Story of the World Chapter 9

Mr. Yankey's World History

This is a great resource for maps

BBC Indus Valley interactive site

Great interactive resources for Ancient Indus Valley

Homeschool Options

Sugata Mitra - Minimally invasive education








Thomas Jefferson Education







Unschooling

Free 10 week Poetry Curriculum

Link to free Poetry Curriculum

Some great science links

http://thehomeschoolscientist.com/june-science-calendar/#.U5EwOKHhkUR


http://eequalsmcq.com/blog/

http://www.hometrainingtools.com/science-curriculum/c/7/

http://teachbesideme.com/homeschool-moms-share-favorite-science-curriculum/





 

Henri Rousseau

Youtube - Jungle Print


Incredible Art.org




Henri Rousseau's work

Henri Rousseau documentary - Youtube

Delving into Space

Kids Astronomy





Nasa Solar System

Crash course on Solar System Video


Interactive Tour of Solar System




Planetary.org

Little artist

Paint, Draw and Create.  Allow your children to do the same.


 Kids Artist Blogspot


Teach Kids art


Kinder art

http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/draw.html


Artist Birthdays

teaching Ideas

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art.html#pYtob0bqsb0fQvo5.99

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art.html#pYtob0bqsb0fQvo5.99

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art.html#pYtob0bqsb0fQvo5.99

Beginning Piano

I was reminded over the weekend of the importance of music for young minds.  I've taken for granted how much music is a part of life.  Because of this we are incorporating music and piano lessons into our regular studies.

But we need to start at the beginning. One of my children has a lot of experience with the viola and French Horn but has no Piano experience.  My second son is very musically inclined and took lessons for about a year and my two youngest have no experience at all.  So we all are at different levels.

Music matters blog

Piano Pronto



Opus Music Worksheets

Colorin my Piano

BYU Beginning Piano


The Teaching Studio

True Piano Lesson

Navigation Act

History Place


Navigation act video

Bees Bees

This week Bee wanted to teach about Bee's.  This is very interesting

Here are some things we will be doing

Bee's making honey out of nectar

We are also talking about pollination

For the Budding Mathmatician

Math Games for budding mathmaticians

Fruit Shoot

Miss Mee's Clownfish

The study of anemonefish is a perfect setting to introduce the idea of symbiosis.  Even small children can understand long-term interactions between different species that are mutually beneficial.  There are so many instances in nature where this occurs the anemonefish is just one example.  For my older children Mee will give them the challenge of finding two more examples of symbiosis in nature.


 kidzworld.com






symbiosis video



 



