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Homeschooling
Homeschooling Main Page is where you will find homeschool lesson plans, educational discounts, unit studies, and more.
Scotland Unit Study
Early Christianity in Scotland https://www.thereformation.info/earlychristianity/ https://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/whithorn/priory.html St Andrew patron saint of Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_the_Apostle Timeline A Timeline of Scottish History http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/timeline.htm Timeline from Undiscovered Scotland https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/index.html Notable Figures Mary, Queen of Scots Queen of Scots Mary Biography https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/Mary-Queen-of-Scots.html Mary, Queen of Scots Lesson Plan https://www.elephango.com/index.cfm/pg/k12learning/lcid/12364/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots Mary, ...
Birds Unit Study
Birds Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. Learn what birds are and what they bring to their environment. Learn about the different types of birds and their individualities. Explore the anatomy of birds. Learn about the reproduction ...
Mexico Unit Study
Mexico Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. MATTHEW 28:19-20 discuss the spread of Christianity into Mexico. Vocabulary Indigenous Peoples Canyon Volcano Cinco de Mayo Mariachi Conquistador Border Coast Hurricane Online Dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com Free downloadable software to look ...
Shipwrecks Unit Study
Shipwrecks Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. Shipwrecked at Malta. Click through the pages to find a color page, true and false questions, circle the correct word, word search, maze, fill in the blank and crossword all ...
Frogs
Frog Lifecycle Lifecycle Booklet Crayola Lifecycle Lesson Plan Tadpole to Frog Frog Life Cycles Cut and Paste https://www.rsd.k12.pa.us/Downloads/FrogLifeCycle2.pdf Frog Life Cycle Wheel https://www.marketweightoninfantschool.co.uk/_documents/%5B632109%5DScience_-_1_Frog_Life_Cycle_Wheel_Instructions.pdf Frog Life Cycle Wheel https://kindergartenmom.com/wp-content/uploads/KMOM/Frogs/FrogLifeCycle.pdf Frog Life Cycle Worksheet https://www.itsybitsyfun.com/life-cycle-of-a-frog-worksheet.html Frog Dissection Virtual Frog Dissection Kit https://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/ Frog Dissection – Virtual for ...
Ancient Mesopotamia Unit Study
In ancient times, the Greeks later called the area of the world's first civilization Mesopotamia which means "the land between the rivers" or "the land between two rivers." This name was appropriate because ancient Mesopotamia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the ...
Weather Unit Study
Appreciate the importance of weather to our daily lives. Create and present national weather maps showing different conditions. Create their own terrarium to connect concepts of precipitation, condensation, and evaporation. Demonstrate ways to avoid injury when conducting science activities. Explain that water on earth moves ...
Easter
Free lesson plans and activities for Easter Peeps Factory Tour Visit the Peeps factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to see how the marshmallow chicks are made. After seeing how these Easter basket staples are made, try these engineering activities with your Peeps. See how long it ...
Early Education Unit Study
Early Education – Pre-School This course is designed to prepare students to develop their own program for preschool learning. Course will include materials for grade preK-3. The format may be a little different than what you are familiar with. Online Course for Early Education https://funderstanding.com/learning/theory/child-development/early-childhood-development-and-kids-art-activities//a> ...
Preschoolers
There are many ways to incorporate preschoolers into the homeschool day. Often little ones want to learn like they see their bigger siblings do. There are plenty of activities that preschoolers can do with minimal supervision. Older children can oversee these activities when they are ...
Caps for Sale
Caps for Sale Literature Based Theme has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, lapbooks, study guides, suggested additional materials, and more. Be sure to learn about the author, Esphry Slobodkina. New York Times book review article Capping It Off is a book review of Caps ...
Money Consumer Math
Money & Consumer Math has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. Practical Money Skills allowances, saving and investing, the influence of advertising and more. For preschool through college. Download in pdf PBS's teaching guide for credit cards and how they ...
