Learning together
The hardest part of homeschooling several children is teaching three different things at once. These are twelve topics where you do not have to: everyone studies the same thing at their own level, and then you build one thing between you.
January · 1 week
Rivers of the World
Follow one river from where it starts to where it stops.
February · 1 week
Simple Machines
Lift something you cannot lift.
March · 1 week
The Ocean
Most of the planet, and we have mapped less of it than Mars.
April · 1 week
Birds
Count the birds in your garden for a week and find out who actually lives there.
May · 2 weeks
Ancient Greece
Where the arguments we are still having got started.
June · 1 week
Bridges
Three shapes, one gap, and a stack of books.
July · 1 week
Food and Farming
Trace one meal back to the ground it came out of.
August · 1 week
Light and Colour
Take white light apart and put it back together.
September · 2 weeks
Ancient Egypt
Everyone studies Egypt. Nobody studies the same Egypt.
October · 1 week
The Solar System
Make a model where the distances are actually right. It will not fit indoors.
November · 1 week
Weather and Seasons
Two weeks of real data from your own window.
December · 1 week
Money and Markets
Run one shop between you and find out where the money went.