unSocialized Educated at Home; Engaging the World

At KidsHealth there are a number of health lessons, games, and worksheets for pre-school through high school, covering topics on the human body, personal health (fitness, nutrition, hygiene, etc.), and health problems. There are: 

• short movies on the different systems of the body
• games, experiments and other activities
• animations 

Right now, my son is studying How the Body Works, and we are using these additional downloads: 

• digestive and excretory system
• respiratory system
• muscular and skeletal system

Right now, within our high school literature studies, we are doing a unit on poetry.  If you're interested in poets from the Romantic Period, visit Georgia Virtual Learning's free high school e-course on English Literature and Composition. The unit that covers the Romantic Poets provides an overview and description of the period, focusing on several key poets, and including discussion questions and suggested assignments (eg. creating a PowerPoint or writing an essay). 

Additional material is contained in this download, which features discussion questions and essay prompts for five of the Romantic Era poets.

The Georgia Virtual Learning site also has free high school courses for the other core subjects, languages, and electives. They've got a number of middle school courses too, so browse around.

I came across some interesting math puzzles over at MathPickle. My daughter likes doing dot-to-dot puzzles, but on this site, you'll find these puzzles with a twist: you use a ruler and only connect the pairs of dots that are a specific distance apart. For example, the puzzle starts out looking like this: 

And if you connect all the dots properly, (in this case, those that are 5 cm apart), you'll get a design like this: 

This is one of the easy ones. There are 23 progressively harder puzzles, with solutions, that you can download from this page, along with other puzzles. 

We've also been looking at symmetry: 

and the way 3D shapes look when they are flattened out (noting things like the number of surface faces, sides, and vertices):

You can find both of these free downloads at Nyla's Crafty Teaching.