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"Back to School" Gibbs Heritage Home School Program
Date:Repeats every week every Tuesday and every Wednesday and every Thursday until Thu Apr 08 2010 .Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00The Gibbs Heritage School provides home-schooled children with a
unique field trip opportunity to learn in a nineteenth-century country
school house. This is a new three-hour history immersion program
designed for 2nd -6th grade-level children.Children will:
Homeschooling Resources to teach evolution
The Associated Press recently reported "Top Homeschool Texts dismiss Darwin, evolution" and while I disagree with much of the article, as a homeschooler who chooses to teach my children about evolution, the headline is certainly true, and I and my friends have struggled to find homeschool-friendly science curricula that teach evolution, and don't take a creation science perspective. The AP's article motivated me to really dig, and I've found some resources I'd like to
Virtual Age- Dating: a free interactive tool that explains "carbon" dating
Virtual age-dating is an interactive tool that describes how geologists and archeologists are able to determine the age of samples. Aimed at high school level and above, but an interested middle school level child could grasp the concepts introduced with help. Students should be familiar with the concept of ions , percentages and how to read data off a graph to do the exercise. FWIW, I think the scale of some of the graphs are poorly chosen, and make it difficult to be as precise as the exercise requires; a per
Chinese Bug- free Mandarin language memorization tool
Chinese Bug is a program to help students of Mandarin memorize new vocabulary, both spoken and written. A large number of words is available, and you can easily customize the software to quiz you based on a word list you enter, or pre-loaded word lists to accompany any of 8 commercially available Mandarin programs. The interface works well and is easy to use.
Art-to-Go from the Baltimore Museum of Art (for all ages)
Every month in the school year the Baltimore Museum of Art picks a piece of art in their collection, writes up an art theory lesson for that piece, including an art project, and makes the lesson and a high quality photograph of the piece available for free download. This is the third school year they've done it, and the archives are freely available. The art they've chosen is stunning, and the projects tend to be managable at home, assuming you have or are willing to purchase materials when necessary. The collection includes art from a wide range of locations and time peri
Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading - Strategy guides for grades 2-5
Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading is an integrated reading and science curriculum for elementary school classrooms designed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California. The complete curriculum is not available to homeschoolers, but "strategy guides" are available online for free. The strategy guides are lesson plans for teaching reading, text analysis, and research skills along with science via 63 different books, from relatively simple picture books to reference books.
