Come check out our Homeschool Resources: Homeschool Resources: English, Social Studies, Language Arts and Field Trips Let me know if you have used any of these websites when teaching your students. If so which one and what did you think of the resources and why?
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The Experimental Aircraft Association: EAA AirVenture Museum
All grades, with parental supervision
Presented by The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), explore the exhibits of the EAA Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and discover the history of aviation. When arriving at the link above, choose your destination from:
Eagle Hangar Pioneers of Flight Pioneer Airport Homebuilts Van’s RV Space Ship One Innovations Gallery Antiques & Classic Air Racing Aerobatics Kid Venture Gallery Poberezny Legacy Tour
Through the use of images and descriptive texts, examine planes of all kinds and learn about the History of Aviation from balloon travel through space travel.
When you are finished exploring the exhibits, click on “Videos” in the top menu to view archived videos of events, Aerobatics, Instructional Videos for Building and Flying Planes, and an interesting video series called “Timeless Voices” which provides first-hand accounts of flying during combat and other various circumstances.
Take the History of flight to new heights with this website.
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Grades 2-8, with parental supervision
Gather the kids around the computer to embark on a tour of a virtual castle! The castle at this site is animated, but it is Historically accurate and based upon Nottingham Castle as it existed in 1480.
When you get to the site, click on the drawbridge to enter. A new page opens showing a map of the castle. Click on the banner, “Kids’ Castle” to read the key to the “shield symbols”. Then, as you tour each section of the castle by clicking on a section of the map, you will see those shields pop up offering activities, more information, games, clues to puzzles and other interesting ways to further your learning about castles, and the lives of the people who lived in and around them.
This tour provides a great unit study all by itself, and a terrific way to enhance knowledge about heraldry, knights, and more.
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All grades, with parental supervision
At this site, you can take a short virtual tour through text and photographs to see how peanut butter is made. Under the “For Kids” link, learn “The Story of Peanuts” and have some “Nutty Fun” with activities, puzzles, and recipes. Check out more “Recipes” using peanut butter that kids can make with adult supervision.
And here are more sites about peanut butter:
Virginia-Carolinas Peanuts
This site provides FREE printed materials and downloadable curriculum materials relating to peanuts and peanut butter for grades K-5.
Peanut Butter Lovers
This website explains how peanut butter is made — including how peanuts are grown, harvested, shelled, roasted, ground, and packaged. While you are at this site click on the “History” button to read all about how peanut butter came to be such a popular nutritional staple and check out the Fun PB Facts. You will also find nutrition facts, recipes, and information about allergies at this site as well.
National Peanut Board
The National Peanut Board also offers free, peanut-themed lesson plans for grades K-6 in the Discover the Powerful Peanut post, as well as additional articles about how peanuts grow, the history of peanut butter, George Washington Carver, and much more. Visitors can get recipes using peanuts too!
Enjoy!
Mapping the World By Heart
Award-winning Mapping the World by Heart from FableVision Learning makes it easy to integrate lessons, activities, and drawing into any existing geography curriculum. Get your child excited about geography with Mapping the World by Heart! Free U.S. shipping offer ends 9/11.
Vella Cheese Factory: Virtual Cheesemaking Tour
Grades 2-12, with parental supervision
At this website you can take a virtual tour of the Vella Cheese Factory to see how a wheel of Cheese is made.
The tour is conducted with pictures and informative text and starts with:
- The Milk Arrives
- Holding the Milk
- Pasteurizing the Milk
- Culturing the Milk
- Choosing a Curd Cutter
- Stirring the Curds
- Curds and Whey
- And more!
Continue scrolling all the way down to Packaged Cheeses – Ready to Ship and learn the process of making cheese!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
