| 8 November 2005 | ||
| 11:00 am |
Science Classes for Home Educators
Chemistry - Mystery Powders - with David Baker
Students run tests to identify 6 white powders.
Tuesday 8th November 2005
11:00 am (junior) and 1:00 pm (senior)
| 8 November 2005 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Science Classes for Home Educators
Chemistry - Mystery Powders - with David Baker
Students run tests to identify 6 white powders.
Tuesday 8th November 2005
11:00 am (junior) and 1:00 pm (senior)
See Science at Monash category for booking & location details
| 29 November 2005 | ||
| 11:00 am |
Science Classes for Home Educators
DNA - Unravel the code - with Michael Roberts
Unravel the mysteries of DNA. Witness DNA extractions and solve some mysteries!
Senior Session extended to 1.5 hours ($10)
Tuesday 29th November 2005
11:00am (junior) and 1:00pm (senior)
See Science at Monash category for booking & location details
| 29 November 2005 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Science Classes for Home Educators
DNA - Unravel the code - with Michael Roberts
Unravel the mysteries of DNA. Witness DNA extractions and solve some mysteries!
Senior Session extended to 1.5 hours ($10)
Tuesday 29th November 2005
11:00am (junior) and 1:00pm (senior)
See Science at Monash category for booking & location details
by Alan Thomas
Infants start learning informally from (or before?) birth, mainly through interaction with the mother or other caregivers. Part of this is learning how to behave in culturally appropriate ways, e.g., how to deal with emotions, how to interact with others in the family and wider community, and the acquisition of cultural values and attitudes. This alone requires a vast amount of knowledge and know-how.
Even more impressive are the cognitive understandings and skills that are learned informally, including language, basic literacy and numeracy, the beginnings of scientific understanding, a sense of humour, game rules and the beginnings of moral understanding. How are these learned? Apart from language, there has been little interest in the processes through which this learning actually occurs.
This has been floating around the home education community for many years. The author is unknown. You may have read it before but are sure to enjoy it
again…
I’m not very good in school.This is my second year in the seventh grade, and I’m bigger than most of the other kids. The kids like me all right, even though I don’t say much in class, and that sort of makes up for what goes on in school.
I don’t know why the teachers don’t like me. They never have. It seems like they don’t think you know anything unless you can name the book it came out of.
| 15 November 2005 | ||
| 11:00 am |
Hands-On Science for Young Children
Ages 4 and up.
Rockology - with Pricilla
Rocks! How do they form? Discover which rocks form deep under the earth.
Tuesday 15th November 2005 - 11am
By Peter Spinks *
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - Chinese proverb
IN MAY 2004, a cross-country runner stumbled upon an unemployed man, 53, and his 12-year-old daughter, Ruth, who had lived for four years in a tarpaulin-covered shelter dug into a steep hillside in Forest Park, Oregon, in the United States.
Authorities were concerned about the girl’s education after she had lived for so long in the wild, removed from so-called civilisation. Yet Ruth’s happiness and wellbeing, and vast general knowledge, struck welfare workers. “Upon testing her - they couldn’t help themselves - officials found her academic levels were on a par with our VCE or university entrance levels,” says Home Education Network Victoria co-ordinator Lyn Loxton.
