Episode 23: Elementary School Science
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This podcast episode explores the ideas and objectives Charlotte Mason considered necessary for the study of science for grades 1-6. Listen to hear clear guidelines to follow, book suggestions, and practical applications for teaching science.
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If you would like to study along with us, here are some passages from The Home Education Series and other Parent's Review articles that would be helpful for this episode's topic. You may also read the series online here, or get the free Kindle version from Fisher Academy.
Home Education (Volume 1), Part V, Chapter XVI
School Education (Volume 3), Chapter 21, Part II
Towards a Philosophy of Education (Volume 6), Book I, Chapter 10, Section III
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Nicole's Elementary Science Page at SabbathMoodHomeschool.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
| 0:36.0 | This is Emily Kaiser and I am joined today with Nicole Williams and Liz Kettrill. |
| 0:41.0 | We hope you enjoyed our interview with Sherry Struble |
| 0:44.4 | last week talking about her family |
| 0:46.7 | and their nature study journey. |
| 0:48.8 | Today we're going to focus more on the other part of science beyond nature study in a Charlotte Mason education. |
| 0:56.0 | And this week we're going to be talking about what to do in elementary school as far as what |
| 1:00.8 | Charlotte Mason did and how we can apply that to our schools today and |
| 1:04.3 | then join us again next week and we'll be talking about what to do in the |
| 1:08.6 | upper years in middle school and high school for science. So let's just dive in. |
| 1:14.4 | What do we do in Form 1 besides nature study and reading nature lore that we talked about |
| 1:21.2 | a couple weeks ago? |
| 1:22.4 | What do we do for science, Nicole? |
| 1:24.0 | In Form 1, which was grades 1 through 3, they did just do nature lore, as I alluded to last time. |
| 1:30.0 | So that was the end of it, but I think we have had a bit of a myth in the Charlotte Mason community that that was how it was for all of elementary school. |
| 1:39.0 | But in reality, once they started Form 2, which was Grade 4, 5, and 6, they did add actual science to their curriculum. |
| 1:50.0 | So Nicole, you said the only science that they did in form one, grades one, two and three, besides their nature study, was reading these nature lore books that we talked about back in episode 21. |
| 2:01.0 | And you mentioned in that episode that we, from two categories of books, one more about ecosystems and you know, |
| 2:07.0 | more about ecosystems and you know everything we might find there and then another that was more general animals and even animals beyond our own experience that we would come across in our nature walks. |
| 2:20.0 | So what could you give us some examples of what we could use for nature lore in form one today? |
| 2:26.0 | Yeah, I think that some people would enjoy using the Eyes and No Eyes series and it is online, |
| 2:32.0 | but Arabella Buckley was a British writer and I notice a |
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