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I'm starting this thread, so I can link back to it, instead of repeating myself.

 

I have been asking, and will continue to ask, some pretty dumb and weird sounding questions. Why? First and foremost I am running an EXPERIMENT. How good of a curriculum can be created with ONLY free resources? Have you ever wondered?

 

I am ATTEMPTING to compile the best-of-the-best of free/public-domain resources into a free scheduled curriculum that can also be a bridge between accessing all the free resources and opportunities of both AO and TWTM. It will follow a typical TWTM 4 year history/science rotation, but be split into typical CM 3 term years.

 

Even for people that can afford more, and believe that using all free resources is educational neglect, we all know and love people who are attempting to do this, and too often they are people without knowledge of where the best stuff is, and what even is the best. If those of us with more experience compile the best of the best, we can at least offer that as the spine to those people, and then we can maybe purchase a few items for our loved ones that fill the most glaring gaps. It sure is easier to fill gaps when we know exactly what they are, isn't it? And who knows? Maybe when it's completed, it might be better than we think it will be.

 

Again, this is primarily an EXPERIMENT and attempt at HARM REDUCTION. So, even is you are strongly against the use of public domain books, please let us get this finished, and then I welcome and would appreciate all of your negative reviews, as I think they will be helpful to anyone that attempts to use the finished product. But, first, let's get this FINISHED, so there is something specific to actually judge and review.

 

I am making all final decisions about what I am compiling. There is more than ONE "best" compilation of free resources. If you have a radically different worldview and educational philosophy and idea of what is the best-of-the-best of free resources, please write your own compilation instead of trying to make me radically change my worldview and philosophies. There is LOTS and LOTS of room for more than one free curriculum and I would LOVE to see others become available.

 

I am 100% dead-set on this being a 4-year rotation and 3-term curriculum. Other things I could use advice and input about, before I make my final choices. My plan is for this to be a novel heavy "Robinson on steroids" type curriculum that is friendly to families with children who are in and out of PS and with a mom with nothing but a PS high-school diploma. It will NOT be as rigorous as TWTM or AO, even though is will be designed to be as compatible with them as possible.

 

Can/may you copy and paste my work and sell it? Yes, you can/may, as long as you don't do anything to prevent me from freely giving away and using my own work.

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Easy Peasy requires all students to have their own device and hours of daily access to wifi. As much as possible, my curriculum will be all downloads, so a mom can go to a coffee shop or library, download the books, and maybe months later read aloud to her chicks gathered at her feet.

 

Thanks for the reminder to read through their site, though!

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Sounds like a great idea to me. I'll help, but I'm a newbie. You know more than I do.

 

I've got about 90 tabs open for this reason. Lots of good info/free websites that I can't remember and haven't had time to compile into one place.

 

Thanks for doing this.

 

I know the feeling. Tons and tons of stuff, all being skimmed, and none of it being used. 

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I haven't seen all of your posts, but this is a great idea. We do a combination of public domain books, purchased curriculum, and heavy library use. I haven't looked through any of the science or history threads you may have started, but I've found those are the hardest to find accurate public domain options, especially covering modern history. Ancient history isn't as much of an issue, and I've found some great books through the Baldwin project (as well as some clunkers!).

 

I do agree that there are other free curriculums out there. We dabbled in AO for a while but we are secular and I was having to tweak it too much. Easy peasy also wasn't for us, for similar reasons. So, to clarify, what you are doing is working to put together a public domain/free curriculum that pretty much follows WTM, with a bit of CM?

 

We do public domain spelling, MEP (not public domain but free) and I love the public domain Vintage Latin books out there. I'm teaching myself Latin and then using that to enhance my daughter's purchased Latin course that I bought before I discovered the vintage Latin books.

 

Good luck! I'll look forward to hearing more about your progress!

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The Thunderbolt KidsScience from South Africa might be a good resource, and be more contemporary than public domain science texts. It's for upper elementary (late grammar stage).

http://www.thunderboltkids.co.za

 

Yup, this will be on the schedule. I'm using it a bit controversially, to make it fit the 4 year rotation, but I'm using it. I am dead-set on maintaining the TWTM 4 year science rotation.

