Charlotte Mason, Galileo and gravity.

GALILEO AND GRAVITY
Galileo also proved that objects of different weights would fall at the same speed and dropped two objects of differing weights from the top of the Tower of Pisa, they landed on the earth at the same time. I have posted some links to videos showing Galileo's experiment. Charlotte's philosophy was to immerse children in the subject of biographies being read.

Charlotte Mason, Galileo and the Pendulum

GALILEO AND THE PENDULUM
While reading about Galileo's life we learnt that Galileo was bored in church one day and he began observing a very large incense burner swinging from side to side. He started timing the incense burner with his pulse. We did some experiments using string and a piece of plasticine, and then timed the swings of the string changing the distance of the plasticine up and down the string. This experiment can be found at http://www.experiment-resources.com/pendulum-experiment.html .

Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason

I used a mixture of Charlotte Mason and Natural Learning when I homeschooled my children.

I used Charlotte's ideas in reading whole books, in reading living books, in reading biographies of artists, scientists, musicians, and then learning the science, music, art along with the book that we were reading.

For example when we read the biography of Galileo. Not only did we learn the science of Galileo but we also learnt about the political climate. Galileo's era was before the Age of Enlightenment and the Church was very powerful. Galileo was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for saying that the world revolved around the sun. And so rather than just learning that the world revolves around the sun, as schools teach, we learnt the history and the clash between Galileo and the Church that went along with coming to an understanding of that science.

Mind you that fact is stated in the Bible at Isaiah 40:22 There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth. . .