Ways To Make Home Education More Fun
If you are a concerned parent, you may be thinking about keeping your child home schooled this year, even if schools reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a tough decision to make for any parent, but wanting to keep your child and your family as a whole safe may mean remaining in the home. The problem may be how to make home schooling, even if you have distance learning from the school district, more fun and engaging for your child. Get to know some of the ways that you can make at-home education more fun for you and your child. Then, you can be sure you are taking steps to make your child's education as fun as possible in spite of extenuating circumstances.
Invest in Home Science Kits
Science is one of the best opportunities to make home learning more fun because science is all about experimentation and hands-on learning. To help facilitate this, you should invest in home science kits. You can get kits in all different scientific areas, from chemistry to biology to physics and everything else you can think of.
These home science kits will come with all of the equipment and materials needed to perform specific scientific tasks or experiments. For example, you could get a microscope kit for your child. One experiment could be to sneeze or cough on a slide plate and to see what grows on it in the coming days. This could teach them about germs and about why they are staying home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
You can also get home science kits that are delivered monthly through subscription boxes if you would like something new to be delivered to your child every month. This will help them to learn to engage with and love science and to always look forward to their next home science kit box.
Teach Them Math and Science Through Cooking
Because you and your child will be home together, you may as well cook lunch together. This is a great opportunity to help your child learn some math and science. The math comes in through measurements and ratios. The science comes in through the cooking itself.
Cooking together can be a fun way to pass time as well as an educational one. You could even get a children's cooking subscription box that they can use themselves to learn to cook. These boxes are much like the home science kits in that they come with instructions and ingredients (though you usually have to supply the equipment) to make whatever they sent that month.
Now that you know a few ways to make home education more fun, you can get started implementing these changes to how you home school right away. Look into home science kits and other products to help.
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