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I haven't seen all of your posts, but this is a great idea. We do a combination of public domain books, purchased curriculum, and heavy library use. I haven't looked through any of the science or history threads you may have started, but I've found those are the hardest to find accurate public domain options, especially covering modern history. Ancient history isn't as much of an issue, and I've found some great books through the Baldwin project (as well as some clunkers!).

 

I do agree that there are other free curriculums out there. We dabbled in AO for a while but we are secular and I was having to tweak it too much. Easy peasy also wasn't for us, for similar reasons. So, to clarify, what you are doing is working to put together a public domain/free curriculum that pretty much follows WTM, with a bit of CM?

 

We do public domain spelling, MEP (not public domain but free) and I love the public domain Vintage Latin books out there. I'm teaching myself Latin and then using that to enhance my daughter's purchased Latin course that I bought before I discovered the vintage Latin books.

 

Good luck! I'll look forward to hearing more about your progress!

 

At first I was thinking there is NO way to do modern history, but then I remembered the free texts in India. I'm thinking maybe I might be able to piece together some post 1920 history from them. I'm going to start a thread on this, but wanted to start this thread first, because of all my recent weird questions, this is going to be the weirdest question.

 

AO uses a lot of free PD texts, but not all PD, and merely removing the PD texts doesn't work so well. And as AO redefines what CM means, it's getting harder and harder to use AO without being part of the forum and AO is very clear that the forum is for Christians. There is a need for an entirely PD schedule that is friendly to secular users, and friendlier to students moving in and out of PS, and is usable without forum support. But I also do want to make the schedule compatible with the AO "riches" for people that are a part of the forum, and are able to befit from and enjoy the group interaction and those types of activities. A three term schedule will make things easier for CM people.

 

I also want to follow the TWTM 4 year rotation, so that people can use TWTM for library book suggestions. Also, so that if they can purchase ANY resources at all, they have ready access to lots of 4 year rotation resources that can be easily substituted for the free ones. Compatibility just makes things easier.

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I cannot believe someone is against free and public domain resources or equating them as educational neglect or sub par, that is insane!

 

I'm sure you can tell by my normal comments and interests on here, but I am SUPER EXCITED about this project of yours - both personally and in recommending to others. I love free resources, older resources in the public domain, and traditional educational material. It's hard to underestimate the value of those wonderful teaching aids that were 'made obsolete' by newer educational experiments that never did prove their mettle in the laboratory of the classroom. It is by the efforts of a few interested individuals like yourself that do the research and compile these lists that any number of children are able to overcome poor, confusing, absent, prohibitively expensive, or otherwise unsuitable modern teaching materials and become literate, mathematically capable adults.

 

The broader the dissemination of freely available, quality education - the better. I'm glad to see it. Because I'd do it for my own kids anyway, and other children deserve a similar chance at learning if we can at all give it to them. Especially with low to no cost associated with it!

 

Bravo, Hunter!

 

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Do want to include art?  Art Tango is a free K-5 curriculum.  I've only studied the grade 4 lessons.  I love that it doesn't expect any expensive art supplies.  Most projects can be completed with index cards, paper (any type), crayons, cheap "pan" watercolors, etc.  If I had to go out and buy all the supplies it would be under $10.  It's my new favorite free thing.  I have other art curricula that I paid for, but this is what I'm using with the girls this year.

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Do want to include art?  Art Tango is a free K-5 curriculum.  I've only studied the grade 4 lessons.  I love that it doesn't expect any expensive art supplies.  Most projects can be completed with index cards, paper (any type), crayons, cheap "pan" watercolors, etc.  If I had to go out and buy all the supplies it would be under $10.  It's my new favorite free thing.  I have other art curricula that I paid for, but this is what I'm using with the girls this year.

 

I will look at this thanks! Augsburg's New Drawing will be the main art curriculum.

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/359033-augsburg-drawing-free-and-awesome-and-complete-1-8/

 

Anything that plays nicely with Augsburg, will be what I will be most interested in.

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More free resource links, though I don't know how many of these are downloadable: http://oerconsortium.org/copyrighted-digital-textbooks/

 

Some of your modern history suggestions might be worth the trouble to save a webpage.  I don't want to do anything like Easy Peasy, but there will be a very FEW rough patches where I will resort to requiring that a webpage needs to be saved.

 

My aim is to make this very user friendly for people without wifi or a library.

