I would like to welcome you to check out Free Topics for April 18th. If you’ve used these Homeschooling resources can you let me know what you liked or disliked about them and why.
What are you teaching your students the rest of April?
People Who Helped Build the Statue
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, who played a major role in creating the Eiffel Tower, also contributed to the Statue of Liberty’s construction just a few years prior. However, did you know he didn’t feel his framework on the NYC masterpiece was anything special…but why? Find out in this Topic.
Matter is made up of tiny particles known as atoms and molecules. They are different, depending on many things. Which particles are they? How are they connected? Check out this Topic to find out.
Who’s excited that baseball season has finally started?! Did you know that a baseball bat is a “third-class” lever? Check out this Topic to learn more about the different types of levers we use everyday.
Explorer Juan Ponce de León claimed Florida for Spain during this week in 1513, after having just left Puerto Rico in search for new land. Check out this Topic to see what the different routes early explorers used when venturing to North America.
Matthew Henson Reaches the North Pole
On April 6, 1909, Matthew Henson made it to the top of the world. He, Admiral Robert Peary, and four Inuit—Ookeah, Ootah, Egingwah, and Seegloo—were the first humans to reach the rugged North Pole. Many had died trying.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
