These listings are in the order they were placed on the page
- but most recent first. For categorized listings, please go back to the home page and click a category on the right.
e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on
the Internet for children ages 5 - 12. We offer free, best-in-class courseware in math, science, reading and keyboarding;
and we’re building a community for parents and educators to share innovations and insights in childhood education.
NoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers.
Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's
many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.
To get to the Interactive Letter Writing Tutorial follow these directions:
1) Click on
the above link 2) When you get to the site scroll down the page until you see the title, "English" on the left-side
of the page then choose "Letter Writing." 4) A new page opens that says "Secondary Student" and below that, "Letter Formats."
Scroll down the page, and below "Personal Letters," and "Business Letters," you'll see the title, "New Letter Writing Interactive.
" Click on it and a new page opens to the Letter Writing Tutorial. :)
Teachers often would like to check the readability of a piece of writing. Edward Fry, formerly of
the Rutgers University Reading Center, created one of the most widely used, and easy-to-use readability graphs for educators.
Thanks go to McGraw-Hill for granting me permission to reproduce this information on the Web. (Taken from Fry, Edward. Elementary
Reading Instruction. NY : McGraw Hill, 1977, p.217.) and most currently appearing in his book, The Reading Teachers Books of Lists (2006). Dr. Fry has let me know that the graph is copyright free, but one cannot alter the graph or directions
and still call it the Fry Readability Graph. Thank you to Dr. Fry for letting me know teachers can use the graph, copyright
free!
Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format,
with morals listed. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine
and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
Wordorigins.org is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to
etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (It is not the study of insects; that is entomology.) Where words come
from is a fascinating subject, full of folklore and historical lessons. Often, popular tales of a word’s origin arise.
Sometimes these are true; more often they are not. While it can be disappointing when a neat little tale turns out to be untrue,
almost invariably the true origin is just as interesting.
In Mosaic of Thought, the authors organize the text around the following cognitive strategies:
Activating relevant, prior knowledge; Determining most important ideas,
themes; Asking questions; Creating visual and other sensory images from
text; Drawing inferences; Retelling or synthesizing what's read; Utilizing fix-up strategies
To write well you must practice. And to help you practice,
here is a free practice workbook for writing English. We call it Writing on Rivers because it uses entertaining examples
that teach you interesting things about the major rivers around the world. We hope you find it fun and useful.
Young adult literature is often thought of as a great abyss between
the wonderfully exciting and engaging materials for children and those for adults--just as young adults are often ignored
in planning library facilities and services. There is, however, a wealth of fiction created especially for teens that deals
with the possibilities and problems of contemporary life as experienced by this age group. These contemporary problem novels
reflect the troubled times in which young readers are coming of age, but young people also need to laugh at themselves and
at their world and to escape that world in flights of fancy.
Here you will be able to see some of the departments and equipment your book will
travel through. On the way, we hope you will receive some helpful and humorous information regarding our book making
process.
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide
is evident.
Education World is designed to be that resource for educators.
While intended for public school educators, it has resources that are also useful for homeschool.
In the fall of 2001, MiddleWeb invited interested
persons from our MiddleWeb daily discussion group and visitors to our website to join in a year-long discussion about struggling middle
grades readers. Juli Kendall, a literacy teacher/coach in Long Beach, California, moderated the discussion and kept
a weekly journal of her own work with fifth-graders who were held back after they failed to meet the district's minimum reading
requirement for promotion to sixth grade.
When the year ended, no one wanted to stop! Four years
later, our Reading & Writing Workshop Project is still going strong, as 350 educators with an interest in early adolescent
literacy (Gr. 4-8) swap ideas and explore new strategies together
Welcome to The Teacher's Desk, a resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. Please feel
free to sit down, relax, and take your time browsing through the contents, a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom
activities. Most are my original ideas, while others have been shared with The Desk via e-mail.
