Curriculum
Ideas A growing area of curriculum suggestions, as well as ideas on how
to homeschool inexpensively. Realistic, affordable ideas, as well as
reality checks!
Leadership
Position Papers
Opinions, white
papers, and sometimes controversial papers from HSC and others about
homeschooling from a Christian worldview.
State
Laws & Support Individual pages for states and countries to help you with state-specific
questions, including book suggestions, driver's ed, support groups,
and more.
Oh yes, we
cache! GeoCaching is the
only real link for it. It is where you go to find caches, or to post
a cache.
Basically,
you have a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) unit, and you go to
geocaching.com, and you ask for a cache in your area, or in an area
you will be visiting. It gives you the the gps coordinates, and maybe
a hint or two. You can read posts from people who attempted to find
that cache and did or didn't find it.
Then you
take the coordinates, type them into your GPS unit, and try to find
the cache.
Caches are
containers that can be as small as a matchbox, and contain only a
log to sign, or can be the size of an ammo can, and will have little
fun treasures, penny candy things--such as pencils, things you'd get
in a gumball machine, stickers, etc. We often leave Vegas chips on
the road, and
once, we found a working watch! We bring shells back from Oregon to
put in caches in Vegas--that's a fun find here.
You can also
find geocoins (which are numbered and tracked) or travel bugs, which
are little metal ID tags with numbers, that are attached to some cute
object like cute keyrings. You can take those, and the idea is to
place them in a cache far away--so we try to get those when we are
traveling.
We use geocaching
for PE, we use it for math (one son adds up how far a bug has gone
and it's average travel per year.) It's great logic, too.
