“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.) [...]
Week Long Bug Unit
Posted in FREE STUFF, Resources, Science, tagged bug, bug unit, bugs, educational resources, FREE< FREE Stuff, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, insect, insect unit, insects, lesson plan, lesson plans, Science, Unit Study on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This summer, “Bugs and Insects” are the themes in the libraries across Kansas. I decided that we would use this opportunity to study them throughout the summer months – – and I will try to keep up with what I do so that you may use whatever resources are listed for your own Thematic Unit. [...]
FREE PDF Spelling Activities (With BONUS)
Posted in FREE STUFF, Language Arts, tagged Braille, Education, FREE STUFF, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Morse Code, PDF, Spelling, Spelling Activities on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to give my daughter some options with spelling – – different activites each day. Here is the spelling activities page I made (in PDF Format) with Bonus Braille and Morse Code Alphabet Pages (also in PDF Format): Spelling Activities BONUSES: Braille Alphabet Card Morse Code Alphabet Most of the ideas came from several different [...]
Read at Work, Incognito
Posted in Books, FREE STUFF, Resources, tagged Books, Home Education, Home School, Homeschooling, Reading, Slacker on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“As office managers and cubicle dwellers know, the Internet is a great help for procrastinating on the job (ahem: Scrabulous). But now wasting time at the office has become much less risky, thanks to Read at Work, a website that houses cleverly disguised books in a fake Windows desktop environment; the days of bookworms’ desperately [...]
GIVEAWAY: “Who Moved My Cheese?” Book (REVISED)
Posted in FREE STUFF, Pay It Forward, tagged FREE STUFF, giveaway, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling on May 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Apparently, I made the contest too ‘hard’ – – so I will revise it. If you wanna win this book, just leave a link to your site in the comments section. The contest will run until June 6th and I will announce a winner by June 8th.
Amazing INTERACTIVE Map of the Stars
Posted in FREE STUFF, Ideas, Resources, Science, tagged Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, star gazing on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Teleportation and traveling at hyperspeed would be fabulous, but even when we were children, such science-fiction staples struck us as probably, well, impossible. Still, we always imagined that someday we really could have the galactic maps that pop up at the touch of a button in shows like Star Trek. And now, thanks to the [...]
FREE Nature Journal
Posted in FREE STUFF, Science, Uncategorized, tagged FREE STUFF, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Nature Journal on May 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week CurrClick is offering the LBC Nature Journal. I was really excited when I saw ”36-Week guide” until I downloaded it – – now I am SUPER glad that I got this for free – – not worth the almost $20. For those of you who are fans of the Charlotte Mason Method – – [...]
Book Adventure Prizes
Posted in FREE STUFF, Resources, tagged Book Adventure, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Reading on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Boo has done a LOT of reading (and consequently) a LOT of test taking at Book Adventure. The first prize that she chose was six months of Highlights. The second prize she chose was an educational {computer} CD called “What’s the Secret (Volume 1)” from Whitney Worldwide Inc. (Shown Below) The third prize she chose [...]
