Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Decimal fractions

The user 'redhills' put together a useful collection of websites that help high school and middle school students understand decimals. There are some fun interactive applications that help kids understand placement and how that can change the value of a number. There are also some sites that help with decimal plotting on graphs.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Study Resources on Pearl Harbor

Found another great binder by 'xmath' who has combined a rich resource of links on the history of Pearl Harbor. If you are teaching a class on this subject, you might want to start by looking at this binder:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Colonial America Resources

My daughter is in the 4th grade and we just recently went to Philadelphia and Boston for Thanksgiving. Her teacher recommended we stop and visit some historical sites because they will be covering the colonial period later this year. We really enjoyed visiting downtown Philadelphia, visiting the Betsy Ross home, Liberty Center where we saw the Liberty Bell, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin's tombstone and the location of their last home. We also saw the oldest rent district in the US - Elfray's Alley. There have been residence occupying the buildings since the 1700s.

There is a wonderful collection of resources from 'lthurber' covering the colonial period. I would recommend checking out these references if your child is working on a history project for this time period.