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Writing
Live It Up, Write It Down: Writing for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
WRITE ON The Kid Friendly, Mother Pleasing Gentle Way to Learn to Write 3rd - 8th Grade
Ten tips for TEACHING WRITING
The WRITING RUBRICS Main Page - How to use a writing rubric
Ideas on developing BOOK REPORTS.
Our previous homeschool Writing Contests
Grammar
GRAMMAR Main Page
Spelling
SPELLING Syllable Savvy Spelling Curriculum
Literature Unit Studies
Literature Based Unit Studies - Make your study of great books even more fun
- Jungle Book
- Calico Bush
- Little Women
- Twenty and Ten
- Aesop's Scripts
- Wizard of Oz
- Benjamin West & His Cat Grimalkin Unit Study Guide
- Golden Goblet Unit Study
- Joan of Arc Unit Study
- Roll Of Thunder Unit Study
- Blue Willow Unit Study
- Call of the Wild Unit Study
- Trumpeter of Krakow Unit Study
- Paul Revere Unit Study
- Rifles For Watie Unit Study
- Oliver Twist Unit Study
- In Freedom's Cause Unit Study
- Christmas Carol Our 84 page unit study of Dicken's classic
- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Unit Study
- History of Robin Hood
- Fellowship of the Ring Unit Study
- The Hobbit Unit Study
- Sign of the Beaver Unit Study
- The Sherlock Holmes Unit Study
- Across Five Aprils: 91 page unit study
- Redwall Unit Study
- Streams to the River Unit Study
Sherlock Holmes: The Literary Detective Series
- Unique Features of Sherlock Holmes stories
- Sherlock Holmes Quotes About Characters & Topics
- List of all Sherlock Holmes Books and Stories
Literature Suggestions: Finding the Best Books For Your Students
- Literature Pages
- Historical Fiction Books by Era
- Classic Book Club
- Stories of Other Cultures and People
- Easy Reading Books for Beginning Readers
- Themes in Children's Literature
- Stories for your preteens
- Classic Authors & Their Books
- Favorite Series - When you love a series there is always one more book you want to get.
Our Literature Books
- In the Shadow of the Pines
- All The Cities of Gold - From Massachusets to Kansas, A Teens Search for Her Family
Literature Helps
- LITERATURE Main Page
Early Reading
- EARLY READING Main Page
Penmanship Pages
- Overview of The Better Letter Primer HANDWRITING Program.
MatchCard Science Unit Studies
- MATCHCARD SCIENCE Main Page
Science Projects & Experiments
- Cool SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS: Individual experiments from MatchCard Science
Light and Energy Experiments & Projects:
- Translucent, transparent, and obaque objects
- Refraction, Reflection, and Absorption of Light Waves
- Magnetic Poles
- Compare frequency and amplitude of sound waves
- Celsius to Fahrenheit
- Freezing, Melting, Evaporation and Condensation
- Convection, Conduction, Radiation: Transfer of Heat
- Diagram and build an electrical circuit
- Test materials to see if they are conductors or insulators
- Explore static electricity
- Compare amps, volts, and watts
- Compare the two forms of nuclear energy: fusion and fission.
- Arrange the colors on the light spectrum.
- Experiment with a triangular prism
- Contrast the different electromagnetic waves
- Compare actual and potential kinetic energy.
- Conservation of energy
Weather Experiments & Projects:
- Different weather in the 2 Hemispheres
- 5 types of precipitation
- Precipitation Experiments
- Explore the Water Cycle
- Identify wind strength with the Beaufort Scale
- Use weather instruments to measure weather conditions
- Compare a hurricane and tornado
- How to use a pet tornado
- Identify cloud types
- Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature
Force & Motion Experiments & Projects:
- Six Simple Machines
- Compare mass and weight
- Demonstrate effects of friction and inertia
- Analyze the effects of gravity
- Compare speed, velocity, momentum, and acceleration
- Explore Newton's Three Laws of Motion
- Compare Newtons, Joules, and Watts
Geology Experiments & Projects:
- Erupt a volcano and learn its parts.
- Compare Rocks and Minerals
- Learn the Layers of the Earth
- Investigate the 4 types of Weathering.
- Learn the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle.
- Use the Mohs Hardness Test to identify rocks and minerals.
- Mineral identification lab to test the physical properties of minerals.
- Identify the five types of mountains.
- Demonstrate the three types of waves in an earthquake.
Ocean Experiments & Projects:
- Find the six major oceans.
- Investigate the three major types of ocean creatures.
- Explore the ocean floor.
- Trace the route water takes from mountain springs to the oean.
- Learn the parts of seaweed.
- Learn the three ocean zones.
- Compare different types of algae with plants.
Human Anatomy Experiments & Projects:
- From Cells to Systems - Identify how the body parts work together.
- Trace the route of food through the digestive system.
