Monday, August 16, 2010
HEADS UP -->
I am in the process of creating a new blog that I will be using to offer printables and lessons that I have created for my children. The link is http://homeschoolingfree.blogspot.com/
Multiplication Completion Sheet
This is a sheet that I created for my 3rd grader so when she has completed and passed one of the multiplication numbers, then I mark it on the sheet, with the date so I can keep track and for record keeping purposes. Feel free to click on the image below and print for yourself. It is in landscape not portrait.
Just click on it and it will show you the full screen size. Then you can print it out. Just remember to select Landscape in your printer options.
Just click on it and it will show you the full screen size. Then you can print it out. Just remember to select Landscape in your printer options.
Thousands of free lessons, & More @EasyFunSchool
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"EasyFunSchool.com has over 1,500 pages of free unit studies, science projects, recipe and craft ideas, history activities & many other resources to make homeschooling more enjoyable for both child and parent! "
FREEBIE OF THE DAY-- Aug. 16th, 2010
http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/
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"PINOCCHIO, the Adventures of a Marionette (PDF ebook)
One of the best page-turning, cliff-hanging "classics" you'll ever read to your children, this is the original classic story by Carl Collodi of the mischievous puppet who wanted to be a real boy. This is a high energy, rollicking, often scary, but always fun tale – a far cry from the Disney-fied version. Each chapter ends pretty much on a cliff-hanger, so once you start this, your kids won't let you stop! Loads of illustrations too. Give it a try and let us know what the kids think of THIS Pinocchio!"
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"PINOCCHIO, the Adventures of a Marionette (PDF ebook)
One of the best page-turning, cliff-hanging "classics" you'll ever read to your children, this is the original classic story by Carl Collodi of the mischievous puppet who wanted to be a real boy. This is a high energy, rollicking, often scary, but always fun tale – a far cry from the Disney-fied version. Each chapter ends pretty much on a cliff-hanger, so once you start this, your kids won't let you stop! Loads of illustrations too. Give it a try and let us know what the kids think of THIS Pinocchio!"
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Giveaway - Crayola Green Back to School Essentials
Giveaway - Crayola Green Back to School Essentials
WHEN ~> Giveaway ends 8/18 at 5 pm EST
WHERE ~> http://www.whosaidnothinginlifeisfree.com
Quote: "One reader will win a Crayola Back-to-School Essentials prize pack."
Click the link above to find out more about the giveaway!
PBS Teachers Newsletter August 12, 2010
PBS Teachers Featured Innovator: Michael Lampert
Watching an airbag deploy with a loud noise in their classroom, students learn not only about Newton’s laws of physics but also how physics are applied to save lives. While traditional physics lessons ask students to drop an egg and watch it crash, Michael Lampert’s airbag activity enables students to imagine themselves in a car crash and understand how restraints act during a collision. Watch Lampert’s classroom demonstration at http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/gallery/entries/88/.
Lampert conducts this and many other engaging, loud, and messy experiments with his students at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, where he teaches microelectronics, physics, and astronomy. His students have won awards in national science and robotics competitions. He has also traveled to Antarctica to study ozone and to Africa to study infrasound. His contributions to PBS’ Wired Science--an exploration of the next generation of science and technology--are featured at http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/education/mlampert.html.
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Arthur: Go Green Challenge
Offline Activity
Grade Range: PreK, K-2
Find new ways to be ecologically smart and keep track of your accomplishments with Arthur’s seven go green challenges.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6984/preview/
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Mathline: In a Heartbeat
Lesson Plan
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Use scatter plots to determine the relationship between heartbeats per minute and aerobic exercise.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mathline/lessonplans/msmp/heartbeat/heartbeat_procedure.shtm
Cyberchase: The Fractionator
Video
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Super math hero The Fractionator explains how to divide a banana into different fractions to eat with his cereal.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea: Ask a Ranger
Offline Activity
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Interview a park ranger and create a story about a National Park using video or other media.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
The Electric Company: Shock’s Beatbox
Interactive
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Engineer your own hip-hop music while learning the sounds of different letters and parts of words to create new sound combinations.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6967/preview/
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History Detectives: Hot Town Poster, Face Jug, Lost City of Gold
On-Air | Monday, August 16, 9pm
Grade Range: 9-12
Learn how a political poster influenced public behavior, discover the connection between a piece of ceramic art and the underground railroad, and investigate what a rock inscription in Phoenix may tell us about the first European visitors to that area.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/index.html
Faces of America: Ma Family History
Video
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Discover how some old books that no one seemed to want contained invaluable records of the family history of cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7629/preview/
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Reproduction of PBS Teacher Previews is permitted with proper credit given to PBS Online. Copyright 2010
Watching an airbag deploy with a loud noise in their classroom, students learn not only about Newton’s laws of physics but also how physics are applied to save lives. While traditional physics lessons ask students to drop an egg and watch it crash, Michael Lampert’s airbag activity enables students to imagine themselves in a car crash and understand how restraints act during a collision. Watch Lampert’s classroom demonstration at http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/gallery/entries/88/.
