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Carschooling Visual and Performing Arts

maria — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:51:07 +0000

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

maria — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:21:56 +0000

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

maria — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:06:29 +0000

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 [...]

Carschooling Science: Service Station Science

maria — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:13:42 +0000

Stopping for gas is a great time to get the kids involved in science. Think of the possibilities. How does a car engine work? Why should you check the air pressure in the tires? What is the purpose of the fuel and fluids used in the car? If you don’t know the answers to these [...]

Carschooling Physical Education and Health: Rest Stop Olympics

maria — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:16:59 +0000

Rest stops along highways are great places to pull over and stretch your legs. Why not make the stop memorable and get some real physical exercise, too, by conducting a Rest Stop Olympics? Your kids will think of lots of ways to test everyone’s mettle. Although not absolutely necessary, it might be helpful to have [...]

Carschooling Foreign Languages: Translation Game

maria — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:29:17 +0000

A carschooler in California where many towns, cities, and streets have Spanish names because much of the state was settled by Spanish explorers, ranchers, and missionaries. She said that her kids, who were studying Spanish in school, began to notice this phenomenon and created the Translation Game. Players take turns calling out a town or [...]

Carschooling Geography: Road Navigators

maria — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:47:56 +0000

Turn off the GPS and let your carschoolers take turns being the family navigator or map reader. As one carschooling mom said, “Even our 7-year-old has learned to keep track of where we are by reading the exit numbers on the freeways and finding how far across the state we traveled. All of my kids [...]

Carschooling Social Sciences: Roadside History

maria — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:00:07 +0000

My kids used to think of history as irrelevant because it happened long ago to people with whom they had no connection. That misconception stopped during our carschooling travels as historical highway markers shouted at us, “Something important happened right here!” As I hit the brakes and pulled over to read the marker, it gave [...]

Don’t Be ‘Fuelish’

editor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Don’t Let Gas Prices Cancel Carschooling Fun!Don’t Be “Fuelish” By Letting Gas PricesSpoil Your Family Fun!

Yes, gas prices are high, but don’t let them cancel your family’s summer vacation plans.

According to the California Energy Commission retail gasoline prices have increased an average of $0.87 a gallon since this time last year. Here’s a word [...]