Homeschooling Education Articles for Teachers - Page 8

The weather is one thing people desperately try to predict, control, and understand. A meteorologist has often had to face slight ridicule after predicting there would be a sunny day with a cloudless sky, only to be met with pouring rain. People have come a long way in understanding the principle...

The book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" is the type of classic that everyone can enjoy. A movie, based on this book, is scheduled to be in wide release on September 18th. Inspired by the children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett, the movie "Cloudy with a Chance...

Nothing causes more excitement and confusion for homeschooling parents than the topic of curriculum. In some capacity, it is the foundational tool for teaching. Parents tend to feel very strongly about the topic, whether they use it or not. Regardless, natural questions consistently crop up among...

Magnets can be the basis for simple, scientific projects that can be motivating for your students. The objects involved can be manipulated, and interact with other materials. It is a perfect way to engage the kinesthetic learner. Kits are the easiest way to get the materials to complete projects...

There are those days when the weather outside is dark and gloomy, and all you want to do is cuddle up in bed with your children. These are the best times to remember that home-schooling provides golden opportunities to skip out of a day going over math facts and grammar rules. It's these precious...

While August may be National Immunization Month, the issue of vaccines will be a hot topic during the next few months as well. With health organizations preparing for a possible second round of the Swine Flu (H1N1), and a vaccine scheduled to be available in the middle of October, teachers and pa...

Poetry is able to evoke emotions and feeling in concise language. The language and imagery in poetry provide a glimpse of an inner world that prose often muddles through clumsily. The staircase of a poem seems easy to navigate from a distance. However, the steps can be trickier than perceived. In...

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a novel in which the power of children to make a difference is affirmed. It is a wonderful read, and explores the direct influence youth have over presumed insurmountable obstacles. It provides a great learning tool for both secular and religi...

Crime Scene Investigations (CSI) is the new hot term for old school detection. Students can learn how to become detectives to solve mysteries in all all different areas of the curriculum - from literature to science. The theme "catching the perpetrator" can apply to many different disciplines, an...

Military conquests can become monotonous when you do "just the facts" types of lessons. Students often have the idea that military battles happened in the past, to people unlike themselves. This naturally creates a buffer, and makes the material seem disconnected from present experience. Many chi...

The smell of something bubbling on the stove, or baking in the oven, is intoxicating. The same holds true for a well-constructed system of government. The recipe for democracy has been mixed, and blended over the years into our modern concoction. Children can use the previous ancient democracy ...

  You may be familiar with the phrase "When in Rome . . .". Like all phrases, this one may lose something in translation. For our purposes, this saying can mean: If you take your kids back in time to Ancient Rome, they'll pick up a thing or two along the way as a souvenir. Learning about democra...

It's a rare opportunity to be a spectator, or even a participant, in a historic movement. The last few weeks we have witnessed a marriage of modern technology, and political protest. Some Iranian citizens have taken the world by storm. They have been able to bypass the suppression of information,...

                                                                               Civic lessons on the topic of democracy can be as dry and brittle as the ancient documents that support the government institutions. The political model is very complex, and can become staid with its dense subject mat...