Helpful Links

for use with Epi Kardia Literature-based Unit Study Curriculum

 Homeschool ♥ Private School ♥ Cottage School

Whether you’re book shopping, needing an example of fine art, or a copy of the Bible, our links can get you there. At Epi Kardia, we believe that making positive use of the World Wide Web can save home school parents time and money. We use these sites ourselves. If you have any difficulties, please let us know.

Fine Arts: 

The following sites allow you to view art from museums and many times, by right clicking your mouse, you can save the art or make it wallpaper for your computer desktop! 

The National Gallery of Art:  This site has an excellent virtual tour.

Masterworks Fine Art:  This site allows you to select work by the artist's name.

The Louvre:  The next best thing to actually visiting France!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Math and Science: 

Apologia Science - Elizabeth's first choice for Bibical high school science.

Teaching Textbooks - Dana's favorite for high school math.  She appreciates its ease of use for parents and students, as well as the solutions CD that provides the answers for all practice and test questions.

Math U See - Elizabeth utilized this with her high school daughter.  After using more traditional programs, she found this much more user friendly including a DVD that provides demonstrations of all problem types.  Another advantage is the multiple tests offer daily, unit, quarterly and semester testing allowing great flexibility for the parent.  Allyson, Elizabeth's daughter, claims it as her favorite math curriculum.

Professor B's - Elizabeth recommends this math curriculum in elementary and middle school because it answers the question "why?" rather than just "how?".  The techniques are considerably different and require parent involvement, but customer service is excellent.  When calling, you often get the Professor himself.

Music:

Hymnal Online- Download words of classic hymns, and listen to them online.

DW3

Midi World    

Other Academic Links:

These links consist of a variety of sites that we have discovered through our own searches or as recommendations from other parents.

The Bible Online - This site will take you to different translations and even Bibles in various languages! 

www.HandwritingforKids.com - provides free, printable handwriting paper and writing guides for cursive and manuscript. They have a interactive math section, as well.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html - this site is an interactive U.S. map in which kids use to learn geography.

www.gutenberg.org -oldest producer of electronic books on the internet, with over 13,000 books and all are free for downloading or reading online.

http://www.orkin.com/learningcenter/kidsandteachers_lessonplans.asp - free insect lesson plans.

http://www.christiantech.com/ - Webster's 1828 online dictionary without the politically correct terminology of today's dictionaries.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ - this site consists of a variety of science activities and information.

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/ - the National Gallery of Art's site for kids with various activities.

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/themes.html - this is an awesome website with a variety of literature and history ideas, worksheets, etc.

Book shopping:  these sites offer great prices and most of the books in our curriculum.*

  No shipping charge if you order more than $25 in new books.  Do check out the cost of used books, however; sometimes it is cheaper to pay shipping and buy used. 

Campusi

Abebooks.com

Half.com:  this site offers some excellent prices on used books, but beware of postage as items are sold by individuals.  Be sure that the price plus the postage still offers the best deal.