Many of us don’t realize that while we are stomping, separating, and bundling our recyclables, other creatures are also busy recycling. Nature’s recyclers are responsible for turning dead plants and animals back into usable nutrients for new plants and animals.
Play Recycler-opoly, an online quiz game from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to test your [...]
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Recycler-opoly
11-May-08Jason-1 Game
21-Apr-08A Jason-1 Game Oceanic Adventure - Voyage on the High Seas printable game. In addition to being a game, it is an eye-catching poster showing continents, oceans and all of the major ocean currents. The game is offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The game is printable in pdf format. Download the latest version of Adobe [...]
Picture Recipe Board Game
21-Apr-08Picture Recipe Board Game is a free printable game that can reinforce picture recipe concepts or general measurement concepts. The game consists of a game board and game cards. Print out the game board pieces and the card pieces you wish to use.
You can expand the game by measuring the game cards and creating a [...]
GreatScopes Microscopes Discount
05-Apr-08GreatScopes Microscopes is now offering a 10% discount to homeschoolers on any microscope $149 or more. Their microscopes are already discounted 25% or more from retail, so the total value to homeschoolers is very high.
As a microscope dealer for twelve years and a homeschooler for twenty years, John Lind can tell you there really is [...]
Geology
11-Mar-08Geology.com will be added to my list of geographic resources.
They recently completed two collections of online reference maps and Landsat images. The first is a collection of 350 U.S. state maps which include a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map, political map and roads/cities map. These link to their state and city satellite images, [...]
Gardening Journal
18-Feb-08Here is a neat item I received in my email box back in Nov 2003 - Garden & Science Journals. Check it out, it’s from Kidsgardening. It features a simple, yet classy, bookmaking project by guest author Susan Bonthron.
For more information on lapbooks, visit the website at Lapbooking on a Shoestring. Email me through the [...]
Ocean Unit Study
09-Feb-08Aquarium In A Cup
SeaBed
Make an Ocean Diorama
Ocean And Undersea Life
Ocean Animal Calendar
Ocean Theme **Note: I would not use Styrofoam meat packages; instead I would use styrofoam veggie/fruit/dessert packages (due to disease causing bacteria.)
Arts & Crafts: Beach & Ocean
Sea World Songs
Shark Cam, Seal Cam & Coral Research Cam
The Amazing Fish Cam
Theme Topics: Beach & Ocean
Whales teacher [...]
The earth is over 5 billion years old. Life first originated in the oceans 3.4 billion years ago. The dinosaurs died out 65 million years in the past. Human recorded history stretches back 10,000 years in time.
These numbers are too large to visualize, and difficult to compare. Here’s an easy way to put time in [...]
Black History Month
02-Feb-08Learn about African American leaders and heritage during Black History Month. These creative lessons will inspire thoughtful classroom discussion. Gales has Black History Month free resources, calendar with notable dates, activities from Gale’s, and loads of biographies. National Geographic’s Legacy of Change: Icons of The American Civil Rights Movement photo gallery.
Activities from Crayola: Sparkling African [...]
Butterfly Unit Ideas
31-Jan-08Food Idea: An easy item for lunch (or even breakfast sandwiches) is after the sandwich is made, cut it diagonally. Separate the two pieces (the butterfly’s wings) and put in the middle a baby carrot or gherkin.
Bugs for Your Belly kind of looks like a butterfly.
A butterfly unit by Barbara Pratt.
Symmetry - Find patterns in [...]
