SchoolhouseTeachers.com has many options available to improve your child’s writing ability. Two mini-courses are Writing: Compare and Contrast and Writing: The College Admission Essay, both led by Sharon Watson. These courses contain ten lessons and two lessons, respectively. Compare and Contrast teaches middle school and high school students various methods of comparing and contrasting—an important

With so much emphasis being placed on studying hard and getting good grades in subjects like math, language arts, and science, certain skills have largely been forgotten, skills like cooking from scratch, sewing, managing the home, etc. Parents must take time to be sure their children—boys and girls alike—know some of these basic skills. SchoolhouseTeachers.com

SchoolhouseTeachers.com has many different science courses. Some are full year, and some provide supplemental material to enhance a curriculum you might already be using. One of these supplemental courses is Science with Jason Lindsey. Jason is the creator of “Hooked on Science” and has been sharing his exciting and engaging experiments with us for the

These are the topics you’ll find each week in Janice Campbell’s Writing course. After studying a particular excerpt or poem, elementary, middle school, and high school students are encouraged to analyze the work by taking a closer look and completing various activities. The third step in the process is to transform the original work using

From Colonial America to Imperial Russia, history comes alive on SchoolhouseTeachers.com! Check out these course preview videos to see what we mean.    Bonnie Rose Hudson Executive Editor The Old Schoolhouse’s® SchoolhouseTeachers.com The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC Discover Asia: Its People and History at WriteBonnieRose.com

What is architecture? That is the question our newest SchoolhouseTeachers.com course, Introduction to Architecture by Tammie Bairen, seeks to answer. Her 36-week class is perfect for middle and high school students and will look at the art and science of designing and building structures used for living, working, worshiping, visiting, and traveling. Join us as

Learn how to take beautiful pictures with Michele Peterson’s eight-month Photography course geared toward middle and high school students and upper elementary students with parental help. Learn the basics like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, etc., and move on to a discussion of white balance, lighting, lens length, elements of design, and flash. Specific requirements for

SchoolhouseTeachers.com has brought a little disorder to the mix. How can this be a good thing, you ask? Don’t worry. The disorder doesn’t last long. Daily Puzzlers is a fun way for kids to bring order from the chaos—and use some critical thinking skills. Once they retrieve the specified letter tiles from their bag of