Homeschooling on a Shoestring Blog » freebies http://homeschoolingonashoestring.com/blog Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:56:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Design a Willy Wonka Board Game http://homeschoolingonashoestring.com/blog/2010/08/11/design-a-willy-wonka-board-game/ http://homeschoolingonashoestring.com/blog/2010/08/11/design-a-willy-wonka-board-game/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:30:39 +0000 Jodi http://homeschoolingonashoestring.com/blog/?p=512 Create a board game based on the play, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka. This could actually be used for either children or adults to help create any type of board game. Includes assessment rubric and prompt.

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Animal 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 Sounds
In 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 language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. For languages that use a different alphabet, they have tried to transliterate the word into the English alphabet for ease of comparison. http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html

Farm
Animal Names – Fill in the correct name for the gender http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmclips/animalgender.gif
Find more links to Farm activities at: http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/

Jane Goodall
Animals and us: Close encounters – Read an interview with Jane Goodall. She started working with chimpanzees in 1960. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625025.900

Pets
Petpourri is a collection of puzzles, games, and playsheets that will provide hours of entertainment while teaching children about responsible pet ownership. http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/kidscorner/default.asp

Plants toxic to animals
ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center’s list of toxic and non-toxic plants to dogs, cats, and horses. http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants/
This database brings together information available in library books, plants grown in the Poisonous Plant Garden, mounted specimens of plants, and the reference notes for a toxicology course (VB320) which is taught during the fall semester each year. http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/toxicintro.htm

Animal Sciences
Waterfowl Web of Life presents a journey into the world of sea ducks with a hands-on Activity Guide for 4-6th graders
Sea Ducks of Alaska Activity Guide. http://www.akcoastalstudies.org/SeaDucks.htm
The Food Chain Instruction Plan – this pdf unit contains, rubrics, worksheets, goals & objectives & more. http://ischool.umd.edu/research/students/FoodChain.pdf
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Wetland Pictionary, Animal Game & more. Click on the activity below to learn more about the activity or in some cases, the entire resource booklet. http://www.cpaws-southernalberta.org/education/edu_resources.php#4
Information units on North American animals and plants with illustrations, text, activities, and access to a naturalist. http://www.enaturalist.org./
http://www.zoo.org.au/Learning/Animal_Profiles Many animals covered here!
http://www.waterfordpress.com/index.php/Educator-Resources/Waterford-Activity-Zone.html Many work/activity sheets
Live cameras where you can watch for different animals. It has several different camera sites set up-polar bears, fish, africa, etc. You have to check it early mornings or late evenings due to time zones http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php

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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

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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: M is for Mitten: The Michigan Alphabet.

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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 YahooGroups. Any help you can give to migrate items over would be appreciated.

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http://www.dafont.com/birds-of-a-feather.font

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http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html

Online Statistics Textbooks
http://www.isixsigma.com/st/online_textbooks/

Comprehensive listing of freely available online textbooks for undergraduated and graduate Mathematics and Physics
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html

Online Math & Science Texts
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html

Textbooks, Lectures & Tutorials in Mathematics
http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html

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http://www.lnc.k12.nd.us/Resources/LessonPlans/Susan/Winter_Survival.htm

Billy & Maria learn about winter weather coloring pages
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/bm/bm_main.html

Red Cross “Be Ready 1-2-3″ materials help young children, ages 4 to 7, learn through activities and demonstrations
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/eduinfo/

Winter Safety coloring book to d/l (right-click and save as) and print, free pdf.
Owlie Skywarn: Winter Storms – http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures.shtml#children
http://www.education.noaa.gov/sweather.html

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