History of Science

I've added several sections to my History of Science plan I am working through with Kevan.

We have taken about 6 weeks to cover what is listed there so far; we do science three days a week usually.

You can access the outlines from the Pages section over to the right.  Here are the sections that are there so far:

As I mentioned here, I am working to create a History of Science course for Kevan, my 11 y.o. history nut. This is totally a work in progress, but I thought I would share what we are doing in case someone else would like to try it. Our primary resources are:

• Aristotle Leads the Way - Book 1 of the History of Science series by Joy Hakim; we will use the others when we get to them
• History of Science lectures from The Teaching Company (we purchased this when it was on sale for $49.95)
• Cosmeo videos
• Google

Each topic will have an outline (some are created by me; some by Kevan as we read) which includes the main topics of the chapters listed, as well as outside resources we used with that topic.

Aristotle Leads the Way

1. Birthing a Universe

2. Myths of Creation

3. Making Days

4. Ionia

5. Greeks - still in process

Lots of Stuff

Well... it's been a quiet month on the blog front. For Christmas I got an iMac, which came with a steep learning curve, being a PC person for so long. Here's my with "Mac" at my brother's house over the break.

Also I was feeling kinda bad about the whole book thing and not wanting to continue it, so I just kinda stayed away for awhile. Life has been busy and full!

We went to Tahoe to visit my brother and his family.

Ben earned his gold shirt in gymnastics.

This month we took a trip to Sacramento, since Will had to go for work.  We saw my baby sister, who was adopted by my aunt.  I haven't seen her since she was preschool age.  She is gorgeous!!  We saw my aunt and cousins who I haven't seen in ages.  We were very close growing up!  Here we are at Joe's Crab Shack.

(Gorgeous sister on the right)

(Me and my cousins Miriam and Rachel)

Of course we toured the capital!

And, we went to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield.

William had to stay home, because we were gone for a week!  Me, Kevan and Ben worked from the hotel room while Will was in meetings.  William and Xena stayed with Grandpa and got spoiled rotten I am sure!

That's all I've got for now!