I posted a question a while ago and I explained the situation to mother and she agreed to let me be homeschooled. Though I still need help finding out how much it will all cost. Do I need to purchase books or are there courses online I can take? Do yo recommend any siteI can view about this? Thanks to all who reply.
2006-10-01 10:49:15 · 8 answers · asked by Liaish 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Thanks. I'm currently 16 1/2 and I am hoping to teach myself since I can't stand having teachers telling me information one day and making me change around the next.
2006-10-01 11:08:59 · update #1
Congratulations on your new journey, relish in your new found FREEDOM!
Homeschooling can cost as much or as little as you like and can even be done for free via the library. It would help if you could give us some more details. Are you looking for religious type homeschooling or secular or doesn't it matter? Would you consider going outside the box for your education or do you want everything laid out for you? Would you prefer a literature base education? How old are you? Do you want your mother to teach you or are you willing to teach yourself? Do you live in a state that offers virtual schooling through the public school? There are so many ways to home educate and people would be able to help better if they knew more.
For starters go to http://hslda.org and find out the laws for your state. Perhaps your local library will have some home education books. After that, I would find a homeschool group online that fits your needs as well as a local homeschool group.
Good Luck!
PS...Saul gave you misinformation. Not all states require registration and stay away from asking any public education system what is required for home educating. You only need to know your states laws and you find that at hslda.org
Edited after seeing more of your details: Wow, I LOVE Earl's list! If you are looking for more inspiration I'd also recommend "The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education" by Grace Llewelyn. In it you will find info on how to keep transcripts, ideas and resource info on self-learning in all subject areas, how to get into college, apprentice and/or do something that you really love doing for your 'career' (an aside, I do not think that college defines success. Being your own boss is an ideal goal and what better to make a living at than doing something you love? And it is a heckuva a lot cheaper than college!) I hope the best for you and again...ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM! :-)
2006-10-01 10:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd say just start reading.
English Literature
History
Science
Math will be tough, i'd recomend taking up computer programming and doing all the math involved programs. Get Visual Basic and learn how to do all the examples in the books. Get other books at the library.
A work book will also be valuable. You need to master graphs, plots, X,Y and X,Y and Z. Math is going to be tough without a consultant.
Math is vital to advanced science and you need some Chemistry and Physics and all of that is math.
You can solve almost all of Newton's laws on a computer using Visual Basic and just dialing in the values to the variables of the laws.
Go to museums. Science museums, history museums, art museums.
YOu need to take up an instrument. Get a little Casio keyboard or acoustic guitar and learn to play some basics. Books can teach you, maybe a few friends. Maybe you buy a few lessons at a guitar store.
The computer is one of the most valuable instruments you have. The internet is a 24/7 library.
Work with drawing programs for art.
Buy a drawing program. Use E-bay and get old software. Adobe Photoshop 5 or 6. That, along with Visual BASIC 4 or 6 is only like $30 for an original disk with all the books.
Read, read read.
Read all the books on the Library list of Books that have challenges.
Tom Sawyer, Brave New World, 1984 -- all the books eveyrone wants banned.
Go to the library and read. Take them home.
Take home a copy of the Communist Manifesto.
Take home a copy of John Jay's Federalist Papers.
Read the US Constitution. Read it twice.
Read the original, the one where Women, Children, ****** and Indians are to be apportiend by a percentage.
Get a copy of the IRS tax forms and do your parents tax returns.
Read An Actor Prepairs by Stanislavsky. Read the sequel, Building a Character.
Get a video camera and prepair a character.
Find a monlouge at the library and do a scene in character. Do what Stanislavky told you to do.
Marlon Brando stuffed paper into his cheecks to do the auditoin video for The Godfather.
He's a Method Actor. A Stanislavakist.
Read Robert's Rules of Order
Read.
Even a comic book is good reading.
Go find some books you like and go read what's on the "approve" list of geniuses
Read Einstein. General and Special Relativity
It'll give you a headache, but read it. Doesn't matter if it takes you 3 years. Read it.
Some things you need to read a page at a time.
Other things you'll read in a sitting.
You're supposed to learn Government, English Lit, Math, Scinece which inlcudes Chemistry and Physics.