 

I am setting this up to be compatible with TWTM, so everyone knows that they can purchase the Amazon Kindle version of SOTW 4 for modern history for $9.99 and download it in almost every country of the world. Are there any countries that cannot buy the pdfs from Peace Hill Press? I think that will be the single most purchased item of anyone attempting to use this curriculum. But I always want the mom to know the curriculum has her back ALL the time and never REQUIRES a purchase. That just feels empowering when you are feeling particularly disempowered.

 

And that is why I am so dead-set on this being compatible with TWTM and AO. It gives a mom choices. More choices are better than fretting over tiny details that don't matter so much in the WHOLE and LONG run. For some moms buying SOTW 4 will be easier than saving webpages if she can afford that ONE book.

 

Splitting up and rearranging Thunderbolt science is a bit awkward. But retaining the 4 year science rotation gives a mom so many more options if and when she uses an alternate resource.

 

A lot of authors want to lock you into their curriculum and have you buy EVERYTHING from them. I want to do the opposite with this. I want to make it as easy as possible for people to use a better alternative when they have one. I just want to be a great big cushy net, IF that is possible.

 

This is an experiment first and foremost. I am just SO curious about how good this can be. What is possible?

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Hunter, you rock.  I know two moms IRL that could hugely benefit from something like this.  We all could.  Totally awesome!  I am swamped but will try to link some things when I get a chance....I lost track of them but I think they might be useful...

 

Oh, and I came across this the other day.  No clue how good it is but it says you can download, you don't have to stream...

 

http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/download-78-free-online-history-courses.html

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Hunter, you rock.  I know two moms IRL that could hugely benefit from something like this.  We all could.  Totally awesome!  I am swamped but will try to link some things when I get a chance....I lost track of them but I think they might be useful...

 

I am looking forward to what you have to share!

 

Even if this experiment turns out a steaming pile of poo, a mom could look at it and think, "If that is the best that free can accomplish, I need to stop looking at free right now and explore my other options."

 

I just think we can all benefit in some way as community by an ATTEMPT to put something together. And we all love group projects and threads about scarcity and limits. If nothing else, this is amusing for some of us.

 

Why do we like stranded on a desert island, one footlocker, buried in a bunker, 3 books a year scenarios so much? :lol:

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Hunter, you rock.  I know two moms IRL that could hugely benefit from something like this.  We all could.  Totally awesome!  I am swamped but will try to link some things when I get a chance....I lost track of them but I think they might be useful...

 

Oh, and I came across this the other day.  No clue how good it is but it says you can download, you don't have to stream...

 

http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/download-78-free-online-history-courses.html

 

I'm having a little trouble navigating this. I think I'm clicking on advertisements maybe. If there is something extra good here, can someone direct me?

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Can/may you copy and paste my work and sell it? Yes, you can/may, as long as you don't do anything to prevent me from freely giving away and using my own work.

 

I think this is what you are looking for:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License

 

so there is no sense reinventing the wheel, but I am not an expert on copyright law by any means and this is a very important project. Education is not something that should be bought and sold nor auctioned off to the highest bidder.

 

I do not personally believe that it is advantageous to society as a whole to deliberately and artificially create an ignorant underclass. I wish I had more time, energy, and expertise to contribute to this project.

 

ETA: I bumbled across this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior while looking for info on how to apply the GPL, which was originally written for software, to this project, but I haven't had a chance to look around yet since I'm still/back at the "stress and mess" stage of parenting my six year old "caboose baby".

 

 

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Just FYI, I looked at the Utah science books and it says quite clearly in the introduction of, at least the 4th grade book, that they are heavily influenced by the Thunderbolt kids program. So, if you have liked the look of Thunderbolt you might also like the Utah books.

 

Just a thought. It might be worthwhile to compare and contrast.

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What grades are you looking for? By Public Domain do you mean out of copyright and free to copy and disseminate? Or are you interested in other sources that may have a copyright but are free and available?

 

I have found some great stuff on art museum websites, particularly the Art History articles on the Met Museum website and the National Gallery site. But those may require Internet. For PDF downloads look for the teacher guides that go with specific exhibitions.

 

The Getty has a cool set of lessons that combine science and art.

 

National Parks Service has extensive teacher material for each park and historic site. They have lists of sites by era.

