Oct 22, 2018 | Kerrie Childress, Online Homeschool
How do you feel about bugs? I have a confession… I HATE bugs. Really. I can’t stand them. You might ask: how can a science teacher not like bugs? I don’t know if I’ve always disliked creepy crawlies. In fact, I’m not sure where it all started. But I do love to...
Oct 8, 2018 | Debbie Stokes, Engaging Education
What Should be in a Lab Report? You’re a high school student and have just performed a lab at home. You collected the equipment, read and followed the procedure, and jotted down the results. Now what? Well, it is important to learn how to master the typed lab...
Oct 3, 2018 | Jess Woods, Rigorous Courses
Every academic discipline has the inevitable, “Why do I need this?” topic. For English classes, that topic is literary analysis. It’s easy to dismiss the importance of literary analysis if you think you will never use it again outside of high school, but assuming...
Oct 1, 2018 | Marilyn Whitlock, Rigorous Courses
Studying grammar has many proven benefits, among them an increased ability to craft a variety of sentence types and to analyze the writing structures of others. So, in addition to improving students’ own writing, understanding English grammar will help those students...
Sep 27, 2018 | Jodi Guerra, Rigorous Courses
This is a love note to all my fellow homeschool moms out there. It may come across as harsh or judgmental, but I hope you will at least consider the message. It’s a lesson that was so difficult for me to learn, and now that my kids are older and in college, I can see...