Go to the Library.
Get some different books on the subject.
Not just one.
Read Nitche, read Kafka, read Orwell
Learn about Parliament.
Read the NY TImes best seller list
Read the top 5 each year
Go to a planetarium. Go to an aquarium. Go to a Science museum. Go to a Naturla History Museum. Go to an Art musuem.
At least ONE painting is going to make you stand there in awe that SOME PERSON DREW IT, yet it looks like a photograph.
It doesn;'t matter if you stay there 3 hours and look at that ONE picture, it means you KNOW HIGH ART.
Go see a play at the Civic center.
Drag your mother along for all these things and let her learn.
Push buttons
Do things
Go to Radio Shack and get an electronics kit, even if it's designed for 10 year olds.
Go to Wal Mart and get a $60 telescope and look at the moon, look at Saturn later this winter went it becomes visible in the evening.
Yes you can get a book for $15 that shows you saturn, but there is NOTHING like point a telescope and seeing it as Galello did 500 years ago!
You have one of those wooden rulers with a groove in it. An arc. A little semi-circle groove. Get some marbles. Line them up. Let one whach the others and see how one comes out the other end. Get two and whack those two into the others and see how two come out the other end.
That's NEWTON'S LAWS in action,
That's physics
Go to a hobbie store and buy some Copper Sulfate and a strip of Zinc.
Get a 9 volt battery and a some wire.
Cut the zinc strip in two even pieces.
Get some bell cord wire at Radio shack. Strip it with a knife. Wrap it around the zinc strips. Connect it to the battery. Put the Copper Sulfate into a small glass of water. Put the strips on either side of the glass, with with wires connected to the battery. Wait a few minutes and look at the zinc strips.
What did you see on one of the strips!
Electro plating. That's how Gold Plating is done for jewlery.
Go read about it.
Go on the internet and learn how to write HTML code. Write a page. Call it up in a browser on your computer.
Get a 35mm camera, borrow one, buy one at a thrift store, get one at Wal Mart for $15 on the kids rack.
Get a roll of Tri-X real black and white film (not the C-41, but real black and white), get a small tank at a photo store. Get a tri-chem pack. Develope the film per the instructinos.
Get some printing paper. Get another tri-chem pack. get some trays. Get a glass frame and put the film negatives over the papger in a bathroom, expose it to light for a few seconds, process the paper in the tri-chem pack.
$30 and you have a photo course.
Get a shoe box. Get a magnifying lens. cut a hole in the back of the shoe box the same size as your 35mm negative. Mount the negatives bck there. put a light back there. Move the lens inside the box until you see an image on the back wall of the box. Then mount the lens there with cardboard and tape. Put the printing paper where you saw the image. Cover the box, turn on the light for a few seconds, process the paper.
Do it until you see a magnified image. That's an enlarger.
That is how movies work at the theater. Film, a lens, light, white paper across the room.
Read about it. Experiment. Be a scientist. Learn from mistakes.
Read, experiment, do.
Write about what you learn.
Put it aside
Read it in a year
Re-write it to make it better.
That's what learning is all about.
2006-10-01 19:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-29 09:34:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The self-teaching program that we use is the Robinson Curriculum --- you can check it out at http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com
The cost for it is $195 (one time!)and it can be used by other children in the family for free. It is also easily re-sold when you are finished with it ---- on ebay or other homeschool curriculum exchange sites.
Other than the 22 cd's for reading, writing, science, history, etc... you will need to buy a good math text book and answer key.
2006-10-01 15:58:55 · answer #4 · answered by Barb 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few things I looked up:
No, you do not need to use books, there are many online courses, computer programs, and much more that you can use besides them. Good luck! =)
2006-10-01 11:04:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy the book Homeschooling your child for free. It will greatly reduce the cost of your homeschooling materials. You can buy my copy that I am selling on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761525130/104-0375931-1441564
2006-10-01 13:19:59 · answer #6 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, check with Department of Education in your state to get registered. They will also let you know where and how to get your lessons in the mail and where to send them once they are filled out to get graded.
2006-10-01 10:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
try k12 they give u the things u need and a laptop but u have to have internet and it's $97.00 a year.
2006-10-01 15:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by TT 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