A Quote and a History of a Scientist

"The object of my school is to is to show how many extraordinary things even a lazy and ordinary man may see if he can spur himself to the single activity of seeing."

-- G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles


Nice quote, huh? I stole it from Dr Thursday's blogg.

Also, Dr Thursday blogged about Antoine Lavoisier and the importance of his discovery that respiration is a burning process. (If I am getting that correct).

We just got past Lavoisier in the Boy Scientist so I'm bookmarking this as a connection.

Another quote:

Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, went to the guillotine, crucifix in hand, a fervent child of the Church, at the bidding of ... the friends of "Reason" who declared, "Nous n'avons plus besoin de chimistes."

Or, "we no longer have need of chemists".

Nice, huh? more, here, if you can read French (mine is rusty)

Miscellany -- Science Rabbit Trail

While I was looking for something completely different, I found this Geography Outline, using Montessori-type methods, at Lifelong Learning (it is a beautiful, organized blog with lots of sidebar resources)

I was looking for a 6th grade Science Scope and Sequence and found this general one.
Here is the World Book: Curriculum Standards for Grade 6
(Here's the Kindergarten and Preschool ones)
Here's an article by Eclectic Homeschool Online about Homeschooling S and S
Oh, and here's the YSC List of Kits
(I guess if we have a spine this year, that's it)

I'm looking this up because I just realized that I don't have the next topic for Kieron for science, yet -- one of the disadvantages of not using a traditional spine text.