Legalities and Landscapes
Tuesday, 05 August 2014
Join Deborah Burton in her Mock Trial class as she discusses medical malpractice and the legal ramifications of suing a doctor, technician, or other medical professional. Deborah does an excellent job of breaking down this legal topic so that it is easily understandable. When it is time to take a break from the intense discussion
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Fatherhood
Monday, 04 August 2014
This month, two of our Schoolhouse Teachers take a look at fathers—the father of the cotton gin and fathers from history, science, math, art, and more.Niki Coburn McNeil’s Lapbooking unit this month for 4th-6th graders takes a look at Eli Whitney and his cotton gin. Meet the boy who could invent anything and was asked
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Music and Art Piece by Piece
Saturday, 02 August 2014
Music and Art are subjects that are vibrant and powerful—and can often seem quite overwhelming to both the teacher and the student. Michelle Martin and Brenda Ellis would like to help on SchoolhouseTeachers.com. In Music Theory, Michelle Martin breaks down the science and art of music. In August we’ll look at the major scale,
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New Life and Rebirth
Friday, 01 August 2014
We’ve all heard that plants need light for photosynthesis, but have you ever stopped to wonder what the plants do with that light? Get ready for the third month of Botany with Julie Polanco. She’ll take us inside chloroplasts, the sites of photosynthesis within the cells of leaves. We’ll learn about plant cells, discover how
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Puzzling Over Words
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Why write fiction? That’s the question Carrie Daws explores in the first month of her new Creative Writing course on SchoolhouseTeachers.com. Are fictional tales simply stories, or are they something more? We’ll look at why readers choose to read what they do and what the author’s responsibility to the reader is. We’ll also evaluate our
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For the Father and By the FATHER
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Michelle Miller’s Monthly Reading List is a superb resource for living books about specific topics. She then connects her topics to science, math, art, and history. For the month of July, she honors fathers. So, you will find books about father penguins, Galileo and his daughter, Charles Wilson Peale and his sons, and Theodore Roosevelt
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Electives for Everybody
Monday, 28 July 2014
Since learning is just as important for the preschooler as it is for the high schooler, SchoolhouseTeachers.com has classes for children in all grades and age ranges. Pre-K Activities: Read and Play is a fun class in which a book is read and many activities are provided to make the book come alive for the
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What a Wonderful World!
Saturday, 26 July 2014
SchoolhouseTeachers.com has many classes that allow students to explore our world, from geography and geology to physics and chemistry. Botany is a middle and high school class led by Julie Polanco which focuses on plants. This month she is teaching about the respiratory and circulatory systems of plants and how they work. She discusses why
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