SCIENCE
Home School Science
Classes at MAD SCIENCE of Columbia
Each Thursday 12:30-1:30,
we offer exciting, hands-on science classes for homeschoolers in a fun, interactive environment. We have ala carte’
offerings so you may pick and choose your topics. Our curriculum is correlated
to National and SC State Science standards. Safety is always first at MAD SCIENCE!
You also get FREE pre & post resource packets for each class that include vocabulary, reading suggestions, as well as cross curriculum ideas for relating to other subject areas.
All children get a “take home” with each class designed to extend their learning through play at home. Sign up early to save $5.00 per child per class. We have FUN down to a SCIENCE!
Information &
Registration on-line www.madscience.org/columbia
Call Paige Carson
Covington, Senior Instructor/Operations Manager for easy, no hassle phone registration or further information (803) 739-2122.
HISTORY
South Carolina Confederate Relic
Room & Military Museum
For
over a century, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum's
mission has been to collect and preserve the military history of this
state.
When you enter Columbia's oldest museum,
you uncover the state's martial tradition from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
The
second Friday of each month is Homeschool Friday at the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military. Sessions start at 10:00AM
and last approximately one hour. The programs are geared toward students of all ages and include lectures and activities. Topics
for this school year's sessions are listed on the website http://crr.sc.gov/.
Zao Life
Zao Life offers 4 SCAIHS-approved high school courses. For information or registration call (803) 381-4989
or email samrubinson@sc.rr.com. These classes are taught by home-school dad, Dr. Sam Rubinson, in his home located at
25 Shadowfield Drive, West Columbia
(near the intersection of I 20 & 378). Visit website www.zaolife.org.
APPLIED LEADERSHIP
½ credit 75 hours Leadership or Bible Elective
Cost: $225 plus an estimate of $65 for the backpacking trip
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The student will explore, in principle and experience, the biblical foundations, contemporary expressions,
and soft skills of effective leadership. This course will feature experiential phase training in character development,
problem solving, group relational navigation, conflict/emergency management, non-verbal assessments, and coping with weakness,
failure, and limitations. A weekend backpacking trip to Pisgah National Forest,
NC will put all of the student’s learning to the test in a real life
situation.
ETHICS and LEADERSHIP
½ credit 75 hours Ethic or Leadership Elective Cost: $225
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is to examine the moral responsibilities of leadership
in a variety of contexts. Ethics is about right and wrong, in individuals and in our relationships. In this course, we will
learn about leadership by studying ethics. The course rests on the assumption that leadership is a subset of ethics
rather than ethics being a subset of leadership studies. We will examine the ethics of what leaders are, what they do, and
how they do it.
WORLDVIEWS
½ credit 75 hours History or Philosophy Elective
Cost: $225 plus Book: “The Battle for the Truth”
by David A. Noebel
COURSE DESCRIPTION: “The term worldview refers to any ideology, philosophy,
theology, movement, or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world, and man’s relations
to God and the world.” (pg. 2). In this course the student will examine, compare and contrast the four major worldviews
(Secular Humanism, Marxism/Leninism, Cosmic Humanism, and Biblical Christianity). Emphasis will be placed on ten
major areas that that affect most ever area of our life. (Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology,
Law, Politics, Economics, and History.) Student will need their own copy of the text book and will have to keep up with
the weekly reading schedule, handed out the first day of class.
ANCIENT HISTORY
½ credit 75 hrs. History Elective Cost: $225 plus cost of study guide
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course covers the entire Bible. It deals with the relationships and content
of each book set in its historical perspective. The purpose of this course is to study these relationships, and in particular
the progress and unity of what God is doing and saying through Ancient History. Therefore this course will explore the
hand of God from creation to about 100AD. This will touch on the major civilizations that interacted with the biblical
text up to the early Roman Empire.
