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though i have been officially homeschooling for 10 years now this is my first year developing a high school plan here in massachusetts we are required to submit a homeschool plan to our local school district and then have a mutually agreed plan to demonstrate progress praise god for our wonderful school district that accept annual progress reports without requirements for testing or written samples still developing a high school plan was daunting at first as i did not know the structure or lingo i knew i would be incorporating many homeschool connections courses but i know we use a college credit system based on hours that did not match our state s unit or credit system once i was able to convert one to the other not only could i easily create a freshman plan i was able to spot where i needed to make adjustments in his online courses i don t know how different other state requirements are from massachusetts but i know ours are rigorous and hopefully similar enough to other states that you can use this process as well here is the grid comparing high school requirements with minimum college requirements next find out how many hours of instruction are required in massachusetts the high school requirement is 990 hours you should be able to find it fairly easily with an internet search or you could download the hslda legal analysis for your state using the link below substituting your state name for massachusetts http www hslda org laws analysis massachusetts pdf ok so what is a unit or credit and how does that relate to total required hours that is where carnegie units come in according to wikipedia a carnegie unit is 120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year at the secondary american high school level this means 1 hour a day 5 days a week for 24 weeks or 50 minutes a day 5 days a week for 30 weeks or however we as homeschoolers decide we want to do this such as 1 hour a day 4 days a week for 30 weeks 1 hour a day 2 days a week for 60 weeks or over 2 years such as arts where only 1 credit is required typically high school students have 5 subjects per year so this should give you a general idea of how much time our kids should be spending on each subject note that as homeschoolers our kids do more class time than instructor contact time think of it this way our kids may only spend 1 hour a week with a homeschool connections instructor or with a parent getting formal instruction they should then be putting in about another hour a day for 4 or 5 days typically in acquiring knowledge then on top of that would be time equivalent to homework in a typical school working on projects studying for exams preparing for class etc this homework load will vary considerably from week to week the courses offered by homeschool connections vary in length if the class is 12 weeks follow the 1 hour day x5 days rule to get 1 2 carnegie unit half of a year if it is 14 weeks then use the 1 hour day x4 days or 50 minutes day x 5 days to get the half unit plus 1 week of independent study you can figure out what part of a unit you are getting for other courses based on the number of weeks labs for science get included in that work so a 1 hour lab each week would count as the 1 hour of science that day here are some examples of what i did preparing my 9th grader s plan in conjunction with homeschool connections spanish 1 part 1 12 weeks has 18 additional recorded lectures that he will count as part of his 1 hour day x 5 days week to earn 1 2 unit of foreign language high school simplified writing 1 8 weeks theology of the chronicles of narnia 6 weeks 14 weeks at 1 hour day x4 days week for 1 2 unit of english language arts i hope you find this helpful in creating your high school plans for this fall posted by kris at 7 11 2015 no comments labels homeschooling tips tuesday june 16 2015 homeschool connections as many of you know i have been a teacher at homeschool connections for many years for the 2015 2016 school year i will only be teaching middle school science and not my high school anatomy and physiology perhaps i will get that last chapter done some day the one on the endocrine system and reproduction maybe i ll get the e book done even if i don t teach the class this next school year i want to give a personal testimony as a homeschooling mom about homeschool connections two years ago i sent my oldest son off to high school and last year i sent my second son off to eighth grade both to a school from the newman s list of top 100 high schools next year all three of my boys were to attend my oldest son was struggling but the way in which the school had dealt with him made it clear that the school was not only a good fit for him but not a good fit for our family it was a very sad witness of catholic education we had looked into other schools all of which fell short while the idea of homeschooling all my children again seemed laughable i knew after much discernment in prayer that i was called to do that at least for my younger two my oldest will be attending a bill and melinda gates foundation yes that foundation sponsored community college program for students whose schools have refused to work with them and my son certainly qualified it s free he earns college credits and he will graduate with a high school diploma as i prayed daily to god for the grace to homeschool my younger two my boys are wonderful but they are not easy to homeschool i knew i wanted to continue teaching them math and