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The Name of the Game is Learn!
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The primary purpose of education is to help the child become a productive adult, using his God-given talents to the best of his ability. Self-correcting learning materials help students achieve the independence, self-discipline, and self-reliance that a successful adult needs.
Observing the growing self-esteem in your children as they become more confident in their ability to learn independently will make your job as a teacher easier and more enjoyable!
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Senari's curriculum design helps parents/teachers to individualize lessons to meet their needs and those of their students. Teaching the same concept to all the students at the same time (at their appropriate levels), saves preparation time, and provides interaction among the students. Using this approach, many parents have lowered the stress level in their homes. At the same time, their students have become more independent learners!
On this page you will find downloadable presentations, online course demos, and descriptions of some of our products. Many of our clients have found the short exercise in curriculum design helpful.
Enjoy!
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Tools You Can Use
Downloadable Presentations
Curriculum Development
Product Types
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Downloadable Presentations
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Using a Study Unit This presentation describes the use of our study units for a wide range of student ages and abilities. Each study unit consists of a lesson plan, a booklet for writing
practice; name, information and picture cards of the various parts
of the subject. We have grouped study units on CD-Roms such as the Vertebrate Combo and the Microbiology CD.
Making a Study Unit Many study units have been prepared by students ages 10 - 14. The format allows students to do the research and prepare lessons for their younger siblings. Some older students have made "games" for their high-school and college courses. They were then able to use them to tutor other students.
Teaching the Basic Math Facts The presentation shows how manipulatives can be combined with our printed materials to help students learn the basic math facts. These students used Montessori beads, but you can adapt the process to use other types of manipulatives.
Making Self-Correcting Math Materials For many young students, a whole page of problems is quite intimidating. This presentation shows you how to cut the worksheets down to an appropriate size, and make them self-correcting as well.
The Stamp Game - Unlocking Addition This presentation shows you how to make and use inexpensive manipulatives to help your children under the concepts of carrying and borrowing. The presentation illustrates column addition, but you can use the same materials and structure for subtraction.
The Hierarchy of Learning "Upper-level thinking skills" are popular in the current educational jargon. This presentation describes the theory in common-sense terms. We have used the presentation with students to help them understand the process of learning.
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Senari Products
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Printable Worksheets and Bingo Games
Computer Generated Manipulatives
Interactive Software
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Printable Worksheets and Bingo Games
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Worksheet Generators: Each of the six worksheet generators produce unique math worksheets using randomly generated numbers. Each worksheet has an accompanying answer sheet.
Cheat Sheets: These worksheets give the student concise procedures that help them master specific concepts. The downloadable demos include lesson plans, a table of contents, and/or sample cheat sheets.
Bingo Games:
Each bingo game has 30 cards which may be printed on tagboard and
laminated. Math bingo games come with an instruction sheet and 5
worksheet/answersheet combinations that may be used for practice
and/or as calling cards for the bingo game. Chemistry and geography bingo games can be found on the Science and Geography Pages. Each Bingo Game demo has at least 3 bingo cards. Download one and try it out!
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Computer Generated Manipulatives
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Study Units:
These single topic science units combine worksheets and manipulatives in a single package. They are ideal for homeschoolers with children of different ages. Each child can use the activities that are appropriate to his or her age/grade level and ability.
Each study unit consists of a lesson plan, a booklet for writing
practice; name, information and picture cards of the various parts
of the subject.
Cork Board Maps: World geography becomes a game with these activities. Each set has a map, a map answer key, a list of the places on the map together
with their locations, in terms of latitude and longitude, and their descriptions. A lesson plan is included. It details a variety of ways to use these activities with students of all ages.
Cork Board Diagrams: Science diagrams are used in a game format similar to the cork board maps. Each set comes with a diagram, an answer key, and a set of labels, and a sheet of terms and definitions. Students learn by matching the terms and definitions, and labeling the diagrams. A lesson plan is included.
Classification Lines: While the classification of animals is a topic usually covered in High School Biology, our classification lines provide much younger students with a visual chart on which they can place pictures of animals in their appropriate groups. Each illustrated classification line comes with complete instructions and suggestions for activities to use with students from kindergarten through high school.
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Interactive Software
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Senari's interactive math software is designed so that students can work with little or no adult supervision. In addition to the practice mode, one or both of the following modes is available for each concept. Show Me mode is a tutorial that a student may use at any time. This mode is not scored.
Steps provides a way for students to work through the entire process of solving the problem on the computer. Many students go directly from the Steps to solving math problems in their heads. All parts of a problem must be correct for the problem to be correct and add to his score.
Downloadable demos have all the features of a program, but limit the user to 3 examples each time he enters a concept. Demos are available for:
The interactive grammar software, The English Class, provides practice and instruction in color-coding and diagramming sentences. It is an excellent complement to the Grammar Manipulatives, and the Diagramming Cheat Sheets. The SAT Vocabulary programs provide students with a way of studying vocabulary as it relates to grammar.
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Curriculum Design Exercise
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A textbook or a curriculum is a set of lessons and lesson plans usually developed by professional educators. If you have experienced difficulty getting through all the lessons in a curriculum or have had difficulty motivating your children to get their lessons done, try this experiment with another adult or one of your older children.
- Copy the table of contents of a science or social studies textbook. (This is actually the outline that the author used to write the book.)
- This outline, in educational jargon, is the "Scope and Sequence" for the grade level of the textbook.
Now, decide what you want for your children.
- Cross out all the topics that are reviews or topics that your child already knows.
- Cross out the topics that are inappropriate for your child.
- Write 2 topics from the list on a sheet of paper, one on each side.
- Ask your partner to make a list of ways to learn each of the topics.
- Using the outline of the textbook as a starting point, make your own curriculum for the year. I would suspect that it will have more depth than the textbook's and it will be more interesting for you and your children.
Remember that your curriculum, just like any other plan, is a map to guide you on your way -- don't let it prevent you from exploring other things along the way!
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