This 214 page CORE AREA resource provides parents, teachers, and HOMESCHOOLING families with hundreds of progressive questions and answers that align with 3rd Grade learning targets and content standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science. LANGUAGE ARTS: Many of these ELA questions encompass spelling, phonics, readings, literary genres, and essential grammar facts. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): consonants (hard and soft); vowels (long and short); alphabetizing; prefixes and suffixes; compound words; synonyms and antonyms; homonyms; homophones; parts of a story; parts of speech; contractions; idioms; singular and plural; present and past tense; comparatives and superlatives; similes and metaphors; declaratives and interrogatives; abbreviations; possession; types of text; and SIGHT words. SOCIAL STUDIES: Many of the social studies questions encompass geography, history, peoples, regions, and cultures. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): continents; mountains and deserts; islands; states and capitals; rivers, lakes, oceans, and canals; peninsulas and straits; ancient civilizations; fortresses and temples; Greece and Italy; empires; Native Americans; Canada; Scandinavia; Early EXPLORERS; religion; and cultural diversity. CIVICS: The focus of this chapter is to prompt children to think about all levels of government, the role of the citizen, and the importance of becoming contributing members of the community, the state, and the nation. SCIENCE: The science questions encompass a wide array of scientific topics including astronomy, biology, chemistry, Earth science, ecology, geology, physics, weather, climate, and zoology. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): matter and energy; force and motion; light and sound; simple tools; rocks; Earth; ecosystems and Biomes; mountains and volcanoes; plants and animals; animal classification; producers and consumers; organisms; weather and atmosphere; human body; scientific instruments; solar system; seasons; and scientific inventors. These learning standards can easily be applied to the outside world. Exploration and experimentation are highly encouraged! MATH: These questions encompass math skills, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, operations, fractions, time, and money. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): place value; patterns; addition and subtraction; greater than, less than, or equal to; rounding; Roman numerals; ordinals; multiplication and division; math properties; products and quotients; square roots; integers; variables; fractions; decimals and percentages; graphs; money and currencies; measurement; geometric shapes; area and perimeter; line segments; 3D shapes; and simple word problems. Allowing for paper and pencil computation, and actually looking at the math questions is encouraged if need be! Why Ask Me Smarter? Because it is kid-engaging in that the BRAIN cannot resist a question! Because it is a simplified and stream-lined format in interpreting an elementary school curriculum and prescribed learning targets! Because learning is optimized through progressive questioning and spaced retention! Because many of the questions reflect "I CAN" statements per grade level. It is a simple but important questioning resource that serves to empower children with essential knowledge, making knowledge FUN-da-men-tal!
For the Maya, reliable food production was so important to their well-being that they closely linked the agricultural cycle to astronomy and religion. Important rituals and ceremonies were held in honour...
There is a crucial aspect of feminine wisdom that has largely been lost in today's world—a “sacred feminine” which, if reclaimed, could help relieve a tremendous amount of conflict and suffering all across the planet. In this 13-part Goddess Returns series, acclaimed teachers Sally Kempton and Ken Wilber discuss one of the most powerful ways we can reconnect with this divine feminine: by invoking and internalizing the energetic qualities of eleven different Hindu goddesses.
The Timbuktu Manuscripts showing both mathematics and astronomy. The Timbuktu Manuscripts - or Mali Manuscripts - some of which date back to the 13th century, are Arabic and African texts that hark...
Gaia was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion, one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia was the great mother of all: the primal Greek Mother Goddess; creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe. Gaia was the primordial element from which all the gods originated and was worshiped throughout Greece, Gaianism is alive and well in what we call Western civilization. In advance of the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, leftists are actively practicing their faith. Man has despoiled the Earth and now must ... confess to the Earth.Think we're exaggerating? On Sept. 17, New York's Union Theological Seminary, a progressive Christian adjunct to Columbia University, put out a tweet that many people must have assumed was a satire from the religion pranksters at The Babylon Bee. "Today in chapel, we confessed to plants," it began. "Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor." Then they asked for an Amen: "What do you confess to the plants in your life?"The photo accompanying the tweet shows a young female seminarian seated cross-legged on the floor, facing what looks like an assortment of cattails, a peace lily, a majesty palm and potted basil.Thank God (the other one) for sane people's sense of humor. Twitter ridicule quickly followed. "I think you smoked one of the plants first," someone tweeted.The Catholic blogger called the Curt Jester used Catholic confessional words: "Bless me ficus, for I have sinned. I promise to turn over a new leaf and nip the root of my sin in the bud. I want to grow in hollyness. I firmly resolve with the hope of thy grapes to sin no more."But the New York Union Theological Seminary isn't the only place where folks are apologizing to weeds. On Aug. 31, The New York Times tweeted: "Dr. Monica Gagliano says that she has received Yoda-like advice from trees and shrubbery. In 2012, she says, an oak tree assured her that a risky grant application -- proposing research on sound communication in plants -- would be successful. "So why not pray to plants and wait for the answers?NBC News also broke out a confessional, with an interactive webpage titled "Climate Confessions." It explained its brainstorm: "Even those who care deeply about the planet's future can slip up now and then. Tell us: Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Do you blast the A/C? Throw out half your lunch? Grill a steak every week? Share your anonymous confession with NBC News." Categories of "sins" against Earth were shown. Here's an example in each category:Energy: "I sleep with the air conditioner on year-round and justify it to myself by recycling."Transportation: "I fly private jets. We will often burn an extra 500 gallons of fuel to save 10 minutes. 1."Plastics: "I admit to using far too many plastic grocery bags while my reusable ones sit in the trunk of my car."Food waste: "I toss food that's fresh enough to eat, but isn't visually ok (e.g., freezer burn). Getting a vacuum sealer to help with this. 2."Paper: "I use enough Q-tips for a family of 8. I have an addiction to them in hygiene purposes, makeup application, even cleaning 3.."Meat: "I was a vegetarian since 1980. But the last few years I started eating ground turkey. So sad."Some people turned it into bragging instead of confessing: "I LOVE meat. But I love the earth more. Vegan for over 4 years now." Some seemingly conservative people wrote in mocking responses: "I run my AC 24/7. I'm not going to sweat to appease this climate religion."Liberal guilt has never been more pronounced. We recommend as proper corporal punishment using the switch, provided liberals then apologize to the bamboo.Even Gaia is running for the hills.
The role of cannabis in early religious texts to the botanical renaissance of the Victorian age.
The Flower of Life is a modern name given to an ancient sacred geometry symbol used by many different civilizations. The symbol is of great spiritual and religious importance and believed to depict the fundamental forms of space and time. It has long bee…
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The sands of the Sahara have all but swallowed Chinguetti, a near ghost town found at the end of a harsh desert road in Mauritania, West Africa. Its majority of abandoned houses are open to the elements, lost to the dunes of a desert aggressively expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per year. W
Every time ancient Greece is mentioned, most people automatically think of democracy, the Olympic Games, mythology, philosophy, technology and various sciences such as mathematics and astronomy. It seems that very few are aware that the ancient Greeks were also superstitious, despite their logical thinking.
Calendars are always complicated and sometimes baffling. Layered with history and ritual, they bind communities together by preserving traditions and erasing the passage of time. My father taught me to observe Passover as if I had been a slave in Egypt: to imagine that I had dragged stones up pyramids and then followed Moses to …
