Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Virtual Field Trips & Reading Skills. If you have used any of these resources with your students leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of the resources and why.
Smarty Ants builds foundational reading skills in an interactive and adaptive learning environment designed to create a love of reading. With their personal ant guide, “Coach” leading the way, students work through animated lessons and activities
All grades; children with parental supervision
Start your engines of learning with this page on the larger children’s website from Toyota.
Through illustrated diagrams, texts, images, and animations, visitors will discover what is involved in the process of making an automobile.
There are a couple of ways to take your tour.
Either use the flow chart image or the left side bar menu to navigate through the various steps of making a car:
- Research and Development of New Cars
- Planning
- Design, Planning, and Manufacture of Prototypes
- Numerous Tests
- Production and Sales
- First Steps
- Stamping
- Welding
- Painting
- Making the Engine
- Suppliers
- Assembly
- Inspections
- Transportation
- Sales
There is also a link to see a “video clip of production in action”.
After going through the tour, check out the other parts of this children’s website to learn about environmentally-friendly and people-friendly automobiles as well as more about the Toyota Motor Company.
Enjoy!
These Christian study boxed sets of popular titles from New Leaf Press cover a wide variety of topics, including World Religions, Ken Ham’s Classics, Christendom in the 21st century, the story of Noah, and much more.
All Grades, with parental supervision
This site offers a virtual tour that explains how milk gets from cow to carton.
When you get to the site you will see the first installment in “The Story of Milk” that is presented with photographs and simple text. Just click on the “Next” links to take the complete virtual tour that includes information about:
- What cows eat
- Cow milk
- Udders
- How cows are milked
- Raw milk
- Milk plant (including homogenization and pasteurization)
When you finish the tour, click on “Teacher’s Resources” on the horizontal menu at the top of the page to access articles, videos, and games about different aspects of the dairy industry.
Then, click on the “Fun Menu” to take a quiz that tests your knowledge about what you learn at the site.
Enjoy!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
