Sunday 11 October 2015

Physics education for the Home Schooled

The home schooling community is growing. Many parents have good reasons for not sending their kids to school- for example, when they have a chronic, serious illness:

 Missing School | Keeping Seriously Sick Kids Connected

In other cases, they may simply live too far away:
School of the Air
http://www.assoa.nt.edu.au/



Home Education Association (HEA) 
http://www.hea.edu.au/

More controversially, some parents whose kids have Autism spectrum disorders choose to home school. 

http://www.amaze.org.au/uploads/2013/12/Amaze-Info-Sheet-Schooling-Options-for-Children-with-ASD-rev-Dec-2013.pdf


How do homeschooled kids go with learning phyiscs? For example, how could they do experiments? Is this something the AIP should be supporting? 

Let me know your thoughts.