Mixing Projects and Written Work

When we did a project I took it on like a business would.

To teach Jimmy about the Fulcrum we did experiments, used tools, made a homemade seesaw, and then he wrote about it. We were actually doing a study on Levers, their uses, how to make them for various applications, draw them, explain them, and use them when we needed a lever.

By reading about a subject, talking about its uses, doing experiments, then drawing and writing (making a report) about the subject, all combined leaves a pretty decent memory in the child’s mind that he or she should be able to recall as an adult.

I, as a Homeschooling teacher, was always looking for ways to set the information in the child's mind in such a way that as an adult the child could recall the lesson, what was learned and so on. Below is an example of Jimmy’s work on Fulcrum’s.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

25th of March, 2021.