Rainbow Curriculum (Another Public Domain offering)

Here's another public domain curriculum option to peruse.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Fvf4FXKZtoZ1UtTXpZMlJ0SFE/view





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By a lady

Links for educating about Domestic Violence

I wouldn't presume to know what *you* should be teaching *your* kids about domestic violence.

I don't know what your kids know. 

I don't know what your kids don't know.

I don't know what is safe for you to tell your kids

I don't know what is safe for your kids to know.

I don't know what isn't safe for you to tell your kids.

I don't know what isn't safe for your kids to know.

But this must be a topic of concern to you, as it should be to all parents, or you wouldn't be reading. You probably don't know exactly what you should teach your kids either. Perhaps you have no experience, so don't know what you're meant to be preparing your kids to avoid. Perhaps you have all too much experience and court orders that prevent you from saying and doing the exact things you *know* you want to tell those pieces of your heart that walk around in someone else's body- namely your children. Tough topic.

Most forms of abuse are legal.

Sometimes you can't get away from the perpetrators.

You can't cure other people's personality disorders.

Sometimes damage control is the best you can do.

Sometimes life sucks.

But here are some links to help you work out what you need to teach. There can be no "one size fits all" here.

From Woman's Aid in the UK:

The Education Toolkit- Expect Respect

For Kids in Shelters: The Children's Welcome Kit

From the Victorian Government in Australia:

Building Respectful Relationships: Stepping out against gender based violence for secondary school students.

From the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, in association with UN Women:

Voices Against Violence
(This seems to be available in English, French and Spanish.)

From the New South Wales Government in Australia:

Child Protection Education K-6

Out of America:

The Representation Project
(If you purchase anything here, we'd like to hear a review, thank you!)
((I've emailed asking for a suitably priced kit for home use))

Another from Australia:

Respectful Relationships

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Free Public Domain books- Augsburg Art

The good people at the Well Trained Mind forum have been chatting about the Augsburg art books and, well, drooling over how wonderful they are. Trouble is, they are not accessible for some people outside of the US, because Google can be a bummer like that. Links have been shared around to avoid this problem and we're reposting them here to spread the word!


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7FV4B6vlfT3fmRRNGhIamRGLTV2T1pLNTJXS3RfWlpqLUhPNlQ4cXVRTGIxaUtlS2NHV1U&authuser=0

Entire Public Domain Curriculum

The entire Public Domain Curriculum is now available at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7FV4B6vlfT3bVhybHRHRkN2dWM/edit

All the contributors to this blog are in awe of all the work our colleague here has put in!

We will eventually break this document up and publish subject areas and grade levels separately for ease of navigation. For now, though, take it, work with it, tweak it, tell us what worked and what didn't, and share it with anyone who might make use of it!

Public Domain Curriculum - Physical Education (Alpha Edition)

We are happy to present the alpha edition of the Physical Education component, handily hosted at Google Docs!

Do let us know how you found it and any alterations you made, because we're curious!



Series Introduction
English component
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-By a Lady

Public Domain Curriculum- English (Alpha Edition)

We are happy to present the alpha edition of the English component, handily hosted at Google Docs!

Do let us know how you found it and any alterations you made, because we're curious!



Series Introduction
Physical Education component
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-By a Lady

Introducing the *Public Domain Curriculum*

How do low-income families make homeschooling work? Can they? Is homeschooling only possible or acceptable for comfortably middle-class, two-parent families? Should poor families have no choice but to rely on public education, no matter the quality and the needs of their individual child?

The bloggers at Investigate The Landscape believe that education — a solid, quality education that enables people to learn to think for themselves — should be available to everyone, no matter who they are. That "no matter who" includes people of all different ages, locations, socio-economic classes, and life paths.


The Public Domain Curriculum

• English starts with learning to recognize and write the letters of the alphabet and ends with reading at a college level and writing a research paper.

• Math starts with learning to recognize the numbers 1-5 and writing those numbers with tally marks and ends with algebra and geometry.

• The content subjects will focus on providing the information that students need to understand and enjoy books and their world, and to participate as a valuable member in their society. This may be somewhat US-centric, but as we've said, this is a curriculum without copyright so you are free to tweak however you like.

Racism In Old Books and Why So Much Fiction?

"Aren’t old books racist?", some people will ask, personally offended that anyone is still reading these books instead of boycotting them. Some of the authors of these books were provincial and elitist, but we consider it even more provincial and elitist to entirely boycott several centuries worth of literature from multiple countries for any reason. 

This author hopes that parents will teach their children that racism is ONE of MANY human rights violations and that ALL human rights violations are wrong, including those present in our modern literature.

Racism is disgusting. This author does not condone and encourage it. This author also believes that the disempowered moms who will be most attracted to this free curriculum are not required to shoulder all the burdens of all disempowered groups throughout all of time and throughout all of the world. These moms have enough on their plates just meeting the basic needs of their families, and not everyone is called to be a boycotting activist for every cause at every stage of their life.

A literature-heavy curriculum results in students with different sets of skills than those that were explicitly taught with more non-fiction, but I’m not so sure that the skills gained from reading lots of fiction are inferior for ALL students in ALL parts of the USA and in ALL parts the world. Reading fiction gives insight into other people, and it is other people we have to deal with (or avoid) all our life long. For more on the benefits of fiction, see The School of Life's youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw

What about the textbooks that are used? The dated content in most public domain textbooks is a paltry percentage of the whole. The minutiae that never needed to be taught in the first place often represent most of the dated content in textbooks. The most obvious dated material can be easily explained by mom, and the less important and questionable details can often just be skipped. Severely dated material will seldom be scheduled without adequate explanations and support.

I hope my attempt here inspires others with their own unique life experiences to adapt this curriculum to suit their own needs, giving the world multiple options to choose from in educating with only free materials.

Entire Curriculum (Rough Draft)

By subject:

English (Alpha edition)
Physical Education (Alpha edition)

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- By a Lady