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There
is a wealth of information and resources available on the
internet that can be used to make your homeschool program
exceptional. Log on to the sites below for our latest choices
of "Best of the Web" Internet sites for you to check out.
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Accuracy and completeness of information is the responsibility
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Bible
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Kid
Explorer
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Activity
pages and worksheets to print out about the Bible and
God the Creator. Fun for kids K-6th.
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Answers
in Genesis
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Creation
Science Museum and information.
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Bible
Gateway
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This
resource has the Bible online in every language of the
world (maybe not every!). You can search for a particular
passage such as John 3:16 or read the whole Bible. Also
includes a downloadable portion of the video, The Jesus
Film. This is a great resource for foreign language
study!
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Bible
Crafts
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Crafts
for Bible lessons: Zacchaeus, Mary, Jesus, Creation,
Tower of Babel, Abraham, Sodom/gomorrah for kids Preschool
through 1st grade. Activity pages, coloring pages, and
crafts.
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Language
Arts
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Family
Education
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Index
to their many printable worksheets. Animals, cut &
color, dot to dot, forms, games, genealogy, homeschooling,
learning disabilities, mazes, mazes, rewards, school
subjects, thanksgiving, word scramble, vowel sounds,
math, vocabulary.
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Junior
High/Middle School Writing Lesson Plans
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Lesson
plans for writing. Lots of good activities here all
on PDF files so you can print them out.
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Wacky
Web Tales
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This
interactive game has students completing cloze stories
with designated parts of speech. Like mad libs only
it's interactive. For grades 3+.
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When
Work is Done
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A
lesson plan that will teach students to use primary
resources as a research tool and then learn to create
their own memory album of historically accurate photos.
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Novel
Guide
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Forget
the cliff notes - now there is novel guide online for
free!
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| Book
Report Ideas |
Ideas
for students' book reports: create a character sculpture,
write a newspaper review, pantomime a setting, create
a diary for a character, and much more. |
Math
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A+
Math
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A+
Math offers online flashcards for addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, fraction, money and geometry
terms in addition to games such as Matho (bingo and
math combined), hidden picture and math concentration.
Daily game winners are posted on a winner's list. The
site also offers realtime homework help.
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Algebra
Help
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This
site will take you step by step through basic algebra
and explain it as you go. A great resource.
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Kidsbank
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Fun
adventures for kids online learning about money and
saving. Also includes a quiz to test what they've learned.
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History
of Mathematics
Mathematicians
(Biographies)
Timelines
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History
of math resource online. Includes Biographies of famous
mathematicians and a timeline of math
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Math
Stories.Com
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Math
word problems for children Kindergarten through grade
5 in all kinds of topic areas: history, science, government,
sound, light, temperature, metrics, inventions, and
checkbook. It's interactive too. The kids type in the
answer and it answers correct or incorrect.
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Math
in Mesopotamia
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Project
idea and resource site for history and math students!
From clay tokens in 8000 B.C. to Sumerian number systems;
Cuneiform numbers and Babylonian multiplication tables.
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History
| Historical Paperdolls |
Paper
dolls representing historical figures to print and cut
out. |
| Age
of Exploration |
Recommended
for grades 5-8, and high school world history and geography.
This online lesson begins with ancient history and ends
with James Cook. It includes a timeline, biographies,
activities for teachers and students, vocabulary, and
a bibliography. Activities: create a compass, astrolabe,
quadrant, identify navigational instruments, parts of
a ship, What would you take to sea?, crosswod puzzle,
word search, create a globe, learn latitude, longitude,
learn about starving sailors and diseases such as scurvy. |
| American
Revolution Thematic Unit |
A
complete lesson plan on the American Revolution.
Includes a sound byte of Yankee Doodle. |
| Ancient
History |
Here's
an online lesson plan about Ancient Civilizations including
Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylon, etc. Play a ziggurat game,
learn about cunieform writing, Gilgamesh, Hammurabi,
and Zargon. |
| Betsy
Ross Home Page |
Information
on Betsy Ross, her life, how she made the flag, flag
etiquette, flag trivia, picture gallery of the American
flag at different times in history, step-by-step directions
for making a 5-pointed star, and a virtual tour of the
Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. |
| Bible
Tutor, The |
The
Bible Tutor is an excellent resource for 6th grade and
up to learn World History from a Biblical perspective.
Click on Dates to take a brief Biblical World History
tour from the ancestral period through the Roman period
including pictures, maps, and information on the people
and places of Biblical history. There is also a self-test
that will test your scripture memory, your knowledge
of Bible people, map reading skills, and your general
knowledge of the Bible. |
| California
gold Rush Video |
A
YouTube
video of the California Gold Rush days. |
| Donner
Online |
Online
webquest adventure for 7th+ about the westward expansion
of the19th century. Students collect information, images,
and insights from the internet and then paste them into
a multimedia scrapbook that you download from the internet.
Excellent research project! |
| Renaissance,
The elizabethan World |
Here's
an excellent resource for information about the Renaissance:
occupations, education, food, fashion and much much
more. While you're there, check out http://www.execpc.com/~clisto/chiv.html
for knightly Rules of Chivalry! |
| Abraham
Lincoln's Classroom |
If
you are planning on doing a study of Abraham Lincoln,
you'll want to bookmark this new website: Abraham Lincoln's
Classroom. You'll find quizzes, maps, cartoons, articles,
and much more all related to our 16th president. Register
as a teacher and you'll also have access to lesson plans,
student research topics, comparison assignments, and lots
of quizzes. This is super info for those Civil War units! |
| Books
to Supplement History |
A
listing of books organized by time period! |
Science
| Amusement
Park Physics-Roller Coaster |
Grades
4-8 - This site, part of the Annenberg Center's collection
of web activities, offers a simple introduction to the
physics involved in riding a roller coaster, and allows
young experimenters to design their own roller coaster
(friction-free, no less!) to see how it performs. Students
could use this site easily. |
| Animal
Planet |
Fun,
games, and lots of information about animals from this
website from the Animal Planet people. You can even
send an animal e-card to your friends. |
| Cells
alive |
This
is a great site to see cells in action. The topics (Anatomy
of a Splinter, When a Cell Commits Suicide, This Strain
Kills White Blood Cells, and others) have descriptions
of each step of their process, and animated gifs and
Quick Time movies to see actual cells! It's a really
interesting place to see, up-close, what cells do. |
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