Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
Posted in College Prep, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain, Science on November 18, 2011
I found this gem while browsing for cool mechanical clip-art. This book is chock-full of awesome illustrations of everything used in hydraulics, steam engines, pneumatics, and all kinds of other machines. Each numbered illustration is accompanied by descriptive text on the opposite page. Even the motions of the machines are shown! This would be a great Read More »
What to Draw and How to Draw It
Posted in Art, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 18, 2011
This is one of my favorite drawing books to use with the kids. The drawings are simple and yet they teach complex lessons about the basic shapes of objects. Each page has instructions for one or more objects, whether that be animals or buildings or something else. The instructions are well-done and simple to follow. Read More »
Christmas Graphics
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain on November 16, 2011
Just in time for all your Christmas and holiday projects- may I present a collection of simple graphics: This public domain collection is perfect for cutting, tracing, and using in your crafts and cards this year. The images can easily be turned to black and white and used for stencils or templates. Include them in Read More »
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 »
