Groundhog Day Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterFebruary 2, 2008


History
Today is Groundhog Day! Learn more about it here: http://classbrain.com/cb_holidays/02february/groundhog.htm


Vocabulary
See if you can find these groundhog words: http://homeschooling.about.com/od/holidays/ss/groundhogprint.htm

Language Arts
Edit this article about Groundhog Hog day: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/edit/pdfs/edit0202.pdf

Geography
Practice your map reading skills here:
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/images/lesson048-1.pdf

Cooking
Make these yummy groundhog cookies: http://www.groundhog.org/teachers/cookies.php

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Homeschool Math Challenge February 1

When Phil came out of his burrow in 1971, it was negative fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. If the temperature this year is thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit, how much warmer will it be than it was in 1971?

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Kansas Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 29, 2008

History
On this day in 1861, Kansas became the 34th state in the United States. Learn more about Kansas here: http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ks_intro.htm

Vocabulary
Define the following words: population, state, capital, county, legend
Language Arts
Do a little research about Kansas with this worksheet: http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjgeog/l/blstateform.htm
Geography
Learn about the geography of Kansas here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/kansas.shtml
Find some cities in Kansas in this word search: http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles/kansas.html


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Homeschool Math Challenge January 30

Before Kansas became a state in 1861, the population was 107,206 people. The population in 2007 was 2,775,997 people. How many more people were there in 2007?

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Library Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 28, 2008

History
In 1902 Andrew Carnegie, who made millions manufacturing steel, set up a foundation to encourage knowledge and learning. His foundation helped to establish free public libraries in hundreds of American towns and cities. (Before Carnegie, most libraries charged a fee to get a library card.)
Writing Prompt
What part of the library is your favorite?
Reading
Learn about the Dewey decimal system here: http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/unit_09-10-01.shtml

Then see if you can complete this worksheet: http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/pdf/dewey/dewey_familiar.pdf

Vocabulary
Try this fun word search: http://teacherweb.com/CA/VintageParkwayElementarySchool/Library/InTheLibrary.htm
Math
Try these problems: http://math.about.com/od/worksheets/ss/graphcharts_3.htm

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 28

The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. According to its web site, in 2006, the library had: a total of 134,517,714 items in the collections, including:
20,532,692 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system. How many items are not cataloged books?

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Alice in Wonderland Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 27, 2008

History
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (he used a pseudonym) the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was born on this day in 1832. Learn more about Lewis Caroll here: http://www.insite.com.br/rodrigo/text/lewis_carroll.html

Writing Prompt
What is your favorite character from this famous story? Why do you like that character?

Reading
Can you judge a book by its first line? See if you could with the first few lines of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland here: http://www.abcteach.com/free/f/firstsens_carroll_aliceinwonderland.pdf
You can read the whole book here: http://www.the-office.com/Bedtime-Story/classics-aliceinwonderland.htm

Language Arts
Learn about pronouns here: http://www.abcteach.com/free/s/sheher_alice_wonderland.pdf

Vocabulary
Define the following words:
1. Pseudonym
2. Conversation

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 27

Alice found a drink that made her shrink. If every time Alice drank from the bottle she shrunk 2/5 inches, how many times would she have to drink in order to shrink 10 inches?



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Amazon River Bonus Worksheets

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Amazon River Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 26, 2008

History
On this day in 1500, the Amazon River was discovered by Vincent Pizon. The Amazon is the largest river in the world, and an important feature of South America. Learn more about the Amazon river here: http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/amazonriver8.htm

Reading
Read this story about an animal that lives in the Amazon river: http://www.abcteach.com/reading2/sammys_wishes.pdf

Vocabulary
Define each of the following words:
1. Niche
2. Canopy
3. flood
4. camouflage
5. predator
Then try this word search: http://www.abcteach.com/free/w/wrdsrch_amazon.pdf


Writing Prompt
If you were going to South America, list the things you would like to see there.


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Homeschool Math Challenge January 26

The Amazon flooded forest boasts an amazing diversity of plants and animals. Scientists exploring a single tree in the rain forest found 72 species of ants and 650 species of beetles. What percentage of the bugs found were ants?

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Lesson Plan January 23, 2009

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 23, 2008

History
Charles Curtis became the first Senator of Native American ancestry to become a U.S. Senator in 1907. He later became Vice President for President Hoover.

Writing Prompt
Senators help to write laws for the United States. If you were able to write a law for your nation or state, what law would you write? What problem would your law solve?

Language Arts
Do a little research about Native American tribes with this worksheet: http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/ss/native2print_2.htm

Reading
Learn more about the homes of Native Americans: http://www.lessonsnips.com/docs/pdf/nativeamericanhomes.pdf

Vocabulary
Here are some vocabulary words about Native Americans: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/nativea/vocab/
Use each word in a sentence.

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 23

There are 535 members of Congress - 100 Senators and 435 Representatives. What percentage of Congress members are Senators?

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Wild Animals Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 22, 2008

History
Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, was born in 1910. She advocated restoring zoo animals to their natural habitat, and worked out ways to teach them how to live in the wild. You can watch wild animals here: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/animal_profiles.html

Writing Prompt
If you could study one wild animal in its natural habitat, which one would you choose? Why that one?
Vocabulary
Define the following words, and give 2 examples of each:
Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore
Language Arts
Try this fun mad libs about a day at the zoo: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/madlibs/1/

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 22

The Zoo offers sponsorships on their animals. If a visitor has a favorite animal, he or she can pay for the food it eats. There are 4 giraffes. If each giraffe costs $16.50, what is the total food cost for the giraffes?

