The complete home learning sourcebook
Subtitle: the essential resource guide for homeschoolers, parents, and educators covering every subject from arithmetic to zoology
By: Rebecca Rupp
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 865
ISBN-13: 9780609801093
Subjects: Home schooling; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Home learning
Description: Lists all the resources needed to create a balanced curriculum for homeschooling--from preschool to high school level.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: user's guidelines; title: To school or not to school (Getting started; title: Curricula, lesson plans, and how-tos); title: Electronic data (Computers and software; title: The Internet; title: Television and video); title: Reading (Learning to read; title: Alphabet books; title: Storytelling; title: Literature; title: Classical mythology; title: Shakespeare; title: Good books); title: Writing (Handwriting and penmanship; title: Vocabulary; title: Grammar; title: Spelling; title: Dictionaries; title: Style manuals; title: Quotations; title: Creative writing; title: Kid-written magazines; title: The basics of books; title: Poetry for kids; title: Journals and diaries; title: Letter writing; title: Journalism and newspapers; title: Libraries); title: Mathematics (General math; title: Measurement; title: Statistics; title: Math history; title: Math and literature; title: Chess; title: Economics for kids); title: Science (General science; title: Astronomy.; title: Contents (cont.): Biology : botany, cell biology, entomology, environmental science, evolution, genetics, the human body, marine biology/oceanography, microbiology, ornithology, zoology; title: Chemistry; title: Earth science : geology, meteorology, paleontology; title: Physics); title: Geography (Atlases for kids; title: Maps; title: Geography resources); title: History : General, American, and world (General history resources; title: American history : American history resources; title: Early American history : pre-Columbian America, Columbus and other explorers, the Colonial period, French and Indian War, early American life; title: The Revolution and the new nation : the Revolutionary War, important people of the Revolutionary War period,the Constitution, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, American Indians, the War of 1812.; title: Contents (cont.): The nineteenth century : whaling days, quilts, the Erie Canal, the railroads, Texas and the Alamo, the Gold Rush, Thoreau and the Transcendentalists, the Westward movement, slavery and the Underground Railroad, the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, inventors and inventions, reform and reformers, women's rights; title: The twentieth century : historical overviews and timelines ; World War I ; the Great Depression and the New Deal ; World War II ; the Cold War, the Korean War, and Vietnam ; the Civil Rights Movement; title: Politics, presidents, and first ladies; title: The law; title: Family trees and local history; title: World history : world history resources, prehistoric peoples, ancient civilizations, Vikings, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance through the seventeenth century, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.; title: Contents (cont.): Modern times : World War I, World War II and the Holocaust, Russia/U.S.S.R., post-World War II); title: Foreign languages (General foreign-language resources; title: Chinese; title: French; title: German; title: Greek and Latin; title: Hebrew; title: Italian; title: Japanese; title: Russian; title: Sign language; title: Spanish; title: Swahili; title: Foreign-language pen pals); title: The arts (Art; title: Music; title: Drama; title: Puppets; title: Architecture; title: Dance); title: Ethics, religion, and philosophy (Ethics; title: Religion; title: Philosophy); title: Life skills (Carpentry/woodworking; title: Cooking; title: Etiquette; title: Gardening; title: Gender issues; title: Sex education; title: Sewing/fabric crafts; title: Sports/Physical fitness; title: Travel; title: Work/community service).