In Episode Two, co-hosts Gina and Christyn help you figure out how to think outside the box when school moves off the beaten path and it feels like education has taken a back seat. They assure you it hasn’t! By using the two Magic Questions, you can relax, knowing that learning has taken place – you just have to change the context.

1:10 – Will it blend?

2:15 – When homeschool moves off the beaten path, we often question “Will it count?”

3:44 – Education happens around us all the time

4:04 – Gina’s “a-ha!” moment about homeschooling: birdwatching

7:22 – Christyn’s “a-ha!” moment: infectious disease

9:06 – Just because you didn’t plan it doesn’t mean it doesn’t count

9:30 – Differentiating between “school” and “education”

12:18 – The Magic Questions

14:00 – Jotting down all your daily activities gives you a baseline for seeing where the learning happened

15:00 – The craziest thing Christyn counted as homeschool hours: Marvel movies

19:26 – Gina plays “Will it count?” in high school with geocaching and writing

25:03 – Change the context to switch a subject from elective/non-core hours to core subjects

25:40 – Gina’s superpower of making any learning count as core hours helps Christyn switch an elective

30:23 – Asking yourself “Will it count?” opens up all the possibilities

Links from this episode:

Will It Blend?: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnFP0IU4gpnmcLnVzDLUtfw

Geocaching.com: https://www.geocaching.com

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, by Deborah Hopkinson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17061488-the-great-trouble

Crash Course Sociology videos: https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/sociology

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