Homeschool Resources
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@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
In fact, Muslims said it was a good idea to wash your hands long before those in Christendom.
they will never be forgiven for that one. So much wasted water.
Well, Jews were given sanitation laws long long long before Mohammad ever crawled out of his cave. They were probably the first people to ever practice things like washing, and pooping away from where you eat, and quarantining the sick, and not playing around with dead bodies, and not eating certain animals prone to giving illnesses/parasites, etc.
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@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
In fact, Muslims said it was a good idea to wash your hands long before those in Christendom.
they will never be forgiven for that one. So much wasted water.
Well, Jews were given sanitation laws long long long before Mohammad ever crawled out of his cave. They were probably the first people to ever practice things like washing, and pooping away from where you eat, and quarantining the sick, and not playing around with dead bodies, and not eating certain animals prone to giving illnesses/parasites, etc.
That's where the cleanliness laws comes from, that doesn't mean Christians followed them, they certainly did not. Certain monks did, but that's about it, only in Judaism and Islam were they considered applicable to everyone. Islam is based upon Judaism and Christianity, but mostly Judaism.
I wouldn't be condescending about Muhammad crawling out of caves, you've got several prophets in Christianity which did the same. If Muhammad is a joke for the way he received his revelation, which I assume is what you're implying, then King David, Lot, and others are equally silly.
Christianity abandoned a lot of these within the first 300 years, originally though, one had to convert to Judaism before becoming a Christian. Issues with getting converts is why Christianity largely abandoned many of these, later on they abandoned more (remember even in the middle ages usury was a sin for Christians) when they got in the way of making money.
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@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff Many things in here are wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion.
That's another way to say you don't how to tell me I'm wrong, other than simply saying I am. That's fine.
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@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff Many things in here are wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion.
That's another way to say you don't how to tell me I'm wrong, other than simply saying I am. That's fine.
You had a long reply. It would be off topic to begin a debate down all these points. Has nothing to do with homeschooling.
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@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff Many things in here are wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion.
That's another way to say you don't how to tell me I'm wrong, other than simply saying I am. That's fine.
You had a long reply. It would be off topic to begin a debate down all these points. Has nothing to do with homeschooling.
My topic, my rules! But yes that is true.
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@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
@guyinpv said in Homeschool Resources:
@tonyshowoff Many things in here are wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion.
That's another way to say you don't how to tell me I'm wrong, other than simply saying I am. That's fine.
You had a long reply. It would be off topic to begin a debate down all these points. Has nothing to do with homeschooling.
Fair enough, we did have quite the day discussing derailing.
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I think that the bottom line many of us are trying to get across is just that finding good resources is hard. Science, for us, has been particularly hard but we just decided on a new one to try today.
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Major issue for us is lab stuff. Most of the science stuff expects that you have access to things that we might find challenging to get our hands on. We found one that didn't, but my daughter finds it to not be deep enough.
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@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
Major issue for us is lab stuff. Most of the science stuff expects that you have access to things that we might find challenging to get our hands on. We found one that didn't, but my daughter finds it to not be deep enough.
This was easy with my second wife, she was a chemist, but now it's back to "wait, where the hell do I get this stuff?"
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@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:
@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
Major issue for us is lab stuff. Most of the science stuff expects that you have access to things that we might find challenging to get our hands on. We found one that didn't, but my daughter finds it to not be deep enough.
This was easy with my second wife, she was a chemist, but now it's back to "wait, where the hell do I get this stuff?"
My wife was a forensic bio-chemist and then moved on to pharma research chemistry. But that's not helping now.
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Science is the one area I know we failed miserably at everything other than Physics (that is easy to recreate experiments) we got a Lego book to go along with Physics. Other than that we watched them on YouTube.
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@Minion-Queen said in Homeschool Resources:
Science is the one area I know we failed miserably at everything other than Physics (that is easy to recreate experiments) we got a Lego book to go along with Physics. Other than that we watched them on YouTube.
What book is this?
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https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Physics-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-NXT-ebook/dp/B00DY3M0IU?ie=UTF8&Version=1&entries=0
@scottalanmiller gave my son a Mindstorm kit when he was little that thing came in handy so many times for school.
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@Minion-Queen said in Homeschool Resources:
https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Physics-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-NXT-ebook/dp/B00DY3M0IU?ie=UTF8&Version=1&entries=0
@scottalanmiller gave my son a Mindstorm kit when he was little that thing came in handy so many times for school.
Educationally playing with LEGOs? So looking forward to this.
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We found some building Chemistry models with Lego's too. We used Legos for as many things as we could
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I'm looking to start some Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects this summer.
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@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
I'm looking to start some Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects this summer.
What did you have in mind? Would be interesting in hearing that as well.
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@coliver said in Homeschool Resources:
@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:
I'm looking to start some Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects this summer.
What did you have in mind? Would be interesting in hearing that as well.
I don't really know yet. But I want her to "own" some things so that she feels that they are hers and not just devices that she gets to borrow.
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@scottalanmiller I went to a private religious k-12 school (The movie SAVED! with Mandy Moore is really the closest explanation of it) and we had Bob Jones history text books. The result was rather hilarious. A 2 page spread on why the Beatles were the beginning of the downfall of western civilization. Lots of anti-catholic references.
They used a 3rd grade health book to cover sex ed (or rather avoid it).
Generally 1-2 chapters of any science class were anti-evolution talking points. Somehow this stuff even crept into non-biology classes.
Honestly if it wasn't for the internet, Encarta, the library and some AP classes (That used college level text books) I would have been an idiot.
I went to public school, and it wasn't this horribly place that everyone made it out to be. The biggest issue was they taught to the lowest common denominator in the room and I ended up in the dumb kid hall (transfer mid year). Honestly the teachers were nice, they cared, and the kinds were nicer than at the private school I had attended (For the most part).
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@John-Nicholson said in Homeschool Resources:
@scottalanmiller I went to a private religious k-12 school (The movie SAVED! with Mandy Moore is really the closest explanation of it) and we had Bob Jones history text books. The result was rather hilarious. A 2 page spread on why the Beatles were the beginning of the downfall of western civilization. Lots of anti-catholic references.
Only K-8 here, but about the same.
