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The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke and Homer

Here are 10 excellent and well written high school Physics and Physical Science text books that teach and demonstrate many topics and areas. These all have nicely illustrated graphics and images, along with internet links to supplemental content. Physics is the study of the world around us. In a sense we are more qualified to do physics than any other science. From the day we are born we study the things around us in an effort to understand how they work and relate to each other. Learning how to catch or throw a ball is a physics undertaking for example. The best approach to physics is to relate everything you learn to things you have already noticed in your everyday life. We attempt to describe things through simple rules and mathematics, which is merely the language we use. You can start with asking a simple question like ”Why is the sky blue?” which could lead you to electromagnetic waves which in turn could lead you wave particle duality and to energy levels of atoms and before long you are studying quantum mechanics or the structure of the universe.

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Chemistry Textbooks and Study Materials for Middle and High SchoolChemistry Textbooks and Study Materials for Middle and High School Here are several chemistry textbooks for both middle and high school students, along with lesson and study materials with all supporting content. These will greatly help in learning this important science subject and becoming more adept at understanding chemical concepts.

4 Natural Science and Technology Textbooks with Videos, Grades 4-6 These are four engaging texts with worksheets in the student version, and a teacher edition giving explanations and answers for each one. They cover these subject areas, as listed below: plants, animals, food, matter and materials, energy, electricity, earth, and the solar system. The folders linked below also contain teaching videos and documents that supplement the content discussed and taught in each textbook.

75 Earth Science & Climate Lessons, Activities & Learning Videos These are wonderful and insightful lessons, activities and videos that will engage, question and teach your 3rd through 9th grade students about Earth and Climate Science. Most of these are published by NASA. The lessons and activities are in pdf format and the videos are in mp4 format. All are directly accessible at the repository link above.

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67 Art Lessons and Projects for all Grades Here are 67 art projects and lessons for younger and older art students, covering many art genres and subject areas. 45 of these, from Elementary Visual Arts, are available as separate downloads in the folder linked above, and this document nicely details out 22 art lessons and activities (also in a smaller file size). 

First Grade Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge The Basic Code consonant sounds and spellings and the five short vowel sounds and spellings taught in Kindergarten CoreKnowledge Units 3-9 are reviewed in Grade 1 CoreKnowledge Unit 1. The remaining Basic Code vowel sounds and spellings are taught in Grade 1 Units 2-4. In a Basic Code lesson, students first learn to listen for and isolate a single sound and are then taught the spelling for that sound. Typically in this type of lesson, the teacher introduces the sound and conducts various oral language activities with the students to be certain they can identify the sound orally. The teacher then presents the spelling for that sound and models writing the spelling, as well as sounding out simple one-syllable words that use the spelling. Additional reading and writing practice opportunities for students then follow.The listening units include an anthology, supplemental guide, flip-charts, image cards.

37 Dolch Sight Word Lists, Phrases and Flash Card Sets 23 Fry High-Frequency Word Lists, Phrases and Flash Card Sets These are 60 Word Lists, Phrases, Flash Card Sets for both the Dolch sight words and the Fry high-frequency words. The Dolch lists are usually categorized by grade level, in decreasing order of frequency, and the Fry Lists are broken down by sets of hundreds by frequency order. Either list set  is sufficient for the young reader to learn the most common English words. Sight words are read as whole units with no pauses between sounds. They do not follow spelling rules of spelling or the six syllable types and therefore need to be memorized. High-frequency words are words that also have to be learned, and can be decoded, but they follow rules that a student may not know until after they need to be able to read them.

Lots of Astronomy Lessons, Activities and Learning Materials Freely available here, for all grade levels, are over 180 activities, learning guides, lessons, slide presentations and study reading documents (with discussion questions) for learning all about Astronomy and related topics. These are great educational resources for both home school and the classroom.

10 Math for Living Lessons: Ten stand-alone lessons designed to reinforce basic math skills while teaching practical concepts. These non-sequential, middle-school level lessons improve financial literacy and life skills with examples, practice problems, and vocabulary relating to work, smart shopping, and budgets, as well as information on obtaining the resources for college.

An important part of increasing English vocabulary and comprehension is learning Latin and Greek word roots, prefixes and suffixes. More than half of the words students will encounter have recognizable word parts, and many of these types of words have their origins in Latin and Greek roots. These base words, prefixes and suffixes have unique semantic features and consistent orthographic patterns. As younger readers review, study and start using them, they will better learn how to pronounce and spell them, along with understanding their meaning. 26 Latin and Greek Word Roots Lists, Teaching Helps and Techniques 30 Lessons on Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes Greek and Latin Roots Lesson with 3 Lists

70 Classic Story Books for Young People to Read and Enjoy Here are 70 wonderful reading books for younger readers covering many areas of classical stories, folklore, history, legends, fiction and poetry. All of these, except two, are newly rendered in modern, larger font for easier reading (and also for copying/pasting to other documents, if desired). I hope everyone enjoys these, as it took some effort creating them.

Kindergarten Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge The lessons and activities in this reading curriculum focus on sounds, or phonemes, as the primary organizing principle of the program, rather than letters. It includes phonics instruction, but the instruction differs from the sort of phonics usually taught in the United States in that it begins with sounds and then attaches those sounds to spellings. Once learners are familiar with the sound, you will show them how to draw a “picture of the sound.” You will write the letter ‘m’ and explain this is how we make a picture of the /m/ sound. The lessons use a synthetic phonics approach which teaches students to read by blending through the word; it does not teach multiple cueing strategies, use of pictures as a primary resource in decoding, or part-word guessing. The listening units include an anthology, supplemental guide, flip-charts, image cards.

9 Excellent Middle School Math Textbooks with Solutions This nice set of middle school texts for 6th, 7th and 8th grades put a smile on my face when I discovered them. Each one has well explained and easy to understand solutions to the problems taught, along with embedded videos. You can access each of these math textbooks with either better or less quality graphics, depending on your choice of file size as seen in the file name.