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The Congressional Award is the U.S. Congress' award for young Americans. It is non-partisan, voluntary, and non-competitive. The program is open to all 14- to 23-year-olds. Participants earn Bronze, Silver and Gold Congressional Award Certificates and Bronze, Silver and Gold Congressional Award Medals. Each level involves setting goals in four program areas: Volunteer Public Service, Personal Development, Physical Fitness, and Expedition/Exploration.
http://www.congressionalaward.org/congress/
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Full Sail Real World Education is a media arts college that has graduated scores of award-winning music, production and design professionals over the last 25 years. Degrees for creative minds include Computer Animation, Digital Media, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Design & Development, Recording Arts and Show Production & Touring.
http://www.fullsail.com/
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Sibelius 3 is the complete software for writing, playing, printing and publishing music notation. It's designed to make your life easier, save you time, produce beautiful results – and enable you to do things you might never have dreamed of, like publish your music world-wide, or create your own CDs. And it's designed for every kind of musician, from students and teachers to professional composers.
http://www.sibelius.com/
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This article discusses how the income gap between education levels is expanding. The author states the value of 'knowledge workers' has never been higher.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=mastersdegrees>1=6047
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This website was designed to improve the general awareness of corrosion causes and solutions. Corrosion is often perceived as a curse we have to endure helplessly and it is a shock to many to learn that there are many ways to prevent and control this natural force. The Corrosion Doctors' educational focus is centered on a series of Information Modules designed for training in corrosion science and engineering.
http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/
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This website is designed for those interested in computer programming. Children are given the opportunity to create software and cartoon simulations and share them over the web. Designed for children ages 8 and up, Scratch can be useful for teaching mathematical and computational ideas.
http://www.scratch.mit.edu/
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The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's mission is to initiate and conduct archaeological research and public education programs in partnership with Native Americans and institutions with common interests. The Center is dedicated to understanding, teaching, and preserving the rich history of the ancient Pueblo Indians who inhabited the canyons and mesas of the American Southwest. Our campus-based programs incorporate current research findings from field excavations and allow you to participate in the actual research process.
http://www.crowcanyon.org/
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Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of over 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits and serves as a leader in the movement to promote museums as educational centers. The Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who devoted his efforts to it -- and was its director -- until his death in 1985.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
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In the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you get to play the game like you are Harry Potter. You can duel, play quidditch, attend lessons, sneak around the castle to collect ingredients for the Polyjuice potion, explore, and more! At the end you fight the basilisk.
http://www.knowwonder.com/Whoweare.html
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This website is a resource center for profoundly gifted kids, have links to sites on topics from genetics to space, from Shakespeare to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and lots more. Also included are a list of movies that feature gifted children in a positive light, and software that has a shelf-life for gifted children of longer than a few days. There are contests and reading lists for gifted children, too. And Internet Investigations are complete curriculum units right on the web, great for home schooling or just more organized research in...
http://www.hoagieskids.org
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"The mission of the International Spy Museum is to educate the public about espionage in an engaging manner and to provide a dynamic context that fosters understanding of its important role in and impact on current and historic events. The Museum focuses on human intelligence and reveals the role spies have played in world events throughout history."
http://www.spymuseum.org
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Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in Invention at Play, a national traveling exhibit. Learn how to play--the ordinary and everyday "work of childhood"--connects to the creative impulse of both historic and contemporary inventors. Explore the Invention Playhouse, Puzzle Blocks, Word Play, and more.
http://www.inventionatplay.org/
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This website provides numerous activities for the young and interested child. From the easy arts to more complicated activities, this site can accommodate young children and their parents with several hours of educational entertainment.
http://www.janbrett.com/activities_pages.htm
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This website is home to the popular television series where two four-person teams convene at a junkyard where they are given a task, e.g., "Build a vehicle that will carry all four team members around our course, only (sorry!) we're all out of wheels!" So each team designs a walking car in a 10-hour period. We follow them as they design the machine, scavenge junk parts to build it, run into problems and adjust the design, etc. Along the way the mechanical/electrical principles they are using are sketched onscreen as well as the explanation of a...