Learn to draw a clownfish

Plymouth Colony

History.com

Plymouth Colony, the first permanent Puritan settlement in America, was established in December 1620 on the western shore of Cape Cod Bay by the English Separatist Puritans known as the Pilgrims. They were few in number and without wealth or social standing. Although their small and weak colony lacked a royal charter, it maintained its separate status until 1691. The Pilgrims secured the right to establish an American settlement from the London Company. The landfall (Nov. 19, 1620) of their ship, the Mayflower, at Cape Cod put the settlers far beyond that company's jurisdiction, provoking mutinous talk. To keep order, the Pilgrim leaders established a governing authority through the Mayflower Compact (Nov. 21, 1620). The 41 signers formed a "Civil Body Politic" and pledged to obey its laws. Patents granted by the Council for New England in 1621 and 1630 gave legal status to the Pilgrims' enterprise. To finance their journey and settlement the Pilgrims had organized a joint-stock venture. Capital was provided by a group of London businessmen who expected — erroneously — to profit from the colony. During the first winter more than half of the settlers died as a result of poor nutrition and inadequate housing, but the colony survived due in part to the able leadership of John Carver, William Bradford, William Brewster, Myles Standish, and Edward Winslow. Squanto, a local Indian, taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and where to fish and trap beaver. Without good harbors or extensive tracts of fertile land, however, Plymouth became a colony of subsistence farming on small private holdings once the original communal labor system was ended in 1623. In 1627 eight Pilgrim leaders assumed the settlement's obligations to the investors in exchange for a 6-year monopoly of the fur trade and offshore fishing.
Plymouth's government was initially vested in a body of freemen who met in an annual General Court to elect the governor and assistants, enact laws, and levy taxes. By 1639, however, expansion of the colony necessitated replacing the yearly assembly of freemen with a representative body of deputies elected annually by the seven towns. The governor and his assistants, still elected annually by the freemen, had no veto. At first, ownership of property was not required for voting, but freemanship was restricted to adult Protestant males of good character. Quakers were denied the ballot in 1659; church membership was required for freemen in 1668 and, a year later, the ownership of a small amount of property as well.
Plymouth was made part of the Dominion of New England in 1686. When the Dominion was overthrown (1689), Plymouth reestablished its government, but in 1691 it was joined to the much more populous and prosperous colony of Massachusetts Bay to form the royal province of Massachusetts. At the time Plymouth Colony had between 7,000 and 7,500 inhabitants.
Oscar Zeichner
Bibliography: Adams, J. T., The Founding of New England (1921; repr. 1963); Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, ed. by S. E. Morison (1952); Deetz, James and Patricia Scott, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love and Death in Plymouth Colony (2000); Demos, John, A Little Commonwealth — Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1988); Langdon, G. D., Jr., Pilgrim Colony (1966); Morison, S. E., The Story of the Old Colony of New Plymouth (1956); Smith, Bradford, Bradford of Plymouth (1951); Stratton, E. A., Plymouth Colony: Its History and People (1987).
(From scholastic.com)

plymouth colony powerpoint



FOR THE YOUNGER KIDS







reenactment

Bee's Squid

This week Bee is teaching us about squids.  She has a lot of fun things planned for us.  I will be helping her with some of these lessons.  We will start off by talking about the importance of working as a team and taking different scientific approaches for a common goal.

Squid Dissection  - We used this as a guide to our dissection

After we identified the organs, the pen and the beak as well as the sex of our squid, we cleaned them and fried them up.

 We fried them up in butter, garlic, and onion.  I thought they were rather tasty but the kids thought they were a little fishy.  Imagine that.

Bee liked them the most.  She chowed down and finished off several of them

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/the-giant-squid-discoverers.htm

"The giant squid discoverers" at discovery.com explains a wonderful approach to solving scientific problems and working on research as a team.


Giant squid


Squid experiment - almost unschoolers








origami squid



Tree of Life


   


CBS News - Hombolt Squid





winky the homboldt squid

Coffee filter squid

We took two coffee filters and put a little stuffing between two and stapled them together

Then we made tentacles and arms by cutting strips out of another filter and stapled them on the bottom and painted them with watercolor.

In the end we made a squid wall to display our little critters

We also created salt dough squid and baked them

Early American Explorers 1535-1543

Monday

• 1535 - Jacques Cartier travels up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec and Montreal. 

   









biography clip 

• 1539 - Fray Marcos de Niza searches for the Seven Cities of Gold and wanders over New Mexico. 

Wednesday

1539-41 - Hernando de Soto explores Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and becomes the first European to cross the Mississippi River.      

   

 De Soto Clip

1540-42 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores the Gila River, the Rio Grande, and the Colorado River. He reaches as far north as Kansas before returning to Mexico City. He too searches for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. 

 

Coronado clip 

Friday

1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails up the California Coast and claims it for Spain.

 

1543 - Followers of Hernando De Soto sail from the Mississippi River to Mexico.
Bartolome Ferrelo continues sailing north up California and reaches what is probably present day Oregon.  

Sea Turtles

As part of our ocean studies we are learning about sea turtle.  Living so close to a beach that has turtle nesting for a good part of the year is a trip.  It's one thing to read about turtles nesting but to see the actual nests and turtle prints is another.  I'm looking forward to this summer.  I really hope that we can see turtle prints and hopefully even a nest site.