- Build a tooth model and observe tooth decay.
- Listen different parts of the respiratory system.
- Trace the route of blood through your heart, lungs, and body.
- Identify the major bones of the human skeleton.
- Identify four types of joints and two muscles of the human anatomy.
- Find what human organs are part of the renal system.
- Learn about the nervous system.
- Learn the parts of the human eye.
- Identify and use the parts of the human ear.
- You're covered in it! Get a feel for what skin can do for you.
- Match the hormones to their endocrine glands.
Chemistry Experiments & Projects:
- Build a model of an atom.
- Make a hydrogen and helium model
- Play a game with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen models
- Learn electron configuration with paper plates
- Construct molecules with the molecule worksheets
- Build water molecules (and eat them)
- Hunt for molecules and compounds and make a mixture
- Make a fried egg sandwhich and compare chemical and physical changes
- Compare properties of solids, liquids, and gas
- Use the density formula to compare different objects
- A sizzlin' way to learn the conservation of mass.
- Make your litmus paper for acids and bases.
- Find metals and non-metals on a periodic chart.
Astronomy Projects:
- Demonstrate the rotation and revolution of the Earth.
- Demonstrate the size and distance of planets in the solar system.
- What is a planet? AND should Pluto be allowed back in?
- Chart the moon cycle and demonstrate the cause of the moon's changing shape.
- Demonstrate two types of lunar eclipses
- Demonstrate two types of solar eclipses
- Find the sun's composition and what it emits
- Find the North Star and its two constellations
- Identify five northern constellations visible all year round.
- Distinguish meteors, asteroids, and comets (and eat them).
- Explore galaxies, clusters, and superclusters - at the speed of light!
- Make your own sky chart and sextant
Botany Experiments & Projects:
- Build a mini-ecosystem in your own home.
- Ecology lesson - five factors that change the environment.
- Tear apart flowers to learn their parts.
- Who or what causes the flowers to be pollinated?
- What part of the plant cell makes your veggies so crunch?
- Watch plants bubble and see how fast you can solve the photosynthesis formula.
- Plant nutrition and transport
- Sexual reproduction in plants
- 5 types of asexual reproduction in plants
- Carbon cycle in plants and animals
- Nitrogen cycle in nature
Zoology Experiments & Projects:
- Identify the parts of an insect.
- Watch a butterfly emerge from a cocoon.
- Compare the size and shape of five different types of fish fins.
- Compare the skin of reptiles and amphibians.
- List six unique characteristics of mammals.
- Distinguish primary and secondary consumers in the food chain.
- Compare the teeth of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
- Trace the scientific classification of dogs from kingdom to species.
- Describe five kingdoms on the biology tree of life.
- Compare nine different animal phyla.
- Check out the skeletons of 7 classes of vertebrates.
- Identify the major functions of an animal cell and match them to the cell diagram.
- Use the cell worksheet to find three methods of cellular movement - and what's living under your fingernails.
- Make a flipbook of the stages of mitosis.
Nutrition, Health, and Safety Experiments and Projects
- Learn the foods in the food groups.
- Crunch up some carbohydrates.
- Compare protein, fats, and carbs.
- Check for Vitamin C in foods. Find out what Vitamin E does. Learn about 6 important vitamins.
- Learn about the minerals calcium, iron, potassium.
- Compare benefits of exercise and relaxation.
- Quick: how safe is your home? See if you and your kids can pass the home safety quiz.
- Practice using a fire extinguisher and learn the 3 classes of fires.
- Identify the risks of smoking, alcohol, and drugs and how they impact lives.
- Evaluate risks of sexual behavior outside of a monogamous relationship.
- List strategies to avoid being in an abusive relationship.
Technology Experiments & Projects:
- Build models of four different types of bridges.
- Kids can use Bernoulli's Principle to discover how aerodynamics keeps a plane up in the air.
- Find the input, output and signal processing unit of electronic equipment.
- Build a circuit board and learn the function of the major devices on it.
- Play games converting from binary to decimal numbers.
- Investigate what browsers do. Compare input and outputs of different devices. Contrast ROM & RAM.
- Discover what a laser really is. Compare laser light with flash lights.
- Make a robotic hand. Discover the principles of robotics. List the 3 laws of the ethics of robotics.
- Learn the four strokes of an internal combustion engine in this lesson. Watch the combustion of flour.
- Additional Science Project Ideas
Science Lapbooks
Science Lapbooks - Turn your MatchCards into a fun, colorful lapbook. It's fun and easy and creates a keep sake they will continue to learn from.
Science Worksheets
Science Worksheets
These are the download pages for the individual MatchCards listed above.
Bible
BIBLE study lessons Main Page
Art
ART Main Page
Geography
GEOGRAPHY RESOURCES and games and activities.
Homeschooling Helps
HOW TO HOMESCHOOL Main Page
Dealing With BULLYING
Website Info
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