I carve gargoyles in limestone and marble. I also carve fireplaces,
fountains, and other sculpture. On this site I show my work in the Gallery section and explain the ancient art of carving in the Resources section. You'll find a site map at the bottom of each page, and a list of all my Gargoyle Pages on this page. Enjoy
your visit!
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around
the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals. WorldCat
results often include a direct link to the "Ask a Librarian" help feature of a library's Web site. Can I add information
to WorldCat? Yes! On the WorldCat page for a particular item, you can enter a rating and review under the "Reviews"
tab, and contribute factual notes or a book's table of contents under the "Details" tab. Note that only you can modify or
delete your own review, but other users can edit information that has been contributed under Details (similar to Wikipedia).
With a free account, add items cataloged in WorldCat to a personal list. Create as many lists as you like! Share
them with friends or keep them private.
The history of humankind has been marked by patterns of growth and decline. Some declines have been
gradual, occurring over centuries. Others have been rapid, occurring over the course of a few years. War, drought, natural
disaster, disease, overpopulation, economic disruption: any of these can bring about the collapse of a civilization. Internal
causes (such as political struggles or overfarming) can combine with external causes (such as war or natural disaster) to bring about a collapse. What does this mean for modern
civilizations? What can we learn from the past?
In the Renaissance, the popes returned to the See of Saint Peter. Popes and cardinals straightened
streets, raised bridges across the Tiber, provided hospitals, fountains, and new churches for the public and splendid palaces
and gardens for themselves. They drew on all the riches of Renaissance art and architecture to adorn the urban fabric, which
they saw as a tangible proof of the power and glory of the church. And they attracted pilgrims from all of Christian Europe,
whose alms and living expenses made the city rich once more.
AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and
educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation. Grades 4 - 12.
Art Junction is designed to provide a safe and structured virtual environment within which teachers
and students can pursue artistic and educational goals. Through the activities, projects, and resources offered through this
site, we aim to:
promote effective art education practices that foster artistic expression in young people and broaden
their perspectives on the various roles that art plays in the lives of people around the globe.
support online cultural exchanges and joint creative work that result in shared learning experiences
among teachers, students, artists, and other professionals.
The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
The collections (110,000+ objects) belong
to the people of the City and County of San Francicso. The ImageBase is an expression of the Museum's mission to provide meaningful
public access to the collections and behave more like a resource and less like a repository.
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers
from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources.
Crossroads: Middle School [American History] Curriculum
Browse or search through selected images from the Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services. Included
are images from current exhibits, Smithsonian events and historic collections.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to
the enjoyment and understanding of American art. The museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of our country's artists,
whose works are windows on the American experience.
The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental,
the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible
to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. The ultimate purpose of the Museum declared at its founding was to
acquire the best modern works of art. While quality remains the primary criterion, the Museum acknowledges and pursues a broader
educational purpose: to build a collection which is more than an assemblage of masterworks, which provides a uniquely comprehensive
survey of the unfolding modern movement in all visual media.
...at the best discounts! Since
1911, artists have turned to Dick Blick Art Materials for dependable savings, a huge selection, and fine customer service
on art supplies.
ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop
interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well
as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Welcome to ArtLex. You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing
art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary
Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture
through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.
The Crayola FACTORY® is a hands-on discovery center for children and the adults in their lives. Come
for a visit and explore lots of creative experiences!
Welcome to the Rainy Day Playhouse, where kids of all ages are invited to get out of the rain and
have some free fun. We hope you enjoy the java games and other activities and return often. Many activities are updated frequently,
including daily cartoons.
Stenhouse Publishers: Professional Resources by Teachers, for Teachers
Read before you buy! You can read our new titles online in their entirety--even before they
become available! You can also read the first chapters of nearly any Stenhouse title.
WELCOME to The Word Puzzles. Solve puzzles online,
print puzzle games and solutions, or download a
puzzle to publish. All at no cost. You
can also buy our puzzle books at our store
We have Sudoku number and letter puzzles, children's puzzles, Christmas and Easter puzzles and
much more. Access puzzles by Bible books or by chapters for material such as Alpha on above links. Access puzzles
by type, using the menu at the left.
