This is our Year 11 Australian/personalised adaption of Ambleside Online. We've just finished for the year and this is my final update...unless I've forgotten something. Bible/Devotions * ** * *** In The Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton - Bible History & Geography * Knowing God by J.I. Packer - continued from last year ** The … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 11
Living Books for Science
In Defence of Old Books
A common charge against Charlotte Mason educators is that we use too many old books. When it comes to teaching science, this objection is even more vehement. How can you teach science using books that were written ten, twenty, thirty or worse still, over a hundred years ago?Yes, we do tend to use older books … Continue reading In Defence of Old Books
Madame How & Lady Why – Chapter 6: The True Fairy Tale
Chauvet Cave, France You like to draw: but why you like it neither you nor any man can tell. It is one of the mysteries of human nature; and that poor savage clothed in skins, dirty it may be, and more ignorant than you (happily) can conceive, when he sat in the … Continue reading Madame How & Lady Why – Chapter 6: The True Fairy Tale
Madame How & Lady Why – Part 2: Earthquakes
Earthquakes - Chapter 2 80% of the world's earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire and much of what we've used to supplement MHLW in this chapter is related to this part of the world.Australia sits in the middle of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate, and the unpredictable earthquake activity we have … Continue reading Madame How & Lady Why – Part 2: Earthquakes
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