Home Training Tools – Science for at home schools

Home Science Tools is a resource for parents, teachers, and kids who want a better experience with hands-on science. Frank and Debbie Schaner started the company in 1994, when they realized how difficult it was to find the right supplies for doing science at home with their four children. Since then, they’ve been committed to making science both fun and accessible for families and classrooms. We guarantee your satisfaction. If you are at all dissatisfied with one of our products, you are welcome to return it with our 90-day return policy. And if you have questions about our products, our knowledgeable customer service team members will be glad to help! They have years of experience with our products, making them a valuable resource to answer your questions about what to use for science.     ————————————————————————————————————————

Home Training Tools – Science for at home schools

Multiplication game Sumpower

Get SUMPOWER®! Here’s the opportunity to have an exclusive product that can help your students or child learn multiplication. If you’re teaching times tables, try Sumpower® in the classroom.- It’s a 3rd grade math game played with 10 individual pieces made for learning times tables the fun way. Help them get going! SumPower Game® Children may not have a lot of power…but they can have SUMPOWER®. Empower Your Students/Child This fun and unique math game gives you the ability to empower your students. All children benefit from learning math skills, no matter their future occupation. Practice Makes Perfect Of course, the old adage that ‘practice make perfect’ still holds true. The Creator Background:The creator of this game has a Bachelors degree in Intermediate Education and wants to see all children succeed in math. -We hope they have fun learning how to multiply and making use of the knowledge throughout their lives.     ——————————————————————————————————————–

Multiplication game Sumpower

Essential Learning Institute ELI – LDHope.com

Essential Learning Institute  Learning Institute ELI – Real Measurable Help for Learning Disabilities (ELI), providing tailored programs for struggling students and children with learning disabilities. As many as one in three students will experience the pain of an unidentified learning disability… a major crisis! Understanding and properly identifying these learning problems is the first step to a solution. The good news is…there is a solution! “Understanding Learning Disabilities” And it is FREE for the asking… Get Free Information ELI is an easy-to-use, computer-based sensory integration learning therapy program developed to retrain the brain how to learn and retain information. Improvements in Learning ELI’s proven therapeutic program improves and often corrects the following learning disabilities and difficulties: ADD (attention deficit disorder) ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) Dyslexia Language-based learning disorders Speech-language problems Sensory integration Central auditory processing Visual processing Dysnomia Nonverbal learning disability Slow learners Reading/reading comprehension Spelling With Essential Learning Institute’s learning and therapy programs, you can expect your child to experience: Improved reading and comprehension. Improved communication and organization. Easier study and homework. Increased confidence and self-esteem. Less stress. Get free information – Learning Disability Testing

Essential Learning Institute ELI – LDHope.com

Amazing Robotics Projects from Crafts for Learning Programs

Crafts for Learning Programs for schools, libraries, museums and youth groups make science, math, history and literature fun! New program for 2012! Amazing Robotics Projects You Can Build Yourself! based on the book Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future by Kathy Ceceri Coming from Nomad Press in August 2012! No computers or special skills needed! Build real robotics projects inspired by actual research using household materials and recycled toys and devices!

Amazing Robotics Projects from Crafts for Learning Programs

Everyday Mysteries

Who invented electric Christmas lights? The Library of Congress sponsors the fascinating Everyday Mysteries collection: Did you ever wonder why a camel has a hump? If you can really tell the weather by listening to the chirp of a cricket? Or why our joints make popping sounds? These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but each can be explained scientifically. Everyday Mysteries will help you get the answers to these and many other of life’s most interesting questions through scientific inquiry, asked by researchers and answered by librarians from the Library’s Science Reference Services. In addition, it will introduce you to the Library of Congress’ rich collections in science and technology.

Everyday Mysteries

Animated Engines

Animated Engines offers fun and functioning illustrations which explain the inner workings of a variety of engines such as four stroke, diesel, jet propulsion, oscillating steam, ross yoke stirling and others you may never have heard of, and includes a fascinating look at how the animations were created in the how-to section of the site for those who are either just interested in how they’re made, or would like to try their own hand at designing an animation: “If there are spoked wheels or gears in your drawing, be extra careful with the number of frames you choose, or the parts might appear to be rotating too fast, two slow, or backwards—like wagon wheels in an old western movie. My solution is to make sure the gears rotate exactly 1/2 tooth (or some odd multiple) per frame.”

Animated Engines

Free Paper Toys

From the website 100 Exceptional Free Paper Toys: “There is an underlying web world about papercraft modeling. It is not visible. It is hard to find. And, in many cases, the web sites are in a language that most of us can’t read. But, believe me, it is huge. And it is not about printable cards or paper dolls, or even scrapbooking. It is about stunningly good looking three dimensional paper models: Gadgets, toys, characters, cars, robots, spaceships, airplanes, buildings and even working photo cameras. You name it. This list gathers some notable models available for download. But this is just a small sample. At the end of the article you will find links to paper modeling books, paper models directories, paper modeling software and tutorials, and paper models blogs, which in my opinion are the most important of all, just because they are constantly updated and the owners seem to have access to information that’s very difficult to find.”

Free Paper Toys

AwesomeStories.com

AwesomeStories.com: The Story Place of the Web uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world’s best on-line primary sources. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see relevant maps, pictures, videos, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, in context, within each story. Take advantage of human-based searches for a safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest. When you become a member of Awesome Stories … You can see everything on the site (including an extensive image data base), explore all its features (including narrated stories), dig deeper (with lesson plans and text documents) and hear from Awesome Stories once a month (with a newsletter profiling current events and hot topics). Join the site today. It’s all free!

AwesomeStories.com

Christmas Cookies

‘Tis the season for Christmas cookies, and Almost Unschoolers shares a lovely way of making three different cookies from one sugar cookie recipe: “In Lillian Hoban’s Arthur’s Christmas Cookies, Arthur wants to make Christmas cookies, as a Christmas gift. When he mistakes the salt for the sugar, though, it takes some fast thinking, and a little paint, to save the day. And, while he doesn’t end up with cookies, he does make some lovely ornaments, instead. “We wanted to end up with cookies, so we stuck with sugar…” Every post from Almost Unschoolers ends with the lovely reminder, “It’s great to be a homeschooler.” So true!

Christmas Cookies

Key Curriculum Press

Key Curriculum Press was founded in 1971 by Peter and Steven Rasmussen to provide the educational community with alternative mathematics materials. Based on their experiences as mathematics teachers, Peter and Steven wrote and produced the initial texts, which launched the company, and Steven remains its president today. Key Curriculum Press publishes high school mathematics textbooks, mathematics software, supplementary materials and workbooks, videos, and manipulative materials, including: The Key to… Series: Algebra, Geometry, Decimals, Fractions Textbooks: Algrbra, Calculus, Statistics, Geometry, etc. Discovering Mathematics Online Software: Geometer’s Sketchpad, Tinkerplots, Kaleidomania! Supplemental Materials Tools & Manipulatives and more! Mathematics is their focus-their only focus. Careful product development and the application of progressive educational standards are the highest priorities at Key Curriculum Press.   

Key Curriculum Press