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Animal Sciences Unit

29-Jan-10

Animal DatabaseAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Animal SoundsIn different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Visit the world’s biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your [...]

Geography Snacks

28-Jan-10

Geography & Food – Try Some of These Snacks Kids Make Around the World http://www.sara-jordan.com/activities-snacks.shtml Snack ideas come from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Guyana, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, USA

Canada Study Supplement

28-Jan-10

Canada Workbook http://www.wwu.edu/depts/castudies/k12studycanada/files/CanadaSupplement.pdf

Mexico Study Helps

28-Jan-10

Pictures of Mexico in general and cities http://www.picturesofplaces.com/Caribbean/mexico.html
Online Change Maker game – Mexican money version http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi?A1=s&A14=medium&country[mex].x=40&country[mex].y=38
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Open Source info on Mexico. Edit these in MSword with Teachers Pet.
http://www.teachers-pet.org/ to make up great worksheets in the topic

Discover America

28-Jan-10

Discover America State by State Series http://www.gale.cengage.com/DiscoverAmerica/guides/index.htm.
All 50 states plus Washington, D.C. are available to download in pdf. Download them soon before their gone from their website. Extensive Students Activities are available for all of the Discover America series. They are wonderful resources for the classroom as well as for library, school and home! Example: [...]

Borders Educators Appreciation Week Sept 29-Oct 7

30-Sep-09

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Hispanic Heritage Month

23-Sep-09

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with free resources from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, at Gale, part of Cengage Learning http://www.galeschools.com/hispanic_heritage/index.htm

Do you twitter

06-Jul-09

Do you twitter? Follow me and join the groups homeschool and lapbook and unitstudy
P.S. This is my new twitter account.

Literature Based Themes

15-Jun-09

Join Literature Based Themes at http://lbt.wikispaces.com/
LBT has thematic materials such as worksheets, activities, study guides and more to expand favorite Story Books and Childrens & Young Adults Literature.

For those on the old groups, I am combining the PreK-4 & 5-12 Literature Groups. The two groups will be closing as soon as everything is moved off [...]

Free Bird Font

27-Apr-09

Birds of a Feather Font is a free to download font that you can use to make games. Find a color picture of the bird and match it to its silhouette, make a GeoSafari card to identify what each bird is and use them on a game board path.
http://www.dafont.com/birds-of-a-feather.font