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Bonus Math Challenge

Tickets for the zoo cost $3 for adults and $2 for children. One day 350 tickets were sold and $950 was collected. How many adults visited the zoo? Children?

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Bubblegum lesson plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 21, 2008

History
On this day in 1933, William Wrigley III was born. He made a fortune making chewing gum and bought the Chicago Cubs, who still play in Wrigley Field. What is gum anyway? Find out here: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977568300&nav=MyGather

Science
Try this fun bubble gum experiment: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bubble-Gum-Experiment

Math
Practice percentages here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gumball-Percentages


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Homeschool Math Challenge January 21

Amy bought 24 pieces of bubble gum to share among herself and her 3 friends.
How many pieces of gum will each person get?

For a bonus entry, what fraction of the gum does each girl get?

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Inauguration Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 20, 2008

History

Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as America’s 44th president. The President lives in the White House. Take a tour here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/video/index.html

Learn more about the history of inauguration here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/inauguration/history.html.

Then answer the following questions:
1. What year was the first inauguration?
2. What vow does the president take? What words does he say?

Learn more about what will happen today here: http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/

Reading
Learn more about Barack Obama here: http://holidays.kaboose.com/barack-obama-as-president-and-fun-facts.html
And here: http://holidays.kaboose.com/who-is-barack-obama.html

Writing Prompt
What do you think it would be like to be President? Write about it!

Art
When Barack Obama is sworn in on inauguration day, he will stand at the presidential podium to give his speech. Make your own podium to celebrate this historic day here: http://crafts.kaboose.com/presidential-podium.html

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 20

Lawmakers learned how many tickets they'll get for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration Jan. 20:

240,000: Tickets will be issued total.
39,300: Tickets will go to the nation's 100 senators to distribute.
86,130: Tickets will go to the 435 House members

What percentage of the tickets will go to the nation's lawmakers?

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Homeschool Math Challenge Bonus

The National Mall is 300 acres. It stretches 1.9 miles from the Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial. This will be the first time in history that the entire mall will be open for an inauguration. If attendance is the estimated 2 million people and all of the people spread out evenly over the mall, how many square feet will each person get? Note that 1 acre is equal to 43,560 square feet.

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Martin Luther King Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 19, 2008

History

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Learn more about it here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html


Reading
Learn more about Martin Luther King with this scavenger hunt: http://tstrong.com/Martin.htm

Writing Prompt

Choose one of these quotes, and explain what you think it means: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977565682&nav=Namespace

Geography
Learn about places that were important in King's life: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp248-02.shtml

Vocabulary
Try this Martin Luther King word search: http://akidsheart.com/holidays/mlk/mlkwsprint.htm

Language Arts
Fact or opinion? http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_MLK_248a.shtml
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Homeschool Math Challenge January 19

Martin Luther King Jr. traveled many places to give speeches. He traveled on a train and needed to be in a certain town in six days in order to give a speech. The town is 3,450 miles away. How many miles must the train average each day to reachits destination?

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Snow Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJanuary 12, 2008


History

Lots of places have snowy weather in January.

Reading

Read about the man who first photographed snow here: http://www.abcteach.com/free/r/rc_bio_snowflakebentley_upper.pdf

Writing Prompt
Write a story about the snow here: http://www.abcteach.com/free/w/writingprompt_snowday.pdf

Science
Learn more about snow here: http://library.thinkquest.org/5818/snow.html
If it doesn’t snow where you live, you might want to try this fun science activity: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/00000137 (you have to order the snow maker).
Math
Try this logic problem: http://www.edhelper.com/Winter_Logic69.htm

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 12

Tyler and Cod want to build a fort out of snow. The fort will be tent feet long and four feet wide. What will be the area of the fort?

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New Mexico Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJanuary 6, 2008


History
On this day in 1912, Mexico became the 47th state in the United States. Learn more about New Mexico here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/newmexico/


Writing Prompt
Write a diamante poem about New Mexico here: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/usa-states/new-mexico/printables/diamante.html

Reading
Learn more about New Mexico’s flag here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/newmexico/

Geography
See how many cities from New Mexico you can find in this word search: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/usa-states/new-mexico/printables/word-search-cities.html

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 6

Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta. As several teams set up, at 6:00 AM the temperature was only 39.5 degrees. The temperature went up 7.6 degrees the first hour, and 13 degrees the second hour. By 9:00 AM the temperature had risen another 5.3 degrees. What was the temperature at 9:00?

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Wyoming Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterJan 5, 2008


History

On this day in 1925, Wyoming elected the first woman governor in the United States. Her name was Nellie Tayloe Ross. Learn more about her here: http://www.nellietayloeross.com/history.html

Research
Learn more about Wyoming here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/wyoming/index.shtml
Then complete this worksheet:
http://www.homeschoolviews.com/unit-studies/wyomingstate.pdf

Vocabulary
Find these Wyoming words with this word search: http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles/wyoming.html

Geography
Learn about Wyoming’s geography here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/wyoming.shtml

Writing Prompt
”Old Faithful” is a geyser in Wyoming that erupts from 60 to 100 feet in the air about every 30 minutes each day. Write your story as if something caused it to stop erupting. What happened?

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 5

The Elk Antler Arch, in Wyoming, is the world's largest arch made solely out of elk antlers. This arch stands 18 feet high and consists of 3,011 elk antlers. On average, how many antlers are there per foot?

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Homeschool Math Challenge January 1

When you toss a fair coin, what is the chance of getting heads?

Write your answers as a fraction, decimal, and percent.

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