Comments on: Green Your Homeschooling & Unschooling Experience http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/ Family Life On The Green Side Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:07:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jodi Plume http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1293 Jodi Plume Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:49:31 +0000 http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/#comment-1293 And just think of all that paper we are saving - the millions of forms kids come home with daily from teachers. LOL We always buy used if possible. But I tend to get each kid their own student book instead of making copies. (Sometimes copywrite laws are in place and you can't anyways.) We don't use a lot of workbook-type curriculum though, usually just math & this year Science. But the energy, paper, and ink used by me printing off sheets is more than what it would take to produce the book itself. Plus it is way more expensive for me to do the printing myself. But some things we do print because I bought e-book versions (one being our history maps). And just think of all that paper we are saving – the millions of forms kids come home with daily from teachers. LOL We always buy used if possible. But I tend to get each kid their own student book instead of making copies. (Sometimes copywrite laws are in place and you can’t anyways.) We don’t use a lot of workbook-type curriculum though, usually just math & this year Science. But the energy, paper, and ink used by me printing off sheets is more than what it would take to produce the book itself. Plus it is way more expensive for me to do the printing myself. But some things we do print because I bought e-book versions (one being our history maps).

]]> By: kim http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 kim Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:11:42 +0000 http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/#comment-1343 Well put. Also, via homeschooling there are a lot less diesel fueled bus trips and ziplocked bag lunches going in to the world. Well put. Also, via homeschooling there are a lot less diesel fueled bus trips and ziplocked bag lunches going in to the world.

]]> By: marye http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1088 marye Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:22 +0000 http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/green-your-homeschooling-unschooling-experience/#comment-1088 Another cool thing that I use with my Jr High and up kids is to have them blog rather than journal, and use Microsoft office for their writing rather than paper. Using an office program when coupled with a digital camera and good phot program allows them to be creative on a new level. We still do nature journals, sketches and such on paper ..but we use other things like writing on large leaves adn then laminating and making pages that way. Another cool thing that I use with my Jr High and up kids is to have them blog rather than journal, and use Microsoft office for their writing rather than paper.

Using an office program when coupled with a digital camera and good phot program allows them to be creative on a new level.

We still do nature journals, sketches and such on paper ..but we use other things like writing on large leaves adn then laminating and making pages that way.

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