Homeschool Science 101

The adventure continues.

One of my hesitations with homeschooling/on-line schooling was science. I felt that Rachel had several years of wonderful science courses at RPS. Her first few on-line science lessons just did not seem as rigorous as what she had become accustomed to. She has been taking it up a notch or two or more on her own and with the help of her teacher. Still, there are days when she sits down at the computer and expects to be able to fly through at least some of the material.

And then she hit her first roadblock! This happened last one day last week. She thought she could sit down and just quickly finish the week's worth of environmental science. A few minutes later, I hear myself paged. "MOM!!! MOM!!! I CAN'T FINISH THIS!!!"

So, I head downstairs to the schoolroom to see what all the excitement is.

Poor child. She has to do an experiment. Said experiment will actually take a few weeks to complete.

I admit she did have other choices. She could have chosen to write a paper. But where's the fun in that?

Instead, we spend a few days gathering the materials and drinking soda so we could finish gathering the materials! We needed 6 soda bottles. Not easy to do in a house of 3! The remainder of the materials where easy to find- water from the canal, leaves from the poplar tree out front, grass clippings, newspaper and kitchen scraps. Yup. We've got two composters hanging out a corner of the kitchen.

So, now the playroom has become the schoolroom and the kitchen has become the science lab.

What's next?