For history this week we started working on modern history of the world (1850-present) Everett and Annika had fun learning about The Great Exhibition put on by Queen Victoria, and then had not so much fun learning about The Sepoy Mutiny. The bright spot of the second lesson was that I made some Enfield rifle "cartridges" out of wax paper, flour, foil and an index card. I then timed the kids while they loaded their paper towel tube rifles, with traditional pour in the gunpowder (aka flour), and ball (foil) and then with the Enfield "cartridge" They had lots of fun with that and learned how much faster the cartridges were.
They also had fun with science. Lucas got to put a series of batteries together to see what the difference was when lighting a bulb. He also learned about opposition. Everett did a lab about the fermentation rates of yeast when placed in various temperatures. Annika started chemistry for middle schoolers, with a new program and had to pick an element to do a profile page on. She chose plutonium and had some fun learning about it with Matt this weekend.
2 comments:
Kelli: What are you using for history with your olders? Just curious as we have been using a ps textbook that is so one-sided it's unreal. We are in the modern era and if I can find something else to finish this time frame I'll be ecstatic.
Thanks,
Robin
Robin, We were using Story of the World, along with added library books and outlining from the Kingfisher encyclopedia for my older. The SOTW is written for younger, but it gives them a jumping off point, and a snip it of history to catch their interest. Then they add in research via library books and other various sources we find.
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