I picked up a book for school at a Borders closing sale the other day. It is called "Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out" While not a perfect book it has a lot of things going for it and would make a wonderful addition to your school shelf expecially for doing American History. It has numerous pieces of various length, some prose, some poetry, some pure fact, some historic fiction. The pieces are written and illustrated by 110 different authors and illustrators. So right there you can have lots to talk about while looking at the different art styles and writing styles independantly of the story/history itself. It also does a good job of covering the known and unknown people and stories of history as connected to the white house. There is also a wonderful seeming website linke to the book (which quite honestly could be very useful even if you don't have the book).
http://ourwhitehouse.org/intro.html
This site includes lots of teaching tips, links to related sites, info. on civics and how elections work, links to our countries important documents and a wonderful chart with info. on all the presidents.
So take a look and use it as a resouce for teaching about our country.
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Learning about Business, Economy etc.
Heard about this website on the radio this morning. It is put together by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Penn and is designed for High Schoolers. Looks like a helpful tool for understanding and teaching about many things of an Economic Nature. I think the glossery tab will be very helpful to me in understanding some of what I hear on the news but only partly understand.
http://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/
My family has also been enjoying listening to some of the planet money podcasts, it has been a fun way for the kids to learn some things about money and the economy. I will say that Paul previews them to make sure they are kid friendly, most have been but you may want to do the same thing, especially with younger kdis.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
http://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/
My family has also been enjoying listening to some of the planet money podcasts, it has been a fun way for the kids to learn some things about money and the economy. I will say that Paul previews them to make sure they are kid friendly, most have been but you may want to do the same thing, especially with younger kdis.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
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