The American Heritage Education Foundation is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of our nation’s factual and philosophical heritage to promote constructive citizenship and freedom, unity, progress, and responsibility among our students and citizens. As a member of the TOS Crew, I received a cd copy of America’s Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty. America’s Heritage is meant to assist teacher’s in the teaching of our nation’s history. Sadly, this knowledge is seriously lacking in many of our nation’s citizens. In order to be able to learn from our past, we need to know our past. History…
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ABC Teach
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YOUR ONLINE RESOURCE FOR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION Thousands of FREE printable worksheets and activities Over 35,000 pages of worksheets and activities, abctools, and more, available to members. As a member of the crew, I was given a free 1 month trial membership to the abcteach site. Within a few hours of browsing the site, I knew that I would want a membership. In fact, I purchased a membership within a few days of starting my free trial. My first evening, I printed out a music file folder game as well as other music related worksheets to go along with our composer…
Amazing Bible Timeline Review
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As part of the TOS Crew, I was sent a copy of the The Amazing Bible Timeline to review. See Bible and World History together – the research across multiple cultures and books has been done for you Understand the Bible better by seeing everything organized in one view Know when key people or events happened Visualize the rise and fall of nations, the history of man at a glance The Amazing Bible Timeline is HUGE (37″ X 45″). Our first issue was figuring out where to put the timeline. It was too large to place on our table…
Educaching Review
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Educaching is an innovative curriculum that combines education and geocaching. If you’ve never heard of geocaching, you can think about it as a high tech treasure hunt using your gps. We loved the idea of incorporating our gps into our school day. Munchkin would learn how to use technology, get exercise, and learn all at the same time. Sounds like a plan to me. The Educaching teacher’s manual starts off with teachers training. You will cover: What is GPS? What is Educaching? Learning the Lingo (terms you need to know in the gps, educaching world) Lesson Plans & Subject Integration…
Nature Friend Magazine Review
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Helping Children Explore the Wonders of God’s Creation Nature Friend magazine is a children’s magazine the whole family, including the grandparents, can enjoy. It is published twelve issues per year, six of which are gently nudged towards the older family members. Readers are encouraged to participate in the magazine by submitting art, photographs, stories, puzzles and poems. Besides the various submissions used each month, they have an annual readers’ issue that is compiled from reader’s submissions, cover-to-cover. Nature Friend magazine, begun in 1983, was first published by the Stanley Brubaker family of Goshen, Indiana. It was born out of Mr.…