Monday

Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program















Pamela Susan Turtle poem and pet











Wednesday

Sea Turtle Documentary
This is a fascinating documentary about Leather Back Turtles.  I had no idea how amazing their anatomy is.  It does show a dissection of a Leather Back Turtle that was killed by a boat propeller and does talk quite extensively about its sex organs(which I will edit for my children) but very informational.  Two thumbs up


Easy oragami turtle






Friday






 Sea Turtle Conservancy





We will also be watching this on netflix.



 

Bee's Birds

Last week we did a trial run of letting the kids teach a science subject.  It was such a hit we are going to continue.  The conditions are that they must study the subject out.  For the younger kids that includes reading a book and reading several other sources.  For the older kids this can include a deeper look into a subject.  I have allowed each child a day or two to present their lesson along with projects or experiments that go along with it.

Monday we are starting with our youngest.  She will need lots of assistance in her lesson so we will link some of the information that we find here.  After reading a book about birds she was so excited to teach the fam everything the learned.


www.allaboutbirds.org

This is a fun sight that allows you to identify birds.  It also has a lot of wonderful ideas for getting out and star identifying birds in your area.  It also has life history, video and bird calls.

Junior bird list


Types of beaks




 Types of bird feet



Parts of the birds


bird crafts

oragami bird

Dolphin week

This week we are going to be concentrating on Dolphins.  I've allowed my girls to choose what we will be learning about next.  So per their request,  It's Dolphin week.  We live about 30 minutes from the ocean and have seen dolphins as recent as a couple of weeks ago so I'm really excited to use the resources that are close.  We will be learning about dolphin  anatomy, Ocean foodchain, Ocean ecology and niche,and we will be looking at things we can do to help those who are helping dolphins.  There are so many online resource to help with this weeks lesson.  I will be sharing with my children the live webcam at the Florida Dolphin research center.  We will be learning about things that scientist are finding out about Dolpins including Dr. Herzing's wild Dolphin project, and we will be working on fun art projects and actually entering them in to the Jason Project artistic contests this year (more info in the Jason Project link below).  So grab your snorkel and fins and join us in learning more about the underwater world of Dolpins.



Lesson Plans

Dolphin research Center
This is a really great site.  They have a live webcam and lots of activities for kids to do.

Dolphin Poetry
This would be great to go along with a lesson on Emily Dickinson

First Grade lesson plans - Winter's Tail

First Grade oceans lesson plan

Free Printable ocean

Division of Natural Resources
Outer Banks Dolphin Research




Dolphin Science 

Wild Dolphin Project Video

http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/

after oil spill

Wired.com




Dolphin Technology

 Sea Breacher

Sonar disarming sea mines

Darwin

Winter's Tail




Dolphin Math

http://www.mathgametime.com/games/dolphin-feed-money-game

Article about dolphins ability to do math


Projects

The Jason Project

The Five Gyres

American Explorers 1502-1524

Timeline of Early American Explorers


Monday -

1513 - Juan Ponce de León finds and names Florida. Legend has it, he searches for the Fountain of Youth.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Lesson plan
youtube
  



1519 - Alonso Álvarez de Pineda sails from Florida to Mexico, mapping the gulf coast along the way.
Legends of America
Captain Alonso Alvarez de Pineda (1494-1520) - A Spanish explorer and map-maker, Pineda and his crew were probably the first Europeans in Texas, claiming it for Spain. Little is known of Pineda's early life, but, in 1517, he was sailing for the Spanish Governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay. The Spanish thought there must be a sea lane from the Gulf of Mexico to Asia and In 1517 and 1519, Pineda led several expeditions to map the western coastlines of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Yucatan Peninsula to Panuco River, just north of Veracruz, Mexico.

On June 2, 1519, Alvarez de Pineda entered a large bay with a sizable Native American settlement on one shore. He sailed upriver for 18 miles and observed as many as 40 villages on the banks of the large, deep river he named "Espíritu Santo." It has been long assumed that he was the first European report of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Álvarez de Pineda continued his journey westward and one of the regions he explored and mapped was the area around Corpus Christi Bay, entering the bay on the feast day of Corpus Christi, hence the name. Shortly thereafter, he sailed up a river he named Las Palmas, where he spent over 40 days repairing his ships. The Las Palmas was most likely the Rio Grande River. The expedition established the remainder of the boundaries of the Gulf of Mexico, while disproving the idea of a sea passage to Asia. It also verified that Florida was a peninsula instead of an island, and allowed Alvarez de Pineda to be the first European to see the coastal areas of western Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, lands he called "Amichel." His map is the first known document of Texas history and was the first map of the Gulf Coast region of the United States. The next year, he was killed in a fight with Huastec Indians in Panuco, Mexico.(from:http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-spanishexplorers5.html)

       

1519-1521 - Hernán Cortés defeats the Aztecs and conquers Mexico.

Cortés was a Spanish conquistador (soldier and explorer) who conquered the vast Aztec empire in central America.
Hernán (or Hernando) Cortés was born in 1485 in Medellín, western Spain. He initially studied law but left university to make his fortune in the Americas.
In 1504 he sailed for Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), moving to Cuba in 1511 where he assisted Diego Velázquez in his conquest of the island and made his reputation for courage and daring.
In 1518 Cortés persuaded Velázquez, who was now governor, to make him commander of an expedition to Mexico. It had only recently been discovered by Europeans and was rumoured to contain great wealth.
Shortly before Cortés set sail, Velázquez, who was now suspicious of his motives, cancelled his commission. Cortés ignored Velázquez and set out. On arrival he established a settlement (now Veracruz) and made local allies.
The major civilisation in the region was that of the Aztecs, led by Montezuma II. Cortés headed for the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, which was a three-month journey over difficult terrain. It is thought that Cortés’ arrival coincided with an Aztec prophecy about a white-skinned god arriving from the east, which would explain why Montezuma welcomed Cortés and gave him lavish gifts. However, relations quickly deteriorated and, fearing an attack, Cortés took Montezuma hostage, demanding a huge ransom from his people.
In April 1520, Velázquez sent an expedition to capture Cortés. As Cortés left to fight the expedition, an Aztec revolt began in Tenochtitlán. Cortés returned and obliged Montezuma to face the crowd, but the Aztec leader was struck by a stone and died. The Spanish were driven out of the city, incurring heavy losses.
Cortés re-organised his forces and in 1521 returned to Tenochtitlán, which fell after a three-month siege. A new settlement, Mexico City, was built on the ruins and settled with Spanish colonists, becoming the centre of Spanish America. Cortés secured control over Mexico, inflicting great cruelty on the indigenous population. Western diseases such as smallpox also caused huge fatalities.
In 1523 Cortés was named governor and captain general of New Spain. In 1528, amid Spanish fears that he was becoming too powerful, he was forced to return to Spain where the king reinstated him as captain general, but not to the position of civil governor. On his return to Mexico, his powers were significantly limited and his activities monitored. He continued to explore Central America, hoping to find a strait from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He failed, instead discovering, and naming, California.
In 1541, Cortés returned to Spain an embittered man and retired to an estate near Seville where he died on 2 December 1547.
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cortes_hernan.shtml
 


Biography.com


Interactive map






Wednesday -

1519-1522 - Ferdinand Magellan sails around South America into the Pacific. Despite Magellan's death in 1521, his expedition becomes the first to circumnavigate the globe.
      




biography video





1523 - Pánfilo de Narváez became governor of Florida but died after dealing with a hurricane, attacks by native americans, and disease.



Panfilo Slide show and quiz


Friday -

• 1524 - In a French sponsored voyage, Giovanni de Verrazano discovers the Hudson River before sailing north to Nova Scotia. 
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Gorton History Channel

• 1534-36 - One of the four survivors from the Narváez expedition cited above, Cabeza de Vaca, explores from the Sabine River to the Gulf of California. When he arrives in Mexico City, his tales reinforce ideas that the Seven Cities of Cibola, also known as the Seven Cities of Gold, exist and are located in New Mexico. 
• Cabeza de Vaca
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Youtube biography