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=Home School Curriculum 2.0=

Please share any interesting Web based activities that you have used in your home school environment. Ideas: WebQuests, Virtual Field Trips, etc.

=WestQuests=

Growing Up Where Jesus Lived-created by Tawny-Raquel Collins This WebQuest gives your students the opportunity to be transported back to the time and places of Jesus' youth. It is based on a book utilized in the second grade curriculum of Abeka, however older students can utilize the Bible and Christian based literature to complete this WebQuest as well.

= = =Virtual Field Trips=

Introduction
Need to spice up that old lesson?.....check out these great virtual field trips...

The Internet Resources

 * [|Smithsonian National Museum of Natual History]- Each floor and exhibit is a virtual tour.
 * [|SEA WORLD]- This site allow you to visit Saeworld photo's, vidios, virtual tours of every species at seaworld.
 * [|Monet]- This guides you through a boigraphy of his life.
 * [|Metropolitan Museum of Art]- You can take a virtual tour of the museum, you choose what you what to view.
 * [|The White House]- Take a tour of the White House. Art, Architechture, Furnishings, See rooms like the oval office.
 * [|Carnegie Hall]- This is great for music class
 * [|The Civil War]- A Virtual Field Trip for your Social Studies class
 * [|Countries of the World]- A lesson for Social Studies.
 * [|Early American Colonies]- A trip back to early America
 * [|TheUnited States National Symbols]- The pieces that make up America
 * [|Native American Dwellings]
 * [|The Great Depression and WWII]- A living history of our grandparents
 * [|Colonial Life]- How did early Americans live?

Math

 * [|Baking Bread~ A Virtual Field Trip for your math class]- This Virtual Field Trip teaching 4-6 grade students measuring concepts.
 * [|Max's Math Adventures]- A great collection of Virtual field trips for your K-2 grade classroom.
 * [|Scholastic Math Field Trips]- This web site offers great Virtual Math Field Trips covering all areas and grade levels
 * [|Scholastic Math Field Trips for K-2]- This web site offers Virtual Math Field Trips for grades K-2
 * [|Scholastic Math Field Trips]- This web site offers great Virtual Math Field Trips covering all areas and grade levels
 * [|Scholastic Math Field Trips for K-2]- This web site offers Virtual Math Field Trips for grades K-2

Science

 * [|Aquifer~ A Virtual Field Trip for your science class]- This virtual field trip teaches 5-8 grade students about Aquifer
 * [|Endangered Species~ A Virtual Field Trip for your science class]- This virtual field trip teaches 5-8 grade students about endangered species.
 * [|Insects~ A Virtual Field Trip for your science class]- This virtual field trip teaches 1-3 graders about insects
 * [|Deserts~ A Virtual Field Trip for your science class]- This virtual field trip teaches 5+ grades about deserts
 * [|Dinosaurs~ A Virtual Field Trip for your science class]- This virtual field trip teaches grades 1-3 about dinosaurs
 * [|Volcanos~ A Virtual Field Trip]- This virtual field trip teaches grades 2-5 about volcanos

Language Arts

 * [|Lord of the Rings Virtual Field Trip]- Upper Elementary/Middle School
 * [|Language Arts Virtual Field trips]- links you to language arts field trips for all grade levels
 * [|Scholastic Virtual Field Trips for Language Arts] - For all grade levels and topics

Resource: A Hotlist of Virtual Field Trips