionally, each well-written story includes links to primary sources like photos, sounds, articles from worldwide national archives, museums, universities, military and [...]
Posted in History, Online Tools, Unit Study Tags: Awesome Stories, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, learning through film, Miracle on 34th Street, museums, national arcihves, Night at the Museum, Pirates of the Caribbean, primary sources, Seabiscuit, stories Comments OffEragon Book Series Unit Study Helpers
Posted by ginac on February 4th, 2010
Eragon is the first in a series of epic fantasy books about a teenage boy and his dragon. Homeschoolers who enjoy reading about dragons, or who enjoyed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, may enjoy a unit study built around this series. We gathered a few resources we found helpful for developing your own unit [...]
Posted in Activities, Games, Language Arts, Unit Study Tags: Eragon, homeschool, Unit Study 1 Comment »Arizona Public School Takes Cues From Homeschool Philosophy
Posted by ginac on June 25th, 2009
Arizona State University reports on an innovative partnership with University Public Schools. Polytechnic Elementary, a public school/university partnership, looks much like a homeschool in a public environment. Even though it took ‘cutting edge’ university research, it looks like Polytechnic Elementary in Arizona is finally breaking the mold on the lecture-based, ‘drill-and-kill’ curriculum in favor of [...]
Free Unit Study: The Case of the Missing Rumbleometer
Posted by ginac on October 4th, 2008
Although this isn’t the usual weekly homeschool language arts lesson, it is interesting enough as a unit study that you should adapt it to include more language arts activities. For example, choose from the extensive glossary of terms to create a vocabulary list, stressing definitions, spelling, etc. Also, have your homeschooler do some additional research [...]
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Eclectic Homeschooling, Interdisciplinary, Language Arts, Physics, Science, Teaching methods, Unit Study Comments OffFree Homeschool Unit Studies at Homeschool Share
Posted by ginac on August 4th, 2008
Another free Resource! Homeschool Share has a nice collection of unit studies grouped by age appropriateness and type. Each unit study provides a book list and a good deal of detail about how to use the lessons. Some of the lessons can very easily be extended or abbreviated. Also, if you have a unit study [...]
Strategies For Low Cost homeschooling
Posted by ginac on July 27th, 2008
On a tight budget this year? Delve into the plethora of free resources and discover high quality lessons that are better than many costly pre-packaged curriculum. However, going the low and no-cost route involves lots of extra planning, organizing and gathering, so take some time this summer and get started! Here are the basic items [...]
University of Florida Bat House
Posted by ginac on June 11th, 2008
As part of our plan for homeschooling over the summer, we recently visited the University of Florida Bat House in Gainesville, Florida to witness 60,000+ bats emerge into the evening sky. The bats were beautiful, flying almost like butterflies and not much larger. The event occurs every warm evening just after sunset. At first, just [...]
Summer Homeschool Unit Study: Eastern Mosquitofish
Posted by ginac on May 26th, 2008
Eastern Mosquitofish are tough little fish that got their name because they love to dine on mosquito larvae. Well, every body of water in our area is filled with these little fish so we decided to learn a bit more about them. We compiled some of our favorite learning activities into a short unit study [...]
Posted in Biology, Eclectic Homeschooling, Ecology, Science, Unit Study Tags: Eastern Mosquitofish, Puzzles Comments Off
