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Legos & Homeschooling

Posted by hcecf on August 18, 2007 at 9:03 AM

Legos and homeschooling are a perfect match. There are several different homeschool friendly competitions, numerous teaching aids and websites that can be used.

FIRST Lego League seems to be perfectly geared to homeschoolers - it's almost a complete unit study in itself! Robotics competition, programming, teamwork, research. HCECF kids have competed in this before and are again this year. Eight kids ranging in age from 7 to 12 will be competing in this years Power Puzzle challenge.

There are yahoo groups in a couple of states designed to meet the unique needs of homeschoolers competing in the various lego programs and serving as a match making service of sorts for homeschooling families in their respective states looking for groups or teams with lego programs.

Florida - began 2007
LEGO-HomeschoolFL ? LEGO - Homeschool Florida
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LEGO-HomeschoolFL/

Georgia - began Aug 2007
GAFLL_HS ? GAFLL Homeschool Support
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAFLL_HS/

Play well.

 

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