| As a home school parent it lays within our realm of | | | | took a field trip to Basto New Jersey. The student |
| responsibility to make learning enjoyable, interesting and | | | | saw how the people lived a hundred years in the past. |
| effective. When setting up effective home school | | | | This developed new ideas and potential skills should |
| learning activities we should continually seek out | | | | they be needed in an emergency when all our modern |
| various methods that we can creatively reinforce the | | | | facilities are no longer functioning. As you can see in |
| learning modules with the actual events studied that | | | | this situation we blended our history lessons with a field |
| day. This is a far simpler task then you may suspect. | | | | trip and with our survival training. All neatly package |
| When home schooling my grandson, I required in | | | | together. |
| addition to his various academic programs something I | | | | Math skills can greatly be increased with map reading |
| refer to as survival training. For example, when we | | | | and compass work while combining school work and |
| studied plants during his science lessons we also did | | | | survival training into one. Activities such as these instill a |
| some research on some useful herbs and medical | | | | sense of responsibility and importance into a Child's |
| plants. We felt these would benefit him in his survival | | | | small mind. He or she quickly learns that although they |
| training. As a result he ended up learning additional | | | | are small they can also do something important and |
| information on the extremely useful Aloe Vera plant. | | | | valuable for the family. They learn that there are more |
| He quickly learned how to use it for various | | | | significant items to learning then just their books. They |
| emergency treatments concerning burns, etc. He | | | | get the actual hands on that is lacking in many of the |
| become quit skilled in its use. We did this with several | | | | public schools these days. |
| different plants and herbs. | | | | This same technique can be successfully transformed |
| Another situation was in cooking. As he learned the | | | | into many of the subjects and disciplines that the home |
| principles of good nutrition he was gently led into the | | | | schooled child requires to be successful both |
| kitchen for some practical work. Here once again we | | | | academically and as a member of our society. Just do |
| combined his academic studies with some useful | | | | a little brainstorming and proper planning and |
| hands on work. I showed him how to make interesting | | | | coordinating between their activities and in my case |
| and tasty meals from cans of food that was stored in | | | | survival skills. |
| our emergency food supplies. This worked out real | | | | Be sure not to go overboard with your extra work. |
| good and gave him the confidence needed to safely | | | | Make sure that the student receives the proper |
| cook in the kitchen. | | | | proportion of textbook training and practice in addition |
| Field trips present excellent opportunities to not only | | | | to the various survival skills training. |
| learn but to visualize new skills. As an example we | | | | |