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Post by joanfromzone6 on Jun 16, 2013 20:23:43 GMT -5
My neighbor is modifying that creek well, if you know about it, he's already talking or showing too much - big brother aparatchiks are quite sensitive about THEIR waterways -
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Post by Valerie on Jun 16, 2013 20:27:42 GMT -5
Hahahahaha!!! You're such a geek! (not an insult!) I am!!! I'd have been a holy terror if I'd had a chemistry lab as a kid! Joan, you're right about that creek. We've known more than one person who got into big trouble for messing with a waterway ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY, even when what they did was a huge improvement. Crazy stuff.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 16, 2013 20:38:54 GMT -5
Joan, you can't miss it, it's right next to the road. I'm sure the helicopters have noted his work.
Valerie, I had access to a chemistry lab and a dissection kit when I was a kid (not mine, my friend's) We were constantly doing experiments, making things to predict the weather, and dissecting bugs, frogs, and such. Later, when we moved, I hung out with another friend who was doing all kinds of things with electricity and spy stuff. We 'invented' an ink pen that could shoot its cartridge and figured out ways to write in code and in invisible ink.
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Post by Valerie on Jun 16, 2013 21:41:42 GMT -5
That's one of the reasons I want to teach older kids instead of K-2. I can't wait to get them doing experiments! There's so much stuff out there to know!
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 17, 2013 8:40:55 GMT -5
That's the main reason I liked homeschooling. Not only did I get to teach the kids all that neat stuff, I got to do it, too. We had a couple of chemistry sets, several microscopes, and a dissection kit. I still have the dissection kit and 2 of the microscopes, but I need some slides.
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Post by Valerie on Jun 17, 2013 9:09:31 GMT -5
That's probably half the reason I was drawn to aquaponics, too. It's like a great big science project every day! I think I would have liked homeschooling my kids, but I was afraid of math. I'm not scared of it any more, though.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 17, 2013 9:35:59 GMT -5
Math was the subject that was almost a deal breaker for me, too. I figured out, if I just stayed one step ahead of the oldest kid learning it, I could get through it. The reason for it being the oldest kid was that I had to teach him, then I let him teach the others. I was kind of surprised at how much I remembered from school - even though I'd been out of school more than 30 years when I started homeschooling.
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Post by Valerie on Jun 17, 2013 16:07:25 GMT -5
I don't think that would have worked too well for me. There was too much I never learned in school to start with! Didn't realize how much I'd missed until my own kids got into high school!
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 17, 2013 16:18:05 GMT -5
I was so weak in math in high school that I talked them into letting me take the special ed algebra class just so I could get the math credit I needed to graduate. Oddly, the special ed class taught exactly the same thing as the regular class, only the teacher was better! I got good grades and retained most of what I learned.
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Post by Valerie on Jun 17, 2013 21:46:33 GMT -5
I never had high school geometry or algebra past the basics. Didn't have geology or biology either, and NO CHEMISTRY! It wasn't such a hot school. I caught up on some of that in my AA though.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 18, 2013 13:22:09 GMT -5
I had geology, geometry, first aid class (which included a lot of anatomy), but no chemistry. I learned all that on my own - the fun way, by trial and error. I was learning that a long time before I went to high school, though - even before middle school. The book I checked out of the elementary school library the most was a book on science experiments.
In fact, cooking is just an extension of chemistry. I think that's why I continue to find it interesting and why I experiment so much.
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Post by Valerie on Nov 12, 2013 19:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Nov 14, 2013 10:23:26 GMT -5
Very cool
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