FROG DISSECTION CD ROM
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is giving away free educational CD-ROMs
for Digital Frog for those who don't want to dissect, or want dissection help. "Several studies have shown that students who participated in an alternative to animal dissection demonstrated equal or greater knowledge of the subject matter compared with their peers who participated in dissection." Free downloadable workbook materials available.
Order at: http://support.pcrm.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dissalt_digital_frog2 |
What’s an error in English?
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html
The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we are concerned only with deviations
from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
But isn't one person's mistake another's standard usage?
Often enough, but if your standard usage causes other people to consider you stupid or ignorant, you may want to consider changing it. You have the right to express yourself in any manner you please, but if you wish to communicate effectively, you should use nonstandard English only when you intend to, rather than fall into it because you don't know any better |
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
FREE RESOURCES ~ http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by participating federal agencies. http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm |
UNIT STUDY ON MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
In the fall of 2006, AHEM unveiled a unit study on Massachusetts history and government for homeschoolers. This unit provides a variety of activities for six weeks of study, covering topics in history, geography, economics, civics, and government such as:
The purposes, principles, and practices of American government as established by the United States Constitution; the rights and responsibilities we have as citizens and how to exercise these rights and responsibilities in local, state, and national government; basic concepts of American government; history and politics of Massachusetts.
The activities have been chosen to teach the fundamental ideas each week, while appealing to a range of learning styles and ages. Parents are encouraged to individualize the unit to suit their own child’s present level of knowledge and interest. Some assignments involve reading, writing, and research; others involve hands-on games, art, even music and cooking. We hope that students will let us know if they come up with an idea that we might add to the unit for future students to learn from.
Some weeks allow for choosing one or more activities; other weeks require that more than one activity be completed. Some weeks have suggested field trips that tie in with the subject matter. Students keep a log of their accomplishments in a unit study notebook. When a student completes the unit study, we hope that he or she will let AHEM know, and give us any constructive feedback. We will then be pleased to send a Certificate of Completion.
To request the Unit Study be sent to you, send an email with your name and address to info@ahem.info or a SASE to AHEM, PO Box 1307, Arlington, MA 02474. You will be added to the Friends of AHEM list unless you specifically opt out.
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