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Physics For Free
Posted in College Prep, Creative Commons, High School, Science on November 16, 2011
The website Physics for Free is a very plain looking place. It contains three free books written by Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics at Yale. The great thing about these pdf downloads is that they are expressly copyright-free. The three books build off one another and are perfect for advanced high schoolers and Read More »
How Plants Travel Notebooking Pack
Posted in Free Use, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Upper Elementary on November 14, 2011
As a companion resource to the wonderful living book Little Wanderers, I have created a notebooking pack that includes individual pages for each of the main plants in the book. This pack is enormous, a whopping 57 pages! Study the way that seeds travel and have fun recording your progress. Along with the notebooking pages Read More »
Dot and Tot of Merryland
Posted in Kindergarten, Literature, Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on November 11, 2011
Freshly uploaded onto Gutenberg.org for your reading pleasure, Dot and Tot of Merryland is another fantastical story by L. Frank Baum. Illustrating for this public domain book in a similar fashion as the Wizard of Oz books, W. W. Denslow brings little Dot and Tot to life in oranges and yellows. The story is about Read More »
Machines At Work
Posted in Hobbies and Crafts, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Science on November 10, 2011
Boys love machines and anything that goes “vroom”. Girls love big machines too. There is just something about the immense power and ability behind a big piece of machinery that makes it fascinating. Machines At Work is a great living book. Full of color illustrations and flavorful text, it would be perfect for notebooking or Read More »
Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Posted in American History, College Prep, High School, Home Economics, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 6, 2011
Any history or cooking enthusiast will enjoy this fun cookbook highlighting traditional Pennsylvania Dutch foods. From the preface of the book: In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn’s Colony seeking a land of peace and plenty. They were a mixed people; Moravians from Bohemia and Moravia, Mennonites from Switzerland and Holland, Read More »
