Free Home Education links: online supplement

Showing posts with label online supplement. Show all posts

Engrade Free online lesson and grading program

I checked out this website over the weekend. It seems like a keeper.
Engrade allows you to

"Create your custom grading scale then easily enter student scores just like a spread sheet."

If you are homeschooling your own kids or helping to homeschool kids outside of your home, you will find this program extremely helpful.

About Engrade.com:

Engrade, based in Los Angeles, California, was founded in 2003 by a great team of successful internet entrepreneurs who wanted to use their talents to help the world... Our service is truly free and will remain free for teachers. We are able to offer Engrade free of charge because we have been fortunate in past businesses, allowing us to volunteer our talents and to pay for expenses out of our own pockets.

I registered as a homeschooler with no problems.

~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom

PBS Online A Science Oddyssey

This online program has "you try it" tutorials that allow you to do virtual experiments at home.
It has a Then and Now section that shows how scientific theories have changed from the year 1900 to now and gives a timeline of of how understanding has evolved in the subject.

FREE-ED.NET

Here is an important message from the founder of Free-Ed.Net:

All over the world, millions of honest, hard-working people are being forced out of their financial and social comfort zones by a trend toward global recession. It all looks very bleak and scary for those who are clinging to their old ways. But we are actually living in an age of "dangerous opportunity, " where knowledge is power and knowledge is freely available on the Web.

There are math videos and curriculum, sciences, and humanities in addition to
GED and college prep.

Most Recently Added resources found

at this link

Annenberg Media VIDEO ON DEMAND

About Anneberg Media

Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

This site has free membership

3000+ Free Lesson Plans at Lessonplanspage

message from http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ : We now have over 3,000 free lesson plans! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, begin by selecting a subject below, or search for specific topics. Be sure to visit our parent site, HotChalk.com and sign up for our free online teacher tools. Once inside, you'll find thousands of additional free teaching resources!

Most Recently Added resources found at this link

Prongo.com Educational Games

This Website offers fun educational games

Prongo.com is an educational website for Kids. We offer fun, interactive, and
educational games for kids. For teachers, Prongo.com also offers Quizstation. Quizstation allows teachers to create online quizzes for their students. Prongo.com also offers kids clip art, e-cards for kids, wallpaper, kids jokes, screensavers, and more. Prongo.com provides hours of learning fun for kids and resources teachers need to have a fun and productive classroom.

Hot Chalk's Lesson Plans page

You will want to check this one out:

"Welcome to HotChalk's newly redesigned LessonPlansPage.com! We now have over 3,000 free lesson plans! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, begin by selecting a subject below, or search for specific topics. Be sure to visit our parent site, HotChalk.com and sign up for our free online teacher tools. Once inside, you'll find thousands of additional free teaching resources!"

Science News For Kids

Today I discovered Sciencenewsforkids.org. Science News For Kids "is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14." The goal of the developers is to offer science information to kids in a news format and to get them talking about it. Read more about Science News for Kids here:

Want to learn geography

I have never really learned geography... until today. This free interactive online game does a good job of helping you remember where what it.
http://www.geosense.net/

Chemistry for Kids

everything you ever wanted to know about chemistry at http://www.chem4kids.com, simple and easy to understand.

Integrate Technology into the classroom with CLN

Community learning network has numerous resources for teachers and kids.
http://www.cln.org/
recommended to homeschoolers by New York Department of Education

Airforce Crossroads

Provided for homeschooling airforce families, this site has lots of links to interactive learning games and such, You don't have to be an airforce to use it, but it does have a homeschool message board, just for airforce homeschoolers.

Sesame Street Online

Use Sesame Street Online to prepare you child for learning. It will teach the alphapet, numbers, safety and other learning readiness activities.

PBS TEACHER SOURCE

Using PBS Teacher Source as your Homeschool Curriculum
Using PBS Teacher Source as your Homeschool Curriculum may take a bit of organization (or not if you homeschool), but you can be garanteed that by the time they exhaust all of the resources, lessons, and links the website has to offer, there won’t be much left to learn.
Fortunately, the website has a Site Tour for First-Timers
You can use this guide to combine available lesson plans with online activities and program episodes (using the ‘get local’ feature) that correlate to the lessons. The site is organized by both subject and grade level allowing you to easily find the right resource or lesson plan exercise for your children. Using the search feature is another way you can find needed resources. In addition to lesson plans and activities, you will also find a media library and recommended reading and website links.
Combine this resource with PBS kids learning games, and a simple grade level outline you can find on any state or local public school website for guidance.
Using the optional teachers memebership feature, you can access teacher development information and have access to PBS adult education resources.
If you cannot wait for the right PBS show to plan your correlated lesson, you can take advantage of the PBS online store and purchase from the many videos available.

United Streaming

website or book name: United Streaming
Url for purchase: www.unitedstreaming.com (free in several states call before ordering)
Purpose for resource: Lesson reinforcement
Ease of use: It is pretty easy to view the videos, but to organize them and plan ahead takes some work. The site is designed for public school teachers, and not necessarily user friendly for kids
Meets intended purpose? As a digital video-on-demand website, it does well.
Overall rating?(=) nuetral
Recommendations: if you live in one of the states where the service is free, it is highly recommended for home use. If you need to pay for it, you need to look at Cosmeo.com a sister site of United Streaming.com
Full review available at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/27087/unitedstreamingcom_online_learning.html

Brainpop.com

website or book name: Brainpop

Url : www.brainpop.com
Purpose for resource: "BrainPOP is an educational program, providing content spanning 6 main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health and Technology. "
Ease of use: very easy
Meets intended purpose? yes, it is a good supplement for reinforce subjects learning in class or in your child curriculum. Great for test review
Overall rating? + recommended
Recommendations: All schools should use it. For individual homeschooling programs, the subscription price can be a little much. If your child is a visual learner, you should definitely consider it.

see my full review for more information on Brainpop.com

Free Home Education links

Pages