Interactive Weather Presenting Kit – Free, interactive learning resources for Key Stage 2-4 studies of weather and climate. This highly interactive programme is designed to consolidate the weather and climate theme throughout Key Stages 2-4, and provides an ideal opportunity for the use of ICT in Geography. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, the package comes with a [...]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a non-profit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the U.S. Search around here to fill in your Health Curriculum. The lecture programs are more for older kids and adults who will understand them [...]
Children’s Garden Want your children or grand children to get a start in the garden? It is a great place to spend time together. You are outdoors, away from television and video games, plus you don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a lot of fun. Gardening with children can be a [...]
Women Are Scientists is a series of free video presentations that showcases successful female scientists in their respective specialties, and informs students about educational requirements, rewards, and challenges of careers in the biomedical sciences. Each video presentation gives a detailed view of three women scientists, from various backgrounds, as role models for their particular career. [...]
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 [...]
A 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 [...]
Picture 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 [...]
GreatScopes 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 [...]
Geology.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 [...]
Here 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 [...]
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