Recommended Homeschooling Classes, Fall 2008 and ongoing

Classes are held at the EIE Resource Center unless otherwise indicated: 2640 S. Myrtle Ave.Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 821-0025. Some courses may also be offered online.
Many classes are ongoing with open enrollment. Please contact the individual teacher for enrollment questions, and online class availability.

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

9th grade level

This class will cover material in the following areas; the scientific method, energy and motion, acceleration and momentum, matter (solid, liquid, gas), atomic structure and chemical bonds, properties of substances, light, sound waves, electricity, electronics, nuclear reactions and energy sources. This course includes lecture, hands-on labs, homework assignments, quizzes, and a science fair. A basic understanding of Algebra is necessary for this course. Cost: Tuition is $400.00 per year with payments ($200.00) due by September 12, 2006 and January 2, 2007.A textbook and lab book are required, all other materials are included in the cost of the class. Textbook: Physical Science by Glencoe. This is the 1999 edition and you may purchase it used at www.fes.follett. com or new from EIE.

Lab Book: Physical Science Laboratory Manual by Glencoe. You must pre-order this book through Carolyn at EIE (626) 821-0025, she will only order books that are prepaid. Books must be ordered by July.

A NOTE ABOUT THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEXTBOOK: Although Glencoe is a secular publisher, Science 2-u has chosen to switch to this book for two reasons. First, it explains the material in a MUCH SIMPLER manner than the BJU book and secondly, language on origins doesn’t come up in Physical Science since we are dealing with chemistry and physics only.

WHEN: Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:30

Tuition: $275 per semester. Charter students $300 per semester.

CONTACT: Jill Wilcox (562) 630-6987

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain

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The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and inflame it and fix its barbarism.
-George Herbert Wells, in "The Informative Content of Education"

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For all of the virtues required in the art of childrearing, none is more important - and none rarer - than patience, in parents, in family, in friends; patience to allow the miracle of human development to unfold according to its own internal laws, from birth through infancy and childhood and youth, and even till the moment of death.
- Daniel Greenberg, in "Child Rearing"

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