A Great Way To Study World Geography

You can't turn on the news these days without hearing about Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan , but where exactly are they? If you are like most Americans, you really don't know.

RethinkingSchools.org offers a free, interactive web application that does amazing job of teaching the locations of countries in and around the Middle East. The site is interactive, allowing you to click on the name of a country and drag it to the location on the map.

Homeschool buy and sell website

If you are in need of some new textbooks, or need to sell a few, you might want to head over to the Storehouse Depot. The goal of the website is "to provide a safe place for homeschool families to easily buy and sell resources and materials directly to and from other homeschool families."

Math Learning Development Chart

Wondering where your child stands mathematically? What math skills should they have, and by what age? DreamBox Learning's math educators developed this chart to answer those very questions. In addition, the chart gives teaching tips, games and activities that will assist your child's math development.

Virtual Dissection

Looking for a way to teach your child anatomy without all the messiness of real dissection? Why not try virtual dissection? Similar to the old-fashioned way, your student will learn all about the parts, but there will be no mess to clean up.

Here is a link to a virtual eye dissection.

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Teaching Left and Right

If your child is having a hard time telling the difference between left and right, have them make the shapes above with their hand. The one that looks like an L is supposed to look is their left hand, and the other is their right!

Dinosaur Multiplication

My boys have been begging me to teach them more about multiplication. Since we are reading a book about dinosaurs, I figured it might be fun to incorporate that into the lesson.

The supplies

I wrote a multiplication problem on the whiteboard. The first number was the number of "nests" and the second number was the number of "dinosaur eggs".

The boys placed the M&Ms onto the felt nests, and then wrote the problem in their notebooks.

Although Luke isn't old enough to multiply, he had fun counting the "dinosaur eggs".