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Free 900-page Unit Study & Lapbook Project on The Book of Virtues

Have you ever heard of the Book of Virtues by former Secretary of Education, William Bennett?  It was published in 1993, but is on its way to becoming a classic, probably because it is made up of classics.  "A Treasury of Great Moral Stories," the Book of Virtues contains stories written centuries ago, from Biblical stories to political speeches and many stories from literature. 

 

Today's free educational find isn't the Book of Virtues.  You'll have to buy that one (click on the book above).  Today's freebie is a 992 page (!) ebook on the Book of Virtues that contains a daily schedule and many worksheets.  The Book of Virtues Project is for those who would like to learn from the book as a unit study or lapbook project.  Here are a few screenshots from the book:

 If you'd like to read more from the author of The Book of Virtues Project, you may visit her blog at Shiver Academy.

If you'd like to download the entire ebook directly, all 18.93 mb of it (992 pages!), go here (I downloaded my copy this way).

If you'd like to download the ebook in pieces, you may do so from the author's Shiver Academy blog.  Look at the right sidebar, scroll down, and find a section that looks like this:

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Thank you, Katherine, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us! Have one to share, too?  Email me: freelyeducate@gmail.com

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Free Unit Studies on Math, Science, History, Language Arts & More for Elementary

 
A 5th & 6th grade teacher at Mountain City ElementarySchool (Tennessee) created a site full of free unit studies on the following subjects:

• American History
• Book Units
• Social Studies
• Letter Writing
• Science
• Math
• Language Arts

There are also free unit studies based on themes:

• Apples
• Dogs
• Ancient Greece
• Survival
• Chocolate
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Rome
• Plants

Here's a link to the homepage of these free online unit studies.

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Free Literature Based Unit Studies and Lapbooks

If you love unit studies or if you love lapbooking, you need to visit HomeschoolShare.com

The above is a screenshot of Homeschool Share's Literature Based Unit Studies page.  There are dozen of unit studies available, sorted by age (toddlers through elementary grades) or by theme.

The site also offers a section on Free Lapbooks.

Have fun looking around the site! 

Thank you, Janee, for sharing this 100% free resource with FreelyEducate.com!

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Old Book Art

Old Book Art has become one of my favorite browsing websites.  I can see its potential for an educator as vast.  Peruse the files for antique maps, find an illustration to accompany a classic, have the children study an artist whose work was in an old book...

The mission of Old Book Art is:

To provide & facilitate access to free illustrations: pictures, drawings, maps and other images scanned from antiquarian, public-domain books and other old documents. We have over 3,200 images in our gallery with more added regularly, all at no cost and most available at very high resolution. Most of these we have scanned and edited ourselves. We will also screen and provide links to other high quality resources.

Here is a sampling of the book art I found on the Old Book Art site:

     

Let me know what you think of Old Book Art!

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Coloring Pages (educational ones!) from the US Government

Did you know the United States government has a site full of coloring pages?  But these aren't just any coloring pages, these pages are full of educational facts and provide a student an introduction into many different subjects.

Go to the coloring pages menu for a full listing of all that is offered.  Below is just a sample:

• Agriculture, U.S. Department (USDA): farming, George Washington Carver, wildflowers of America, and many other subjects
• Commerce, U.S. Department :  weather, sea turtles, and the Pacific coral reef are among the available subjects
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): endangered species and other environmental topics
• Health and Human Services, Department of (HHS): health topics
• Interior, Department of the (DOI) : salmon and Yellowstone are two of the available topics
• Local/State governments :  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, North Carolina, Maine, Connecticut, and Louisiana are topics available
• from Marine Resources :  Mobile Bay, Salish Sea, Coastal North Carolina, and Chesapeake Bay
• from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) :  space topics, of course!

Get out the Crayons (yes, some for you, too...we are never too old to color!), and enjoy coloring education!

Free Zebra Project Pack from Hands of a Child

In the Hands of a Child offers a quarterly freebie at their site.  Their freebies do require filling in an address/phone/email form (no credit card or payment info), so you'll have to decide if that small hassle is worth receiving the freebie (value $14). 

This quarter's freebie is a "project pack" on zebras. 

Hands of a Child describes this downloadable ebook as:

 

In the 49-page Zebras Project Pack from In the Hands of a Child, you will find a 9-page Research Guide and 16 hands-on activities that explain the anatomy of a zebra, different types of zebras, range and habitat, diet, behavior, and much more. Is a zebra really just a horse with stripes? You will also find the answer to that question!

This Limited Time Offer expires September 15, 2008

Graph Paper & Writing Paper to Print

Can't find that stack of graph paper you only use a couple of times each year?

Need some writing paper for your Kindergartner, but don't want to take a trip to the store?

Do you need just a few sheets of music paper, accounting ledgers, storyboards, but don't want to invest in an entire stack of 100?

Well, for the cost of paper and a bit of printer ink, you can have many types of papers to fit many needs!

Here are a few samples of what IncompeTech has to offer:

Thank you, Frantically Simple, for this high quality and 100% free educational find!

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