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/junkyard/junkyard.html
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The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the nation's leading regional membership organization focused on promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. They work to bring clean electricity, green transportation, and healthy, efficient buildings into everyday use in order to improve the environment, protect human health, and nurture local economies. NESEA works to bring hands-on, project- and problem-based learning experiences to K-12 teachers and s...
http://www.nesea.org/education/
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This is the first and original penpal club for kids by kids and we make sure you are safe in here.
http://worldkids.net/clubs/kci/
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Founded for the advancement of science, the Junior Academy of Science of St. Louis is a special program for all students in the 7th through 12th grades whom are interested in science. The program is sponsored by the Academy of Science of St. Louis. The Junior Academy encourages students to explore various branches of science as they plan their future careers.
http://www.academyofsciencestl.org/old/index.htm
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Aviation High School is a public, co-educational day school located in Burien, Washington. It is Washington State’s first aviation-themed high school—an innovative, high performance school that the Highline School District will open in the fall of 2004. The mission of the school is “to prepare students for college, work, and citizenship through a personalized, rigorous, and relevant learning experience that is facilitated in the context of aviation and aerospace.”
http://www.aviationhs.org/
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"Harvard Model Congress strives to inspire high school students to participate in civic life by creating a dynamic environment where students learn from one another through their interactions with American democracy."
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hmc/
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"The Conservatory of Music at Baldwin-Wallace is an artistic community within a liberal arts college, in which the lives of students of all ages are transformed in pursuit of personal and professional excellence through the humanizing discipline of music study, creation, performance and pedagogy."
http://www.bw.edu/academics/conservatory/
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According to the publisher, this book offers inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it from Wheaties to telephones and microwave ovens to yo-yos. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."
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The text and accompanying audio tapes introduce the basics and the intricacies of formal competitive debate. This is an excellent introduction to formal debate for advanced students. Effectively implementing the program, including practicing debating skills, would be conducted most effectively in a high school level homeschooling co-op group.
http://www.hslda.org/bookstore/items/DEBATE.asp?PID=5620737795
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This book describes how to care for an Australian Shepherd. The information about caring for puppies is very interesting. Australian Shepherds are herding dogs that are now used for pets.
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No education is complete without a large slice of Greek mythology. And there's no better way of meeting that literary quota than with the D'Aulaires' book. All the great gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are depicted in this big, beautiful classic, lovingly illustrated and skillfully told. Young readers will be dazzled by mighty Zeus, lord of the universe; stirred by elegant Athena, goddess of wisdom; intimidated by powerful Hera, queen of Olympus; and chilled by moody Poseidon, ruler of the sea. These often impetuous immortals flounce and f...
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This volume includes short biographies and information about the styles and techniques of more than 75 famous artists, from the Dark Ages up to the present day (Ghiberti to Christo and Wyeth). For each artist, an accompanying studio art project suitable for K-6 children is included, designed to focus on the media, design elements, style or type of art, or subject most associated with each individual artist. Materials needed for all projects are specified, along with directions and a sample of a child's work.
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A visual chronology of world history, spanning more than 20,000 years-from the first humans to the dawn of the new millenium.
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This book is about several electronic components, their functions and how to use them. This book includes information on resistors, capacitors, gates, transistors, switches, and more. There are formulas, codes, and schematics explaining the subject.
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This book has a lot of funny stories about activities and unusual events involving wild and domestic animals.
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This second book in the Foundation saga covers the fourth Seldon crisis and the coming of the Mule. The galaxy's periphery is now under control and the Foundation feels safe. But then the last fragments of the Galactic Empire rise up and attack the Foundation. They come very close to winning the war but ultimately lose and the Foundation has one less enemy. For a long time there is relative peace in the periphery. Then comes the Mule. With great speed, he takes over planets in the Foundation’s control — and then the Foundation itself. No...
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This book is an introduction to the two kana systems. The book covers origin and function, writing practice, pronunciation, and some vocabulary.
http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/title.cgi?title_id=2625
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"Founded in 1985, HOW Magazine provides graphic-design professionals with essential business information, features cutting-edge technological advances, profiles renowned and up-and-coming designers, details noteworthy projects, and provides creative inspiration. The year-end Business Annual has become a respected resource for its articles about studios across the U.S. In addition, HOW holds annual Self-Promotion, International and Interactive Design competitions and features the results in special issues. Other frequently profiled topics includ...
