Either homeschool them or send them to a mosque school. I homeschooled my kids and I support my mosque school. For physics I used Basic Physics. There is no reason why homeschooling or a mosque school shouldn't be better than public schools.
Serway seems to start at college level physics. I've been out of any scientific fields for quite some time. I went ahead and got this. It seems like a "baby steps" way to get back into it.
khan academy
wikipedia
youtube
rosetta stone
myMathLab
Ted talks
wikiHow
Hooked on Phonics
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cktxy/reddit_lets_compile_a_list_of_the_best_online/
You can learn literally anything from online. Its all there
I used to hate Chemistry till I discovered ChemistNATE on youtube
Your kid likes engineering and science? You can buy him intro to physics book on Amazon.
Find what your kid wants to learn and provide him with the materal. That is your job.
IMO, the biggest issue is getting him/her a used laptop that he/she can study on at his/her own pace.
Im sure you could find good solid one on craiglist for 100$ or so.
Teach him how to use his body. Take him running/biking/swimming for a certain amount of time everyday.
Its a process of getting used to unschooling, but Im sure you will be great at it and your child will love you for it! =)
This book is awesome and hits the important stuff without going too in depth: http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Physics-Self-Teaching-Karl-Kuhn/dp/0471134473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455769524&sr=8-1&keywords=basic+physics
The morning before I go on my quest, I leave a pile of books on my bed, with a note on top saying For Jeff, take as few or as many as you like. There were others but I wasn't sure how useful they'd be.
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>IWTL how to use science....I don't have a good science foundation, never really been exposed before.
It depends what you mean. Do you want to learn scientific methods - do you want to understand why we are justified in calling the results of scientific research knowledge? Or do you want to learn scientific knowledge at the most fundamental level, from the most basic principles?
>What I meant when saying how to use, is to learn through application. I learn best when presented with a problem then walked through how to solve it. Most anything I have ever looked up with science just gives me facts which doesn't feel like real knowledge.
So it sounds to me like you want to learn science from its most basic principles. For example, if a chemistry textbook describes a hydrogen atom's electron orbitals, would you be unsatisfied until you knew why these were the particular electron levels of the atom? Although I might need a clarification on what you mean by "how to use". Are you asking how someone would employ scientific principles as an engineer?
If you want to learn basic principles of science and how they are used for basic engineering applications, I recommend studying physics. It's often called the fundamental science because it's the "explanation" for all other scientific facts from other fields - for example, those hydrogen atom electron levels are calculated in quantum mechanics, a subtopic of physics.
If you want to get your feet wet, you might want to try working through Kuhn's <strong>Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide</strong> (and be sure to work all the problems on paper). If you enjoy it, I would recommend building up your math skills until you understand single-variable calculus (it's not as scary as people say, trust me!) and then working through a calculus-based general physics textbook.
If you want to start learning these subjects, I've started a subreddit that might help you called /r/bibliographies. Right now it contains a bunch of math and science guides that will give you helpful books and other sources as well as some advice (eventually, I want /r/bibliographies to contain every conceivable topic, but for right now we have math and physics). Hopefully this will help you learn more about a fascinating subject!