tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post4182302826909020524..comments2024-03-27T07:16:25.551-05:00Comments on Dewey's Treehouse: Countdown to school: How Charlotte Mason planned middle-school scienceMama Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-13773750713846087972013-08-30T15:28:21.910-05:002013-08-30T15:28:21.910-05:00Ouch--yes. Just slightly controversial! Ouch--yes. Just slightly controversial! Mama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-2348498211652422722013-08-30T05:58:21.285-05:002013-08-30T05:58:21.285-05:00Did you realise that MC Stopes is *this* Marie Sto...Did you realise that MC Stopes is *this* Marie Stope? I was most surprised!<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes<br /><br />I even share a nursery rhyme with her, it seems.<br /><br />I'm taken with George Atkinson's Botany books right now. No caustic potash!Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09573473465011631325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-27748868697026614852013-08-29T07:07:21.217-05:002013-08-29T07:07:21.217-05:00Amy, I wish I could give you a short, simple answe...Amy, I wish I could give you a short, simple answer, but I can't. My personal take is that botany has changed less, or is less controversial, than geology--but Jeanne has been looking into the Stopes book as well as other botany books, so she may have something to say about that one.<br /><br />The geology Dollygirl is doing this year will be the chapters from Apologia General Science (a Creationist perspective), supplemented (I'm hoping) with some trips to a local earth sciences museum and to rock shows. Dollygirl's sister The Apprentice is kind of a rock fiend (that might have started the year SHE did General Science), so I'm hoping she can help us out a bit too. Sorry that does not help you in the least with your question--just say that, yes, I am always looking too for good science books, and I'm interested to hear about others' finds.Mama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-11926430781540020702013-08-28T20:40:00.013-05:002013-08-28T20:40:00.013-05:00Is there a list of more modern living science book...Is there a list of more modern living science books somewhere? I'd love to read some for myself. Especially geology & botany. But being a non-science person, I get nervous with older books because I don't know what has changed.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00789181179870016687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-66716355685972291102013-08-28T20:34:34.817-05:002013-08-28T20:34:34.817-05:00Yes, I like that connection between the "thin...Yes, I like that connection between the "things that help us to see." Something to keep in mind whatever subject we're doing!<br /><br />I guess we'll just have to wait and see how the vocabulary etc. works out this term. I don't remember it really being too onerous when our Apprentice used General Science.Mama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10926562.post-59802307835068621622013-08-28T19:25:12.452-05:002013-08-28T19:25:12.452-05:00I think the important things to CM were observatio...I think the important things to CM were observational sciences - things that help us to see. This philosophy pervades her work. Botany first - it is nature study as a science - so that isn't surprising. Then geology, astronomy and ahem architecture. They're teaching kids to see. The other sciences, to me, were just for the sake of completeness - a liberal science education, as it were. I do not think that she would have approved of vocabulary lists for science, but I do think that having a child learn the language of science through reading would be much more her thing.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09573473465011631325noreply@blogger.com