I’m a stay at home physicist, adjunct professor and homeschooling parent. I went to a rural school from K-12 and was bored to tears. Now that I’ve been homeschooling for over 16 years (oldest son is a junior in college!) I realize that I was homeschooled even though I attended public school. Just about everything I learned was from reading books at home or helping with our family business, and just experiencing real life. I have a PhD in Physics and was a physics professor when my first child was born. For the last 10 years or so I have been teaching science classes in my home for small groups of homeschoolers and I share what we do in these classes on this website.
I also have extensive boards on Pinterest where I put all the cool experiments and links I have tried, or want to try in class or with just my kids.
Check out my son’s blog, Spark Movie Reviews, its a good place to go when you’re looking for something to watch, he’s got reviews of movies and tv shows. His blog started from taking the Movie Club class at Bravewriter. [UPDATE: He now spends most of his time making music and you can check out his music on soundcloud.]
My older son inherited an old 8 inch telescope and posted about fixing it up and some of his astronomical observations, its called Ryglark Astronomy. [UPDATE: He’s now a junior physics major at Montana State University]. If you’re interested in astronomy, I highly recommend looking for a local astronomy club. We’ve become very active in ours and have participated in outreach star parties at local schools and parks.
I have posted about my classes for the last 4 years, and though I’m still teaching, I won’t be posting each week since it would mostly be repeat information at this point.
Big History Science/Astronomy 2019-2020- High school & middle school
High School Biology 2018-2019
Middle School Biology 2018-2019
High School Physics Round 2 – 2017-2018 (ages 14-17)
Science Fusion Physics Class – 2017-2018 (ages 11-13)
Honors Highschool Chemistry Class – 2016-2017 (ages 13-17)
Introductory Chemistry Class – 2016-2017 (ages 10-13)
Real Science Odyssey Physics class – Summer 2016 (ages 8-12)
Honors Highschool Physics Class -2015-2016 (sophomores)
Big History Science Class – 2015-2016 (ages 9 – 13)
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July 29, 2015 at 2:09 pm
I teach homeschool science classes, too – my background is chemistry. I have a little boy who is very inerested in astronomy, so I look forward to reading about what worked well for you with The Universe at Your Fingertips.
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February 13, 2016 at 2:35 pm
We homeschool our kids, really enjoy reading this site…looking forward to looking at your Pinterest site x
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July 9, 2016 at 2:24 pm
I love the site! I’d like to put together some chemistry stuff specifically for homeschoolers, so if you could get in touch (misterguch@chemfiesta.com), I’d appreciate it!
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July 9, 2016 at 2:55 pm
That would be fantastic! There is a huge need for homeschool science materials, particularly hands on labs/activities.
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November 21, 2017 at 3:35 pm
Your website is amazing! I can’t wait to use some of your resources with my twins. Thank you!
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