Lesson 6: Building Blocks & Boilerplates: Tools for Creating Unit Studies Part II
6-5 Resources
Bibliography
***Note: all books and reading assignments are optional and are provided as additional information for the student.
Bendt, Valerie. How to Create Your Own Unit Study. Common Sense Press, 1997.
Wilson, Leslie Linda. "Games Families Play", Suite101.com's Christian Home Education. 2002. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/chri...
-- "The Game Makers",Home Education Magazine, March-April 1992, http://www.home-ed-magazine.com
Links
Besides the links below, many of the other resources listed in this section have web URLs as well.
Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html
FactMonster.com is filled with fact-packed countries of the world profile sections.
Sundance Company
http://www.sundancepub.com
Source for many inexpensive popular and classic books including many early readers mentioned in this section. Separate catalogue for high school.
Rainbow Resource Center
http://www.rainbowresource.com/
Home ed supplier for many of the supplemental resources, educational games, and books mentioned here.
NASCO Catalogues
http://www.enasco.com/
Source for many of the educational games listed.
Kid's Carnival - Free Online Educational Games
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch634...
Free fun and games for children.
http://www.funbrain.com/
For kids, teachers, and parents many free online educational games and quizzes for grades K-8.
http://www.gamequarium.com/
A visual and listening treat of an educational game site directed toward kids PK-6+ in particular. Also has a link to a large list of resource sites for teachers.
List of museums cyber tours:
http://www.ed-u.com/edsgalls.htm
The rest of this site has a wealth of material to offer – check it all out.
Hershey Factory Tour
http://www.hersheys.com/tour/index.shtml
Heart of Wisdom Unit Studies
http://homeschoolunitstudies.com
This Christian company not only market unit studies but also offer many free resources.
For access to many educational television networks with fact-filled websites try Directv's list which covers most popular educational (and other) networks:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/see/MoreDT...
Electronic libraries:
Project Gutenburg Library
http://www.gutenberg.net/
This Yahoo best site of 1998 is building an extensive online collection of unabridged classic books from previous centuries. Works cover "Light Literature" like Aesop's Fables through "Heavy Literature" like Paradise Lost as well as references like almanacs. Texts are in ASCII format for simplified searches.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
The University of Virginia's E-text library
http://www.americanpoems.com
American Poet's electronic library
For clipart and page design:
the Clipart Directory
http://www.clipart.net/
A huge directory of links to free clipart sites and clipart sites that charge fees.
http://www.mathfactcafe.com/partnerprog....
A site that will create math problems to your specifications.
A sampling of "real world" sites:
air travel: http://travelocity.com
Accommodations: http://hotels.com
Stock market? http://www.virtualstockexchange.com
Jobs: http://monster.com
International affairs: http://un.org
Christian Home Education Links
http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/christ...
An extensive list of quality resources for home education help.
