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Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

YMB #78 Civics and Current Events: A Conversation with Jill Hummer

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Professor and homeschool mom Jill Hummer joins me on this episode of the podcast to talk all about teaching civics and current events in your Morning Time. We chat about what Civics is, exactly, as well as the best ways to bring a living knowledge of citizenship to your kids. 

We also discuss age-appropriate ways to include civics, what to do about current events, and how you can make citizenship a natural part of your homeschool and family. 


For show notes and episode downloads, visit: https://pambarnhill.com/ymb78

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.

0:17.2

Hi and welcome to the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I am so glad that you are joining me here today.

0:24.9

Well, on today's episode of the podcast, we are going to be joined by Jill Hummer. Jill is the owner and author at Silverdale Press, but she's also a college professor and a homeschooling mom.

0:37.9

And we were so happy to find her because we're going to be talking all about current events,

0:44.8

civics, and studying the election.

0:48.2

All of those things are very important this fall.

0:51.3

And we wanted to talk about how homeschoolers could be doing that in their homes

0:56.5

and in their morning times. Jill was the absolute perfect person for this conversation.

1:02.9

So I'm not going to give anything away. We'll get on with it right after this word from our sponsor.

1:10.5

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