Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König. [If you're reading in a reader or by email, you may need to click through to see the video.] Is your family studying geography, meteorology, or astronomy right now? This video by NASA would be an incredible addition to [...]
Joely was practicing with her Periodic Table of the Elements worksheets today, and she was having trouble spelling the names of the elements for one of the pages. To help her, I printed out an alphabetical list of the elements for her to refer to, and that fixed the problem immediately. I figured it'd be [...]
Joely decided she wanted to learn about chemistry this year, so I did some research and purchased Christian Kids Explore Chemistry. We're liking it so far, and she's learning alot. However, I'm not liking the flashcard method of learning the element names. So I've come up with a different method for her, hopefully one that [...]
When using any curriculum for a given subject, it's always helpful to supplement with other resources. A different point of view can often make a difficult-to-grasp subject easier to understand. That's what we've been doing with my son's science curriculum this last week. He's been studying some basic physics — speed, acceleration, force, etc. — [...]
I happened across this video earlier this evening and was intrigued. Apparently humans can't walk in a straight line when they can't see where they're going? Interesting thought. After watching the video, tell me you don't think this would make an interesting science fair experiment. (If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may [...]
The subject of temperature, boiling points, and Celsius vs. Fahrenheit arose during Jaden's science lesson today. It served as a reminder that I'm not very confident about converting tempteratures between Celsius and Fahrenheit; and I discovered my son needed a review as well. I created these two printable study charts about Celsius and Fahrenheit to [...]
The next time you're looking for some videos of marine life or animal life, you need to check out OceanFootage.com and NatureFootage.com. Both sites actually offer stock footage for licensing, but the videos are available for viewing, so homeschoolers can easily use the site for educational purposes. The videos on both sites are organized in [...]
If you're a homeschooler and you've never heard about the Discovery Channel show called Mythbusters, you're missing out on a great resource for homeschooling. Mythbusters' hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage use the scientific method — and usually some black powder — to bust or confirm myths about just about anything. With crash-test dummies, homemade [...]
Have you ever heard of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope project? I have to admit, I'm always pretty leery of anything produced by Microsoft (I'm a diehard Mac lover myself), but when I took a look at what the WorldWide Telescope project was, I was very impressed. It's a homeschooler's dream, especially if you have kids that [...]
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Joy is the wife of Jeff and mom to three more J's — Jaden, Jerah, and Joely.
She and her husband have been homeschooling their children since 2005, when their children were 3, 6, and 8. Joy works from home as a web & graphic designer and spends what little free time she has with her nose buried in a good book.
Joy's motto for parenting, homeschooling, and even business is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” And that's what FiveJs.com is all about — teaching our children to "fish."
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