Welcome to this weeks Free Topics of the Week April 14 – 20. These are resources which can be used to teach children not only in Homeschool but also Public School.
Here are five “tax-free” Topics for you to help keep your students engaged this week
On April 14, 1865 Lincoln and his wife were enjoying a popular play, “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre. Then a well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, snuck into their box–and the rest is history.
Static and Dynamic Electricity
There is only one type of electrical energy, but it’s often split into two categories: static and dynamic. The Greek scientist Thales (640–546 B.C.) gets credit for recognizing this first. See what experiment he used to discover these electrical effects.
Raise your hand, turn your head, stick out your tongue, and then close your eyes. Each of these movements is brought to you courtesy of your skeletal muscles! Check out this Topic to learn more about the “anatomy of action”.
Mars is called the red planet. That’s because it looks like a bright reddish light in the sky at night. The red color comes from the minerals iron oxide and olivine on its surface.
Did you know that most bees are between one-half and five-eighths of an inch long? Some carpenter bees, however, can grow to over an inch in length. See what’s buzzin’ about bees from various places around the world, in this Topic!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
