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Wildflower Reference Guide
Wildflower Reference Guide and Seed Catalog. Information such as when you should plant, USDA plant hardiness map, how to plant, and more about wildflowers to learn and view online.
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Virginia-Carolina Peanut
Read about the History of Peanuts. Virginia-Carolina Peanut Kids Pages has activities about peanuts. Free download in pdf. Coloring books for grades (K-2), (3-5) and (6-8) they tell the story of how peanuts grow, peanut facts, a cross word … [continue reading]
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George Washington Lesson Plans and Resources Freebies
The George Washington Teacher Resource Guide is designed for incorporation into history and social studies curricula. It will introduce your students to some of the events and issues that shaped George Washington’s life. Lesson plans and activities are available also.… [continue reading]
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Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America – A Chronological Paper Trail, by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. The paper is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. This free to download pdf is large – around 7MB. https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/
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A Game I’m Working On
I’m working on a science game about simple machines. I’m just getting pictures together now. It will be a spinner path game. Hoping to have it done by tomorrow.
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Notebooking Tip
I’m finding that we like to use the smaller size notebooks instead of using the regular size notebooks (as long as our subject matter allows). The dimensions are 5-1/2 x 8. You can find page protectors for that size. I … [continue reading]
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Fear and Safety
Facing Fear Program Helping Young People Deal With Terrorism and Tragic Events Its goal is to help young people be prepared for disasters and deal with the aftermath of terrorism and tragic events. The events of September 11, 2001 confronted … [continue reading]
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Auto Schooling aka Road Schooling
Since we are going to be on the road for quite a while, we are taking our GeoSafari Laptop, Math Shark – an electronic math game, poetry magnets, jazz and classical music cd’s, homemade sandwiches, bagged snacks and bottled water. … [continue reading]
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History Deal Of The Day
Bought today at a garage sale for $1.00 Great African Americans Knowledge Cards Retail price = $9.95 Scroll down to Great African Americans – Flash Card https://www.itsablackthang.com/collections/black-history-month-products Description from Library of Congress’ website: The courage and accomplishments of the men … [continue reading]
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Frogland Game
This is a neat game about frogs. I like that the site also shows a little picture of the completed game. https://web.archive.org/web/20040525190114/http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/wetlands/WetlandGames/FroglandGame/FroglandGame.html Your Mission….. You are a young frog, newly hatched, and you belong to a species of frog that … [continue reading]
