March 4, 1789 the Constitution went into effect. Make paper and write your own constitution. Constitution Day is September 17 of each year. Constitution Facts has crossword puzzles, knowledge tests, treasure hunts, word finds, dates to remember timeline and glossary. Learn the Constitution.com has more free activities and resources.
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Learn the Constitution
31-Jan-08Knowledge Quest is having their annual Blob and Dent Sale - They have no scratches on these books, just minor blobs and dents. They have included pictures for you so that you can see what type of damage they’re talking about. You can save up to 50% on some of our most popular books [...]
Where you can get a discount
20-Jan-08Homeschooling on a Shoestring shows you where to find homeschool discounts, what educational rewards programs are available to homeschoolers, and miscellaneous discount information for homeschoolers. Short term discounts, discount program updates and new discounts available are blogged in discounts.
Email me through the page if you have discount info to share!
Science Vocabulary Hangman
14-Jan-08Science Vocabulary Hangman You choose the sets of questions you’d like to use. Choose anything from 2nd Grade Matter to The Earth’s Energy Budget. You can even add your own terms. Here’s a list of sections: General Sets, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Lab Safety & Equipment, Math, Measurement & Meassurement Systems, Atoms & Matter, Force, [...]
Engineering
14-Jan-08TryEngineering is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, developed to help young people understand what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be part of their future. Sometimes the best way to understand what engineers do is to try your hand at it! The following are links to several engineering games on the [...]
Vote
14-Jan-08Hail to the Chief: Inauguration Lessons. Every four years on January 20, a president takes the Oath of Office. This week, Education World offers ten lesson plans to help your students learn about and commemorate the inauguration. A few of the lessons are: Write letters to the president, Inauguration Firsts, Comparing Inaugural Addresses, I Do [...]
Art
14-Jan-08Dick Blick has free art lesson plans. Choose from lessons like Art-Zee Dice Game, African Embossed Leather Box, 100 Spirits and more. You can also access the previous years’ lessons.
Online Fine Art Instruction in Drawing, Painting, Pastel, Charcoal, and Lessons in Color Theory, Space and Composition
Painting & Drawing Exercises
Art Project Lesson Plans
Art Projects for Kids
Drawing [...]
The Society of Professional Journalists wants to increase high school student’s knowledge and understanding of the importance of the Free Media to our lives. National winners of this essay contest receive scholarship awards. Topic: “Why free news media are important” an essay contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Who’s eligible: All students enrolled [...]
Teacher Created Resources
10-Jan-08Teacher Created Resources has a newsletter you can sign up for that has free monthly activities. They put out free stuff monthly that you can d/l in pdf. The monthly activities relate to the season/holiday of the month as well as related clip art, web sites, and more. Also has printable calendar with daily items [...]
I Squidoo. Do You?
06-Jan-08I hadn’t been feeling too well the last couple of days so I had some time to mess around on the computer. There are many social networking platforms I’ve been looking at and Squidoo was one of them. So come check out my Squidoo Lens!
http://www.squidoo.com/homeschoolingonashoestring
There’s still work to be done on it - but I [...]
