Lesson Plans: Study the Oceans

It can be a lot of fun to create your own curriculum, there are so many resources available to us now that were not available even 5 years ago.

Last year I created a series of Prezi lessons for my two youngest learners, then in First and Third grades.   I made sure I set it up so that an older student could also benefit from the presentation.  But the presentation was over 200 slides long and occasionally got "stuck" on a video.   And my girls had so much more fun finding the videos by themselves and watching their favorites again and again.

https://prezi.com/fjjcrz9ih0zm/world-geography-1-the-water/

Parents should play around with the Pezi ahead of time, so you get used to the navigation.   I like the Prezi, because the Youtube videos are embedded, but it is possible to break into YouTube and find more videos on the same subject.  You can easily choose a video or link, and when you have finished watching or printing, just click on the left or right arrows on the black bar below to go back to the Prezi and choose again or go to the next slide.   The coloring pages do not always work out the way I had envisioned, so I included links below to find those and many others using Google Search.

This series of lessons can be done slowly over several weeks, or quickly over a few days.

You will probably want to watch the videos and choose which ones you want to use with your child, a few allude to evolution.

Slides 1 - 5 are about Creation.  You will find pictures to color or do a Google Search ahead of time to print your choice, a verse to memorize, and Creation videos to watch.

Creation Coloring Pages

Genesis 1:1 Color Pages

Slide 6 - On Day 2, God created the water - so the first part of Geography that I chose to present was the Water, and I started with the Oceans.

Find a page like this one below for your student to print and color.   

On each slide, there are many things to click on to explore, videos, comments, definitions, and sometimes links for further study.

Slide 7 - What Is An Ocean?   

Slide 8 - How many oceans are there?

Slide 9 - The Atlantic Ocean

Slide 10 - The Pacific

Slide 11 - The Indian Ocean

Slide 12 - The Arctic Ocean

Slide 13 - The Antarctic Ocean

Slide 14 - Review

Slide 15 - Extra Study  -  some of these extra videos are higher learning level, not for early grades, some are drier, and some are over 15 minutes.   But if you have the time, you can explore these.

Slide 16 - Other water

Slide 17 - Sea - Gulf - Bay  ... explore several samples of each on the maps provided, click through to more articles, and enjoy several videos as well as definitions of each type of body of water.   Can you find all of these on an atlas or a globe?

Slide 18 - Fresh Water

Slide 19 - Lakes

Slide 20 - Rivers Part 1  -  Rivers Around the World

Slide 21 - Rivers Part 2 - Rivers of the East

Slide 22 - Rivers Part 3 - Extra Study of Rivers

Slide 23 - Moon and Tides

Slide 24 - Currents and Weather

Slides 25 - 27  -  Closing Statements  ...  Feel free to explore all of the videos that I've hidden around.  

Do you have a favorite video that is not shown here about the water on earth?

Please include it in the comments!

Middle Ages (Grades 7 - 9) Historical Fiction : Part 1

Middle Ages

Grades 7 - 9



             

Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

   Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings (Annotated)   599pgs / 99c
   'Harold' The Last of The Saxon Kings [Illustrated]   750 pgs / 95c
Or purchase as a 12 book set for Free  ... books average 40 pages each
                           
      Or 514 pages in the complete set 

Pabo, The Priest S. Baring-Gould 

   99c. /  308pgs       99c  /  160 pgs

   A Legend of Reading Abbey     230 pgs / 99c

   Anna of Byzantium    226 pgs / $6.99   

         Count Robert of Paris  545 pgs / $8.97


Chronicles of Brother Cadefael - Ellis Peters

                                                            


      In His name. A story of the Waldenses, seven hundred years ago (1910)    288 pgs / $8.82


      The Betrothed   360 pgs

   The Works of Sir Walter Scott (31 books) [Illustrated]   $2.99
   The Lady of the Lake and Other Works by Sir Walter Scott (Halcyon Classics)   $1.99


      The Talisman   323 pgs


      Ivanhoe   367 pgs


      The Road to Damietta   324 pgs / $5.79


         
Kindle Trilogy of the Journey of Souls are 500+ pgs each, $2.99 each


      
        Books are $1.99, $1.49, 99c


                         


     99c      Otto of the Silver Hand


   Jackaroo  Kindle copy $6.64


    
   The Scottish Chiefs   991 pgs / $2.51
      The Scottish Chiefs   640 pgs / Free

Featured Author : John Buchan

http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2012/11/28/you-should-try-john-buchan/

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

John Buchan

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Buchan/



This is not an author that I was familiar with until I saw the above blog post. But he looked interesting enough to be a featured author.   There are not many free books .... but more may follow over the next few years.

