According to statistics, homeschooling in the United States has increased 74% in the last eight years.
Why? We do not believe that it is because of a lack of faith in our public school systems as much as it is a growing desire to see MORE education and more focus on real issues that will eventually effect the home.
We have toured this country for many years teaching and presenting in thousands of schools and have addressed not only hundreds of thousands of school students but their very concerned parents. Disaster preparedness is always an issue that raises more questions than it provides answers. How do I teach it to my children without frightening them? How do I deal with the tough issues after a disaster? Do I allow my kids to see the news of current disasters? How do I involve them in our planning?
We have found that the world of disaster preparedness is a wide world of educational opportunity filled with science, history, social science, mathematics and literature. It is through this new blog that we intend to provide those tips, stories and insights that we have shared as we toured. Stay tuned here for programs, guides and curriculum additions as well.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

It's a fact!

I found a GREAT site filled with factoids and weather science stuff for today's homeschooling lesson! CLICK HERE to check it out!

Did you know one inch of rain over one square mile equals to 17.4 million gallons (66 million liters) of water?
Did you know that the weight of one inch of water over one square mile equals over 145 million pounds (66 million kg)?
Did you know 145 million pounds of water is almost 73,000 tons or the weight of 241 locomotives?
This is a lot of water held up by wind.

Clouds are made of trillions of tiny droplets of water (or when cold enough, ice crystals)!
There is so much water in the air that if it all fell as rain at the same time, it could fill enough buckets to reach from the earth to the sun 57 million times!

Here is something you can try...You can tell the temperature by counting the clicks a cricket makes in 15 seconds and adding 37!
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