Hello and welcome to HomeSchoolArts.com a free visual arts lesson site dedicated to teaching the
visual arts to all who would be interested. To help the parents of the home schooled, distance learned, and to teach the arts
with our support to adults that want to begin a new hobby or expression in the visual arts.
The focus of Mr. Martini's Classroom is on elementary math and arithmetic practice, including
number flash cards, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, inequalities, fractions, decimals, exponents, radicals,
and negative numbers.
Many of the interactive exercises are self-paced, have selectable levels of difficulty, and are
provided in both color and black & white in the hope they will be accessible to more students. Additionally, we try to
make some of the math exercises self-explanatory so they might be usable by non-English speakers.
This site achieves
its presentation and interactivity through extensive use of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. At minimum, a JavaScript-enabled
browser is required. Even with JavaScript enabled, some or all of this website may not work with all browser versions and
operating systems.
Just how does a video recorder work? And how about
fax machines, cars, washing machines, electric light, telephones, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators? You'll find the answers
here. This site is designed as a companion to the TV series 'The Secret Life Of Machines' written by Tim Hunkin, and presented
by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod.
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2
in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children
as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices
that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated
by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric
and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the
ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle
out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended.
This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets,
moons and other objects in our solar system. Each page has my text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
The Teaching Treasures Team is dedicated primarily to
provide a range of quality educational resources that can be used effectively to assist parents with home education. We also
provide teachers with unique learning materials.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library
Spectacular photography! the NOAA collection includes thousands
of weather and space images, hundreds of images of our shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging
from the great whales to the most minute plankton.
The geographic range of NOAA work encompasses polar region to polar region and much of the World's
oceans. On any given day NOAA personnel could be chasing tornadoes, flying into hurricanes, battling stormy seas, tagging
turtles and whales, taking scientific readings at the South Pole, monitoring the health of coral reefs, or engaging in virtually
any task that can be thought of related to monitoring our environment and the health of our planet.
This is a really fun site on how to do/make fun things. Due to dial-up limitations I was unable
to explore the site as fully as I would have liked to, and I recommend that parents carefully monitor the site until they
are assured of it's content.
The preeminant publisher of internet literature, reference and verse providing students, resarchers
and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
I have intentionally left them very plain so that can be used for more than one year and personalized
to suit your needs. I have also provided some decorations you are free to use to spice up your calendar or to highlight special
days. Enjoy!
The mission
of The Anne Frank Center USA is to advance the legacy of Anne Frank and teach the lessons of her time to educate young people
and communities about the consequences of intolerance and the need to identify and challenge prejudice. We utilize the Diary
and spirit of Anne Frank, which provide unique tools, to inspire and empower the next generation to build a world based on
mutual respect.
Science Frontiers is the bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that
describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms.
High school and older.
This is a short list of some of the interactivities I have made available to play online from
my websites. There is a reference to Islam while comparing the art traditions of different cultures. It's not a proselytizing
type reference.
For the first time in Hawaii, there is a unique, free, permanent exhibit of dinosaur fossils available
for public viewing. These "fossils" are replicas from the originals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
City, which boasts one of the finest and largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world.
A castle loaded with easy science experiments and cool science projects, science textbooks, science discussions, science chat rooms, and science webcasts.
The Science Castle's free webcast series introduces you to new topics and information to help further your scientific knowledge. Live webcasts allow you to interact directly with the performers online.
Biographical indexes (over 1600 mathematicains), History Topics, Famous Curves, Chronologies, Mathemeticians
of the Day, Anniversaries for the Year, Birthplace Maps, Searches & Links,
Factory tours offer the chance to watch extraordinary people channel their pride and expertise into
machines that capture the imagination. We've opened the doors to three of our manufacturing facilities to give you a
behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to bring a legend to life.
