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Clay Penguin
I just wanted to share this penguin and its baby that my six-year-old made earlier this summer. This was his own idea, and while he was making it, he looked at a photo of a penguin and its baby on the...
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Project-based Homeschooling: Angry Birds – You Never Know
I don’t know much about the Angry Birds game except that it used to be my son’s favorite game when he played on his dad’s Nexus, and when I sat down to watch him play, it seemed absolutely silly. But...
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Project-based Homeschooling: Rube Goldberg Machine
Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on November 19, 2014. A Rube Goldberg machine is a complicated machine that performs a simple task. Two years ago, I found a video of a very...
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Minecraft
Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on January 28, 2015. If you have children, you are probably aware of the video game, Minecraft. I first became familiar with it by reading...
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Project-based Homeschooling: Paper Dinosaurs + 1
If you read my mid-year update, you might remember how I wondered why my eight-year-old didn’t build as much as he usually does last fall. Now I think that is because he was in a pottery class and...
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