Homeschooling High School: Special Needs Edition
Homeschooling a high school student has its challenges, but homeschooling a special needs high schooler is another level of challenging.
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8 Steps to Writing a Homeschool Transcript
Writing a homeschool transcript is something every family will navigate if they have a student in high school. It might seem daunting, but it’s easier than you think.
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How to Help Your Middle Schooler Prepare for High School
Help prepare your middle schooler for high school with 5 simple ideas you can start implementing in your homeschool today!
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10 Tips for Homeschooling High School Science
With today’s technology, options for outsourcing, and home lab supplies, homeschooling high school science has never been easier or more fun.
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Best High School World Geography Homeschool Projects
By working on geography projects, high school students enhance their critical thinking, research abilities, and study skills. Expand your teen’s coursework through these interactive, hands-on ideas.
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What I Learned Planning High School For the First Time
Last summer, I joined the ranks of other homeschool moms who made it to the high school years. While planning high school for the first time created anxiety and fear for me, through the process, I learned that it is not as scary as it may seem!
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Should You Send Your Homeschooled High Schooler to Public School?
Determining whether to send your high schooler to public school is a question that comes up often. Here are some things to consider before you decided.
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Try This When Your Homeschooled Kids Hate Writing
Not sure what to do when your kids hate writing? Here are two quick and easy ways to turn the tides and help them learn to love it!
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Hands-on Learning for High School Science
We need to provide opportunities for our high school students to explore science in hands-on ways. This can be done through making models, utilizing manipulatives, and hands-on experimentation. Read this post for examples of ways to incorporate hands-on learning for high school science.
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How to Homeschool High School Math Without the Headache
I barely made it through my own high school math, how on earth am I supposed to teach this to my kids?! If any of those same questions are running through you’re mind, take a deep breath and relax! I’m going to share with you an easy and stress-free way to homeschool high school math without the headache.
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How to Fulfill Homeschool Science Lab Requirements
If you want to fulfill your homeschool science lab requirements without purchasing lab supplies (or getting your kitchen dirty), an outsourced or a virtual online science lab is definitely the way to go!
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Homeschooler’s Guide to College Visits
When the oldest was still in diapers, we started a college fund for him. From the moment he began to toddle about the house, the fantasies of where he might attend college flitted through our minds. Then the worrying began. We worried about costs, ACT scores, college preparatory classes and dual enrollment. But through all of it I was looking forward to the day we would drive our little boy to his first college visit.
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Morning Time with High Schoolers
Morning Time or as we like to call it, Morning Basket is a way to start the day in your homeschool and gives everyone in the family a chance to connect with each other before heading off to their other daily schedules and lessons. It’s not just for little kids. It works for teens, too!
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One STEM Activity for Every Age Level? It’s Easier Than it Sounds!
Unfortunately, there aren’t many STEM activities that are appropriate for the entire family – or are there? Is it really possible to enjoy one STEM activity for every age level?
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Easy to Use Homeschool Writing Curriculum for Teaching Practical Writing Skills for High Schoolers
Why do you need Wordsmith Craftsman in your homeschool? Here are the features I really liked, and I think you’ll love as well if you’re homeschooling a high schooler for English credit.
Are Your Friends Costing You $100,000 in Scholarship Money?
Scholarship money is determined by a lot of things-including SAT and ACT scores. Are your high schoolers ready to score big to get scholarships?
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My Eclectic Way of Homeschooling High School
For most of my homeschooling career, I’ve considered myself an eclectic homeschooler. Today I share how that looks homeschooling high school.
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4-H as High School Elective Credit
Sometimes the scariest thing about homeschooling through high school is giving credit to classes. Using 4-H as a high school elective credit can solve that!
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Homeschooling High School Electives
Preparing to homeschool high school can be a bit intimidating for homeschool moms. Find 5 Ideas for homeschooling high school electives.
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Why We Chose Dual Enrollment for Homeschooling High School
Dual enrollment courses are real college courses for real college credit; the final grades are reflected in a student’s college GPA. As such, it is important to make sure your student is ready for the demanding work a college class will require.
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Homeschool to College – It’s Not That Hard!
Are you homeschooling a high schooler who wants to go to college? Going from homeschool to college is really not that hard! I thought that it would be, at first, too. Here’s six key steps to help your homeschool teen get in to college.
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Lessons Learned From Remodeling With Kids
In our homeschool journey, we have had the opportunity to teach our children through do it yourself projects (#DIYplus5) and home remodels. I can almost guarantee none of our children will build houses for a living when they have graduated yet they will have the “know how.” When we started our first home remodel, we had no idea how our working on a house would morph into some of our greatest assets and building blocks of our children’s education.
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Simple Steps to Preventing High School Burnout for Homeschoolers
How do you go about preventing burnout in your high school students? Helping your teen stay off the burnout train in high school is a task that will test many home educating parents. As you transition into the high school years from middle school, it’s important to remember that your teen is used to you being there for them guiding them through their studies and in the high school years things tend to become much more burdensome for your student as the attempt to keep track of all they are juggling on their plate.
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Free College Can Happen For You
Full Scholarship – two words that could change your life. Going to college for free can be like winning the lottery. Imagine throwing away several trash bags full of college scholarship offers. This can include a full ride, free room and board, graduate school money, etc. This is what happened to us and I’ll show you some important tips that can help you.
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No More SATs? You May Wish To Wait Before You Celebrate
Word on the street, is that colleges will be eliminating or making the SAT or ACT optional for admission. However, before you break out the celebratory bubbly, keep in mind that both are accepted by every college and are not so different from one another as many suggest. Before getting too excited, let’s break down the facts that are not being discussed completely.
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