Unschooling: Our September 2017 adventures
Unschooling in September 2017 included theater, guitar lessons, documenting a day in our lives, weird medical questions, our Jacuzzi tub and more.
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Unschooling: Our August 2017 adventures
Unschooling in August 2017 included Shakespeare, 4-H State Achievement Days, the 4-H Fair, learning about the Count de St. Germain and Charles the Mad, family learning journals, a dog show, theater auditions, a James Patterson sci-fi novel and more.
The unschooled version of an 12th-grade-ish curriculum plan for 2017-18
We don’t do grade levels, but if you’re wondering what radical unschooling 12th grade-ish style looks like, here’s our 17-year-old daughter’s plan.
Biohazard warning: In which we try to infect the world with a terrible plague (virtually)
Check out what we learned about disease, epidemiology and society from playing the Plague, Inc. app,
Why video games are vital to education
What can video games teach us about HOW we learn? And why are games of all types – not just “educational” ones – so important to learning? Hear our story.
A birthday celebration: Abner Doubleday, NOT baseball’s founder
In honor of the 195th anniversary of Abner Doubleday’s birth in June 2014, Unschool Rules offers a homeschooling unit study on Doubleday, a Civil War general who was not, contrary to popular belief, the inventor of baseball.
10 things I’ve learned about myself in the past year and a half
As part of the iHomeschool Network’s 10 * in * 10 series, I’m sharing 10 things I’ve learned about myself during our homeschooling journey.
Mom learns, too: Done with astrobiology, on to microbiology
Unschooling parents learn, too. To be interestED and interestING, I’m trying to further my own education, this time through a nontraditional study of microbiology.
Mom learns, too: How I’ve gone back to college (sort of) to study astrobiology
Unschooling parents learn too – in fact, our job is in large part to be interestED and interestING. I’ve been taking an amazing free online course in astrobiology. What are you interested in today?
Mom learns, too: Books I’m reading about education
John Holt’s “Learning All the Time” and Nancy Wallace’s “Better Than School” are great reads if you’re interested in pursuing an unschooling lifestyle. Here are some of my favorite parts.