Carschooling Visual and Performing Arts

One carschooler from California makes a Flat Family on long car trips. She uses varying sizes of paper plates and draws faces and other features on them, and then attaches paper straws (folded back and forth so the are accordioned) for arms and legs. She plays with them constantly and presses them against the car [...]

Carschooling Geography: Charting a Course

Encourage your road scholars to learn to read maps by letting them plot your route to wherever you are going. Tell them that you need to get from one city (or state) to another. Then ask them to look on a map, find the departure and destination points, and pick a course of roads and [...]

Carschooling Social Sciences: Historical Marker Countdown

Carschoolers in Georgia decided to visit every historical marker in their county. Their mother reported that they spent an hour or two every day over  a two-week period traveling to different marker locations. The kids took close-up photographs of every marker so that they could read the text on the developed photograph. Then they put [...]