I’m not looking to homeschool my kids, but I do I want to create some effective age (8 -11 year olds) appropriate lessons and teaching materials for some summer learning.
Is there a community that sort of does that?
A separate and related question How can I do home tutoring for subjects they are weak in?
Keep in mind that reducing learning loss is perhaps the most important thing to focus on during long summer breaks. American students tend to have lower reading and math scores at the beginning of a new school year than they did at the end of the previous one.
I’m specifically looking to create a short course on how to learn, focusing on evidence based learning h study techniques; spaced repetition , the ebbinghaus curve and active recall.
I’ve already been using these techniques with them, though without formal introductions, I’m looking now for them to formally think about studying as the task as opposed to a sub task,
I’ve got an idea of making the lessons 3x - week they would be layered with the first 15 minutes being the whole lesson for the younger kid and half the lesson for the older one. The second half would be the same concepts as the first with more depth.
The whole ‘ course ‘ would be 4 weeks But man oh man actually making a lesson for that much stuff, plus activities to reinforce it at appropriate levels is daunting,
I got a lot out of Saundra Yancy McGuire’s books “teach students how to learn” and “teach yourself how to learn”. If your library has them, that might be the way to go. Not sure they’re meaty enough to justify a purchase.
But that said, her illustration of Bloom’s taxonomy using the story of Goldilocks could provide a week’s-worth of lessons.