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Top Ten Educational Websites for the Homeschool Family

older brother helping younger brothers learn on the internetMany families are starting to elect the educational choice of homeschooling for their children. There are a number of reasons why this educational choice is becoming a trend. The most popular reasons include religious beliefs, dissatisfaction with the school system, and personal family values. Regardless of the reason a family chooses to homeschool, it is important for these individuals to have a host of educational resources available to them. The internet is loaded with excellent educational material. Here is our first annual, More4kids, list of Top 10 Educational websites. While numbered from 1 to 10, they are in no particular order and each one is worthy of being a number 1 in our opinion. Enjoy, and feel free to leave comments at the bottom of this page with your favorites.

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Effective Teaching Techniques for Homeschoolers

by Ann Bowers
Years of research studies on public education in the United States have shown that there are effective ways to teach and ineffective ways. As a homeschooling parent, you want to use the most effective ways to teach. Not only will your children learn more and learn it faster, but also they will enjoy learning more if they are not bored and frustrated by ineffective lessons. In this article, I will chart some ineffective and some effective teaching techniques.  

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Teaching With Puzzles

By Ann Bowers

Parents and teachers often underestimate the effectiveness of puzzles in teaching children skills and concepts. There are many types of puzzles, including those that teach spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, math, language, social science and science concepts, as well as logic and thinking skills. Children as young as one year of age can use simple puzzles. There are puzzles for all ages, including adults. The best quality of puzzles is the enjoyment experienced by the user as they solve them.

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Tips for Creating a Great Lesson Plan

by Ann Bowers

Madeleine Hunter, an educator of great renown, who helped establish the University of California at Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Elementary School, was the first to develop an effective lesson plan format for teachers to use. She identified several vital factors for learning that were not included in most lessons taught to children. She incorporated these factors into her basic lesson plan. The basic lesson plan has been modified at times (for example, “State Standard Addressed” was added in the late 1990s), but the format has stood the test of time and performed well in helping schools raise test scores.

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Teachers Survival Guide Part 1

by Jennifer Cartwright

You have survived the first day of school and all the rest there after.  Hopefully, it has gotten easier as you have gotten to know your students and their parents.  You have a daily routine and developed some systems to make things work more smoothly in your classroom.  As the school year wears on, you will find that you will need to fine tune your systems.  Here are five ideas that should help you this year and for the rest of your teaching career.

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