Measuring
Handy Measurement Mathematics: Grades 1-3 A Different Way of Measuring In this experiment, students measure the area of a dime using methods similar to those used by scientists to measure the size of atoms. https://education.jlab.org/beamsactivity/6thgrade/differentwayofmeasuring/index.html Measuring Temperature Mathematics: Grades 3-5 https://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/150 Measuring Weight Mathematics: Grades ...
Shapes and Geometry
2D Maths Game 4 Kids Printable 2d shapes game http://www.adrianbruce.com/maths/shapes/math_game.htm 3d Shapes Math Game Printable 3d Shapes Concentration http://www.adrianbruce.com/maths/3dshapes/3d_math_game.htm All Around the Baseball Field Explore baseball as you construct a mock baseball field using an assortment of materials including pattern blocks, tiles & a variety ...
Potter, Beatrix
Beatrix Potter Literature Unit Study. Sites to help you supplement her books and learn about Ms. Potter. Author Beatrix Potter Author Biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter http://web.archive.org/web/20070125193837/http://www.nssd112.org/sherwood/IMC/imcbplife.htm The Legacy of Beatrix Potter – More Than Just Bunnies She was an accomplished botanical illustrator, a sheep breeder and farmer, ...
Understanding Numbers
Learning to count, counting by multiples, number lines, number order as in what comes before or after a number and what comes between two numbers, as well as activities that match the digit with equivalent objects or the word name of the number. Can Teach ...
Fractals
The Dance of Chance exhibit. Patterns in nature. http://polymer.bu.edu/museum/ Polygonal. Change the parameters to create a new fractal. You need Java software in order to view the virtual manipulatives. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_151_g_3_t_3.html Iterative. Generate six different fractals. Java software needed to view. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_135_g_3_t_3.html Koch & Sierpinski virtual ...
Corduroy
Corduroy by Don Freeman Activities & worksheets, links & additional suggested materials, links, prepared units, other online printables for this book. A Journal for Corduroy https://web.archive.org/web/20050308165257/http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=30 A Pocket for Corduroy Activity Guide A Pocket for Corduroy Bilingual Activity Guide Bear Art activities with a bear ...
Buck, Pearl S.
Author Pearl S. Buck Literature Based Theme has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, study guides, suggested additional materials, and more. Biographical information https://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/biography.html https://myhero.com/Pearl_Buck https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/20160/quick-10-10-famous-homeschooled-people Field Trip Tours of the Pearl S. Buck House https://pearlsbuck.org/takeatour/ View their educational resources for activities via the Internet ...
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Erin Condren Homeschool Planner
Erin Condren offers a homeschool planner that I like. The size is like their regular teacher's planner, it is the 8.5" x 11". There is plenty of room to write plans and activities out. The months are undated so you can start on your schedule. The paper is 80# text weight paper, the same as used in the Erin Condren Life Planner. The paper has a nice tooth to it, not flimsy as in so many other planners. The ...
Life
Project Organize Refrigerator
Today's project organize refrigerator was inspired by a very recent trip to Dollar Tree and recalling a pin I saw on Pinterest. I know from previous disappointment that if I don't buy what I see at Dollar Tree, it is gone the next time I stop in. Apparently green is the color that one of the employees mentioned are trending, at least in the organizing product category. Green happened to be the color I was looking for. When I first purchased the refrigerator a few years ago, I also stopped in Bed, Bath and Beyond for some organizers to start it right. Previous to that, we were using an old college dorm type fridge. That finally gave out and we using nothing for a time. I had saved enough money to buy a new fridge. All except for 2 of the Bed, Bath and Beyond organizers I purchased didn't ...
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Lupus Awareness
Someone I love has Lupus.
Lupus Foundation of America says Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys.
The Lupus Research Alliance posts Ways Lupus Can Affect the Body and diagnosing Lupus.
Brooke Goldner, MD is a board certified physician who developed a nutrition-based treatment for her own autoimmune disease, lupus. She is published medical doctor and bestselling author of Goodbye Autoimmune Disease and Goodbye Lupus. Dr Brooke Goldner also has a YouTube Channel where she shares so much information about Lupus as well as other autoimmune diseases.
