History Lesson Plans

http://www.besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.

Preschool Journaling

One idea for Jm is to use daily journal activities to do one page a day in a book together. One list I have is for older kids to write a paragraph but it might be fun to use some of these ideas together. For example:

September Day 1: Trace your hand. On it write your name, age, address, phone number and birthday.
Day 2: 4 sentences about September
Day 3: Draw and write what you eat for breakfast
Day 4: Write a list of words that describe fall.
Day 5: What are your favorite clothes?

These types of topics might be good discussion points and if we did them together in a book, it would be a fun memory of "3 1/2".

Here's a set of calendars of journal topics but they may be too old:
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/printables/writing.htm

SAT and ACT Accomodations

A very good article about the steps homeschoolers would need to go through to get accommodations for taking tests -- like more time...
http://learndifferently.com/SAT%20SSD.htm

Definite Summer Camp in 2010?

Chemistry and Engineering of Polymers and Fibers: A Workshop for High School Students
August
http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/departments/tecs/pcc/polymercamp/

Applications being in May!

Also, Engineering Summer Programs at NCSU for highschoolers:
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/summerprograms
And a list of the workshops:
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/summerprograms/workshops.html

More Learning Styles Links

Fairly simple Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic test:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/vak.html

Homeschool Learning Style Preference test (Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic test -- my score was 42% Visual, 35% Auditory, 21% Kinesthetic in 2007):

http://www.howtolearn.com/lsinventory_homeschool.html

Which Side Do You Use? A test for left/right brain dominance:
http://brain.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm
In 2009, mine was 7 right and 11 left.

Learning Styles and Personality Types:
A good description of Myers Briggs and impact on learning
http://www.wnc.edu/studentservices/counseling/styles_types

Some great diagrams and discussion about the different learning/processing areas on the left brain and right brain, differences in how women and men think, etc.
http://www.hiddentalents.org

More Preschool Options

Website with lots of good preschool sites:
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/index.htm (Paula's Archives)
Has links for preschool as well as things to do with 3 and 4 yo's -- and some good articles about stepping back and figuring out what your priorities are for this group.

Another good article about homeschooling preschoolers (including a very cool dark to light sort of color paint cards)

http://homeschoolhighlights.com/01_preschoolers/

BBC Spanish

The BBC website has many language options -- someone on one loop I'm on was using it for a highschool language credit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

Virtual Homeschool group

http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/

Not sure what this is but I think it's worth checking to see how they've used the technology (including moodle).

Preschool Curriculum

A very expensive ($99 for ebook) preschool curriculum book that looks really tempting -- but, $99 for one ebook????

http://www.homeschool-your-boys.com/learnandgrowpreschoolcurriculum.html

Personality Pages

A great INFJ site:
http://www.infj.com/

And the author's husband's INTJ site which is almost as good:
http://www.intj.org/

A good description of the 16 types including whether it's Ne or Ni, etc. (cognitive processes) -- explains more.
http://www.interstrength.com/curriculum/16types.html

The Cosmic Computer

Might be a good book! Not sure where I saw it referenced.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20727/20727-h/20727-h.htm

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cosmic Computer, by Henry Beam Piper

Conn Maxwell told them: "There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are.

"But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin!"

Nevertheless the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't, for the search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Merlin meant everything to them: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited.

Conn had known they'd never believe him, and so he had a trick or two up his space-trained sleeve that might outwit even their fabled Cosmic Computer ... if they dared accept his challenge.

Sixty Symbols

Some very cool 3 to 5 minute videos explaining 60 symbols used in physics and astronomy. You could learn a lot just watching the videos:
http://www.sixtysymbols.com/#

Spanish for Middleschool

Some options:
Breaking the Barrier (French and Spanish)
Workbooks with grammar as the basis, also includes CD
http://www.tobreak.com/home

From HEAV Conference -- may work for whole family?
La Clase Divertida
http://funclase.com

Of course, Rosetta Stone and several others