This is the first part of a two part post.
This is for those of you out there that want to home-school and just don't know what there is out there that you can teach your children with, and also for those of you that just want more resources for your children to chew on, home-schooled or not.
Here are some things that I being home-schooled my whole life except for a local Seminary class and an online charter school that I have been taking classes through this past school year, have found were helpful in my studies and academic progress. And I believe that they can also be helpful to you and your children.
This post is mostly for teaching older children but you can start teaching your children with these things around the time that they are able to read.
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First of all I have loved Khan Academy it is a free online math system that started when the founder Salman Khan started teaching his cousin who didn't understand some math concepts. He used Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad to help teach her. Some of his other relatives started wanting him to teach their children. After that, he decided it would be easier to post his videos on YouTube. From there it has evolved into an entire website that anyone can use to teach themselves or their children. You can now make your own Khan Academy login to keep track of your progress. If you are a parent, then you can set up yourself to be your children's "Coach" so that you can track your children's progress as well. One thing that makes your children want to do it is that when they do certain things that show that they are investing time into learning, it awards them different "Badges" some of them are harder to get than others, but it is FUN to earn them and show them off. That's all that I can think of while keeping my post short. The link to their website is http://www.khanacademy.org/
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The next thing that I would like to talk about is a program called Seterra. This is a free downloadable geography program (you can also do it online now) that is about four megabytes for the latest version (4.02) and about one megabyte for the version before (3.0). One thing that I like about this is that it records the best results in a high score list so that you can have friendly (sometimes crazy!) competitions between siblings and parents. The format is also very well laid out so that you can navigate the program easily. The way it works is, you open the program and then pick what part of the world you want to learn more about (divided into continents). Then you pick what you want to learn about in that section. It has stuff like countries, with their flags and the capitals, of the continent you have selected. If you think that you know most of the world you can take the (Ultimate) quiz of "Can you name all of the countries of the world?" The link to their website is http://www.seterra.net/
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The last thing that I will talk about in this post is a cool quiz site called Sporcle. It is a place where people can make users and then they can make quizzes about all sorts of things. Some that would be better for teaching your children would be the quizzes located in the geography, language, science, history and literature sections.The way it works is you pick a quiz that you want to do then you press the start button and you have a limited time to complete the quiz. On some quizzes if you get a wrong answer then that ends the quiz. After you run out of time or get all the answers right then you can see your stats and see how you compare against others who have done the same quiz. The link to their website is http://www.sporcle.com/
I will post again soon with a couple other things I have found helpful to me.
Be sure to check out these wonderful resources and see if you would like to use them yourself!
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