An amazing group of free youtube videos on various math topics -- from pre-algebra all the way up through differential equations, physics, finance, economics, trig, linear programming, etc.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
From the website:
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
We have 800+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here.
The entire video library is shown below. Just click on a category or video title to start learning from the Khan Academy!
Calculus | Precalculus | Trigonometry | Algebra | Finance | Pre-algebra | Arithmetic | Geometry | Physics | SAT Preparation | Probability | Linear Algebra | Differential Equations | Credit Crisis | Banking and Money | Paulson Bailout | California Standards Test: Algebra II | California Standards Test: Algebra I | California Standards Test: Geometry | Venture Capital and Capital Markets | Statistics | Geithner Plan | Current Economics
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
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.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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
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
Monday, July 20, 2009
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
http://learndifferently.com/SAT%20SSD.htm
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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
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
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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
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/
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/
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