Today I will be sharing with you the “best of the school year,” including some of our favorite activities, field trips, and curriculum that we used for homeschooling high school this year. This will include unique and interesting field trips for geography and astronomy, and some fun psychology skits. Even through the quarantine, I will show you some activities that we did to tie our homeschooling to current events.
Best of the School Year | Homeschooling High School
Watch the following video to hear about some of the most memorable highlights for our 2020 homeschool year:
The math curriculum we are using is Teaching Textbooks because there is no teaching or grading required by the parent, since all of it is done on the computer. This was especially helpful for higher math.
If you want to see all of the curriculum books we used for all the other subjects this year, I wrote a blog post earlier this year to show what we would be using:
We made up our own geography, which I show you in the video. We made a scrapbook for each country of the world, coloring a map, writing a paragraph about the country from a video about that country, and gluing down a flag of each country. We went on a field trip to Canada, and while we were there, my daughter spent a day immersed in the culture of North and South Korea:
High school astronomy was also incredibly fascinating. We attended a star party put on by the local Astronomy Society. During that time, we identified many constellations, the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter. We attended a workshop put on by a NASA representative, where we saw a real space suit, Shuttle EVA suit glove, small rocket steering thruster, a Martian meteorite, etc. We looked through a special telescope during the day to look for solar flares and sunspots, and we went to a planetarium. If you would like to see the entire set of books we used this year, here it is:
Probably my favorite subject to teach this year was psychology. We used 7 Sisters homeschool curriculum, and we brought it to life in this set of videos and blog posts:
Near the end of the school year (in April and May), while in quarantine, we did a lot of gardening:
We also cooked and baked many delicious foods for home economics. Here is a British cake my daughter made:
We went on many walks, too, in order to get out of the house and get some exercise for PE. Here is a goofy walk that my daughter and I went on:
This school year is one of my favorite years of homeschooling. Yes, it can still be fun to homeschool high school!
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Tags: high school, highlights, Homeschooling
What a great list. Your astronomy party sounded like so much fun!!
It really was! We enjoyed studying astronomy this year and were delighted by all the astronomy field trips we were able to take.
Sounds like a great year! I haven’t used any of the curriculums mentioned so I appreciated your reviews. I also love your geography binder idea. We’re working on something similar using My Father’s World.
I’m glad it was helpful. We enjoyed traveling the world virtually this year and notebooking about it!
This is so exciting. My 14 year old son and I were just planning out this upcoming school year and he wants to to Astronomy for science this year. You always have such informative and creative things in your blog, Susan. Thank you for sharing with everyone.
You’re very welcome! I do like choosing the very best curriculum out there, and bringing each subject to life through hands-on activities to internalize everything we are learning, even in high school.
Heya. This is amazing. Next year we will begin homeschooling for sure. I plan on using a level by level approach in order to teach literature and math. In other classes I think that I will try a combination. Classes will be a mix of free work and exercises for a particular level. I have even found some workbooks to use. I know roughly where to start.
I’m glad you have a plan!