Home Schooling in your RV

Written by Rooster


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History Lessons.

Plan your trip so that you follow an historical route. Followrepparttar Trail of Tears, mayberepparttar 149233 Oregon Trail. Travelrepparttar 149234 dusty pathrepparttar 149235 cowboys rode in cattle drives from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas. If you’ve gotrepparttar 149236 time, followrepparttar 149237 route of Lewis and Clark or, explorerepparttar 149238 vast expanse ofrepparttar 149239 Louisiana Purchase. What ever path you choose to follow, make sure you have plenty of supplemental materials for your young student to study. Many motor home parks have high speed internet available to their campers. Atrepparttar 149240 end of each day, have your child connect torepparttar 149241 Internet and gather information aboutrepparttar 149242 history ofrepparttar 149243 places you’ve visited.

Social Studies

Take a trip through Appalachia. Venture some distance fromrepparttar 149244 Interstate intorepparttar 149245 heart of some small town. Stop at a small store or local diner. Observerepparttar 149246 people who live and work there. Listen to their accents or, eavesdrop on a conversation. There is no better way to discover how other people live than to explore these microcosms of America. You might even want to contact local parents who also home school their children and arrange a visit to learn more about each other and compare home school curriculums.

Other Destinations

Many home schooling co-operatives hold events at various motor home parks to compare and refine home school curriculums and provide new experiences for their home schooled students. An Internet search for these home school meet ups will yield many entertaining and informative events. If you choose to make one of these trips, be prepared to have a good time and be sure to bring your favorite covered dish.

Exercises such as these are entertaining and exciting to your child and if properly presented, your young student may not even realize he is in school. But remember, as entertaining, exciting and educational as these road exercises are, they are not a replacement forrepparttar 149247 well planned curriculum and lesson plans available to parents home schooling their children.

Article Submitted by Rooster B. Rooster privately runs several News and Blog sites related to Homeschool Education . Interested in the latest Home School curriculum visit his site at http://www.homeschoolzine.com


Is Home Schooling on the Internet the New Wave of Education?

Written by Matt Degree


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Home schooling has beenrepparttar basis of society for thousands of years - long before schools came about. However, in today's society it can be difficult for parent's to maintainrepparttar 149097 supervision of assignments that is needed for home schooling. This may become even more of an issue as a child gets intorepparttar 149098 higher grades and parents are unfamiliar withrepparttar 149099 curriculum or are working and do not have as much time to assist them.

INTERNET HOME SCHOOLING

A new addition to education,repparttar 149100 internet is now providingrepparttar 149101 ability for parents to give their child an enhanced curriculum, control over education, and online support. This will all cost much less than private school at an average cost of $900 per year.

Older children can benefit from online teachers who are able to superviserepparttar 149102 work - a huge benefit for working or single parents. Many accredited Internet schools offer similar courses to those available in private schools.

Joel Turtel, who isrepparttar 149103 author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children," says that busy working parents can give their kids a quality, low-cost education at home usingrepparttar 149104 Internet. “K-12th grade Internet schools can take most ofrepparttar 149105 homeschooling burden off parent's backs.”

Perhaps this isrepparttar 149106 answer you've been looking for.

Matt Degree involves in Education for almost 15 years. He has also been a consultant for online learning and act as advisor for online learning project. Find more resources at http://onlinedegree.eclicksoft.com


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