It’s Sunday and time for Free Homeschool Topics of the Week. Charlie and I hope there are resources here your able to use in your classroom.
Fun Resources & Activities for Halloween!
As you probably know, kids love learning about all things spooky, creepy and crawly. That’s why we’ve put together this list of Halloween-themed ideas for your kids. Read the facts about mummies, spiders, and bats.
Here’s our Halloween guide for the following resources and activities:
You have fewer bones in your body now than you did when you were born. Everybody starts life with more than 300 bones. By age 20, we have only about 206 bones.
On May 21, 1884, the Statue of Liberty was finished. The journey from idea to reality had taken almost 20 years.
Stars emit, or send out, mostly visible light. Galaxies are made mostly of stars. Galaxies emit mostly visible light, right?
The Day of the Dead is celebrated around All Saints Day, on November 1 and 2. On those days, Mexicans honor dead relatives by visiting their graves.
Adams served as Washington’s vice president before being elected president. He was the first president to live in the Presidential Palace (later called the White House).
DESSERTS, BICYCLES, LAKES
This Unit puts deserts all over the world under a microscope and offers up some amazing facts. Students will imagine traveling from one side of the United States to the other and not seeing anything but desert. That’s about the size of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert. They’ll think about the Namib Desert, where it might be 40ºF when they dress for school in the morning and 105ºF by lunchtime.
In this Unit, students will get all the facts on this wheeled wonder, from its invention in 1817 by a German baron to the high-tech, speedy cruisers of today. After reviewing the basics – how a bike works – students will delve into its history, starting with the birth of the wheel in 3500 B.C. and zooming up to the late 1800s, when the bike really took off.
Dive into Lakes, which takes students through all the wild and watery features of these numberless bodies of water. They’ll start off with information about the three different kinds of lakes. For students who want to learn more, facts about the many shapes they come in, including oxbows and sinkholes, are next up. And just how are they formed? Bet you didn’t know that lakes can appear when glaciers melt, volcanoes explode, or meteorites strike the Earth!
Free Infographic: How a Bill Becomes a Law
All U.S. laws start out as bills in Congress. However, a bill becoming a law requires a lengthy process, and many bills don’t make it through.
This free downloadable infographic explains this process with an easy-to-understand diagram for kids.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
