Hey Adam, speaking of science, I've implemented "Wonder Wednesdays" at my house - where my 4-year old gets to pick something he wonders about and we do hands-on experiments to try to figure out the answer. Then, he draws pictures of his results to record them, and also describes what he did to his dad. He's loving it and has come up with some cool things he wonders about (can marshmallows keep an egg from cracking, why don't boats sink). Got any good recommendations of other stuff to teach a 4-year old (since I have little faith in the school system teaching him much actual academics)? (BTW, I wanna be your kid, too.)
On Nov 29, 2007 3:11 PM, Adam Churvis wrote: > > Sarah wanted to learn dissection, so we built her a little biolab and our > company formed a "biological training department" to get around the > regulations against acquiring and keeping preserved animals. She's going to > dissect an earthworm, a frog, a starfish, a large grasshopper, and a > crayfish. Same ones I did as a kid. Later on we'll do fetal pigs, cats, > and dogs. She's going to photograph the different stages of the dissection > with a digital camera, import and annotate them on her laptop, and write a > report in Word that includes the photos. Then she's going to present them > to her grandparents who are both doctors, so you know they'll love it > (future doctor in the making). > > She then wants to learn chemistry, so after the first of the year she'll get > a proper chemistry lab (very popular with homeschoolers) with formal > experiments, and photograph and report on those, too. > > For her birthday next week she's getting the Mindstorms NXT Robotics set, > which she'll add to the Mindstorms RIS 2.0 set that Mike used to have. I > got some adapters that let the new set use the stuff from the old set. The > new robotics software is built on LabVIEW, so she's going to learn a lot. > > Mike has a complete 3D animation setup with a 3D spatial mouse and Maya, > Electric Image, Bryce, Poser, Shade, Swift 3D, Amorphium, etc. He wants to > develop video games, both graphics and programming, so he has a lot of work > in front of him. That's why I want him to fail so miserably when he decides > to screw off for just a short while. Knowing firsthand what *doesn't* work > helps keep them going in the right direction. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247286 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
