As a parent, when it comes to education you need to have a plan. Know why are you are doing what you’re doing. Think about it, talk about it, study your children, study the options you have and then make a decision. Some questions people ask when they find out we’re home schooling make me wonder what most people think the role of school is, and more importantly who should be ultimately responsible for the upbringing of children. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Have students sing along with the ones, tens, hundreds song! This video should help learners memorize the three units places. Be sure to pause the video to count the base ten blocks! See more of Mr. R.’s free math and science resources at mathstory.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Paul Jones synthesizes nitrocellulose from cotton balls and a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids. In the video, we talk about nitrating for 2 minutes, but as you’ll see watching the video, we actually nitrated different cotton balls for different times, with a minimum of two minutes and maximum of about 4 or 5 minutes. Those nitrated for 4 or 5 minutes were considerably more energetic and faster burning than those nitrated for only two minutes, so if you reproduce this experiment you may wish to nitrate the cotton balls for 4 or 5 minutes and then drench them by dumping them all at once into a large container of water for the first rinse rather than following the procedure Paul used in the video. Be extremely careful with this procedure. The concentrated acids are extremely corrosive. The nitration process itself produces *extremely toxic* nitrogen oxides (visible as the organish vapors in the video), so do this outside or under an exhaust hood, particularly if you scale up the experiment. The nitrocellulose product is extremely flammable, and if highly nitrated may detonate rather than simply burning. If you live near a city or large town, you may be able to purchase concentrated nitric acid locally. If not, elementalscientific.net is one good source. They sell one pint (473 mL) bottles of 70% ACS reagent grade nitric acid for .99. There’s a hazardous shipping surcharge, but IIRC you can order up to 8 bottles for one surcharge. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Have you decided to home school your child? Learn all about textbooks for home schooling first graders in this free education video. Expert: Matt Moskal Bio: Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. He has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Philadelphia School District since 2003. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz Video Rating: 5 / 5
Learn from an expert teacher, how to teach kids to identify letters by having them practice writing letters and identifying the letters on a sheet, in this free home schooling video on education. Expert: Matt Moskal Bio: Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz Video Rating: 5 / 5
Have you decided to home school your child? Learn how to teach word ending reading lessons for home schooling first graders in this free education video. Expert: Matt Moskal Bio: Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. He has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Philadelphia School District since 2003. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz Video Rating: 5 / 5
sold @PalmerFortWayne ~ Trucks like this 2 bedroom (three beds)custom sleeper truck are commonly used by road warriors who have kids that need to be schooled. Most often this is very temporary arrangement – maybe one or two years. This truck has been through 2 sets of home school parents and the most likely next buyer will be the third. Of course, the problem is weight and length, so only a very narrow set of loads can be hauled, either practically or legally. Call the truck pros at Fort Wayne Truck Center / PalmerFortWayne @ 800-234-7712 ~ striving to be the “Worlds Best Truck Store”
Learn how to teach kids to write their name, by making a dotted template for them to fill in and see exactly how it should be written; get more home schooling tips in this free education video. Expert: Matt Moskal Bio: Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Facts 75% of home school families are Evangelical Christian 1.5 million children now learning at home, an increase of 75 percent since 1999. The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics reported homeschooling has risen by 36 percent in just the last five years. 83 percent of parents who chose home schooling do so for religious or moral reasons Video Rating: 4 / 5