The University of Nottingham has created this fun website based on the
Periodic Table of Elements... um... Videos.
Each of these elements has a corresponding video, they show samples of the element, describe its uses, discoveries, and all sorts of interesting information. Excellent!
Other Resources:
Ambleside Online has made Charlotte Mason's 6 volume set of books available for public use and free download.
You can download the epub files for your e-reader by following these links:
Or you can read the entire series online at
Ambleside Online
www.ThielAcademy.blogspot.com
Memorizing Scripture does not have to be a chore! We are using the
Simply Charlotte Mason Scripture Memory System with great success in our household and highly recommend it. It only takes a few minutes a day and is very effective.
Visit the site above for directions on how to use this system. Best of all, you may have everything you need right in your own home.
You'll need:
Here is an update on what were doing. Being a Missionary family we have to make a lot of adjustments! I was asked to write up a short summary for other missionary families of what we've done to downsize for the field without compromising our children's education:
By Michael Maloney
Printed in PHS #44, 2002.
It is 1968, and the results of the first stage of Project Follow-Through have just been released. You say you have never heard of Project Follow-Through? Neither have most schoolteachers and administrators. This is odd, because Project Follow-Through eventually became the largest (250,000 children), most comprehensive (16 methods), longest-running (20+ years), most expensive, ($2.2 billion), comparative study of educational methods ever done in the Western world.
The Follow-Through study was an attempt to systematically determine what methods worked
. . . and what methods didn't . . . when teaching basic skills to "at risk" children considered likely to fail in school. It compared 16 different methods for teaching reading, spelling, language and arithmetic to more than a quarter million primary school children nationwide over more than a 20-year period. Only two of the 16 methods proved to have any effect: Direct Instruction and Behavior Analysis.
Based on this study, attempts were made in several places to implement these new teaching strategies. For a number of political reasons, in spite of their academic success all the public school programs based on Follow-Through research were eventually abandoned.
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