In my heart I feel that Unschooling will work best for my family. But, having been a teacher off and on for 10 years, I'm finding it VERY difficult, lol. Noah wants to discuss Greek Mythology. This is absolutely fine with me. Great for History, Geography, Literature, and I'm sure other things. Is there any way possible to fit nearly every subject into nearly every topic. I have no clue how I would fit Science in to this. Math is going to be Saxon. That's one thing I will NOT budge on. I guess what I'm asking for is a good education re:Unschooling.
Well, for Greek Mythology, if you would count physics in as your science, you could look at the battle of Troy and see how he could lob stuff into the city. And, of course, myths were designed to explain how things came into being (e.g. grasshoppers in the Eos myth). You could always look at the actual science behind those things and see if he can figure out why they used the stories they did to explain why that thing looks the way it does, sounds the way it does, etc. As for unschooling as a whole, I'm afraid I don't do it, so I can't really be of much help there.
Mythbusters just did a great thing on some reflector thing the Ancient Greeks used in a war. Sorry, I wasn't actually watching the show so missed these important details. lol. Also you could discuss the metals they used in their weaponry, how they smelted it, alloys etc, the style of boat they sailed & the technology used in its construction. The Brits did a great reconstruction of a Greek war ship which I think was done by BBC; don't know if you could get a tape. My kiddo is art & music orientated so all of her history & a lot of her science revolves around these areas simply because it makes more sense to her this way. You just need to be a little more inventive.
Just thought I'd post that what you're asking about sounds like unit studies. If you'll google for unit studies on greek mythology you're liable to come up with a wealth of info. I'm not sure if unit studies are commonly used by "unschoolers" or not because I'm not fully informed on unschooling itself, but it sounds to me like this is what you're asking about. Maybe some of the unschoolers here can clarify more on that point. HTH
okay you could study the constilations hello!? they have names that stem from Greek mythological stuff!
Archimedes Many of our basic science and math principles come from the greeks - when we used BF lesson plans last year, a whole section of our studies was on the greeks, and we specifically read archimedes and the door of science - my ds LOVED it. We also read a lot from Childcraft books (I have the set - I got it when I was 5) and one of the books is call "Mathamagic" and it discusses what the greeks did with math - and it's written at a kids level.
You've gotten some great ideas already. You can also look at architecture (was that mentioned?) of the Greeks. Not only is it used in modern buildings so there are actual real life examples but you can also look at the engineering principles behind things like columns etc. You can also squeeze some math and physical science into the Olympic games.
I was going to post the exact same comment. Unschooling would be supporting his interest in greek myths, not trying to bring all the subjects into that interest.
I saw one on a list for CBD, you go to the sale thing in bunches thingy, whateer its called, but anyway they have a fairly cheap unit type study booklet for this subject! some other ones too with a Christian angle that we would nto have thought to study!
