Have You Heard Of Home School Education Curriculum
The Internet makes it easy to provide a high-quality home school education to your children. If you are just getting started in home school education, these free internet resources will expand your curriculum and give your children a variety of learning opportunities.
Your children can take virtual tours of factories and other settings to find out firsthand how things are made. You simply go to the web site of the tour and click on arrows to take a photo tour that includes all sorts of interesting information. Children work on their reading abilities as they learn.
The Virtual Field Trip to a Book Factory shows youngsters the book business from the viewpoint of a writer who would like to get their book broadcast. They work with customer service and go through the pre-press process. Students learn about the different types of printing presses and inks that the book industry uses for text pages, illustrations, photographs, and book covers. Then they go through the bindery to see how hardbound and paperback books get assembled and ready for shipping to the bookstore.
The Virtual Field Trip to see how Maple Syrup is Made includes several videos from different sources. One video shows the process of making maple syrup, from extracting sap from the tree, to putting the syrup on the table. Learn how to determine where to take the sap out of a maple tree, how to repel squirrels, and how to collect, filter, and cook the sap.
Mad Libs are stories where some of the words are intentionally omitted. Students use Mad Libs as an entertaining way to learn the various parts of speech like nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Mad Lib games keep students engaged and interested.
Mad Lib themes cover a variety of topics, from science and history to pop culture.
You can download classic audiobooks for free and use them to teach reading and literature as part of your children’s home school education. These are the great books that used to be needed reading in public faculties, before assessment tests drove curriculum. Your kids will enjoy listening to great stories like Pilgrim’s Progress and The Call Of The Wild. The copyrights have expired on these classics, so you can download them for free onto your hard drive, mp3 player, or iPod and listen to them one chapter at a time.
Some online home college education sites supply a free e-mail tip of the day or end of the week, or a free newsletter. Use these offers to keep your home school educational material fresh and interesting.
Lisa Lavie “Maple Leafs” (ORIGINAL)