In these recommendations I have included books about engineering concepts (such as Peter’s railway), and also biographies of famous engineers. I would love to see more children’s books in this category, so if you have any ideas, please do let me know in the comments section. Bonus points for a child-friendly biography of Thomas Telford!…
I hope to add to this list over time. You may also be interested in children’s biographies of famous scientists. Great Men and Women in the History of Medicine (Naxos Junior Classics) David Angus This fantastic audiobook covers a number of key individuals in the development of medicine. Hippocrates, Galen, Hildegard of Bingen, Ibn Sina,…
By far the most useful resource that I have found is the short audiobook biographies produced by Naxos Junior Classics. Each biography is roughly 10-15 minutes long, and they are very well done. Generally the audiobooks run in chronological order, so one gets a real sense of scientific discoveries building on each other. The science…
Central Asia is very under-represented in children’s literature. Someone needs to go and write some more children’s books about the beautiful and historically very interesting part of the world! Here are a few books I have found about Central Asia or Central Asian people groups. We’re Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on the Silk…
We recently completed a biomes study for geography, and my children really enjoyed it! Each week we explored a different biome, and we recorded them on our colour-in maps of the world. A week didn’t really feel long enough for each biome, and I think we could actually have extended this project over a full…
In this post I share our favourite books and resources for exploring maps, for a variety of different ages. Maps are inherently practical, and children will need lots of hands-on activities to help them to develop their skills in using and creating maps. Some of these books contain suggestions for these sorts of activities, but…
I have been through the entire Logic of English Foundations course A – D, and in this post I share my perspective on the curriculum. Logic of English is an extremely thorough phonics program, some might say excessively so! It is also a lot of fun, with plenty of active games and activities to mix…
In this post I share some thoughts on using Logic of English Foundations in the UK. There are some issues to be aware of concerning accent differences and spelling differences. I think these are mostly easy to overcome. I also have some concerns around differences in the order in which phonograms are taught compared to…
Here are some ideas and resources for teaching Python to children. Children are all so different, and parents will vary enormously in their coding skills and how many hours they are willing to spend helping! In this post I have written about our family’s experience with Python resources for kids, in the hope that it…
This review is intended to share our experiences of working through this excellent maths textbook. It covers questions such as when we switched from Beast Academy, how we used the course, Alcumus, and length of time spent. AOPS is a challenging maths curriculum, which expects quick absorption of new concepts and a high degree of…
