Her primary credit will be Environmental Science. She will be doing Oak Meadow Environmental Science (9th grade.) We started it this past year, but I felt her writing skills needed more work and I was struggling to keep up with everyone so I put all of the kids together in the same science (Botany.) She didn't mind, as she is also our resident gardener. Rule follower that she is, she told me she will redo the lessons she has already done in Environmental Science and choose a different project for each.:) She will also be viewing the TC Nature of Earth DVDs with the other children, reading the text to accompany the DVDs (only her) working through a junior high project book on Earth science (with her siblings.)
She will also be doing two half credits - Astronomy and Marine Science.
The Astronomy was at the request of her sister. DD 10 will be doing Oak Meadow's Earth Science (7th grade?) which has astronomy lessons that she is not looking forward to at all. She wants her sister to suffer with her. :tongue_smilie: I'm still trying to pull that class together. Besides the OM 7 book I have the TC DVDs My Favorite Universe and a junior high Astronomy project book. I don't like the recommendations listed with My Favorite Universe so I haven't decided on a spine for this class yet. I was originally only going to do a quick overview of Astronomy, but now am looking at a semester long class.
The second half credit is Marine Science. This is my daughter's passion and her intended major in college. We will be doing one of the junior high For Sea programs, the additional reading recommended to go along with the program, and the Project WILD Aquatic activities that match up with it as well. I also have the Oceanography website listed a week or so ago on the K-8 board. We live on the Gulf of Mexico, so assuming the oil spill doesn't change our plans, she will continue to snorkle regularly with my dh and continue work on her crab collection (if there were a gagging icon I'd be using it here.) She does have a horseshoe crab the size of a small dog that is almost interesting. Why crabs??? I'm going to have her start journalling her dives. And I think she will be asking for a higher level underwater camera for her birthday/Christmas gift this year so she can start photographing and documenting some of what she sees.
I'm in the process of writing out my plans over the next few weeks. If more detailed information or links would be helpful, just let me know!