 

Teaching with Historic Places are free teacher guides and lessons that go with local historic sites.

 

National Archive has a wealth of lessons using historic documents. (Way better than Jackdaws). Library of Congress has good stuff including amazing photo collections. When we read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry we spent a couple hours looking at Depression Era photos from Alabama and Mississippi.

 

The Air Force Museum had some good articles about aircraft and history like the Berlin Airlift. I used to print the plane of the week artlcle as reading lesson material.

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What grades are you looking for? By Public Domain do you mean out of copyright and free to copy and disseminate? Or are you interested in other sources that may have a copyright but are free and available?

 

I have found some great stuff on art museum websites, particularly the Art History articles on the Met Museum website and the National Gallery site. But those may require Internet. For PDF downloads look for the teacher guides that go with specific exhibitions.

 

The Getty has a cool set of lessons that combine science and art.

 

National Parks Service has extensive teacher material for each park and historic site. They have lists of sites by era.

 

Teaching with Historic Places are free teacher guides and lessons that go with local historic sites.

 

National Archive has a wealth of lessons using historic documents. (Way better than Jackdaws). Library of Congress has good stuff including amazing photo collections. When we read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry we spent a couple hours looking at Depression Era photos from Alabama and Mississippi.

 

The Air Force Museum had some good articles about aircraft and history like the Berlin Airlift. I used to print the plane of the week artlcle as reading lesson material.

 

This is a fabulous list.  :thumbup1:  I agree that the National Archive site is soooo worth a look.

 

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I think this is what you are looking for:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License

 

so there is no sense reinventing the wheel, but I am not an expert on copyright law by any means and this is a very important project. Education is not something that should be bought and sold nor auctioned off to the highest bidder.

 

I do not personally believe that it is advantageous to society as a whole to deliberately and artificially create an ignorant underclass. I wish I had more time, energy, and expertise to contribute to this project.

 

ETA: I bumbled across this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior while looking for info on how to apply the GPL, which was originally written for software, to this project, but I haven't had a chance to look around yet since I'm still/back at the "stress and mess" stage of parenting my six year old "caboose baby".

 

I'm even more easygoing than this. As long as I can still use it, I really don't care what others do.

 

I'll try to make my spreadsheets available in docs as well as pdfs, so people can just take them and do their own things to them and go right ahead and put them up as their own. I don't even care about being credited. But if someone copyrighted the info and then told me I couldn't use and share it, then I'd be upset. 

 

Ethel Flint, at some point I'm sure you will share a critical piece of information. It's not volume of the contribution that makes it important.

 

Even newbies ARE contributing, just by asking questions and panicking while we oldschoolers are observing what they need. EVERYONE is contributing, even the ones who are not meaning to.

 

:grouphug: to us all. :)

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Just FYI, I looked at the Utah science books and it says quite clearly in the introduction of, at least the 4th grade book, that they are heavily influenced by the Thunderbolt kids program. So, if you have liked the look of Thunderbolt you might also like the Utah books.

 

Just a thought. It might be worthwhile to compare and contrast.

 

Interesting! I haven't had the chance to do more than the most cursory skim. Compatibility. :party:

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www.hodgepodge.me has good free art lessons as well, mostly in pastels.

 

Once I get the main Augsburg schedule figured out as the spine, maybe some one can take a look at the main schedule and then plan some compatible supplementary lessons. I want to keep the spines pretty basic, so it doesn't get too Easy Peasy like.

 

I think many of us have printed out an AO spread sheet and been mightily impressed with the way that schedule feels in our hands.

 

Years ago, I prepared an emergency grocery shopping list and set of recipes that all fit on 2 sides of one piece of paper, and I would see that paper hanging on the refrigerators of people in crisis, tattered and stained and well used. I remember it being one lady's life line. Before I gave it to her, her family was living on peanutbutter sandwiches and cereal from WIC. She HATED the recipes and felt so inadequate cooking that way, but her husband asked her why she had been holding out on him and never cooked so well. :lol: She had NO idea how to triage and no matter how much she HATED that list and menu, she had no idea how to economize other than peanutbutter and cereal. So she used it.

 

So, I do want supplementary pages full of goodies, for people that have time and desire to play.  But the main schedule needs limited resources and needs to fit squeezed into a spreadsheet. I want mamas to have those single sheets of paper to cling to.

