“The producers of PBS’s best science show, NOVA, have posted an excellent gallery of online experiments: Skydive from 100,000 feet. Replicate Shackleton’s 800-mile open-boat journey from the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia. Tweak the variables in a steroid, a rice paddy, or a rocket. Perform a virtual heart transplant. You may get so caught [...]
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NOVA….Interactive
Posted in FREE STUFF, Resources, tagged FREE, Free Resource, FREE STUFF, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, interactive, interactive website, NOVA, NOVA Interactive, pbs, Resources, VSL on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford, Baby!!
Posted in FREE STUFF, Resources, tagged audit, college, FREE, FREE STUFF, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, ipod, Oxford, Oxford University, podcast, university, VSL on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Oxford’s podcast series allows you to audit courses at the English-speaking world’s oldest university — free of charge, and from afar. Learn about quantum nanotechnology while riding the subway. Study Milton in the Laundromat. And hear the creation story as it’s described in the Torah, the Bible, and the Koran. You can also hear American [...]
Graphic Design in a Box…er…website
Posted in FREE STUFF, tagged design, FREE, FREE STUFF, graphic, graphic design, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Morgue File, MorgueFile, photograph, photographs, photography, Photos, Resources, VSL, website on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“MorgueFile — which provides quickly findable, high-res digital photos, free — is a graphic designer’s dream come true. The site archives stock photographs submitted by professional and amateur shutterbugs, all of which are ready and waiting for your commercial or personal use. (N.B.: Morgue file is a newspaper term for the stock of past issues.) [...]
Chic looks like a Dude….
Posted in Fun, tagged genderanalyzer, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, under the sun on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yeah, sorry about the lame Aerosmith reference. Anyway, Angela at Under the Sun, posted this cool GenderAnalyzer, that “determines” whether the person writing the blog is a female or a male. Of course, you just KNOW I had to do it…..and as it turns out…..apparently I blog like a boy. Hmm…who’da guessed. GenderAnalyzer
Standardized Test Scores
Posted in Boo, tagged Education, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Language Arts, Math, Reading, standardized tests, tests on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure why I hadn’t blogged about this before, ’cause it’s not like it happened yesterday….LOL!! In September, I took Boo to the public school for the Fall Standardized Tests. (We are not required to do them where we live; however, I didn’t think it would do any harm….and it gives me an [...]
Ponder for 11/14/2008
Posted in Ponder, tagged famous quotes, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Ponder, quotes, writing on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. – Mark Twain If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us? – Lois McMaster [...]
Daily Writing Prompt for 11/12/2008
Posted in Boo, tagged glamour, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Language Arts, love, make up, writing on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s writing prompt was: What toy do you think you will still like when you are an adult? Why? Boo’s Answer: Make-up is what I think I will like. Why? It makes you look gorgus. So you can get a boyfriend easyer. So you can be happy with who you are. (All spelling and grammer [...]
Spunky Language Arts Lesson….
Posted in Language Arts, tagged dictionary, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Language Art, Language Arts, limerick, poems, poetry, the omnificent english dictionary, VSL, writing on November 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What a great language arts lesson….. “The Omnificent English Dictionary invites you to rewrite the definition of every single word in our language — in limerick form. Thus far, the online database has published 48,000-plus poems (and that only takes it up to the D’s). Here’s an example sent in by frequent contributor Meg Beagle, [...]
2008 Micro-Photography Winners
Posted in Art, Photos, Science, tagged Art, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, micro photography, microphotography, nikon small world competition, photography, Science on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Science and Art merge in this magnificent medium…enjoy the wonder of micro-photography…. “Reality’s building blocks are too tiny to see, so modern scientists pursue the invisible. The Nikon Small World Competition — which celebrates the most beautiful and mesmerizing microphotography — allows the rest of us to look on in wonder. This year, the grand [...]
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