Welcome to the world of Aunty Math! Periodically,
Aunt Mathilda Mathews or "Aunty Math" (also known as Angela Giglio Andrews) will present a new math challenge to the internet audience via the DuPage Children's Museum site on the World Wide Web. Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of
Aunty Math, her two nephews Barney and Danny, and her niece Gina. Aunty Math challenges present an opportunity for students
in grades K-5 to use their math and thinking skills to solve various problems. These challenges can be found on the Challenge of the Week page.
People of different cultures all over the world have decorated eggs in many different ways using
all kinds of different materials. In addition to food coloring
and egg dyes, you can use crayons, felt-tipped pens or paint to make a simple design or a more complicated painting on an
eggshell. Or, you can glue things to the shell. You probably have things at home that would work-like small seeds and pasta
shapes, sequins, ribbons, lace and scraps of felt. See what you have on hand and use your imagination.
Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers. It is attributed to the Korean
tradition, but it is probably extremely old, as the soroban and abacus use very similar methods. Probably these other devices
were derived from finger counting.
This is the EggMath version 1.5, a collection of web modules (including many interactive applets)
covering different topics in mathematics related to eggs; it is intended for use in K-12 classrooms, as in the Chickscope project at the Beckman Institute.
The ABC Toon Center is an Internet Theme Park for kids of all ages, filled with safe and fun, interactive
activities, original comics, animated cartoons and music. We are completely committed to being a fun and safe family destination
site. We are not affiliated with ABC TV, Walt Disney or any entertainment company other than our own.
A Book in Time was written by a teacher for other teachers. The original project started simply
as a chronological history booklist, but listings of crafts, timelines, maps, and other resources have been added over the
years. Our purpose is to help history teachers find all kinds of extracurricular resources to enrich their classes!
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants
begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for
everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all
about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Voices of the American Revolution expresses the main focus of our website.Traitors,
Seamstresses, and Generals were real people who were important figures during the time of the American Revolution. In
our view, a Traitor is anyone who is unloyal to a cause. The word Seamstresses represents women at the time
of the American Revolution, while the word Generals, both British and American, symbolizes the leadership that occurred
during the time of the American Revolution.
Browse the many and varied links that Clickschooling has found since 2001. It's a fun way to
look for something new to do, as well as to find material to supplement what you are already doing.
Home schooling improves academic performance and
reduces impact of socio-economic factors
Release
Date:October 04, 2007 -
TORONTO, ON—Home schooling appears to improve the academic performance of
children from families with low levels of education, according to a report on home schooling released today by independent
research organization The Fraser Institute.
“The evidence is particularly interesting for students who
traditionally fall through the cracks in the public system,” said Claudia Hepburn, co-author of Home Schooling:
From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd edition and Director of Education Policy with The Fraser Institute.
“Poorly educated parents who choose to teach their children at home produce better academic results for
their children than public schools do. One study we reviewed found that students taught at home by mothers who never finished
high school scored a full 55 percentage points higher than public school students from families with comparable education
levels.”
The peer-reviewed report, co-written with Patrick Basham and John Merrifield, builds on a 2001 study
with new research and data. It examines the educational phenomenon of home schooling in Canada and the United States, its
regulation, history, growth, and the characteristics of practitioners, before reviewing the findings on the academic and social
effects of home schooling.
Hepburn said evidence clearly demonstrates that home education may help reduce
the negative effects of some background factors that many educators believe affects a child’s ability to learn, such
as low family income, low parental educational attainment, parents not having formal training as teachers, race or ethnicity
of the student, gender of the student, not having a computer in the home, and infrequent usage of public libraries.
“The research shows that the level of education of a child’s parents, gender of the child, and income
of family has less to do with a child’s academic achievement than it does in public schools.”
The study also reports that students educated at home outperform their peers on
most academic tests and are involved in a broad mix of social activities outside the home.