 

I have created a single sheet for PTSD survivors on fear. Same thing. I've seen tattered and stained copies come out of people's backpacks. I had my own copy, the Friday night after Thanksgiving, sitting on street corner in Manhattan, suddenly homeless again, and without even a shelter that would accept me. I remember reading the strategies by the street light, trying not to make a bad situation worse by panicking.

 

When in crisis, single sheets of paper are very comforting.

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What grades are you looking for? By Public Domain do you mean out of copyright and free to copy and disseminate? Or are you interested in other sources that may have a copyright but are free and available?

 

I have found some great stuff on art museum websites, particularly the Art History articles on the Met Museum website and the National Gallery site. But those may require Internet. For PDF downloads look for the teacher guides that go with specific exhibitions.

 

The Getty has a cool set of lessons that combine science and art.

 

National Parks Service has extensive teacher material for each park and historic site. They have lists of sites by era.

 

Teaching with Historic Places are free teacher guides and lessons that go with local historic sites.

 

National Archive has a wealth of lessons using historic documents. (Way better than Jackdaws). Library of Congress has good stuff including amazing photo collections. When we read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry we spent a couple hours looking at Depression Era photos from Alabama and Mississippi.

 

The Air Force Museum had some good articles about aircraft and history like the Berlin Airlift. I used to print the plane of the week artlcle as reading lesson material.

 

I want to use public domain texts when I can, especially ones that are easily available both in eBook and hardcopy. Multiple options are important for whatever is on the main schedule.

 

When a public domain text just doesn't cut it, I'm willing to fill the gaps with what I have to, to keep it free.

 

Texts that can be read aloud from a Kindle or even a cell phone, compared to things that need to be printed, are much more attractive to me. 

 

Concise, efficient, bare bones. The bulk of the curriculum will be solidly adequate 3R's and lots of novels. Then referrals to AO and the TWTM for more fluff and rigor. 

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Hunter --- I know this is totally off topic, but your new avatar is cracking me up.  Humblest apologies if your fetching new photo has already been liberally discussed elsewhere.  :D

 

I have only discussed it on a private subforum for international homeschoolers :-) Shall we have our first American conversation? :)

 

The day this was taken, years ago, I was in Boston. It was taken outside the Mass Ave orange line station. It was below zero and I had to walk over a mile in that cold. I dressed for the situation and did what I had to do.

 

I lost a glove that day on the orange line and had to go right out and buy a new pair right away. I loved that first pair of gloves and have never replaced them. They were fleece lined leather and the fingers were short and fat.

 

I wish I could say this picture was staged, but it's real, unfortunately. I actually walk around like that on frigid days. I think it was Dialectica that asked me if I had my knife on me that day. I'm sure I did. You never know when you are going to need to sharpen a pencil or cut up an apple. I don't now why everyone doesn't keep a knife on them at all times.

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I have only discussed it on a private subforum for international homeschoolers :-) Shall we have our first American conversation? :)

 

The day this was taken, years ago, I was in Boston. It was taken outside the Mass Ave orange line station. It was below zero and I had to walk over a mile in that cold. I dressed for the situation and did what I had to do.

 

I lost a glove that day on the orange line and had to go right out and buy a new pair right away. I loved that first pair of gloves and have never replaced them. They were fleece lined leather and the fingers were short and fat.

 

I wish I could say this picture was staged, but it's real, unfortunately. I actually walk around like that on frigid days. I think it was Dialectica that asked me if I had my knife on me that day. I'm sure I did. You never know when you are going to need to sharpen a pencil or cut up an apple. I don't now why everyone doesn't keep a knife on them at all times.

The good old orange line :)  I was born and raised in MA.  The bitter cold Boston gets I can TOTALLY relate to.   Love the pic...

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I have not been on this board in a few weeks :(   This is the BEST news I have heard in a LONG time Hunter.    You inspire me so much and all your help with my homeschool  questions have helped me tremendously !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1   Thank you 

 

:grouphug: Welcome back!

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I wanted to encourage you that all your work, input, & advice are very valued in the homeschool community!!  No doubt countless people like myself who seldom post are out there benefitting from your efforts over the years.  :grouphug:  

 

I really enjoy this forum and love you ladies. This forum is my happy place. No matter what chaos is going on in my life, there is a consistency here that is so calming and predictable. :grouphug: to you all.

