founded in 1988 to serve all home educators in Alabama by providing information, services, and resources from a Christian perspective to anyone who needs help in the area of home schooling.

Lists hours, map, current exhibits, calendar of events, and hands-on activities.

[ Kids/Teens ] - Geared towards children ages six months through 10 years. Many interactive exhibits. Material for parents and educators, descriptions of events and exhibits, prices, map, ánd hours.

mall>[ Kids ] - Features elevated house, an indoor world village, garden, kitchen, music room and coloring room. See a replica of the Oval office, one room school, and a large US map. Located in Ogden, Utah.

mall>[ Kids ] - Located in Kentucky. Interior map, exhibits, events, and hours.

In this video, I break down how much I spent per homeschool subject for this coming 5th grade. Let me know what you think and ...

Here's a pie that has made my family's short list of holiday favorites each year for the past 30, ever since I moved to New England and became a fanatical maple syrup cook.

Maple seeds use tornado-like vortex to hover; same mechanism used by bats, hummingbirds.

Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises. The software keeps track of scores, making it fun to try to improve each time you play. Windows only.

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Interested in learning strategies to teach about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights using Library of Congress primary sources? Register to attend the Library of Congress Creating the US Teacher Institute. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition Creating the United States as its foundation. Learn how to make this era in our country’s history “come alive” for student using images, manuscripts, letters, photographs, maps, and poetry.