Lesson Planning: Joy of Museums
Joy of Museums isn't just a great site for finding museums to visit as virtual school trips, it's a fantastic homeschool resource. The website fantastic pages like this Ancient and…
The National History Museum (London)
The website of the London National History Museum is an incredible resource for home educators. It's a website that's as easy to navigate around as a museum is to walk…
What to include in a school project?
Project-based work is also a good way to encourage homeschoolers to engage in interest-based, self-directed learning. Setting project-based school work allows home educators to give home-ed pupils open-ended studies of…
Safe Surfing
It is entirely possible to home educate without using internet sources. For years homeschoolers have educated their children by relying on books for lesson materials and education resources, however now,…
Offering homeschooled students choices
Lesson Choices If you put students in charge of setting lesson objectives they’ll be instantly more engaged with the lesson. Whether it’s offering two different styles of worksheets, the choice…
Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
Sometimes you stumble upon a curriculum resource that seems too good to be true but actually is. Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is one of those resources. This…
Audiobooks for Home Education – Autumn 2022
Audiobooks are fantastic teaching material for home education. Easy to use in a variety of lesson formats, audiobooks are easily accessible lesson content to use at home or on the…
Homeschool Lesson Objectives
Is this a skill, topic or project-based lesson? Lesson planning for homeschool starts with a lesson objective - a purpose to the lesson. The learning objective may be to teach/practice…
TV as a Teaching Tool
Screen time is one of the most contentious phrases when it comes not just to education but to parenting in general. How much is too much? Will TV rot their…
Using Audiobooks in Home Education
The purpose of writing is to transfer thoughts, stories or information via words to someone else. Once written on paper and passed to us, we call the process of absorbing…
