History of Science

In asking Kevan what he wanted to learn about "next year", his eyes lit up and he said "History!" I asked what kind of history and we talked about it a little bit. I asked him how he was feeling about his other subjects and he mentioned that he was still finding the science pretty boring. I tried to interest him in the next section of study, which was weather and he was far from interested. He learned about weather last year and didn't want to hear about it.

I remembered that I had discovered Joy Hakim's new "The Story of Science" book Aristotle Leads the Way at the library a few months back. He has really enjoyed the History of US series that she put out, and I wondered if he would like to learn science from a historical perspective. He was very interested when I mentioned the books (I think there are 3 of them out now with more on the way.) As it goes through history, starting in ancient times, it discusses the science as it was learned, which seems to me a logical way to learn it. I ordered a couple of the books from Amazon and picked up the first one from the library in the meantime to start planning. I also picked up the Teaching Company History of Science from Antiquity to 1700 lectures in audio to work in. I'm going through the first book now and kind of deciding where to go from there so I figured I would post what I'm doing so somebody else doesn't have to reinvent the wheel

Here is Chapter 1 so far: Birthing a Universe. I outlined the chapter with added resources/activities to look at. I will post more as I complete them.