I need some suggestions on more creative ways to teach my 6th grader. I use a pretty traditional curriculum.?

Question

I use Our Land of Liberty US History, it comes in the form of newsletters. I want to get her interested in the information, so I want to have weekly or bimonthly projects. Science also, she loves science and I want to have special projects we can do every week. Something that would challenge her. Thanks for any suggestions!!

Answer 1

My wife gets a science project emailed to her regularly. The author is pretty funny, and tests each project before sending it. She highly recommends it.

http://www.krampf.com/news.html

Board games are good. Here are a few on different subjects

http://www.jettedgames.com/cooperative/

Answer 2

There is a great homeschool science program called TOPS. They have books that are dirt cheap (usually $10-15 for 20-30 experiments, with questions to check understanding). Their website is below. They often have items that may be difficult to find, but they offer resource packs with those items that you can purchase from them.

Not sure what to do for history. I'll have to think about that one.

Answer 3

I found Nasco Supplies to be very helpful. They have piles of ideas, books, kits, and sets for all subjects. Pick a few for science, and see if she too likes them. Dissection, biotechnology, environment, forensics, etc...all of this lots of fun and very interesting. They have things for many grade levels. They have a few free science lesson plans on-line, with a list of materials to get for the experiments. They have microscopes and slides too. Order their catalog and pick a kit or two together to do this year!