October’s Links Around the Web

October 1, 2009

A selection of links

From New Zealand

Mad Hatter Books Mad Hatter Books specialises in second hand, collectible and out-of-print children’s books

Auckland Zoo’s education programmes which are individually priced. www.aucklandzoo.co.nz

Freecycle is  a worldwide movement aimed at reducing items – both working and non-working – which would normally go to the landfill, in a not-for-profit way. You can either wait for items to come up (be very quick to make contact for a chance of getting them); or you can place a “Wanted” note which has to be very short.

www.freecycle.org/group/NZ/New_Zealand/Auckland – for Auckland
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ManurewaFreecycle/ – for South Auckland

I am sure there are other groups around the country.

Around the world

Exploring Homeschooling the ins and outs of the BIG decision ( Christian ) www.exploringhomeschooling.com/

Making a timeline using Excel www.microsoft.com/education/createtimeline.mspx

FREE e-book for those interested including stuff from Ruth Beechick, FIAR,
Amanda Bennett and Old Schoolhouse www.knowledgequestmaps.com/The-New-School-Year.html

Incredible Art Lessons

Database of Free online curriculum

Free Kids Astronomy Course

Spelling City A wonderful resource for free.

Audio science snippets for kids ( Thanks to Darnia )

A conversation with Greg Harris . Greg Harris has a blog here

www.brainpop.com ( approx 10yrs and over) and  www.brainpopjr.com (approx 6-10 yrs)

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Links around the web

September 4, 2009

From New Zealand

Winz and Home schooling and the DPB
http://hef.org.nz/2009/home-schooling-and-winz-dpb-in-new-zealand/

Help in filling out an exemption:
http://hef.org.nz/category/applying-for-exemption/

Around the World
Click on the headings.www.khanacademy.org The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
We have 800+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Free on-line writing school
http://www.mes-english.com/ Printables – great helps for homeschooling: free flashcards, worksheets and handouts to match, free phonics cards, free ESL games, an international project exchange library, printable certificates, printable stickers and activities all ready for printing

http://www.urthemom.com/ Homeschool Planner and help with self teaching and mastery learning. She runs a Yahoo group called Raising Self-Learners 4 Life! (US based but open to New Zealanders) and a blog

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/educational.php Astronomy. An excellent, free download open source program runs in planetariums… it is called Celestia. If your computer is not too old and your graphics card is more than 256K then this should work very well on your computer.  This page will take you to the Educational version download, which has had activities programmed and documented for it.   And, yes, those activities and worksheets are downloadable too. It pays to print out the overview to give you a starting point, and this will help you learn to navigate without too much overload. There is also an updated full version, and extra models and objects that can be uploaded – including spacecrafts from real life, and fiction ie. Star Wars, Star Trek.

http://www.livingjoyfully.ca Unschooling

Handbook of Nature Study  available free  online version http://www.archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp
There is also a great blog with challenges/activities etc based on the book  http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com

Sites to feed  a hungry mind: list of sites that can be visited daily for students

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