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Question

I'm having trouble in school. Science and history are not my favorite subjects and that makes me not want to study. That makes me get an F. How do I stay focused and remember all the stuff? PLEASE help me before school starts!

Answer 1

You know this is a homeschooling forum, right? You might want to learn to pay a little more attention to detail.

Despite that, check out the book "What Smart Students Know." You'll learn that you've got to change that attitude of yours if you want to do better plus you'll learn lots of techniques on how to study.


Remember this: smart students don't get A's in everything because they enjoy all the subjects. Their goal is not to be entertained but to figure out a way to master the information. So, it's not about the subject at all, but the game of learning. Forget that science and history aren't your favourite subjects. It doesn't matter if you like them or not. Make your focus about the learning rather than the content and your grades will change.

Answer 2

I didn't like history, literature and biology myself. When I thought about it little more what is it that I don't like about them, I decided that I didn't like history and biology because I didn't like the teachers, and I didn't like literature because I didn't see any logic in it whatsoever.

However, I knew I wanted to go to college. There is no way around getting an OK grade in everything for me.
So I decided I don't have to like it. If I'm smart, I can simply do it because it is required and forget it when I don't need it.

My most severe problems were with literature - no matter how hard I tried, my essays were graded in the most "unpredictible" ways. So I shared my frustration with my mom. She said well let me see how do you work on writing it. Just tell when you have problems. After that, she found me a tutor. My problem with literature was solved - I still didn't really like it, but I didn't feel so powereless and unmotivated. It was just kind of like riding a bike to school - not exciting, but not hard either.

So asking for a tutor is a way to go. Good place to look might be your local college - have your parents contact the department administrator.

Another way to go is try learning extra stuff that they don't teach you in school. Get ahead of curriculum. You can do it by picking up a college freshman book now and just give it a try. When you get stuck - ask specific questions.

Good luck! You can do it!

Answer 3

did u ask your teacher for extra help? what is the problem? did you try to form a study group? have a study buddy and share notes with your friend..make copies of thier notes

Answer 4

Both are facinating subjects and you can learn both from each other.

Without science you wouldn't have the internet, computers, TV or Ipods. You'd sit in a house with candle light and a fireplace and make shadows on the wall for entertainment.

Electricity dates back to the Ancients. Chinese, Greeks, etc. Long, long, long ago.

The Chinese discovered that certain rocks will pick up certain metals. This was the discovery of magnetics. The Chinese eventually found out you could rub iron against this stone and it would become magnatized, just like the stone. the also found out if you put this metal on a piece of paper or cork and put it into water it always pointed in the same direction (that we now call North) and they started using this to navagate on land and sea.

The Greeks, I believe, discovered that if you rubbed hardened tree sap (called Amber) with a silk cloth a spark of power was generated (we now call this electricity).

Over a 5,000+ period of time man throughout history experimented with these discoveries and one by one made devices.

The first electronic device was invented before the time of Ben Franklin and called the Leyden jar. It stored the electric spark made by the Amber rubbed in silk so you could use that spark at a later date.

The process this "jar" employed is now the basis for a Capacitor, which is used to run your power supplies in your computer, walkman and to change tone on your stereo set or electric guitar.

This device when tuned properly removes or blocks frequencies and store current like a type of dam holding back water for slow release.

People experimenting with chemical made the first battery around 1800. It was then discovered if you put a thin wire of iron or copper across the leads of the battery it got warm. The basis for the toaster, floor electric heater and electric blanket. One man happened to have one of those Chinese magent compass devices near his wire when he touched it to the battery and he found the magnet changed direction from North to where his wire was!

This mean the wire was generating a magnetic field.

Coils of wires were made to generate this magentic field and when wheels with fixed Chinese magnets were placed nearby they turned, the basis for the electric fan, electric motor.

It was eventually learned if you turned that wheel of magnets electricty was pushed out of the coil of wire.

Lo! Electricity put into a coil turns wheel electrically. Turning wheel mechanically makes (generates) electrcity out of coil!

What a concept. Instead of a batter you turned a wheel of magnets by hand, connected the wire of that coil to another coil which turned a wheel of magnests at the same approximate speed as the wheel you turned by hand!

