Mary Nix on December 22nd, 2008

I was just reading Self-Inspired Learning by KarenVogel in the latest issue of Home Education Magazine when I came upon this  sentence:
As most of my friends know, I regularly suffer paroxysms of guilt over my complete neglect of science as a school subject.
I have heard that a lot over the years.  (Actually, I usually [...]

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Mary Nix on December 11th, 2008

Below is a great homeschool resource from Stanford. It seems that more and more colleges are offering open source type classes on the Internet.
SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial [...]

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Helen Hegener on December 3rd, 2008

HearthSong.
HearthSong – Toys You’ll Feel Good About Giving
Barbara Kane founded HearthSong in 1983 because of a growing conviction that, “..too often, in our culture, children are pushed to grow up too fast. I started HearthSong to make a statement reinforcing what parents themselves know is true, right and healthy–that childhood is a very special time.” [...]

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Mary Nix on August 7th, 2008

Olympian Becca Ward’s Mom, Beth Ward posted a link to this USA news story, Ward ready to slash her path to the Olympic podium at HEM Networking tonight. Also at the site you can access this video that was filmed between practicing in Beijing and a photo gallery of Ms. Ward.
In case [...]

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Mary Nix on May 17th, 2008

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between [...]

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Mary Nix on April 21st, 2008

HEM Guide To Resource’s guest editors, Tracy Merritt, sent some great Earth Day tips and resources along to share here at the blog. (Tracy is very busy these days helping her daughters care for the new chicks and ducklings that have come to live with them.
Here are some of the [...]

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