The Stop Faking It series of books work very well with the Story of Science. Several GEMS guides do too!

How about DIY, https://diy.org/? Not really a science curriculum, but lots of science badges.

You could look at Francais interactif online and free. I also like the Oli course, here http://oli.cmu.edu/

Looks great Lisa. Thanks!

Fit balls are great too! Math problems going up the stairs or hidden around the house. Same with reading words. Put them together after to make a sentence...Workbooks can be cut apart to be hidden around the house or yard.

Maybe this series would work http://www.teachercreated.com/products/search-results.php?q=the+20th+century There should be a book for The Seventies as well, but I don't see it on the website.

The TOPS Electricity module was already suggested and that is what I would say too. It is excellent!

There's a great free activity guide at Litwits this week all on The Hobbit.

bookadventure.com says it's grade 6.

You could try Mastermath ( free online) and Adaptive Curriculum Middle School Math (8.00 at Learning.com). One thing though, if you get it at learning.com, there are no teacher's keys ( aka answers) for the worknsheets.

I agree!

You could also look at glogster.com. Very cool...

We like it a lot too (dd 13 years old), and she is one who is quite easily frustrated by drawing.

Ancient Civilizations for Children is an excellent series. Ancient Aegean Ancient Africa Ancient China Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Inca Ancient Maya Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Rome I found it here http://www.socialstudies.com/c/product.html?nocache@479+s@zUosQQ0NWeyf2+record@TF28515 but check around, they might be available at your library, they are at mine. You could supplement these with Horrible Histories (available on You Tube) if she likes that sort of thing.

We used to go to the library every week in December and gather all the Christmas books (picture books) our library box could hold. We read tons, so I can't really remember any titles. Some had great stories, some excellent photos, some were religious, some not. Sometimes we got the same story told by a different person! As the years went by, we tried to find favourite ones from previous years. One that we bought, that is read everyday until Christmas day, is The House of Wooden Santas by Kevin Major.

top documentaries.com, documentary tube, documentary storm

neok12 and watchknowlearn. Check out alleyoop for teens.

Just an aside, GEMS Learning about Learning is an excellent program beside McHenry's The Brain.

We did Aristotle Leads the Way and are almost through with Newton at the Centre. I would say the TG is worth it and you definitely want the SG. We use our SG as a scrapbook and tape anything extra that has to do with the topic with lift the pages, etc, to fit it all in. We LOVE the quote bubbles and my dd is quite fond of having them say things such as, "see my best seller Principia (or whatever), available for ipad and Kindle".

Maybe ask Homeschoolers Buyers coop to see about getting a homeschool deal...

The Story of Science + Stop Faking It! series are excellent for physics in the middle grades.

I agree, Signing Time is excellent for all ages.

I had modern history from after WWI to and including WWII all planned out for my 8th grade DD, but she didn't want to do another war this year, so we went back to ancients. What we are doing is using Crash Course History as our spine and adding in Mapping the World with Art, a timeline, historical fiction and tons of documentaries from top documentaries.com, documentay storm, documentary tube or You Tube.

I have never used any of the Great Courses and was checking out the website. Has anyone purchased the transcripts for the dvds? Are they worth it?

One year we did string art like this http://www.mathcats.com/crafts/stringart.html for geometry. We used a book of which I can't remember the name!