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Microscopes For Kids: What And How To Buy

Are you thinking about buying a microscope for kids? Microscopes are amazing science tools that can greatly enhance your child’s learning experience. If you’re wondering what to buy,...

Six Strategies That Work Like Magic To Support Science In Your Home

How can we possibly compete with that? Well, I’ll tell you—we don’t actually need to compete with the magical world of Harry Potter, but we can definitely take some lessons. Our children are born to...

Homeschool Style: From School-At-Home to Unschooling

“Do I even have a homeschool style?” is something you may be wondering, especially if you are new to homeschooling. The answer is yes! Whether you are recreating a traditional school...

Virtual Space Tourism: Travel Tips for Families with Kids

What will it be like to fly into space? Visit another planet? See Earth from above? Do your elementary-aged kids ask questions like these? If so, I highly recommend you consider virtual space...

How to Define a Planet in 8 Easy Steps

Anyone who went to school before 2006 learned about nine planets in our solar system— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Today we recognize only the first...

Everything You Need to Know You Can Learn from Pi!

You probably first encountered pi as I did: in elementary or middle school math, where it played a mysterious role in equations for the area and circumference of a circle. I had never encountered a...

Teacher Resources for Women’s History Month 2018

March is Women’s History Month—the month to celebrate women, their achievements, and their impact on our past, present, and future. To honor the women who’ve shaped history and those who are...

Using RSO Biology 2 for High School, by Blair Lee

The following originally appeared in Blair Lee Blog (May 6, 2016): I am getting many requests for how Biology 2 could be brought up to the high school level. Some parts of it, like the microscope...

EBOOK VS. PRINT

Which should you choose? eBook or Print? The good news: For most of our courses, you can choose between purchasing the eBook format or the print edition. The bad news: You have to choose between the...

The Best Way to Learn History – The History Odyssey Method

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there’s no way you can tell that story in one way and say, ‘this is it.’ Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending...