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Free Education Forms: Diplomas, Planners, Records, Transcripts and More

You can go to a bookstore and buy forms for nearly every type of planning you wish, or you can go to DonnaYoung.org and for the price of a piece of paper and a few squirts of printer ink, you can have even more forms, some customizable, to fit any educator's paper needs (certainly not just homeschoolers, even though the site was created with homeschoolers in mind).

The site has so much to offer that it is overwhelming at first, so I'll get you started by pointing the way to a few of my favorite forms:

• Weekly Lesson Planners
• Blank Monthly Calendars
• Grades Forms (choose to grade by percentage or by whole numbers)
• Attendance Records
• High School Transcripts
• Diplomas

There are also different papers available through the DonnaYoung.org site:

• Handwriting Paper
• Math clocks, charts, money, etc.
• Science Lab Reports

There is a lot more at the DonnaYoung.org site, so check it out!

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The site has so much to offer that it is overwhelming at first, so I'll get you started by pointing the way to a few of my favorite forms:

• Weekly Lesson Planners
• Blank Monthly Calendars
• Grades Forms (choose to grade by percentage or by whole numbers)
• Attendance Records
• High School Transcripts
• Diplomas

There are also different papers available through the DonnaYoung.org site:

• Handwriting Paper
• Math clocks, charts, money, etc.
• Science Lab Reports

There is a lot more at the DonnaYoung.org site, so check it out!

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Free Geography Computer Program

Seterra Geography is a freeware program (freeware is software that is free to download).  It comes highly recommended by a local homeschooler in my area who said, "It works great!"  I haven't personally downloaded or used the program yet.  Based on her recommendation, I thought I'd pass the link onto you:

The Seterra Geography site describes the program as the following:

Seterra is a fun geography program with 88 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities all over the world! Examples of exercises: countries in Europe; American states; American state capitals; French cities; cities in Mexico; countries in Asia, etc, etc...

Thank you, Brenda!

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The Seterra Geography site describes the program as the following:

Seterra is a fun geography program with 88 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities all over the world! Examples of exercises: countries in Europe; American states; American state capitals; French cities; cities in Mexico; countries in Asia, etc, etc...

Thank you, Brenda!

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The Week in Review

Here are the posts from the previous week, in case you missed them!

A site containing America's top 100 speeches, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s

A free magazine subscription for those who plan field trips

Computer Programming Tutorials

American History: online or by CD mailed to you

StoryNory: Free Audio Books for Preschoolers, Kindergartners, Elementary Students

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Free Computer Typing Program for K-6th

Earlier this week, I highlighted TuxPaint & TuxMath.  Today, I have one more program to show you from the same (and, yes, with the same cute penguin).  This one is for practicing typing skills.

The developers write this about TuxTyping: "TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux, the Linux penguin. This educational game comes with two different games for practicing your typing, and having a great time doing it."

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A Free Computer Math Program for K-6th

Earlier this week, I highlighted TuxPaint, a computer art program for K-6th graders.  Since then, I found two more programs from the same developers (and with the same cute penguin).  One of those program is called TuxMath.

TuxMath gives your students the opportunity to practice math skills.  The developers write, "TuxMath is an arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts. The main goal is to make it effective and fun!"

I'll showcase the other program tomorrow, for teaching typing to kids.

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Free Space Simulation Program

Yesterday, I highlighted a free planetarium program for your computer; today, view not only the stars, but much more with Celestia, a "free space simulation that lets you view our universe in three dimensions."  This looks like an excellent find for any science student or teacher!

 

Here is more information, straight from the Celestia developers:

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

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A Free Planetarium for Your Classroom Computer

Have you ever wanted your own planetarium?  Well, since you obviously have a computer (you're looking at it, right?), you can also have a planetarium!  I found a free planetarium program called Stellarium that allows you to view your sky in real-time.  The programmers describe it like this:

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go."

In the FAQ, Stellarium also mentions that the program is easy to use, even for beginners, and that you will have a real-time view of the sky, meaning, you'll see the same sky you'd see if you actually went outside and looked at it.    

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