Week Three: Play like a scientist! Design and conduct a formal experiment. Week Two: Think like a scientist! Create a feast of resources through research. Week One: Ask like a scientist! Start the hunt for knowledge and meaning. Over the course of four weeks, your child will: Our instructors offer warm, supportive, creative feedback that will walk your kids from the initial topic choice through to the finished report. Got writing resistance? The Middle School Writing series offers the most flexibility of any of our classes! Your kids will pick both the project topic AND format that suits them best. In the end, you have a polished writing project for your portfolio or the science fair-eureka! Middle School Writing: Science Projects walks your kids through a science-based writing project of their choice.Įach participant will choose a topic, research it, create an experiment (if they’d like), then record discoveries in a piece of science writing. Looking for writing activities that allow your kids to get dirty, stay curious, and have adventures?
Even if you did every single project in one school year, you could repeat all of them the following year with completely different results.Do your kids learn best while embracing discovery and surprise? Are homemade volcanoes, paper airplanes, and animal behavior your child’s thing? It’s only $49 and, while you could use the entire program in one year, you could easily space it out over years (which is what we have done). The Brave Writer Lifestyle is all about building connection with your kids so that learning feels like a joy, rather than a chore.Īnother pro of Jot it Down is the cost.
The first half is about the “Brave Writer Lifestyle” and how to implement that in your home. This program is an excellent jumping off point.Īnother thing I love about this program is that the projects are only half of the PDF you get. This year we’re using the same idea for Shakespeare plays. We also used the fairy tale project mentioned above to make a book of Greek myths when we studied Ancient Greece. You can read more about that project in this post – just scroll down to the science section). We have used this curriculum for several years and not completed every single project! Some projects we took months on (the animal mini-book being a prime example. Perhaps one of my favorite aspects of Jot it Down is its flexibility.
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