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The good old orange line :)  I was born and raised in MA.  The bitter cold Boston gets I can TOTALLY relate to.   Love the pic...

 

It seems like almost all the cities with subways have bitter winters. Because of my seizures and never being allowed to drive again, my quality of life along subway lines it better than elsewhere.

 

But, we have cops with dogs and guns on the subways again, so I was mostly on foot today. I'm bushed. I walked over 6 miles, today. With a partially healed broken toe. I'm less afraid of terrorists than armed cops with dogs.

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This is really cool! I love that it isn't tech heavy. Not everyone has devices (me!) or is willing to give their children a lot of screen time in the name of education (also me!). I don't mind purchasing curriculum, but there are quite a few folks out there that can't afford to do so. 

 

This will not require daily wifi. Everything will be able to be downloaded long before you need it, and whenever choosing between 2 equally acceptable options, I will choose the one that can also be ordered from Amazon in a professionally printed hardcopy, as well as a free eBook, if that is possible.

 

I'm also keeping in mind that the only device some moms might have is a cell phone, and will attempt to keep in mind that a mom might be teaching from nothing but a cell phone screen and her few scraps of print outs for weeks. She might not be able to do everything, but she will be able to do something.

 

It is so frustrating to not be able to obtain a resource on a schedule. I want this to be the ultimate of attainability. 

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Ok I have no idea if you want these but I was getting all these annoying emails from some company advertising their CD collection of history resources and it was such a great deal at only $50 or whatever blah blah, TODAY ONLY!!!, so anyway I found the emails so annoying, I wanted to know where they got them from; I figured out pretty quickly what they were episodes from the Cavalcade of America. They're all available from archive.org and I had never realized there were so many old timey shows on there. I've listened to ZERO of these but here is the top level of the Old Time Radio section in case you haven't seen it

https://archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=oldtimeradio

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Ok I have no idea if you want these but I was getting all these annoying emails from some company advertising their CD collection of history resources and it was such a great deal at only $50 or whatever blah blah, TODAY ONLY!!!, so anyway I found the emails so annoying, I wanted to know where they got them from; I figured out pretty quickly what they were episodes from the Cavalcade of America. They're all available from archive.org and I had never realized there were so many old timey shows on there. I've listened to ZERO of these but here is the top level of the Old Time Radio section in case you haven't seen it

https://archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=oldtimeradio

 

Stripe, thank you! I do think adding some old radio shows would be a nice touch. I forgot about the "You Are There" radio programs.

https://archive.org/details/You_Are_There_OTR

 

They are listed in this chronological scope and sequence.

http://jimhodgesaudiobooks.com/scope_and_sequence-JHAB.pdf

 

Thanks!

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I'm not sure if you're looking for complete curricula online, or also interested in 'units', i.e. printables that will complement history/science rotation, but here goes...

 

We like these resources on Science and Islam (UK website), (also some crossover into maths and art).

 

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/scienceislam_education/resources.php

 

Site includes: Historical introduction to Science in Islam, historical introduction to Astronomy in Islam, make a model astrolabe, problem-solving with an astrolable, triangles and geometry, using a quadrant for measurement and calculation, Arabic numerals: Zero and place value.

Numbers and long multiplication, Introduction to art and Islam, geometry in Islamic design, Islamic tile design. Art and Design.

 

We like this list of historical fiction for children, arranged by date and/or subject and with a short synopsis stating age suitability.

http://sherbrooke.ndo.co.uk/s/h/sherbrooke.ndo.co.uk/web/bibliography/cont.htm

(Most are UK authors, so if you plan to branch into British history they're likely to be more accurate). Likely to be secular. I've known people base an entire history curriculum around the booklists on this page. 

 

 

Millstone Education for free world literature units http://www.millstoneeducation.com/worldLit/info/new.php

 

 

Free curriculum on Water http://static.water.org/docs/curriculums/WaterOrg%20ElemCurricFULL.pdf  science, technology, language arts

 

 

Lots of free downloadable materials/units/lesson plans on science and technology and history at smithsonian education  http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html

e.g. oceans and weather http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/oceans_weather/index.html

 

 

Open University (UK) free online courses http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses

 

 

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