School Help for DD! Homeschoolers Needed!

[Mariahsaint]

See, I had no problem with curriculum because I created my own - patch worked together & changed as needed; no religion had to be involved because the beauty of Homeschooling is you don't have to use pre-packaged stuff... I found tons of stuff online & actually found textbooks that the schools had abandoned eons ago that actually taught the basics of different Maths unlike todays books. I was able to use basic 101 College classes online for high schooling to go with other stuff I found too, it just took hours of research weekly, but it worked for us.

I used road trips to teach american history along with the arts & science - I would allow DD to map out routes and we hunted down historic areas to research; taught her mapping skills too. Along the way we would stop in art and science museums (one card provided free access to 250 science museums around the country, another allowed us access to the Art Museums).

Which thankfully I know now, however I've met a lot of homeschooling moms who didn't know they could do that. Nor did I for the first year. (Though that might be all my fault! )

How do you go about getting specific lab work done? Some colleges require it depending on the major, and that's a concern of mine.

(Sorry OP, I know this is off topic)

[LysesKids]

Which thankfully I know now, however I've met a lot of homeschooling moms who didn't know they could do that. Nor did I for the first year. (Though that might be all my fault! )

How do you go about getting specific lab work done? Some colleges require it depending on the major, and that's a concern of mine.

(Sorry OP, I know this is off topic)

Well for chemistry, we had the option of DD taking one class at the High school (the one that kept making her ill which is why we went back to Homeschooling in the first place) and when that failed 6 weeks in, I did some Kitchen experiments with her - including making soap in a Blender; Lye is dangerous and you must measure precise etc etc. We used Singapore Science for High school also... they do Biology, Chemistry & Physics all at the same time over a couple of years then they do O levels. You need to be up to speed on Math basics thru Algebra 2 at minimum to pull it off.

I was already making soap in bulk on weekends as a side business, so that was easy for Kitchen Chemistry stuff. She decided to get a 4 year liberal Art degree, minoring in medical - she took Biology instead of Chemistry, so our basic stuff worked... Not sure if one needed to have a real heavy Lab class what I would have done except hunt down a group of other homeschooling moms that needed to do the same & higher a teacher?

[Angelsj]

Which thankfully I know now, however I've met a lot of homeschooling moms who didn't know they could do that. Nor did I for the first year. (Though that might be all my fault! )

How do you go about getting specific lab work done? Some colleges require it depending on the major, and that's a concern of mine.

(Sorry OP, I know this is off topic)

Many curricula come with a lab component.

http://www.scienceshepherd.com/biology/

being one, but there are several. As to getting them done with daycare and other small children, we would often stay up later than the little ones. We allowed the high school kids to sleep later, but be up doing experiments at 11pm or midnight.

[LysesKids]

I found this as well... http://www.scienceforhighschool.com/...ur-home-total-
package/http://www.scienceforhighschool.com/...total-package/

A lot of the LAB based stuff wasn't around when I homeschooled - most of what was available was Christian based labs which I tried to avoid. I still hunt stuff down for my older DD who supplements @ home for the grandkids seeing as the schools are lacking in certain things