Lampert conducts this and many other engaging, loud, and messy experiments with his students at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, where he teaches microelectronics, physics, and astronomy. His students have won awards in national science and robotics competitions. He has also traveled to Antarctica to study ozone and to Africa to study infrasound. His contributions to PBS’ Wired Science--an exploration of the next generation of science and technology--are featured at http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/education/mlampert.html.
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Arthur: Go Green Challenge
Offline Activity
Grade Range: PreK, K-2
Find new ways to be ecologically smart and keep track of your accomplishments with Arthur’s seven go green challenges.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6984/preview/
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Mathline: In a Heartbeat
Lesson Plan
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Use scatter plots to determine the relationship between heartbeats per minute and aerobic exercise.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mathline/lessonplans/msmp/heartbeat/heartbeat_procedure.shtm
Cyberchase: The Fractionator
Video
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Super math hero The Fractionator explains how to divide a banana into different fractions to eat with his cereal.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
****
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea: Ask a Ranger
Offline Activity
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Interview a park ranger and create a story about a National Park using video or other media.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7684/preview/
The Electric Company: Shock’s Beatbox
Interactive
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Engineer your own hip-hop music while learning the sounds of different letters and parts of words to create new sound combinations.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/6967/preview/
****
History Detectives: Hot Town Poster, Face Jug, Lost City of Gold
On-Air | Monday, August 16, 9pm
Grade Range: 9-12
Learn how a political poster influenced public behavior, discover the connection between a piece of ceramic art and the underground railroad, and investigate what a rock inscription in Phoenix may tell us about the first European visitors to that area.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/index.html
Faces of America: Ma Family History
Video
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Discover how some old books that no one seemed to want contained invaluable records of the family history of cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7629/preview/
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Reproduction of PBS Teacher Previews is permitted with proper credit given to PBS Online. Copyright 2010
C-SPAN Classroom Contest
New to C-SPAN Classroom
There's still time to win a free Flip Ultra Video Camera for your classroom! All you have to do is add your work to
C-SPAN's Constitution Clips.
C-SPAN Classroom's 2010 Summer Fellows and the Education Department have created a virtual U.S. Constitution. It features video clips taken from C-SPAN's Video Library with prominent political figures discussing various parts of the Constitution.
Here's how you can win:
1. Look through C-SPAN's Constitution Clips.
2. Find a phrase that interests you.
3. Search C-SPAN's Video Library for a clip that addresses that phrase.
4. Clip that section. Clips should be between 30 seconds and 10 minutes in length.
5. Submit the clip to C-SPAN Classroom through our Ning page by sharing the clip's link in the discussion area. Identify which section your clip addresses. Make sure to leave your name and your school's name, so we can credit your work.
We will award a free Flip Ultra Video Camera to the first twenty teachers who post clips that we select for our Constitution Clips. We are looking for clips that feature speakers who represent the diversity of the population of the United States.
We'll officially launch C-SPAN's Constitution Clips on
www.c-spanclassroom.org by Labor Day. After the launch we will continue to add video clips that we hope will provide more robust options for you to use in your classroom. If you have any questions, please contact us at educate@c-span.org.
Good luck on your search, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!
Sincerely,
C-SPAN Classroom
There's still time to win a free Flip Ultra Video Camera for your classroom! All you have to do is add your work to
C-SPAN's Constitution Clips.
C-SPAN Classroom's 2010 Summer Fellows and the Education Department have created a virtual U.S. Constitution. It features video clips taken from C-SPAN's Video Library with prominent political figures discussing various parts of the Constitution.
Here's how you can win:
1. Look through C-SPAN's Constitution Clips.
2. Find a phrase that interests you.
3. Search C-SPAN's Video Library for a clip that addresses that phrase.
4. Clip that section. Clips should be between 30 seconds and 10 minutes in length.
5. Submit the clip to C-SPAN Classroom through our Ning page by sharing the clip's link in the discussion area. Identify which section your clip addresses. Make sure to leave your name and your school's name, so we can credit your work.
We will award a free Flip Ultra Video Camera to the first twenty teachers who post clips that we select for our Constitution Clips. We are looking for clips that feature speakers who represent the diversity of the population of the United States.
We'll officially launch C-SPAN's Constitution Clips on
www.c-spanclassroom.org by Labor Day. After the launch we will continue to add video clips that we hope will provide more robust options for you to use in your classroom. If you have any questions, please contact us at educate@c-span.org.
Good luck on your search, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!
Sincerely,
C-SPAN Classroom
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