science but i really didn t care much to teach them other subjects at this level homeschool connections became my perfect solution because it is not a set program i could pick and choose which subjects i would teach and which subjects my kids could take online in addition my kids could choose which classes were most interesting to them in any given subject i simply made a grid of the massachusetts high school requirements sat with my second son and the homeschool connections catalog and filled in the grid he is hoping to attend a local 11th and 12th grade math and science academy in another two years the program has a record of accepting homeschoolers and our next two years will give us opportunity and flexibility for unique science and math activities such as first lego league next i chose several courses for my youngest a rising seventh grader to take we are considering an excellent local vocational high school that other area homeschoolers have sent their kids to so perhaps in two more years my children will all be in schools thank you god for pouring out your grace upon me if you look at the activity on my blog you ll see that it dropped off about the time i started sending my kids to school you may notice that my facebook page has now begun to have a lot more activity posted on it and new followers are joining weekly i hope now to get back to more blogging may this blog bless your homeschooling the way homeschool connections has blessed mine posted by kris at 6 16 2015 no comments labels homeschooling tips sunday january 5 2014 ck 12 for science and math ck 12 is a website that provides free textbooks that can be fully edited and are copyrighted such that you can republish them for me that means i can distribute them to my homeschool connections students the copyright laws for online classes are far more strict than they are for face to face classes including specific language about educational institutions needing to be accredited homeschool connections offers a variety of courses to supplement homeschoolers rather than a comprehensive curriculum so we really have no urgent need for accreditation i ve referenced the site for many years since they mostly have math and science content though they do have english history and sat prep as well years ago i planned to use their ebooks and edit them for my anatomy and physiology courses but i soon found i was editing more than i was keeping and so i wrote my own material using mostly wikimedia to find images that i could republish i forgot about the site until i recently put together a middle school life science course trying to decide what topics i should cover and how complex i needed to be or not i visited ck 12 again the site has been completely transformed and made into something far more useful than what it was before it offered only complete books for entire courses and while those are still available they have now broken everything down into topics they have and extensive list of life science topics geared towards middle school the biology link has topics at the high school level using the site i could easily identify assemble download and distribute ebooks for my class i could edit them as well though i would not say that is an easy process yes everything can be edited from the title to the images to the text itself but you have to do it all online at the site often something will look properly formatted on the site but appears quite different in the pdf this is especially true if you edit images online they appear before a paragraph while in the pdf they are after and i have yet to figure out what i need to do to adjust it another drawback is that editing is very slow during high volume times typically school day mornings the third problem is that you supposedly are able to output the final product in 3 formats pdf mobi for kindle and epub for ipad and android i have no problem getting the pdf shortly after requesting it you are emailed a link from which you download the finished product but i never receive links for the other two versions ever still overall it has made putting customized science material together very easy when it comes to creating life science materials for a catholic homeschool audience customization is critical in some areas and that is what made ck 12 so helpful here is an example of the ebook i distributed for the first class posted by kris at 1 05 2014 1 comment labels websites saturday february 9 2013 crushing cans ds 3 loves to watch videos from the happy scientist robert krampf and then goes about performing them this time around he got busy crushing cans using steam the videos below demonstrate how he did it notice in the background of the second video where ds 2 is giving an explanation that ds 1 is having a little fun posted by kris at 2 09 2013 1 comment labels experiments our athomescience physics older posts home subscribe to posts atom my live online courses and more homeschool connections live online classes and unlimited recorded subscription service middle school kingdom animalia begins 1 12 2016 from my science library click on a cover for more information my library at librarything twitter feed tweets by athomescience share my button science resources acorn naturalist american educational products bargain microscopes blue spruce scientific carolina biological supply delta education edmunds scientific great scopes home training tools my bookmarks my science book reviews my science library 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