Builder Books-Building a Strong Educational Foundation
By Linda Pliagas
With so many web-based stores selling educational materials, how does a parent know which curriculum fits best into their homeschool setting?
This important question is just one that Patty Alberg, owner of Builder Books, answers on a regular basis from homeschool parents.
When asked what separates Builder Books, www.bbhomeschoolcatalog.com,
from other online book stores, Alberg immediately replies: “Customer service”.
“We’ve been homeschooling for many years,” Alberg says, “We can answer questions parents have about which books fit best into their program.”
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Academic Superstore
“Super” is the operative word when referring to Academic Superstore! A quick glimpse at the first page of their website will enthrall anyone interested in software – Adobe, Autodesk, Sony, Corel, Sibelius, Microsoft . . . the names are dazzling and the prices are remarkable! Educational discounts of over $800 on Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, for instance! In the Books & Training section of the website are even more great savings on books and DVDs for learning how to master these programs and many more.
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BrainPOP®
By Michael Leppert
BrainPOP.com is a subscription-based educational website with a current catalog of 600 interesting animated “movies” that impart information covering six topics: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health and Technology. The movies all feature two characters, Tim and Moby, a young man and his robot. Together, they explore the topics, answering questions and discussing pertinent aspects of the fields of study. The history of agriculture, for instance, is fascinating in providing a short insight into the development for farming and its effects on people since the Sumerians.
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Builder Books-Building a Strong Educational Foundation
By Linda Pliagas
With so many web-based stores selling educational materials, how does a parent know which curriculum fits best into their homeschool setting?
This important question is just one that Patty Alberg, owner of Builder Books, answers on a regular basis from homeschool parents.
When asked what separates Builder Books, www.bbhomeschoolcatalog.com,
from other online book stores, Alberg immediately replies: “Customer service”.
“We’ve been homeschooling for many years,” Alberg says, “We can answer questions parents have about which books fit best into their program.”
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CENTRIFUGE LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM - Not Only Content, But a Whole New System of Teaching
Review By Kay Miller
One of the most difficult tasks of a homeschool parent is choosing an effective language arts curriculum. Many parents find themselves mixing and matching programs in an attempt to create the best match for their child. And, for families with multiple children, a language arts program that works for one child often doesn’t work with another and what works one year, may not work the next. Taking this dilemma into consideration, Centrifuge Language Arts Curriculum designed a comprehensive K-12 language arts program that is adaptable to all academic levels and meets the needs of both accelerated and disadvantaged students. The curriculum framework features complete correlated coverage of 6 areas of language arts: phonics, English grammar, spelling, creative writing, penmanship and how to teach reading.
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Concise Curriculum
Integrating the Standards: Social Studies, Reading, and Language Arts is a student workbook for upper elementary students. We currently have two upper elementary workbooks. Our workbooks are an entire course of study for social studies with reading and language arts skills throughout the book.
Ready-Made Lesson Plans!!!
Our workbooks provide a complete program, with no lesson plan time for the teacher/parent! All lesson plans are done for you! All directions and examples are given in the workbook. The student is given clear directions and examples, and the teacher/parent is there to guide the student and answer questions. The teacher/parent is relieved of hours of preparation time. A free answer key/teacher’s guide comes with each book.
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Cotton's Journey: Planting the Seeds of Knowledge
Have you ever wondered where the clothes you and your family wear come from…or the dressing you put on your salad…or the sheets and towels you use everyday? Did you know that fine writing paper, medical supplies, plastics, cosmetics, recording tapes and even the money you use to buy these things are made from COTTON?
A comprehensive kit designed by a third generation farm family from Tranquillity, California, the Yribarren Family can answer these questions and more. In 1993, Janette and Rick, along with their three sons Jeff, Mitch and Travis, wanted to let the rest of the Nation know what they had already discovered; and to do it in a fun and educational manner. Hence, Cotton’s Journey—A Field Trip In a Box was conceived.
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GAME ON! Teens immerse for 2 weeks in the dynamic world of gaming development and professional gaming. Choose one of the three offered courses: (1) Game Modeling with Maya®, (2) Game Programming or (3) Camp Fatal1ty. Students can expect late-night NVIDIA®-hosted gaming tournaments and LAN parties. A major game development studio tour will anchor each session as students learn first-hand how industry professionals create premier commercial games. Program is offered at four prestigious universities so students also get exposed to a university while they're attending this program. Locations include: Stanford University, UCLA, Emory University and Villanova University. Save with code WD43..
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The Dow's Schoolroom.com
Diana Dow, a homeschooling mom of six for many years, knows her subject(s) and she brings her knowledge and expertise to your fingertips with her large website resource, The Dow's Schoolroom. Although Diana is a Christian homeschooler and her site features many Christian-based products, she also searches out and offers products that are not, and are completely suitable for non-Christian homeschoolers.
