The United States Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has a number of electron microscope photographs of snowflakes posted on its website. The Electron Microscopy Unit Snowpage offers photos of precipitating snow crystals, CO2 ice, and some really cool stereo snowflake images. Photo Credit: Electron and Confocal Microscopy Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. [...]
The Chicago Historical Society has three units about African American history available on the Chicago History Museum website. Slavery and Freedom in America focuses on the life of Hannah Harris, a slave on a Virginia plantation. Written for grades 5 – 8, the unit is divided into two one-week lessons. The first, “Meet Hannah the [...]
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Marcia, one of our friends from church, recommended this website as a resource for worksheets for homeschoolers. The website is WorksheetWorks.com, and it’s currently still in beta stage. WorksheetWorks offers customizable worksheets in three subject areas (Mathematics, English Language, and Geography), as well as Puzzles and Miscellaneous worksheets. All materials are copyrighted, however the site [...]
Here are a few sites that provide free spelling resources: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has lists of spelling words for grades 1 – 6 that correspond to the Houghton Mifflin Reading program. Even though these lists are designed for use with the program, they could also be used as stand-alone lessons in a homeschool setting. Garden [...]
Here’s an idea to use for an inexpensive science and art lesson for small children. Our two youngest children (3 and 4 years old) have gotten interested in seeds lately. My wife, Elise, planned a couple of projects for them that they really enjoyed. First, she took them on a nature walk through our yard [...]
There are lots of websites with good games for learning the elements of the periodic table. Here are some I like: Proton Don allows you to set up two games, either identify the symbol on the periodic table when you’re given an element’s name, or provide the name when you’re given the symbol. Each of [...]
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