how to do homeschool science in a child-directed way

Homeschool science engages a non-science-interested kid when you think about science as play.

Homeschool science usually includes buying unusual items. Like this day: when we used volt meters, covered copper wiring, wire cutters, and steel wool. Oh, and pennies.

Here’s where we learned how to Make a Penny Battery.

Here’s how we homeschool science in a child-directed way.

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Here’s how to do homeschool science in a child-directed way.

Here’s a whole bunch of science play ideas you might want to include your homeschool days.

• Use a Thames & Kronos physics self-discovery box
• Use a Thames & Kronos Chem C-500 self-discovery box
• Use a First Chemistry Set for Kids
• Learn to use a Kids’ Microscope
• Use a Blood Typing kit to determine your blood types
• Use a Bacterial Swabbing kit to determine how gross your home is!
• Use a MakeBlock Robot to learn about robotics
• Read Magic School Bus books together
• Read simple storybooks like All About Light and other storybooks from the library
• Read any Usborne books (for any subject at all)
• Read an astronomy book like Skywatcher’s Companion
• Read the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedias
• Read the Usborne Life-the-Flap books for younger kids
• Use a My Body book to create outlines of the kids’ bodies on craft paper (& label their body organs too)
• Find curriculum, games, and books from a second-hand school
• If you really don’t know much about a topic, like chemistry, check out these books
• Use traditional textbooks by Apologia (filled with interesting images and stories to explain science)
• Learn about the local berries, plants, birds, animals, and scat: use a take along field guide and go for a walk
• If you want to go deep into the Periodic Table of the Elements, use this very graphic book to understand all the reasons we explore The Elements
• Figure out how to make variations of slime
• Read the Usborne Weather & Climate Change and watch a few documentaries too
• Play with National Geographic experiment boxes

But remember, you don’t have to buy expensive ingredients, you don’t have to follow a prescribed program, you don’t have to buy experiment boxes to learn about the world around us, you can JUST play!

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