When my daughter was in about the fourth grade she completed
her science curriculum for the year early.
Because we homeschool year round we could have continued with the next
year’s science curriculum but my daughter is fanatical about science and would
study science to the exclusion of anything else given the chance.
We decided that holding out the next year’s science
curriculum as a “carrot” to give her incentive to finish her other courses for
fourth grade would work well. At the
same time, having no science to go to seemed like disincentive. To her it seemed like not having some science
was like punishing her for finishing her favorite subject by telling her she
couldn’t do any more of it.
I have to admit, I could kind of see her point.
So what we did was do a mini unit on health. We found a great source for heath games
that covered health, staying in shape, allergies, and dental health. My daughter loves to play online games of any
sort, and by offering the games as part of her health course work, we had a
win-win situation. She got what she
considered science, she got to play games, and she learned information that she
needed to know anyway!
I love win-win education situations, don’t you?
