Tag: Homeschool Products

Travel back in time… back to a time where catapults and trebuchets were known as normal weapons of choice for various adversaries. Pitsco, a company known for their vast array of hands-on learning products and kits, is now offering the Medieval Machines Pack ($21.95) which features a Trebuchet Kit, Catapult Kit, Mass Plates, and the Siege Machines book. In this pack, students learn about catapults and trebuchets through hands-on activities that cover three areas: Science: Tension versus torsion, elasticity, gravity and levers, and force and motion Math: Metric conversion, calculating averages, and prediction Experiments: Mass versus distance, testing rubber bands, targeting,…

Living next to the Mexican border, it’s extremely useful to know at least basic Spanish.  The issue is actually learning to speak and understand Spanish.  The practical application is not always easy.  There is something to be said about shows like Dora the Explorer as they make is fun and easy to learn Spanish.  The Easy Spanish takes that approach to learning Spanish.  It’s an immersion program that uses fun storylines, repetitive listening activities, daily vocabulary practice, and various activity-based learning activities to help really cement new ideas into the student’s memory. One of the unique aspects of the program…

Math Mammoth offers both full curriculum math products as well as topic/grade based products and practical application products.  Last year, we had the wonderful opportunity to try out some of the practical application math products (Make It Real Learning).  This year, since Munchkin is working on geometry, we decided to try out the green series geometry worksheet set. Part of the Math Mammoth “green” series, Math Mammoth Geometry Worksheets Collection contains geometry-related worksheets for grades 5-8. The worksheets have been pulled out from Math Mammoth Grade 5, 6, and 7 Worksheets Collections, plus two worksheets related to Pythagorean theorem come…