http://www.howdesign.com/index.asp
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Edited by and for girls ages 8 to 14, New Moon is the ground-breaking, imaginative, ad-free magazine that girls, parents and teachers love. (Winner of 6 Parents' Choice Gold Awards.) Girl contributors from around the world give voice to their dreams and intellect through fiction, poetry, artwork, letters, and articles on different cultures and enterprises. New Moon is an international, multicultural magazine which connects girls and celebrates diversity by providing a place for girls to express themselves and communicate with other girls around...
http://www.newmoon.org/
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The World & I is a multifaceted monthly publication that presents a broad range of thought-provoking reading in politics, science, culture, humanity, and more in these seven sections– Current Issues, The Arts, Life, Natural Science, Culture, Book World, and Modern Thought. Special features include over 1,000 Teacher’s Guide activities that meet the National Standards and a Book Review Archive with a search capability of its own. Our Special Collections feature topics such as Worldwide Folktales, Peoples of the World, Profiles in Character, Mill...
http://www.WorldandIHomeschool.com
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Dinosaur Ridge Science Day Camp is a one-week summer program in Morrison, Colorado for ages 10-13. Science Level 1 is for ages 10-12, and focuses on geology and paleontology. Activities typically include measuring dinosaur footprints, examining dinosaur bones on-site, learning excavation techniques, understanding contour maps, and observing wildlife, plants, and insects. Science Level II is for ages 11-13 and is an advanced camp for those who have completed Science I or have equivalent experience. The programs are conducted outdoors, except ...
http://www.dinoridge.org/programs/dinosaur_discovery_day.htm
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The Civic Education Project (CEP) combines traditional education with community service to promote civic responsibility among young people. Through innovative spring and summer programs, CEP offers promising young people the chance to learn and serve in communities across the country and helps students gain the knowledge, experience, and leadership skills necessary to make a positive impact on society. CivicWeek, CEP's weeklong field experience program for outstanding high school students is open to 9th-12th grade students from across the ...
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep
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"Ahead of the Curve is an intensive two-week leadership seminar designed by Americans for Informed Democracy for high-achieving high school students who have an interest in international affairs. The seminar features a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions aimed at educating young leaders about globalization and preparing them to be leaders in our increasingly interdependent world."
http://www.globalscholar.org/
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Touch the life of the Chesapeake Bay region and participate in an experience to remember for a lifetime! While participating in one of these programs, you will develop a first hand understanding of the Bay environment as well as leadership skills to make a personal difference. The Chesapeake Bay is your classroom, and nearly all instruction will take place outdoors, whether it is on a workboat, an historic Skipjack, in a canoe, or in the marsh. Tents will provide housing on all trips; while Session C and the two-week trips will also visit one o...
http://msde.state.md.us/summercenters/Page%2012.pdf
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"The Alexandria Archaeology Summer Camp provides an opportunity for students, ages 12 to 15, to dig the past in historic Alexandria, Virginia. Participants work directly with City Archaeologists to excavate an historic site and discover evidence of earlier times. Choose a one-week or two- week session, and use science, history and geography skills to discover more about the town's history and how archaeological methods uncover the past. Participants excavate on a real archaeological site, work with their excavated artifacts in the archaeology l...
http://oha.ci.alexandria.va.us/archaeology/ar-programs-summercamp.html
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This cd-rom is a Radio Controlled Model Aircraft flight simulator. It is very useful if you want to learn how to operate a radio controlled aircraft.
http://www.realflight.com
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The Women's Wilderness Institute offers wilderness experiences for women and teen girls in the Rocky Mountains and the deserts of the Southwest. Whether you're seeking a rejuvenating week of backpacking, the skills to build your own top-rope anchor, or the determination to make a major change in your life, we hope you'll join us for an unforgettable experience that will increase your wilderness skills, refresh your spirit, and bring you the joy of a wilderness adventure in the company of women.
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The Institute on Asian Cultures is co-sponsored with the Asian Studies Program at the University of Vermont. In its sixth year, the Institute will focus on Chinese culture. Topics of lectures and workshops include Family and Society, Arts and Language, and Medicine and Health. These areas will be threads to link history, philosophy, religion, and political and economic development. The 24 students enrolled will engage in academic and hands-on activities with experts of Asia, Asian nationals, and experienced teachers. A language lesson and an ar...
http://www.giv.org/inst/asia.html
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