Friday, April 29, 2011

Hypercities

History of place. Very cool.

http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Free Audio Books

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Pop Entertainment Career Games

http://www.mypopstudio.com/index2.php

Architect Studio 3D

Very cool site. Not only learn what Architects do, but try it, with a virtual walk-through of your building at the end. You even work for clients!

http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Homeschool Free Stuff

http://www.homeschoolfreestuff.com/index.asp

The Places We Live

Cool site (Social Studies) on how many urban dwellers around the world live.

http://www.theplaceswelive.com/

Monday, April 25, 2011

Math Links GALORE

Scroll down. Whoa.

https://sites.google.com/site/sterlinghomeschoolacademy/home/e-educational-resources/mathematics

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Intro to the Theater

Including Theater Lore (fun!)

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/eth/

Exploring Dance

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/

There is even a virtual dance studio here. Nice resources.

Explore Set Design for Theater

http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/imaginedspaces/index.php/en

Exploring Theater Through Costume

http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/costumes/index.php?lang=en

Lots of great stuff here. How they costume actors. A costume archive. Designing costumes. Well worth a good perusal if you love theater or costume.

Studying Design with Posters

http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/posters/index.php?lang=en

There are several very thorough lessons and activities on this site, including

Poster Design: http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/posters/aboutdesign.php?lang=en

Posters as Marketing Tools: http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/posters/postermarketing.php?lang=en

Additional activities and quizzes: http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/posters/activities.php?lang=en

And More Activities: http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/posters/forall.php?lang=en

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Elements Unearthed

Learn more about elements and how they're used. How are the elements discovered? The Periodic Table organized? And how are these things mined and used?

Student-created content, but impressively high quality.

Videos and more:

http://elementsunearthed.com/video-episodes/

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Fractal Microscope

http://www.shodor.org/master/fractal/software/mandy/index.html

Intro to the Internet

This is the coolest ebook I've ever seen.

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/home

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Virtually walk though historic sites in Europe

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-in-rome-new-street-view-imagery-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29

Time Lapse How-to

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Get the Math

Algebra in real life.

http://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Art Everywhere

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/art_everywhere/index.html

Artist Bios (multimedia)
Online activities

Rhyme a Week

http://curry.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

Chronicles of Narnia Lessons

http://narniaunitstudy.tripod.com/

Hoagie's Science Pages

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/natural_science.htm#virtuals

Playdough electrical engineering

http://www.ted.com/talks/annmarie_thomas_squishy_circuits.html

and the recipes: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/index.htm

Fun Science Experiments

These are very do-able, using common household items.

http://www.kidzone.ws/science/index.htm

Free Printable preK-5 worksheets on many topics

There are also fun extras here. It's worth exploring.

http://www.kidzone.ws/

Magic Tricks

http://www.kidzone.ws/magic/index.htm