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Will It Count?: HomeSchooling Doesn’t Look Like “School” at Home

Will It Count?: HomeSchooling Doesn’t Look Like “School” at Home

by OnlySchoolers · Apr 16, 2020

In Episode Two, co-hosts Gina and Christyn help you figure out how to think outside the box when school moves off the beaten path and it feels like education has taken a back seat. They assure you it hasn’t! By using the two Magic Questions, you can relax, knowing that learning has taken place – you just have to change the context. 

1:10 — Will it blend?

2:15 — When homeschool moves off the beaten path, we often question “Will it count?”

3:44 — Education happens around us all the time

4:04 — Gina’s “a-ha!” moment about homeschooling: birdwatching

7:22 — Christyn’s “a-ha!” moment: infectious disease

9:06 — Just because you didn’t plan it doesn’t mean it doesn’t count

9:30 — Differentiating between “school” and “education”

12:18 — The Magic Questions

14:00 — Jotting down all your daily activities gives you a baseline for seeing where the learning happened

15:00 — The craziest thing Christyn counted as homeschool hours: Marvel movies

19:26 — Gina plays “Will it count?” in high school with geocaching and writing

25:03 — Change the context to switch a subject from elective/non-core hours to core subjects

25:40 — Gina’s superpower of making any learning count as core hours helps Christyn switch an elective

30:23 — Asking yourself “Will it count?” opens up all the possibilities

Links from this episode:

  • Will It Blend?
  • Geocaching.com
  • The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, by Deborah Hopkinson
  • Crash Course Sociology
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