Gutenberg books offer multiple formats for ebook readers as well as a few audio books.   ALL Gutenberg books are FREE

Unless a price is beside the book - the Amazon books are free.

Fiction

• Sir Quixote of the Moors  (1896)

• John Burnet of Barns  (1898)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40014 
   $5.82

• No-Man's Land (1899)

• Grey Weather (1899)

• A Lost Lady of Old Years  (1899)

 $5.82

• The Half-Hearted  (1900)

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17047

• The Watcher by the Threshold  (1902)

   $0.99

• A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)

• Prester John  (1910)

    

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/611

• The Moon Endureth (1912)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/715

• Salute to Adventurers  (1915)

    

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10046

• The Thirty-Nine Steps  (1915)

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/558

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117955/
   $2.99       $3.79  
  $4.99  
Movie Remakes of the Book : The 39 Steps

• The Power House  (1916)

  $5.99

• Greenmantle  (1916)

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/559

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23706

• Mr Standfast  (1919)

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/560

• The Path of the King (1921)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1966

• Huntingtower  (1922)

    

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3782
  $5.82

• Midwinter  (1923)

 $5.82

• The Three Hostages  (1924)

 $4.99

• John Macnab  (1925)

• The Dancing Floor  (1926)

  $5.99

• Witch Wood  (1927)

• The Runagates Club  (1928)

• The Courts of the Morning  (1929)

• Castle Gay  (1930)

• The Blanket of the Dark (1931)

   $5.82

• The Gap in the Curtain  (1932)

   $4.99    $5.82  

• The Magic Walking Stick  (1932)

• A Prince of the Captivity  (1933)

• The Free Fishers (1934)

 $5.99

• The House of the Four Winds  (1935)

• The Island of Sheep  (1936)

   $4.74

• Sick Heart River  (US title: Mountain Meadow) (1941)

   $5.82

• The Long Traverse (US title: Lake of Gold) (1941)

• The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy  (1984)

   $8.66  -  Set of 4 novels.

Introduced by Christopher Harvie.Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan’s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods – from the urban menace of The Power House in which ‘the thin line between civilisation and barbarism’ runs through London’s West End; to the Highland exhilaration of John Macnab; the twists and turns of The Dancing Floor; and Sick Heart River, where Leithen meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada.Buchan’s learning and practical experience took him far beyond the range of the ‘clubland hero’ and these tales lead us to the heart of one of Scotland’s most fascinating and enigmatic writers.‘John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar surroundings happening to unadventurous men.’ Graham Greene

   $11.89

Non-fiction

• Scholar-Gipsies (1896)
• The African Colony (1903)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34548

• The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income (1905)
• Some Eighteenth Century Byways  (1908)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (1911)
• What the Home Rule Bill Means (1912)
• The Marquis of Montrose  (1913)

   $2.99

• Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall (1913)
• Nelson's History Of The War. 24 volumes (1914–1919)
• Britain's War by Land (1915)
• The Achievement of France (1915)
• Ordeal by Marriage (1915)
• The Future of the War (1916)
• The Battle of the Somme, First Phase (1916)
• The Purpose of War (1916)
• The Battle of Jutland (1916)
• Poems, Scots and English (1917)
• The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase (1917)
• These for Remembrance  (1919)
• The Battle Honours of Scotland 1914–1918 (1919)
• The History of the South African Forces in France (1920)
• Francis and Riversdale Grenfell (1920)
• The Long Road to Victory (1920)
• A History of the Great War  (1922)
• A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys (1922)
• The Last Secrets (1923)
• A History of English Literature (1923)
• Days to Remember (1923)
• Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott (1924)
• Lord Minto, a Memoir (1924)
• The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678–1918 (1925)
• The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott (1925)
• Two Ordeals of Democracy (1925)
• Homilies and Recreations  (1926)
• The Kirk in Scotland (with George Adam Smith) (1930)
• Montrose and Leadership (1930)
• Lord Rosebery, 1847–1929 (1930)
• The Novel and the Fairy Tale  (1931)
• Julius Caesar (1932)
• Andrew Lang and the Borders (1932)
• The Massacre of Glencoe (1933)
• The Margins of Life (1933)
• Gordon at Khartoum (1934)
• Oliver Cromwell (1934)
• The King's Grace (1935)
• Augustus (1937)
• The Interpreter's House (1938)
• Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1938)
• Memory Hold-the-Door  (US title: Pilgrim's Way) (1940)
• Comments and Characters  (1940)
• Canadian Occasions  (1940)

For more information about this author

http://www.online-literature.com/john-buchan/

http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/