STEM resources

When my older children were teens, I spent a LOT of money on dissection specimens and chemistry lab equipment. I still have some of that equipment, but not the chemicals. I remember the time and mess involved in doing homeschool science labs myself. Sometimes, I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing, even though I have a science background. On top of that, there was no one to call if the lab didn’t turn out the way that the instructions said it should. Numerous times, the physics labs didn’t quite work. Either the machine parts didn’t fit exactly, …

Right now, I have one child in high school and I have graduated two children. My youngest is finishing up middle school. Since I have all this experience, you’d think I’d have all the high school science stuff figured out by now. The truth is that each child did high school a bit differently. And you would expect that since we are more of an unschooling type family. However, my third child has expressed to me that she wants her high school classes to look a lot like her friends’ classes. That means that I have had to look into …

This school year has been a bit crazy. I usually do a lot of hands-on stuff with my kids, but my remaining two students are teens now. It’s bittersweet. My youngest still builds things, especially mechanical things. But, our homeschool journey has morphed into more independent work. Sometimes, we use science games, but he and his sister mostly work alone. Because I now own a home business, I had to look for online lessons for him. His sister goes to co-op classes for some of her high school and the rest she does online, too. She chose to do that …