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How To Make Real-World Gifted Homeschooling a Reality

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How to make real-world gifted homeschooling a reality

Book smarts are important, but they aren't the only things that matter for gifted learners. It's incredibly important to make common sense connections through real-world gifted homeschooling, too. One of the challenges I hear often from parents of gifted kiddos is that sometimes brilliant-minded children don't always make those common sense connections. It can be infuriating for the parent and embarrassing for the child. Susan Landry has first-hand experience with this issue. It's even one of the reasons she decided to homeschool her gifted child. Rather than just live with the "duh moments", she approached homeschooling uniquely to help her son connect the dots between book learning ... Read More

Last Updated: November 3, 2018 Filed Under: Creative Homeschooling, Elementary, Gifted & Struggling Learners, High School, Middle School Tagged With: Field Trips, hands-on, real-life learning

Project-Based Learning: Long Term Projects

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This post contains links to my business website, Shining Dawn Books. Welcome back to the second week of Practical Project-Based Learning!  Today's topic: Long-Term Project Ideas.  A long-term project, although similar to real-life projects, would be considered something that takes at least three weeks to complete.  Because of the time investment, though, real-life skills are inevitably included.  This means real-life projects and long-term projects are tad difficult to distinguish - but it doesn't really matter in the long run.  ;) Long-Term Project Ideas Garden to Make Recipes - Or, better yet, garden to sell or preserve the produce. Construction Project - Big or little, it ... Read More

Last Updated: March 22, 2016 Filed Under: Creative Homeschooling, Elementary, History & Geography, Middle School, Science & Nature, Unit Studies Tagged With: differentiation, gifted homeschooling, learning disabilities, multi-age homeschooling, project-based learning series, real-life learning

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NaturExplorers guides are perfect for the 1st-8th grade homeschool, co-op or classroom. This highly adaptable curriculum series uses nature study as the starting point for science lessons that reach into every other subject and meet all learning styles.

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