Remote control of a device!

Now you put that wheel under a waterfall and it turns real fast and you can make enough elecctricity to put it into every household nearby Niagra Falls in Canada.

That wire connected to electricity heats up and when it heats up enough it glows. You find a way to make it glow without burning out too fast and you make LIGHT.

Edison worked with his own generators and equipment to perfect this and found the right wire to use and removed air from a glass bulb.

Now instead of candles to provide light in the year 1895 they had Electricity!

All because some old Chinese and Greek dudes noticed some things about natural materials, wrote these things down for future man to read about and play with. Future man had fun with them and created technology!

Television was first done mechanically in 1860, then electronically around 1915 with crude globes of glass patterened after a light bulb using a process Edison discarded because he didn't know what he had! If found an element and process that passed one form of electricity (postive and negative are two of the forms), but blocked the other. If you add the Leyden Jar to this you can created Direct (one directional flow) of low power from household alternating (power that moves from postive to negative) and this became the first electronic "tube" which was perfected and developed in 1915 by DeForrest. This make the Marshall Amp, TV, RAdio and computers possible.

Now the first computer was desgiend, but not built, in the 1800s by Charles Baggage and a woman named Aida undestood his design and make programs for this device that was never built.

It wasn't until World War II when we needed to do lots of computing and it took years by hand that tubes, leyden jars and other gismos were put together to make a counting machine. The first mainframe computer.

Edison, back in 1880, was working on a sound machine. He got a wax candle, stuck a needle into a cone. Put the point of the needle into the wax candle. Turned the candle and shouted into the cone. This made vibrations which were cut into the wax.

He then put the needle back at the start and those recorded vibrations made sounds through the cone.

This was the first CD player.

Edison was also experimenting with motion pictures and created his own motion picture machine that he linked up to his sound recorder and he brought in musicians and singers and made the first Music Videos in 1895!

In the 1930's and 40' they started using magnetics to direct an electron beam at the front of a glass tube with a chemical painted on it that glowed when hit by electrons. By setting up coils of electro magnets, like those used in motors or to make electricity, they used the signal of household electricity to direct the electron beam across the tube face in a series of scans. This was then used to make television.

Once again, this was all possible because 5,000 years ago some Chinese and Greek guys made some obervations about magnetics and sparks, wrote them down for us to read today.

Get the point of how history and science are important. How they can also work hand in hand.

I beleive it was Isaac Newton in the 1800's who said: I see so far (scientifically) because I stand on the shoulders of giants (like those early Chinese and Greek guys).

If you get PBS or the Discovery or History channels you should watch. Especially if they re-run an amazing show called "Connections" which, like my above dissertation, blends history with modern technology.

How things way back then, connect with what we are today.

The events of today in the Middle East date back to ancient times. You follow that history line and you find out exactly how we got where we are in the Wars today.

You learn the struggles of people. How 13 year old girls we married off by familes right up until 1910 in the Western World!

How the "real" Dr. Quinn, medicine woman, took 25 years to learn her trade because no school would have her and no man would teach her for more than a year, so she went from doctor to doctor being an assistant, until they relaized she was trying to be a doctor and they discharged her!

You learn that as recent as 1955 if a University discovered a women in MEdical School wanted to be soemthing other than a pediatrician, they dismissed her. No woman was to be trained to be a surgeon! Baby doctors, that's all women were good for!

We're talking pretigious, Ivy league schools that were doing this!

Women couldn't get bank loans without a husband or father or brother co-signing util around 1980.

Blacks, Indians, Women and Children were "other persons" in the U.S. Consitution until recent times. The late 1800s!

Income tax was forbidden under the original Constitution and was called a horrible tax by the founding fathers. This got changed in the late 1800s. How it got changed is an interesting story of politics! Read about it!

The numbers you use today came from Ancient Arabs, who invented the concept of zero. Romans didn't have zero in their system!

The math you take in school dates back to ancient Greeks and Arabs who devised it to do things like build buldings that stand clear to today!

The most modern thing in math is Calculus and that dates to the 1800s!

You want to be a taller person and see further. Go stand on some shoulders of giants and see what you discover way up there!