When a new homeschooling parent is wondering what to do, how to proceed, "Does everybody else experience this?" there is nothing like the voice of a seasoned "professional" homeschooling mom to ease your mind and clear your way.
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Hewitt Homeschooling Resources: Lightning Lit & Comp
By Linda K. Foster
Lightning Lit & Comp guides, published by Hewitt Homeschooling Resources, are a unique approach in the combined study of literature and composition. Unlike most other programs that require reading a variety of seemingly disconnected pieces of literature, Lightning Lit focuses on a limited number of classics to provide an in-depth, systematic study approach. Lightning Lit and Comp guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Guides are available for a variety of junior and high school courses including American Literature, British Literature, World Literature, Christian British Authors and Shakespeare.
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Homeschooling Books
www.homeschoolingbooks.com
One of the greatest advantages of homeschooling is being able to develop a course of study that fits your child's individual needs, talents, and interests. Homeschooling allows you to build on a child's natural curiosity and develop a love for learning that lasts a lifetime. But, oh, the choices we now have!
There are so many opportunities for learning...so many curriculum options...so many hands-on resources...so many projects and activities available.
How do we choose?
How do we put it all together?
Where do we start?
Or where do we go from here?
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The Homeschool Place
By Kyle Zook
If you haven’t stopped by The Homeschool Place in your search for homeschooling information, you are missing out on a major resource! Owned and operated by the Erickson family, TheHomeschoolPlace.com has grown to include resources, products, reviews, lists of well recognized homeschoolers . . . in short, a veritable smorgasbord of all things homeschooling.
The Erickson’s are a veteran Christian homeschooling family operating out of sunny Pinellas County, Florida, and have been homeschooling now for over eight years. The Erickson’s have really put a lot of effort into making their site practical & user friendly.
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Oak Meadow School
by Michael Leppert
One of the original homeschool curriculum creators is also the premier K-12 distance-learning school for homeschoolers all over the globe. Oak Meadow is a well-known name to any “veteran” homeschooling family, having begun providing creative curriculum products and distance learning instruction in the late 1970s.
Lawrence Williams and his late wife, Bonnie, began Oak Meadow as a day school in Ojai, California in 1975. Lawrence had a B.S. in Marketing and an M.A. in Elementary Education and had been influenced by the Waldorf educational philosophy during a visit to Switzerland in the early 1970s. At Oak Meadow School, he taught his own children, as well as children of a small group of local families, using his own Waldorf-inspired philosophy of holistic teaching.
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Rocky Mountain Learning Systems
By Linda K. Foster
Research has shown that learning and memory retention increases dramatically when students use the greatest number of sensory modalities (seeing, hearing, touching, speech) simultaneously. Multimedia computer technology makes it possible to integrate multiple sensory modalities into educational programs designed to help students learn more easily and efficiently. With this in mind, Rocky Mountain Learning Systems seeks to find the best educational resources and make them available to benefit one person at a time.
Rocky Mountain Learning Systems offers programs produced by the leaders in educational program development. The carefully-chosen programs are more than “edutainment” programs that are mostly entertainment with a few educational elements thrown in. Rocky Mountain Learning Systems programs are tried-and-true educational programs designed to provide early learning through adult education.
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Why Are So Many Christians Teens Abandoning Their Faith?
Not only are large numbers of Christians (and especially Christian youth) abandoning their faith; they are adopting the false ideas presented throughout our culture: Darwinism, naturalism, relativism, postmodernism, pluralism, and many others. Christians have simply not been taught how to develop a comprehensive Christian view of reality or an intelligent biblical defense regarding the fundamental issues of our day.
More college freshmen today describe themselves as liberal than at any time since the Vietnam War, according to a nationwide survey taken during the fall of 2001. 57.9% think gay couples should have the legal right to marry and 29.9% say they are "far left," the highest figure since 1975.
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TRISMS Homeschool Curriculum
By Linda K. Foster
The study of history is an essential tool for learning critical thinking, expanding a worldview and developing an understanding of the world and our place in it. It is imperative in today’s world that students be able to formulate opinions and make logical and reasonable conclusions based on research. It is no longer acceptable for them to simply learn and repeat facts, dates and the opinions of others. TRISMS Homeschool Curriculum (available at www.trisms.com) is a unit-study approach to education, using history as a base for a complete curriculum. With an emphasis on the humanities to stimulate student interest, the Trisms curriculum seeks to “…teach students to ask questions, find answers, and transfer information from reading to thinking, to writing, and to speaking.” An added bonus to the programs offered by TRISMS is the incorporation of Institute for Excellence in Writing into the programs. The IEW teaching system emphasizes writing structure and style and teaches all levels of written and oral communication, making it a perfect fit into TRISMS assignments.
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