Practice Makes Perfect
Monday, 17 August 2015
Okay, so maybe that’s not the greatest saying in the world. We will never be perfect this side of heaven, but we can better ourselves. Advanced Public Speaking with Bethanie Frank is a brand new course on SchoolhouseTeachers.com for middle and high school students. Various types of speeches will be studied, and students will
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Hurrah for the Hands-On
Saturday, 15 August 2015
Young and old alike can be hands-on learners. SchoolhouseTeachers.com has some wonderful courses that provide a plethora of projects for those hands. Take Computer Science/Programming with Chris Yust. The material in this course is geared for 6th-12th grade students in a self-study environment. Weekly printables with step-by-step instructions are provided for each of the
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Get it Write!
Friday, 14 August 2015
Do you have a budding writer? Perhaps you have a student who doesn’t like to write. Either way, there are numerous writing courses on SchoolhouseTeachers.com that can help. Creative Writing with Carrie Daws includes 24 lessons geared toward middle and high school students. She discusses the idea of writing fiction, character and scene development,
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Getting Creative with Curriculum
Thursday, 13 August 2015
I didn’t know what I was going to do for science with my tenth grader this year. Based on his interests and career goals, the standard path of biology and then chemistry didn’t seem necessary. However, an engineer I talked with said that all science is interrelated and that chemistry may very well be
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The Spelling Place
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Satisfy your spelling needs this coming school year with Schoolhouse Spelling. Every grade has a list with age-appropriate words; most have more than one to choose from. Schoolhouse Spelling has been recently updated to include answer keys and streamlined printing options to make it easier to have fun with spelling than ever before. Multiple
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When the Language Is Challenging
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Sometimes we need help with English, whether it’s modern English or old English. Two of the courses on SchoolhouseTeachers.com will help with those challenges. ESL Language Arts is a new course, taught by Kati Butler, for the entire family who speaks English as a second language. It is designed as an introduction to grammar.
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Meet the Newbies
Monday, 10 August 2015
Two of the newest courses on SchoolhouseTeachers.com are Health 101 and Women through History. Health 101 is a course geared specifically for seventh and eighth graders and is taught by Michele Hamilton. In this 32-week course, students will learn about how important it is to be healthy and how the choices they make will
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The Foundation and the Freedom
Saturday, 08 August 2015
Anything that is going to stand strong needs to start with a strong foundation. Our country began with the colonies. Elementary and middle school students can learn about the founding of the American colonies, beginning with Jamestown in 1607 and covering the colonial period through the French and Indian War in 1759 in Amy
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