I absolutely love the internet for homeschooling. It especially suits my do-everything-at-the-last-possible-minute personality. With a request for recommended links on Twitter and a few Google searches, I pulled together a week's worth of media-rich lessons about the sun in thirty minutes. I'll share the actual unit after we are finished, but in the meantime, I wanted to share one of the best resources I have found on the web in a long time: The Vital Network.
Vital stands for "Video in Teaching and Learning" and is a website designed to give New York State teachers access to the best media resources available from Public Television for their classrooms. The best part, however, is that anyone (even homeschoolers) can register and it is absolutely free.
Registration gives you access to over 2,000 educational resources with a heavy emphasis on science, although the site is expanding to include math, language arts, social studies and the arts.
I've spent a good deal of time lost in all the offerings and highly recommend registering.
Dana Hanley homeschools her four (soon to be five) children in America's heartland. She blogs about homeschooling at Principled Discovery and the simple joys of life at A Very Nearly Tea.
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