Research shows
that almost 25 per cent of home schooled students in the United States perform one or more grades above
their age-level peers in public and private schools. Grades 1 to 4 home school students perform one grade level higher than
their public- and private-school peers. By Grade 8, the average home schooled student performs four grade levels above the
national average.
Hepburn said a growing body of new research also calls into question the belief that home schooled
children are not adequately socialized.
“The average Canadian home schooled student is regularly involved in eight
social activities outside the home. Canadian home schooled children watch less television than other children, and they show
significantly fewer problems than public school children when observed in free play,” she said.
The report concludes that home schooling is not only a viable educational choice for parents, but can
also be provided at a much lower cost than public schooling. The report notes that in the U.S., home schooling
families spend less than $4,000 per year on home schooling while public schooling in the U.S. costs about $9,600 per child.
“Canadian and American policymakers should recognize the ability of parents to meet the educational
needs of their children at home, without government involvement,” Hepburn said.
“While
home schooling may be impractical for many families, it has proven to be a successful and relatively inexpensive educational
alternative. It merits the respect of policy makers, the attention of researchers, and the consideration of parents.”
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The Fraser Institute
is an independent research and educational organization based in Canada. Its mission is to measure, study, and communicate
the impact of competitive markets and government intervention on the welfare of individuals. To protect the Institute’s
independence, it does not accept grants from governments or contracts for research.
I found the book at our local library and scanned it about a year ago. I came across it again
this last week - just in time to start driver's ed with my son! I've made copious notes from the book and will be taking
Daniel through the whole program. I'm going to have to get my own copy, though, for reference. Having read through
this program, I think it does prepare the student better (than my driver's ed did) to understand what driving and being
safe is all about.
Oklahoma has a list of approved Parent Taught Driver's Education programs, and Virtual Drivve is
on it. To be honest, most of the programs seemed to be very similar but it is hard to tell without actually having gone
through each one. Virtual Driver is the one we chose, however, because they understood our need to keep costs down and
sent one complete program at regular price and two more student packets at a slightly reduced rate. By clicking
"Other States" at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left, you can see what they offer for your state.
The career planning site for students, parents and young adults. This site has some great things
you can print-out to keep track of your progress as you do the online activities.
This Mayan Tour guides you chronologically through the sites. We begin with a brief history of the
Maya, and an overview of Mayan archaeology in Belize. The time line at the first stop helps you put the different sites and
the Mayan Civilization into perspective. Each stop along the tour presents the history and significance of the specific ruin
and is accompanied by pictures and maps of the site if available.
WritingDEN is designed for students Grades 6 through 12 seeking to improve their English reading,
comprehension, and writing skills. WritingDEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs.
In 1992, the EU created a system to protect and promote traditional and regional food products. Inspired
by the Member States' national systems, such as the French AOC (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée) and the Italian
DOC (Denominazione d'Origine Controllata) — these countries' national systems for protecting the designation
of origin of regional wines — the EU legislation systems were put into place to protect several hundreds of products.
The system strives to:
• Encourage diverse agricultural production • Protect product names from misuse
and imitation • Help consumers to know the specific character of the products
All 1st through 12th grade homeschool students in Oklahoma are invited to participate in the 10th
annual HOPE Homeschool Science Fair sponsored by the HOPE of OKC support group. The event will be held Saturday, January 26,
2008 at Oklahoma Christian University.
Christian Logic: Suggested Course of Study for Learning Logic at Home
A Practical Guide for Homeschoolers by Nathaniel Bluedorn. Copyright 2000, 2002.
All rights reserved. This material is taken from the booklet Learning Logic at Home (562 KB PDF)
Homeschool; Socialization; What's Right for Your Kid?
This is my response to a blog post from my friend, Cassandra:
This is long, and a bit of a soapbox, but it's here if you want to know MY opinions!
