educational lingo?

[paganmum]

OK I remember that some time last year someone posted a link to a site where there was a list of educational terms and what the equivalent homeschool/household actions were.

Does anyone still have this link. I seem to have lost it and I'm getting ready to type up a rough lesson plan, as per Dh's request, since there seems to be a party or two that think I'm "flying blind". :

I didn't want to type anything up because then I get all frustrated and pissy when things get thrown off because of Dd1's SID stuff. So, in order to stay sane I have to leave everything open. I can't seem to get this through to Dh who is Mr. everything should be plotted out on paper but he's not the one here during the week.

So, to shut him up I am going to do a rough lesson plan and then never look at it again unless I run out of ideas. The way I see it I know what my goals are and how I tenatively want to do it. I don't care if it takes until the first snow next winter time frame is open to me.

TIA

[folkypoet]

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but it might be helpful:

http://ulfaq.home.comcast.net/eduspeak.html

[paganmum]

I have to admit that it isn't the site I was looking for but it does help since I'll be able to type up a more 'professional' looking.... well anything really related to 'school.

I have another question to toss out.

Is "biological and physical science" just a fancy way of saying that you should teach them science or have things really been broken down that fine since I went to school? If things have been broken down that fine the what's what? I'm figuring that biological science is going to deal with plants and living stuff right? But what is physical science? Would it be levers and things on that level?

Am I just totally clueless these days? :

[Rivka5]

Originally Posted by paganmum

Is "biological and physical science" just a fancy way of saying that you should teach them science or have things really been broken down that fine since I went to school? If things have been broken down that fine the what's what? I'm figuring that biological science is going to deal with plants and living stuff right? But what is physical science? Would it be levers and things on that level?

Physical science would be physics, chemistry (well, except for organic chemistry, I guess), or "earth science," which usually includes things like geology, astronomy, meteorology, etc.

[Aeress]

There is a general format that teachers use to create lesson plans.

Often times they begin with - "student will demonstrate understanding of..." , "interpret data by ..." "students will explore" . I haven't had to write formal lesson plans in yrs, so I am very out of practice. (When I taught toddlers we webbed everything).

Is your dh looking for lesson plans or an overall plan for what will be taught? I think of lesson plans as what we do from week to week and then I also use "standards" ,which are grouped by age or academic yr, to keep track of what we will try to cover.

[paganmum]

I'm thinking I'm going to need to clairify thus with Dh he said lesson plan and I've been thinking rough overall plan.


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