Other Subjects besides Reading and Math
Most schools include multiple subjects during a school year.Generally these are broken out something like the following:
- Math
- Language Arts
- Learning to Read and Improving Reading skills
- Spelling and Vocabulary
- Writing
- Reading Literature
- Social Studies
- History - local, state or province, country, and world
- Geography - local, state or province, country, and world
- Government and civics
- Science
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Environmental and Earth Science
- Physics
- Foreign Languges
- Financial Literacy
- Physical Fitness
- Art
- Music
- Computer Science and electronics
- Other
- Hobbies
For each year a student will generally have at least a math, language arts, social studies, and science course. Some years will include other courses and some will not.
If you or your child have a particular interest in a topic, you can design a course or mini-course to investigate that material.
Language Arts | ||
Learning to readLearning to read is one of the two crucial skills that are absolutely crucial to an independent learner. As such, an entire page discusses resources for acquiring this skill. | ||
Spelling and Vocabulary | ||
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6-9 |
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6-College | Purdue Owl |
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High School and college |
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With excellent choices of poetry and prose, American literature includes offerings of interest to all.
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k-6 | 1931 Test |
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Social Studies | 0-College | Local library |
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0-College | Khan Academy |
Khan Academy has high school level courses for social studies in the following:
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College | MIT OCW |
MIT Opencourseware has many courses in their history, global studies, and other departments.
Although this is listed as a college level resource, it can be easily tackled by an interested high school student or the material can be used as a starting point in coming up with your lower level unit studies.
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College |
OYC
The American Revolution The Cival The Early Middle Ages Europe 1648-1945 Epidemics since 1600 Early Modern England France since 1871 |
Open Yale Courses provides some Yale College courses free of charge. While no credit is awarded for these free classes, that should not stop you from checking them out.
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1st - College | Age of Empires |
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0- College | History |
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9th Grade - College | Anneberg Learner |
However, many of these video presentations are equally relevant to the high school and college audience. |
Geography Games |
The Sheppard Software site is loaded with geography games and is definitely worth a look.
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Geography Bee |
Lesson plans and study resources are on this National Geographic site.
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Foreign Language | ||
There are some resources and methods that span many foreign languages. Repetition or lack of repetition in the individual language section does not reflect on the quality of the materials. There are many Foreign Language Service Institute Language courses that have been released to the public domain.
Language Apps | ||
Latin | ||
There are numerous resources for latin targetted at various ages.
Study Guide to Wheelock Latin by Dale Grote from Amazon
This is a chapter by chapter guide from a Latin professor at UNCC to accompany the Wheelock text and provide context.
This complaint holds for all foreign language acquisition except sign language. Students may have difficulty with the grammar of the foreign language because they have not mastered the grammar in English! | ||
Spanish | ||
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American Sign Language | ||
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French | ||
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Japanese | ||
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German | ||
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Russian | ||
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Portuguese | ||
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Other Languages | ||
There are many other languages with materials out there. If you know of other materials, preferably free, that are not the Foreign Language Service Institute or duolingo, please comment on the language blog post that either is up or will be going up shortly and I will see about adding a section for those materials. | ||
Finance | ||
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Science | ||
Environmental & Earth Science | ||
Biology | ||
Chemistry | ||
Physics | ||
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HobbiesHobbies can bring joy and pleasure to learning and life and span all areas of interests. If you have particular hobby books of interest please feel free to share them. | ||
Pets | ||
Cats | ||
Dog Breeds |
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Dog Training |
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Small and furry |
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