Home School Science Geek
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I'm a stay at home physicist and homeschooling parent. I went to a rural school from K-12 and was bored to tears. I have a Ph.D. in Physics and was a physics professor when my first kid was born. For the last 9 years or so I have been teaching science classes in my home for small groups of homeschoolers and I plan on sharing what we do in these classes on this website.
Home School Science Geek
3y ago
My family is heavily involved with our local astronomy club, the Tri-Valley Stargazers, and we discovered last week that the SCU Lightning fire burned down the club’s observatory at our dark site. Club members were making the final touches on ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
I didn’t get around to posting last week so I’l talk about the last two classes in this one post. Last week, I once again shared some of the latest science on the coronavirus, in particular some work being done ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
The same organization that provides the Big History Project curriculum now has a World History Project and I received an email about an Industrialization game of sorts from them. We had already talked about Industrialization last week, but I liked ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
I gave a presentation on the Industrial Revolution, talking about the various inventions like the Seed Drill, Flying Shuttle, Spinning Jenny, Cotton Gin and James Watt’s steam engine and how these inventions brought production of goods out of the home ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
We finished student Little Big History presentations today, we learned about the history of soap, quills & pens, saddles, phones, tattoos and western art music. These were really interesting and I’m kind of bummed their over. We didn’t have a ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
We started class with more student presentations, learning about coffee, watches, candles, blacksmithing, fine jewelery (gold, diamonds, emeralds), airplanes and communism. When I looked over the activities for Unit 9 on the Big History Project, I immediately knew ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
Well, this has been an interesting month. Shortly after my last post a ‘shelter in place’ order was placed on the bay area and we’ve been stuck at home ever since. We’ve had three classes via Zoom over the last ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
Last week, I gave students the Comparing Civilizations handout (Big History Project Unit 7) and asked them to research one civilization and fill out the appropriate column. We started class this week by going over the worksheet and discussing all ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
This week we continued to talk about the changes that agriculture made in the way Homo sapiens lived. At the beginning of class, students took turns telling the class about the crop or domesticated animal that they had researched. Here ..read more
Home School Science Geek
4y ago
Students were to start reading articles and watching videos for Unit 7.1 in the Big History Project. I also sent links to some more recent articles: How the First Farmers Changed History by Carl Zimmer (NY Times), Ancient trait may ..read more