Homeschooling Resource

Discovered a great collection of homeschooling resources all in one online binder. It has all of the standard course resources like math, science, grammar, but also useful ideas for PE, art, Music, and spelling.

Check out'Amyswanderings' binder below:

Homeschool for Free

St. Patrick's Day Lesson Plans

If you are looking to spice up your lessons around the theme of St. Patrick's day, here is another binder from xmath with some great resources on activities and the history of the St. Patrick's day holiday.

St Patrick's Day Resources

Olympic Teaching Plans

This may be a little late, but if you are looking for a special Friday project, check out this livebinder on activities around the 2010 Olympics.

OLYMPIC LESSON PLANS

Gardens at School

Spring is another 6 weeks away, but that doesn't mean we can't get ready for it. Nice job by 'ianjod' who create a livebinder on all these great resources for gardening at your school. He has included some handouts in colorful PDFs that give examples of what schools have done to participate in the gardening activities. It also includes the pedagogy behind these outdoor - tactile activities. There are even some lovely pictures from some example school projects.

Any teacher who is thinking about engaging the kids in a garden project will want to check out this livebinder.

School Gardens

Sugar - the bitter truth videos

I found this binder with a great collection of Youtube videos showing a powerpoint presentation given by Robert H. Lustig professor of pediatrics at UCSF talking about recent research on the effects of sugar. He not only explains what sugar does to your body, but also how high concentrations of sugar in the form of corn syrup, and fructose are even more deadly. This will change the way you eat and live your life.

Please view these videos and become informed for yourself and your family.

Sugar – how bad is it?

Another binder on learning the States

Here is another binder put together covering all of the facts on the different states in the US. There is even a very useful and engaging interactive game in the last tab that will help quiz your kids about all of the state capitals.

Click on the link or binder icon below to launch:

States: facts and links

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.

Decimal Fractions