From: Kye Ewing <ASTROKYE@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: NASA QUEST
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:11:36 -0500
At 10:52 PM 12/15/97 +0000, you wrote: >I home school my 5/6th grade boy, who is extremely interested in aeronautics (among other things). Are there any other homeschoolers on this list? How do you use these materials? And what do you use? Any suggestions? Thanks, Louise > Louise and group - I am in the ninth year of home schooling my son (11th grade). He has always been very interested in aeronautics and computers. With the help of the internet I have been able to introduce areas of interest to him that would have been impossible only a few years ago, such as the fantastic access that NASA has allowed to their experts for children to communicate with. The best possible use can be made from sources like this by brainstorming with your student(s) on what other areas of study you might want to expand the subject into. Nasa has great places to start, like the teachers help area in the aero-design program that is going on now. When you only have a few students, it is easy to adjust the cirriculum to the things that you find stimulate their interest. Math is always an easy one to work into these type activities. English can be keeping journals on their experiments or writing poems about going into space. History can be linked in according to the area of interest. People whom made key discoveries for these technologies to be possible didn't make them in a vacuum (not usually anyway)! Sometimes the other things going on in the world hurried the technology along. The best fun is when your student(s) get to where they know more than you in a particular area (like computers!) and you find yourself learning from THEM! I am attempting to pass some of these brain-starter activities that I have used over the years with my kids and lots of groups of kids by having a web page. I have TONS of stuff to put on it but it's a matter of getting time to things together. I gotta go now, because Carl is ready to start Algebra. We are doing a unit on equations to represent circles and how GPB systems use the math to figure a person's position. This also follows through into his computer programming subject, as that is how you draw circles, elipses, etc. in graphics programs. Have FUN all --- Kye ************************************************ Kye Ewing, The Event Inventor email; mail@kyes-world.com URL; http://www.kyes-world.com Explore the Universe with the Event Inventor!!! ************************************************