| THSM :: Our 10 year anniversary, Constitution Day, Museums, Roadschooling and more |
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TheHomeSchoolMom is turning ten years old! It's hard to believe, but in October we will be celebrating a decade of service to homeschoolers. We've come a long way since we launched TheHomeSchoolMom.com and that first issue of the newsletter with less than 90 subscribers (we now have over 22,500). Thank you to all of you who have been with us since the beginning or joined along the way, and a big welcome to our new subscribers. As we look to our second decade of publication, we are expanding TheHomeSchoolMom.com to include a new section for homeschool reviews. We are working diligently on the back-end and will keep you posted on our progress. When we launch, you'll want to be ready to post reviews of the homeschool products that you have used because we will be raffling some great prizes for reviewers! |
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| Site of the Week: Literature Resource |
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GradeSaver offers high quality study guides that are written and edited by Harvard students. ClassicNotes are excellent book notes available online, in PDF or in print from Amazon. The detailed book summaries are linked to character summaries, helping the reader sort out who is who. The ClassicNotes also include suggested essay questions, interactive quizzes, and author backgrounds. |
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| Site of the Week: News Basics |
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News-Basics.com provides concise, impartial background information about the major news stories of our time. Each News-Basics piece is geared toward grades 9-12 (but is written simply enough so that 7th and 8th graders can use it too) and can be read in a few minutes. As with any resource, parents may want to preview the content on controversial topics before assigning them. The topics I checked were impartial but I only selected a few for review. There is a Teacher Page with links to lesson plans, news quizzes, suggestions on how to use the site in the classroom, and more. |
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| Site of the Week: Awesome Stories |
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I found this incredible site when I was searching for resources for our new page about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I love primary sources and the way that Awesome Stories embeds links to primary sources within each story is a great way to discover history while verifying the accuracy of the facts. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located ... Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment. |
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| Site of the Week: Education Corner |
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Recommended by a reader, Education Corner is a vast website with tens of thousands of editor-reviewed articles and links. In particular, the Study Skills page is work a look. Dozens of test taking and study skills guides are listed, along with links to study guides for specific subjects. Resources range from Improving Your Note Taking to an Anthropology Study Guide. |
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| Site of the Week: The Boy Mechanic Vol. 2 |
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Chest of Books presents free online books on a variety of topics. This 1948 Popular Mechanics publication is one of hundreds available online. Summary:
How to construct devices for winter sports, motion-picture camera, indoor games, reed furniture, electrical novelties, boats, fishing rods, camps and camp appliances, kites and gliders, pushmobiles, roller coaster, ferris wheel and hundreds of other things which delight every boy.
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| Site of the Week: NASA Moonbase Alpha |
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Moonbase Alpha is a NASA-funded multiplayer game scenario with 20 minutes of play set on a hypothetical lunar outpost in 3-D immersive setting. This is a proof of concept to show NASA content – lunar architecture in this case – and a cutting edge game engine could be combined to produce a fun game and inspire interest in STEM education. |
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| Site of the Week: Supercharged Science |
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I've spoken with the folks at Supercharged Science, and they've agreed to let me give my subscribers a collection of experiments (detailed in the Science Activity Manual) and corresponding videos that take your kids through the activities step-by-step. Even though the book and videos are listed on her website for $30, I've got them for you today for free. Enjoy! |
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| 7 Reasons to Homeschool Through High School |
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Why would you want to homeschool through high school? Do the advantages really make it worth while? My husband and I homeschooled all four of our boys from kindergarten into early college, and we’d do it all over again in a minute. It was a joyous journey! Here are seven reasons you may want to consider homeschooling through high school. |
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| Site of the Week: Odyssey Online |
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Odyssey Online is an online journey exploring the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa. Each period contains information on the people, mythology, daily life, death and burial, writing, and archaeology of the culture in addition to museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. In the main area there are puzzles, games, and worksheets; there is also a teacher resource area with lesson plans to go along with Odyssey Online, ideas to integrate art into your social studies curriculum, and resources for further study. |
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| Site of the Week: EyeWitness to History |
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EyeWitness to History is an award-winning website presenting history through the perspective of those who actually lived it - from the ancient world through the 20th century. Be aware that it is not white-washed or edited for children, but with proper supervision it is an awesome resource for studying history from the point of view of those who were living it. |
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| Site of the Week: Printables 4 Kids |
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When my children were younger, I would print off a packet of games and puzzles tailored to their interests and pull it out when they were bored. They enjoyed working on word searches and mazes along with other puzzles and printables on long car trips or while we were waiting for appointments. Printables4Kids has a large selection of original printables for a variety of topics (answer sheets available for word searches, word scrambles, and similar printables). |
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| The Steiner Waldorf Approach to Education |
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The Steiner Waldorf approach to education emphasizes on the use of practical, artistic and conceptual elements into education. This method of education was established by Rudolf Steiner, the founder of a philosophy called anthrophosophy. The Steiner Waldorf approach is based on the fact that the role of imagination in learning is integral for the development of creative and analytical thinking. This educational approach is aimed at providing an environment where young people can develop free thinking, which can be a basis for developing their own personalities as responsible individuals by fulfilling their destiny. |
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| Teaching Children to Write by Teaching Self-Editing and Peer Editing Skills |
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Editing is best taught as an isolated skill and from the time children are old enough to rework a piece of writing, they are old enough to self-edit and peer edit. Recopying a piece of writing that has been corrected to death by an adult is not editing and it serves no good purpose beyond penmanship practice. If you want to teach children to write well, your best bet is to teach them to self-edit and peer edit... |
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| Site of the Week: Akamai Backyard |
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You are in for a treat! Akamai Backyard is a website that is an audio-visual feast highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Felicia Cowden, a homeschool mom in Kauai, Hawaii, and her 7 middle school students. While looking at world challenges and studying Hawaiian culture, she and the students decided to turn discouraging lessons into a joyful empowering process of creating solutions in their own backyard. |
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