Intro

About this Course

Course Description and Purpose

Books and Resources

Course Schedule

Week 1

Science Education Before 1900

Royal Commission Report

Education 1900-1923

Week 2

Parents and Children

School Education

Philosophy of Education

Week 3

Charlotte Mason Digital Collection

Week 4

The Changing Year

Week 5

Tuning Fork Experiments

Week 6

Charlotte Mason's Philosopy

Week 7

Narrate: Volume 6

Narrate: Science Education in 1965

Read: Chapter 6 "Charity"

Week 8

Read: 1985 to New Millenium

Explore: Arthur Stinner

Narrate: Arthur Stinner

Narrate: Finish your timeline

Week 9

Modern Science Education

Reflect and Narrate on this case study

Mason’s program scaffolded relationship

Read Tracking Trash

Read Model Ocean Currents.

Week 10

Reflect on Case Study

Week 11

Aristotle Leads the Way

Week 12

Introductory Physics

Consider a final case study

The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs

Week 13

Science Blossoms

Parents and Children

The Fool and the Heretic

Week 14

Congratulations

Final exam questions for the course:

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Week 13

Excerpt from The Student Lab Report Handbook by John D. Mays

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Excerpt from The Apprentice’s Companion for General Biology by Ayala and Rogstad

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Excerpt from General Chemistry by John D. Mays

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