Physical Science in a Co-operative Setting

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This past spring I taught a science class for a homeschool group’s co-op.  It ended up being P’s primary science for those weeks.  After all, if I’m going to spend hours pulling things together I want it to benefit me as well.

Using the Physical Science project pack from In the Hands of a Child, I came up with a game plan that included not only the lapbook but some hands on experiments pulled from several resources I had on hand.

Something that I love about many of the HOAC project packs is that availability of answer keys with a suggested schedule for completion.  The physical science unit has a suggested day schedule.  With seven classes for that spring session, I did have a little tweaking to make it all fit.  But, making that change was easy as I grouped similar topics together.

Also, I should share that during our 45 minute session we did not spend much time on the actual mini-books for the lapbook.  Instead, I had the ones associated with our topics to send home with the kids to complete.  I opted to color code the printouts by topic, which provided a quick way for both the students and myself to know to which group each foldable belonged.  For some sessions, we did spend a few minutes on specific mini-books that might have been confusing.

I’ll share the specifics of what we did in subsequent posts.  The final lapbook P put together was shown in my review post on Pear Educational Products  for lapbooking or notebooking.