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Manatees thrive in shallow, slow-moving rivers, estuaries, saltwater bays, canals and coastal areas. Manatees are important to their ecosystems because they eat vegetation that grows in estuaries. Manatees are teetering on the edge of extinction due to reckless boat-driving humans. There is much work to be done and it can be helped with you. Find out more.

Gour-den Delights
Using gardening as part of a homeschooling curriculum
by Blythe Pelham
As an artist I'm very much a create-as-I-go kinda gal. Our children have been homeschooled since birth, though since I think of life as learning it often seems silly to me to label what we do as schooling. One method I frequently use in guiding/teaching involves doing something I enjoy and pulling the children into the activity along with me. One such passion for me is gardening. Our current gardening project took us in many directions from which learning can 'grow' from a garden! Our gourds have seeded projects in music, history, art, science, marketing, and more. Take a look at what we've done and tell us what you're doing!

"Nebel's Elementary Education"
A Complete Guide for an entire K-5 curriculum
by Bernard Nebel, Ph.D.
hosted by Joe Spataro
Dr. Nebel has a new book which is an easy-to-read, one-stop resource providing both subject material and methods of presentation to help guide children (K-5) to superior levels of achievement. In this interview, he tells us a bit about how he developed this book which is filled with hundreds of hands-on exercises, logically compiled and integrated in a thematic manner. In an excerpt from his book he describes four basic methods of teaching, which may help you to structure your own program. Best of all, he will be available to answer questions that you may have on our discussion groups.

"Why Do You Homeschool"
by Blythe Pelham
A friend and fellow homeschooler asked recently what my answer was when people inquired why I homeschool. I replied that it depended on who was asking and what I thought their motivation might be. Even when I thought I could trust the question and the questioner, I didn't have a neat little response to pull from my pocket. My friend's query did get me thinking . . . and thinking quite a bit. I know the pieces I write for the newsletter help me to clarify my own reasons for homeschooling.
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The Truth About Butterflies
Rick Mikula is called the Grandfather of Butterfly Farming in the United States. Rick has also been 'tagging butterflies for the last two decades as on going research into the mysterious migration of the monarch butterfly. In this interview and essay from Rock you can learn about the importance of butterflies, basics facts and misconceptions about butterflies and how you can get involved in butterfly preservation.

Sunflowers
by Evamarie Spataro
I love taking pictures.
Recently I started taking pictures with a digital camera. I can take as many pictures as I want and don't have to worry about film. What I really like about my camera is that you can store the pictures on regular floppy disks. My dad had a lot of extra disks he doesn't use anymore, so I can take as many pictures as I want. I took some pictures in the garden of the sunflowers in my garden. Also, you can learn how to make a sunflower seed necklace, too!

Let's Go Surfin': Inventions
Discovering that the Chinese had toy helicopters centuries before man flew in helicopters made me curious. Let's learn more about ancient inventions.

Zone Unit Studies:
Building Model Cities
Building a model can be a lot of fun and help you to learn more about the real world, because you really need to focus on reality to make a model. Here are some ideas that we are developing in our discussion groups.

Arithmetic the Easy Way (3rd Ed)
by Edward Williams, Katie Prindle, Eugene J. Farley

also see Barrons Educational Series
Augmented with additional new practice material, this self-teaching book serves as a basic review of math fundamentals, quantitative word problems, exercises, tests, puzzles, and amusing math-related cartoons. The book can function as a classroom text or textbook supplement in remedial arithmetic, or as as a refresher for students going on to advanced math courses.

Algebra, the Easy Way (3rd Ed)
by Douglas A. Downing, Susan Detrich (Illustrator)

also see Barrons Educational Series
It's an algebra text in the form of a fantasy novel, with the story's characters solving problems by using algebra. Readers discover the hows and whys of equations, negative numbers, exponents, roots and real numbers, algebraic expressions, functions, graphs, quadratic equations, polynomials, permutations and combinations, matrices and determinants, mathematical induction, and imaginary numbers. 100+ drawings & diagrams.

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