Homeschool Curriculum Glossary (FergNus-Geography)

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30 Mar 2007 12:23 PM

FergNus Services provides organizational services for homeschoolers. There are three record keeping products currently available. They are The Home Schoolers High school Journal, The Homes Schoolers Journal, and The Math Journal. The journals are "jelly proof" and "designed to document the educational progress of a single student in each of their high school years, so that these High School Journals would be their high school transcripts if they continued on to college."

First Language Lessons for The Well Trained Mind is a classical approach to teaching grammar and writing. It is designed for children as young as two.

Five in a Row is a set of unit study lesson plans created by Jane Claire Lambert to teach Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science through activities and hands on experience.

Florida Space Research Institute provides the Advance Learning Environment (ALE), which is an online learning portal for homeschoolers offering learning modules, web classes, collaboration tools and more.

Foundation for American Christian Education employs the "Principal Approach" to education. "With this unique method, not only is the Biblical worldview the framework for understanding each subject, but in each lesson, Biblical principles are taught that expand and enrich the Biblical understanding of that subject."

Frank Shaffer Publications provides supplemental educational materials for toddlers through grade 8. They provide children's dictionaries, the Total Math series, the Perfect Plan Book and more.

Galloping the Globe, a Timberdoodle publication is a geography program for grades k-4. It uses puzzles, mazes, games, literature, and the bible to teach history.

Genesis Science/Dive CD Roms is made available through Saxon. It is designed to work with the Bob Jones Curriculum but will also work with other textbooks. The program "is designed to teach the more complicated topics to your child and to help you "get organized" with your high school science."

Geography Songs uses music to teach geography facts. The maker, Songs for Teaching also has songs for grammar, writing, social studies, and more.

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