I want to learn as much as possible for sixth grade and I want it to be hard. What site can I do this at? HELP

Question

If you have a site that's challenging please post it. I REALLY need to study hard. I need help with all the subjects. Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes it's called living life to the fullest, and being a kid. But pick up a book every now and then and read it from beginning to end, and I'm not talking about something Bush "claimed" he read or the bible either. But something entertaining and something informative.

Answer 2

I'd try Zucows; they have good elementary and advanced software. I have only checked out their elementary stuff for my cousin whose 5. But I saw Calculus there, too.

You are a homeschooler, thus you can be creative; it is great. What do you really like to do? In 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, I read a lot about Earth Science (probably good enough for a minor in it).

What's your math level; if it is really advanced, I'd keep pushing that. For example, if you have learned Algebra (possibly Algebra II), I'd suggest taking a summer course to help you pace faster. You may want to go to a community college or a private college, especially if the pace is fierce. At my community college, 1% of the student body was under age 16 or about 80 students.

Answer 3

Check out www.memoriapress.com. This site has many resources for getting a really good education, whatever grade you are in. Most of their stuff isn't limited to any grade, it's just great stuff to study and ponder and learn. My daughter loves their Latin curriculum.

I would also consider joining some groups on yahoogroups that are discussing homeschool curriculum. I think that one is called curriculum swap. The people on there would be happy to guide you through this decision.

For math I'd suggest you subscribe to www.mathscore.com for $14.95/month. It does a great job of helping you figure out which areas you're weak in and it helps you to improve and master all areas through Algebra I. Math went from being a hated subject to being something my daughter loves to do when we tossed the textbooks and went with this program.

Good luck!!!

Answer 4

I know a few sites where you can print things for your grade level, but IDK if they're challenging. www.edhelper.com is good...HTH!

Answer 5

If you're homeschooled, you can learn at any level you like.  Just search online for the subjects you're interested in, and study as much as you want.  There's no need to be limited to what is learned in sixth grade in schools.

Answer 6

Lol...someone else in the world who thinks like me!

I don't use many (if any) websites, I prefer books and we don't pay any attention to school years or grades or any other of that stuff but I'm 15 and recently joined my State University's library. I don't know if you could do that in your country but you might want to get in touch with your local colleges/university and ask if members of the local community can also join their library. If I use any student textbooks at all, I tend to use books written for first year undergraduates or I use the IB texts (meant for kids in years 12 & 13).

Sorry I don't know how old you are if you're in sixth grade (13???. As I said: we don't pay any attention to school years or grade levels) but you should not feel that because you 'are in grade six' that you should be following a curriculum meant for grade 6. If you want to follow a planned programme of study, maybe you should try looking at your state's curriculum for year 8 or year 9 and start by having a go at that.

Alternatively, know that you don't have to use texts written for school at all. You might be more challenged if you go to your library's catalogue and search for general books about...I don't know what...anything...you could study the history of Rome or Ancient Greece using general texts written for an interested adult reader (for history) etc.

You might also try, for instance, getting hold of copies of the original texts of Shakespeare etc to read rather than studying the 'sterilised' versions that are purposely designed to make his plays/novels easy for today's kids to understand.

Depending on how old you are and the local rules, your library might let you upgrade your library card to one that allows you to check out books from the adult library. Here you can do that when you're 12 years & 9 months old. Or you could borrow your mum/dad/an older sibling's library card and get adult books out on their card.

My other suggestion would be that you look at some older, classic school texts, rather than ones designed for today's students and schools. There are literally heaps of websites where you can download old (classic) schoolbooks for free because they're no longer under copyright. Just search for something like 'download+school+texts+out+of+print+copy...

One example of just such a library is held by the University of Pittsburgh where you can find more rigorous textbooks for spelling, grammar, reading, arithmetic, geography, American history, civil government, physiology, penmanship, art, music. The catalogue's URL is  http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/...

The education provided by schools especially the old grammar schools was heaps more rigorous and challenging before about 1960 and, back then, teachers were confident their students could master a lot more complicated and tougher concepts at a lot younger age. Hence such old schoolbooks work very well, you just have to top up some subjects like the sciences with knowledge of discoveries made since then.

(There's also a website that is re-printing the public school exam papers from the 1850s that might interest you if you're interested in seeing just how far school standards and expectations have been dumbed down over the past 150 years. If you want to set yourself a challenge in your learning, you might want to try and have a go at the educational expectations of a 13 year old in 1850. Think: *equivalent to a university undergraduate* today!)

You might also want to have a look at anything that refers to 'classical homeschooling' or 'classical education'.

Answer 7

studyisland.com

click on 6th grade and you'll get the curriculum.