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Notebooking for Research Skills

January 5, 2012 By Jimmie Quick 2 Comments

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We use lots of notebooking in our homeschool, mostly for narration. But notebooking has other applications too such as research.  Honing research skills is one of the goals I have listed for Sprite’s middle school years, so I try to regularly incorporate short research assignments into her schedule. Here are two recent examples. Uganda Notebooking […]

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Independent Research Project — Pigeons

December 31, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 14 Comments

My art lesson is held in a rooftop studio where my teacher’s husband raises chickens and pigeons in pens nearby. Sprite loves to go with me and help “Pigeon King” care for the birds. He confided in her one day that of all the young students my art teacher has taught over the years, Sprite […]

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