“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – misattributed to
William Butler Yeats
High School
Bible and Language study:
Chemistry:
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Biology:
We’re doing homeschool science this year – 9th-grade biology – with Susanna and several other families. This page lists posts related to our nature study approach to biology this year. In the first unit, instead of the perennial lesson on “the scientific method,” we’re having a conversation on living books, nature walks, nature journaling, and what makes education meaningful. In ten years, will the kids’ memories of Biology 101 be only a bucket of spilled milk? We hope for something different.
- Getting started – Biology
- Last Child in the Woods
- Charlotte Mason
- Roger Tory Peterson
- Anna Comstock
- Biology – Sample weekly schedule
- Classification
- All Things
- Getting started with bird identification
- Paper airplanes, bird wings
- Synergy and Life
- Pond Life
- Nature journal advice for perfectionists
- Living books
- Onward into light
- Even to the least of these
- Water cycle – globe model
- The Animal School
Participants’ blogs:
- Ben’s Nature Journal
- Dreamer (Karen)
- Life at Willis Creek Ranch (Laura; more biology and nature study)
- Willis Creek Photography (Jackson)
- Willis Creek News (Jonathan)