I, like Cassandra, homeschool my children. And, I like Cassandra, do not believe it is the
best option for every family. I tend to get a little miffed with opponents of homeschooling who lump all home educators
and all children in one big category like there is one answer for all families.
I took my kids out of public schools for social reasons - most people wouldn't say I homeschool for
religious/Biblical reasons - but I do. I believe that God holds my husband and I primarily responsible for all aspects
of our children's welfare and upbringing, and if I identifiy an area where they are not being educated properly, or are being
harmed, I am bound by my religious convictions to make whatever changes I can. In this case, when the social environment
of the school was threatening for one child, inappropriate for the other, and distracting both from learning, the change that
I was able to make was to remove them from public school and homeschool them.
You gotta "spend" to homeschool: you either spend money, or time. Like Cassandra, I don't spend
a lot of money, so I have to spend a lot of time.
I've had difficult days homeschooling. I've been doing it three years, and had easy times and
tough times. But if I had the decision to make over again - I would decide to homeschool again - only sooner!
If you are contemplating homeschooling, and are afraid you don't have the patience, the smarts, or
the organizational skills, I would encourage you to give yourself the benefit of the doubt and at least try. Public
schools will always take them back - they have to!
And there is no shame in admitting that you tried and it didn't work for you. Everyone thought
I would be a great nurse, including me: but, fortunately, I worked as a nurse's aid before spending all that money on college
- as I watched what nurses do, I realized it wasn't for me at all. No shame - I just am better suited to work in clerical
or teaching work.
Socialization - personally, I think getting along with others is over-rated - LOL. I'm an introverted,
shy, uncomfortable-around-people hermit-type, and years of attending public schools, private schools, church and extra-curriculuar
activities didn't change that. But if you met me, you'd never know - why? Because I grew up around ALL ages of
people and learning to do what was necessary to get by in society.
In fact, the only time I had significant "social" differences was in school when I just didn't want
to have 25 friends all about the same age, height, weight, intelligence, and skin color as myself. As a 1st grader I
remember noting that there was one black family that attended my elementary school and that wasn't what momm or dad's work
was like; that wasn't what day care was like; that wasn't what the grocery store was like; or even my family, who welcomed
to holidays and family gatherings any numbers of people who were different than us in various ways. At 6 years old,
I knew school was not real life and I was only there to learn subjects, not learn about life. It's still that way 36
years later.
That being said: I don't put down the public or private schools as useless and unchangeably damaging.
I learned about reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. I graduated knowing enough to get into college. I made it through
alive without any debilitating habits learned from inappropriate peers or uncaring teachers.
The good parent - YOU, me, Cassandra, my friend down the street, my son's step-mother, etc - is good
not because they decide to homeschool or not to homeschool. The good parent is good because he/she explores the options
available and makes the best decision for each child. (For instance, my friend has one homeschooled and one in public
school.)
If you've made it this far and would like some encouragement or guidance, I'd be glad to talk to
you. I won't have all te answers you need; but you know I'll encourage you to make the best decision for your family
and help you find resources to make that decision.
Thanks, Cassandra, for the opening to clarify once again, for myself, what I'm doing, why I'm doing
it, and how I really feel about it!
This year marks the tenth annual Earth Science Week. With this theme, Earth Science Week activities
will promote public and professional awareness of the status of earth science in education and society. The theme will also
focus attention on geoscience research, such as that associated with the International Polar Year (IPY) and the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), of which AGI is a Founding Partner. Through these major initiatives Earth Science Week will help spread
understanding of the impact the earth sciences have on society.
Find more ideas about how you and others can become involved in Earth Science Week 2007 by visiting
the pages on this site!
TryScience.org is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science
and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and
it's for everyone! That's why TryScience and over 400 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try
science yourself.
We are one of the largest sites on the web for buying and selling new and used homeschool materials,
and for finding and announcing homeschool groups, activities, and events.
can combine with external causes (such as war or natural disaster) to bring about a collapse. What does this mean for modern
civilizations? What can we learn from the past?