Is looking for free homeschooling science resources eating into your teaching time? Here’s a simple solution. Check out the first website listed below to see what printable worksheets and papers you can use. And use the second website as a great way to pass the time in an educational manner for your children online.
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Donna Young’s Homeschool Resources and Printable Sheets
This website was started by a homeschooling mother so she had a pretty good clue about would work in a real life situation. Her experience and all her effort with her own children is shared on the site. Some additional material has been donated by her friends. All in all the site is quite good with a lot of different sections including one for Science, besides others for Maths, History, English, Handwriting and Art amongst others. The printable sheets are well designed and easy to work with for middle grade home school students. Best of all they are absolutely free. You can check back for regular updates on the website.
Trailblazing from the Royal Society of Publishing
The website highlights the major scientific achievements that have taken place since 1650. The interactive time line gives you an overview of interesting medical advances, books published and scientific breakthroughs that have occurred down the years. The time line offers events in a spate of every fifty years in one go. Click the timeline to move on to the next 50 years in the history of scientific discovery. The site has been set up to commemorate 350 years of existence of the Royal Society of Publishing.
The red dots cover scientific achievements while the white dots have more literary events associated with them. Just dipping into the facts is a major learning experience for the children browsing the site. If you want them to go into more details you can download the .pdf file that the site offers. It may be a good idea to develop a questionnaire based on the facts that the site highlights to ensure that your child is actually learning something. Even if they just browse through the site they will pick up enough trivia to stay entertained.
Article Inspiration: About Homeschooling
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