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Gardening, flowers, gardens – Learn about growing things.
Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet […]

Reading with kids, read to your children, it is important and worth the investment.
I read many books as a child, but I think I have enjoyed many of them twice as much when I read them with my children. […]

This is a site that you will want to bookmark for years of us.  The searches you can conduct there are a Basic Search,Astronomy and Astrophysics Search,Physics and Geophysics Search,Science Education Search and a […]

I have had this site saved in my favorites for a while now and I’m glad I did.   This collection offers a great deal of folklore and  history. Here’s the description from the site:

The Oklahoma Folklore […]

If HEM Takes a Closer Look at Physical Education has sparked an interest, you might consider exploring a few of my favorite unschooling resources from HEM’s Guide to Resources.

Fitness

The Wisconsin based […]

Last week I learned about a proposed daytime curfew in a neighboring town in Curfew reports around the country that was posted here at News and Commentary by Valerie.

Often we only hear of a few lone parents who […]

The 66th Carnival of Homeschooling: A Spring Fling of Homeschooling is hosted this week at Kris’ Eclectic Homeschool.

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The Carnival of Homeschooling: Bee Edition is being hosted this week by Sprittibee.

This mineral identification chart was created Art Crossman as a college course project at Mansfield University in 1997. He did an outstanding job, organizing minerals on the chart in a systematic way – according […]

Nathan Sawaya is an artist whose medium is LEGO® bricks. If you visit his website, The Art of The Brick, you might just get lost exploring there like I did.

He offers a gallery where you can explore Lego […]

Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. We recommend resources that are useful for teachers, volunteers, and directors […]

This is a searchable web exhibit of Van Gogh’s Letters that are arranged by subject.

Van Gogh’s Letters

—Mary Nix

Education Outreach Program

For Organized Groups and Home Schoolers

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is located just south of Annapolis in Edgewater, MD. We are one of several research […]

The Homeschool Buyers Co-op, an online nonprofit based in California, is proud to announce the most comprehensive Internet listing of contests and scholarships available to homeschooled students – over 124,000 […]

Botany.com offers a botanical dictionary of plants and flowers. They describe their site saying:

A botanical dictionary is also commonly referred to as a plant dictionary or flower dictionary. Use this outdoor […]

The “Rare Book Room” site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.

Over the last decade, a company called “Octavo” […]

I don’t always share holiday resources at this blog unless I happen to remember ahead of time that a holiday is approaching, but being of Irish descent, I almost always remember St. Paddy’s Day.  Here are some St. […]

Life Without School, LWOS, ( http://www.lifewithoutschool.typepad.com ) is collecting stories on “Why We Homeschool.” We would love to hear your stories about why you homeschool. How does homeschooling benefit your […]

Climber.org is an online community devoted to encouraging climbing by fostering electronic communication among mountaineers. Use the information you find here wisely – we don’t have a bunch of criteria or […]

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Translate the Constitution for Kids this 4th of July;

More Americans Can Name All Five “Simpson’s” Than All Five First Amendment Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. – School may soon be ending, but […]