Orca Tamer

If you have ever wanted to print a world map for your wall, or a big map for students to color, this map prints on 9 sheets of paper (3x3) to give a final map of 21x30 inches. It has dashed lines to show you where to cut and solid edges around the border. The files is 10 pages total, and the last page is the original map that I expanded. The world map is royalty-free and downloaded from Niche Gallery. I love the huge maps from Owl and Mouse maps (check them out!) but my printer does not print to

Whether you have always been intrigued by the study of allocating scarce resources, or only know that a credit card can get you groceries at the store, hopefully this course will help you notice and appreciate how goods, services, and money flow around you every day of your life. This is a complete one-year economics curriculum designed for 11th and 12 grade homeschoolers. It contains 34 weeks of lesson plans, daily worksheets (with answer keys!), and writing assignments that would give credit f

While teaching an economics/financial literacy course for 11th/12th grade, we used the non-fiction work Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo as a "living book" to see how different economic concepts work in the real world. I made worksheets for every chapter of the book giving students a place to track studies performed and key discoveries made by the authors. Because our students also read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell the same year, one worksheet with compare the two boo

All lessons referred to matching assignments for History Odyssey, Level 2, Ancients created by Pandia Press. This bundle is being shared with the express written permission of Pandia Press. As the mother of a "reluctant writer," I loved the scope and concepts of the History Odyssey by Pandia Press, but I quickly realized that my daughter would need some way to make all the written summaries more approachable and manageable. She responds well to color, pictures, and assigned lines to write on, th

This is a 30-week schedule for covering the book Signs and Seasons by Jay Ryan. The schedule is meant to be used over a traditional Aug-May school year. It assigns book work twice a week, and field activities to be done any night that week that the sky is clear. If you like to coordinate science and history, this course works well when studying Ancient times (traditionally 5th grade or 9th grade). If you do not follow the 4-year cycle and want to coordinate a non-traditional history course with

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of picture study. However, my children generally prefer worksheets, and independence, with most of their homework. Therefore, I created this project as a compromise. This picture study features Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Jean-Honore Fragonard, with six works from each one. If you do a picture study every other week, it will take 36 weeks (a full school year) to complete them all. In all, these lessons have three artists, 11 voc

I am using Great Myths of the World by Padraic Colum as a literature accompaniment to both the Ancients and Middle Ages logic stage of world history (traditionally 5th and 6th grade). Because of the lack of good world myths book for this level of learning, I felt that using worksheets would help with comprehending not only the advanced storytelling, but also the wide array of gods and legends presented here. Each story has three worksheets. The first one is a page for drawing a picture from the

At the end of a year teaching 6th/7th grade homeschool ancient world history, the class picked a more inclusive list of Wonders of the World, which has one on almost every continent. I made worksheets for each of the 10 wonders picked, which we used as a way to review all the major civilizations that we had covered that year. Three of these are "official" wonders of the world, seven are added. I have a second file with a map of the world worksheet, a blank worksheet to add your own, and a qui

Included is a 5-page reading about Mercantilism in 17th and 18th century Europe, along with directions for writing a short screenplay using notable European rulers as characters. There is one page for taking notes from the reading, a one-page starter for the screenplay, and a "challenge page" with a blank Venn diagram to compare and contrast Mercantilism and the Free Market. I created this resource as a one week history/writing project for a 7th grade homeschool student.

While teaching an economics course for 11th/12th grade, we used the non-fiction work 90 Percent of Everything by Rose George as a "living book" to see how different economic concepts work in the real world. I made worksheets for every chapter of the book each focusing on a single concept. Topics include: - Factors of Production - Supply and Demand - Modernization vs. Dependency Theory - Monopolistic Competition - Positive Externalities - Negative Externalities - Economic Systems - Growth vs. D

This is a pack of blank notebooking pages that I made to use with the homeschool course History Odyssey (Level 2) from Pandia Press. These could easily be used for any other four-year world history program as well. All the summary sheets have a place for a small drawing or sketch. This contains the following: Ancient Times summary sheet Middle Ages summary sheet Early Modern summary sheet Modern Times summary sheet Two different blank outline pages (2 subtopic and 5 subtopic) Art, Inventions,

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of picture study.  However, my children generally prefer worksheets, and independence, with most of their homework.  Therefore, I created this project as a compromise. This course features Berthe Morisot, Raja Ravi Varma, and Carl Larsson, with six works from each one.  If you do a picture study every other week, it will take 36 weeks (a full school year) to complete them all.  In all, these lessons have three artists, 7 vocabulary words, and 18 wo

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of picture study. However, my children generally prefer worksheets, and independence, with most of their homework. Therefore, I created this project as a compromise. This picture study features Jean-Francois Millet, Winslow Homer, and Vincent van Gogh, with six works from each one. If you do a picture study every other week, it will take 36 weeks (a full school year) to complete them all. In all, these lessons have three artists, 12 vocabulary w

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of enjoying pictures and poets slowly and simply. But sometimes the simplest things in life are the easiest ones to slip through the cracks. I needed a way to have pictures and poets ready to enjoy each week without no research and no prep-work. In addition, my children generally prefer worksheets with most of their homework, which is convenient since I need to compile portfolios every year for our local school district. Finally, I wanted our art to

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of enjoying pictures and poets slowly and simply. But sometimes the simplest things in life are the easiest ones to slip through the cracks. I needed a way to have pictures and poets ready to enjoy each week without no research and no prep-work. In addition, my children generally prefer worksheets with most of their homework, which is convenient since I need to compile portfolios every year for our local school district. Finally, I wanted our art to

The textbook Accelerated Spanish by Timothy Moser was meant to be used as a 30-day crash course for serious Spanish learners. I have broken it down into much smaller steps designed for home learning. This set of lesson plans spreads the book out over 138 days of learning, which is just about right for studying Spanish four days a week over a standard 36-week school year. The included lesson plans are written for a family group (middle school/high school) to study Spanish together. Worksheets an

I have always admired the Charlotte Mason idea of enjoying pictures and poets slowly and simply. But sometimes the simplest things in life are the easiest ones to slip through the cracks. I needed a way to have pictures and poets ready to enjoy each week without no research and no prep-work. In addition, my children generally prefer worksheets with most of their homework, which is convenient since I need to compile portfolios every year for our local school district. Finally, I wanted our art to

These worksheets were made to accompany the high school course History Compass published by Pandia Press. Every question from the course is copied onto lined pages with space to write in the answers. For students who struggle to write answers into blank notebooks, this resource will give you a place to "keep your work." In Lesson 16, students are instructed to make a timeline using butcher paper. I have included a separate file with a pre-made timeline that can be printed on cardstock. I have al

NEW!! I have added an additional 36 worksheets, which now include a separate page for every art and religion summary. Also, I found a good replacement for the out-of-print title Viking World required in the original History Odyssey course, and have rewritten all the assignments that use that book with appropriate pages in Viking by DK Publishing. This should be much easier to find at your local library. All lessons referred to matching assignments for History Odyssey, Level 2, Middle Ages cre

All lessons referred to matching assignments for History Odyssey, Level 2, Modern Times created by Pandia Press. This bundle is being shared with the express written permission of Pandia Press. As the mother of a "reluctant writer," I loved the scope and concepts of the History Odyssey by Pandia Press, but I quickly realized that my daughter would need some way to make all the written summaries more approachable and manageable. She responds well to color, pictures, and assigned lines to write on