Online Home Schooling: Science Lessons For Kids.

The downward slide of standardized testing.

Online home school in session.

As a home schooling parent, you’re probably glad you made the decision to home school your kid(s).

The high-stakes pressure of standardized testing finally reared its ugly head. The test cheating scandal uncovered in Atlanta Public Schools is not an isolated case. There are investigations of cheating going on in Pennsylvania, Florida, New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Detroit. And there are probably more cases out there the media hasn’t picked up yet.

These cases are the tip of a large iceberg.

There are many advantages to home schooling, and avoiding these allegations of administration-mandated cheating on state mandated tests, as well as the damage done to the kids learning, are obviously two of them. In most states there is very little interference with the content of home school curricula. That allows families to decide what lessons are important for their kids to learn and know.

Without the constraints of a state-mandated curriculum, you decide what kind of an adult you want your kids to be and you have control over what tools they’ll have to be successful throughout their lives. You decide, for example, what science lessons your kids will do.

Where public school curricula are narrow-focused, a home school curriculum can be broad in its scope and content. You cover material the public-school kid will never see. You make the connections to real-world situations that the public-school kid will never make.

Misconception: It’s hard to teach science at home.

I believe most people labor under the misconception that science is hard to learn and hard to teach. With the wrong teacher and the wrong approach to the content, yes that’s true. But, and I have to emphasize the “but”, so is math. At least for me it was. I never understood why I had to prove that two angles were complimentary in geometry. I was never told how many times I would use the quadratic equation in my life. So none of it made any sense and I struggled.

In other words, it had no connection to my life. And you know what? It still doesn’t. It should be taught with the life connections, but it’s wasn’t and it’s still not.

But science can be. We’re surrounded by a living world that is mysterious and orderly and chaotic all at the same time. It’s not hard to understand the scientific world and it’s not hard to teach science with the right science lessons for kids.

The “tough” part facing home school parents is deciding what to science lessons they want for their kids.

Online science lessons for kids.

The availability of the computer makes online science lessons a significant advantage to the home school family. It makes inquiry science a lot easier to do and understand. The computer makes it possible to collaborate with other kids doing similar science lessons from around the world.

You have the opportunity to expand the online science lessons of your home schooled child to any level you decide will give him the best way to understand real-world applications. The technology at your fingertips allows you to do that.

So you don’t have to be “afraid” to teach science. With what is available to you, being a facilitator will more than likely become your role.

What ScienceLessonsForKids.com can do.

I have a very deep-rooted belief in teaching science that is meaningful to kids. There has to be connections to the real-world. Kids need to discover these connections through science lessons that are inquiry based. And you need to have visible proof that your kid is learning.

I developed ScienceLessonsForKids.com as a course that will provide the home school parents a source of complete science lessons that will make it easy for you to use and enjoyable for your kid to learn.

Use the contact link above to let me know what kind of science lesson are important to you would like to see you kids do.

John Turano