Q: How does a homeschooling family change a lightbulb?
A: First, Mom checks three books on electricity out of the library, then the kids make models of light bulbs, read a biography of Thomas Edison and do a skit based on his life.
Then, everyone studies the history of lighting methods, wrapping up with dipping their own candles.
Next, everyone takes a trip to the store where they compare types of light bulbs as well as prices and figure out how much change they'll get if they buy two bulbs for $1.99 and pay with a five-dollar bill.
On the way home, a discussion develops over the history of money and also Abraham Lincoln, as his picture is on the five-dollar bill.
Finally, after building a homemade ladder out of branches dragged from the woods, the light bulb is installed.
And there is light.
~Author Unknown
4 comments:
lol! That's why homeschooling rocks!
Finally, in our own time, and in our own way... we see the light.. and appreciate it too!
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Oh my, this makes me feel totally inadequate. We'd probably just change the lightbulb... no skits... maybe a library book or two :D Homeschooling is something I think I'm still sort of sliding myself into. We *did* make an aluminum foil growbox two weeks ago for a botany lesson. Have yet to grow anything in it...
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