Your teen is interested in science and, as a Christian parent, you worry about what an evolution-dominated university education will do to his or her faith. Many years ago, the father of a bright young girl named Margaret worried the same way, but he needn’t have. Now this Margaret, who has become Dr. Helder, is […]
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Documenting Interest-Driven Learning as a High School Course
Although we use standard textbooks in many courses, there are times when our teens follow their own rabbit trails and just learn things they want to learn. This interest-driven exploration is one of the most effective ways to learn, but it leaves me scrambling at high school record keeping time. It is easy to document […]
Review: Darwin, The Voyage that Shook the World
Many of the papers and books I’ve been reading these days have been influenced by Darwin’s thought; most of our news items are as well; and our entire culture is driven by offshoots of his ideas. Science, politics, medicine, social sciences, law, literature, music, and even Christian thought have largely absorbed Darwinian concepts of survival […]
September and October at our House
Our lives are filled with miracles, the ones that recur every day and seem almost normal, like sunrise, electricity, digestion, relationships, and forgiveness, and the ones we pray and give special thanks for like impossible cures, unexpected successes, and mind-blowing coincidences. When these happen, we need to be grateful, not proud; we need to see […]
Curriculum Plans for a Relaxed Homeschool High School (ages 15, 17)
Due to health issues our home high school has gone from very intense and academic for our older three to more relaxed while still rather academic for the younger two. We no longer set long term accomplishment goals as, ‘this is how much we will do this term,’ but we set process goals like, ‘this […]