Apples of Gold Home School News

One of my favorite homeschool magazines. Pages and pages of meaty articles for real homeschoolers! (And the advertising isn't overwhelming.)

The Cable Natural History Museum is a regional resource dedicated to promoting appreciation of nature, providing opportunities for natural history education, and advocating stewardship for the environment. Admission is FREE and Open to the Public (ADA Accessible).

Fur Posts which have been reconstructed on their original sites and now comprise the Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park. Many events and Educational Series throughout the year.

Check out the latest in events and materials!

A retreat in northwest Wisconsin that sponsors a homeschool friendly Family Fun Weekend event during Memorial weekend. A great getaway for a number of occasions.

Find out about events going on in Superior and Douglas County. For museums, tours, festivals, etc.

Full calendar of events, activities, and learning opportunities.for the region.

Full calendar of area events, activities, and learning opportunities.

Contains information, locations, and links for an array of locations providing opportunities for physical activity, including all seasonal area youth programs: parks & trails, bowling, golfing, canoeing/kayaking, dance, exercise, tennis, swimming, alpine skiing, indoor walking, and more

With a click, you can join in discussions with thousands of other homeschoolers (parents or kids!). All homeschooling, all the time.

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A blog of homeschool musings, encouragment, challenges.

If your little ones like to use the computer and you'd like them to learn basic letter sounds, reading skills, and math, then this is the fun, educational site for you! Listed at top of the 100 favorite educational sites of 2009.

Social Studies, Math, Science, Language

Lessons and encouragement from Christian authors to young writers.

Free Education is a site that provides over 300 online courses in a wide variety of disciplines, from math to photography, all for FREE.

This site offers resources and lesson plans for water-related science unit studies

METAL web site offers students (9-12) free resources on mathematics for economics. The resource section offers four categories: video streaming/downloads - contains five videos that covers ten units of study, ten teaching/learning guides, a question bank that contains files for algebra, economics, integration, matrices, numbers, coordinate geometry and differentiation and case studies.

This site offers educational resources for learning/teaching about volcanoes, how to become a volcanologist and how scientists study volcanoes. Learn what volcanoes are, why they erupt, how hot they are, what types there are, volcanic eruptions and their impact, and much more. The complete teacher's guide, Living with a Volcano in your Backyard is a three-unit guide that provides science content and inquire-based activities about volcanoes of the Cascade Range. The activities are designed for middle school students but can be adapted for other grade levels.

This site examines the research of the National Science Foundation on fundamental questions such as What is the universe made of, and how does it work? What is our place in the cosmos? Are we alone? (Note that this is a secular site.)

The National Sea Grant Digital Libraries offer a wealth of resources on the variety of coastal and marine subjects including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law.

Chemtutor is a strong resource for students that can be used for independent study, review of lessons, or a tutoring program for students in basic chemistry. You will find it is grouped into sections by topic including how to learn, the periodic table, kinetics, reactions, atomic structure, elements, solutions, and thermoschemistry.

Project Spotlights Life in the Nest Also, take a look at these cams! http://www.nestcams.org A free citizen science project developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and funded by the National Science Foundation. Participants visit nests during spring and summer to collect simple information about location, habitat, species, number of eggs, and number of young in the nest. Then they submit their observations online.

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