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IAMHOMESCHOOLING.COM - YOUR #1 HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE

iamhomeschooling.com is a comprehensive homeschool website that provides valuable information and a vast compilation of resources to all homeschooling families, whether considering homeschooling, new to homeschooling, or veteran homeschoolers.

Homeschoolers nationwide will find helpful articles, support groups, umbrella schools, evaluators, curriculum resources, homeschool events and programs, printable planners and forms, organized links to educational websites and free resources, and more. Understanding the need for up-to-date information, and knowing first-hand how hard it is to find, we strive to keep our content current and relevant.

We also offer our own umbrella school for homeschoolers in the State of Florida. We operate as a home-based private school for grades K-12. We require annual attendance reporting in lieu of evaluations. Our school is affiliated with Florida Virtual School, and we can assist high school homeschoolers with dual enrollment at Florida community colleges and universities. Learn More

If you have any questions or comments about this site, please contact us.

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We are regularly searching the internet for websites beneficial to homeschooling families. Here you will find a categorized list of links to terrific websites for both parents and children.  If you know of a helpful website that you'd like to share with other homeschoolers, please let us know!

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  •  Homeschool Blogs (27)
    • Classroom Freebies
      This blog is full of free printable resources searchable by grade level.
    • Confessions of a Homeschooler
      Confessions of a Homeschooler is a blog full of homeschooling ideas, resources and printables.
    • Curriculum Choice
      A group of home educators who have united together to spread the word about their favorite curricula used for their own families and educate others about their homeschool methods.
    • Daze of Adventure
      A wife. A mommy. A child of God. Jenn shares her passion for homeschooling and frugal resources for all.
    • Fiddledeedee
      DeeDee, a mid-life, SAHM of three, shares her view of life through this blog. Check out her homeschool page with terrific homeschool resources & links.
    • Free Homeschooling 101
      Shelly shares her live experiences and collection of online "free finds" and printable worksheets.
    • GuestHollow.com
      More than just a blog, you will find all sorts of goodies in different sections of GuestHollow. You'll find free American history and homeschool science curriculum for preschool through high school, downloads, worksheets and other printables such as lapbooks, math helps, timelines, and more.
    • Heart of the Matter
      Heart of the Matter is dedicated to bridging the gap between the child and the parent, a relationship designed by God, by presenting you with motivational posts, encouraging articles from “real” parents, and resources.
    • Hip Homeschool Moms
      If you’re looking for a FUN online community for homeschoolers, pull up a chair. Hip Homeschool Moms brings homeschoolers together for friendship and support while providing them with lots of helpful resources along the way!
    • Homegrown Mom
      If you are a fellow crazy mom, you’ll find fun ideas, subject helps, unit studies, info on methods and learning styles and plenty of encouragement here.
    • J and R Learn at Home!
      A personal blog written by Michelle, a 30-something wife, mom, homeschooler and freelance writer.
    • Living Montessori Now
      Information and inspiration for parents and teachers by Deb Chitwood, an an eclectic Montessorian who homeschooled her two children using Montessori methods extensively in their younger years and in principle in their later years.
    • My Home Sweet Home
      My Home Sweet Home is the personal blog of Dawn Camp, a homeschooling mother living in Atlanta, GA. It has been lovingly decorated with family, faith, and Photoshop since May of 2006.
    • Our Worldwide Classroom
      Kylie shares her homeschooling family's world of fun, cheekiness and learning experiences. You'll also find a few free printable materials she created.
    • Roscommon Acres
      A home educating mom who shares a little of her family's homeschooling life.
    • Simple Homeschooling
      This homeschool blog is for parents seeking resources to give their children a positive, successful education. Find tips, tools, and techniques to teach your children with confidence. Their writers come from a variety of backgrounds and experience.
    • Sprittibee
      Heather (a/k/a Sprittibee) is a long-time blog enthusiast who shares her homeschooling experiences with others.
    • Sweet Phenomena
      A family homeschooling out of necessity sharing homeschool information, resources, curriculum, product reviews, and other information relevant to those currently homeschooling and thinking about homeschooling.
    • The Homeschool Chick
      A fun and helpful homeschool blog for homeschooling moms! Encouragement, Curriculum Reviews, Motherhood, Photography, Recipes, Laundry Hating, and more!
    • The Homeschool Classroom
      The Homeschool Classroom is a group blog made up of homeschooling Moms sharing tips, ideas, resources, and other inspirations to help all those who are currently homeschooling or discerning the call to do so.
    • The Homeschool Post
      The Homeschool Post, realizing homeschool moms needed a place to be encouraged, informed, and inspired, recruited a community of bloggers to bring you constant content to help your homeschool journey along.
    • The Homeschool Village
      With the help of many homeschool moms, The Homeschool Village gives sound Christian advice and suggestions, provides honest reviews with giveaway opportunities, and offers encouragement through daily written articles.
    • Those Crazy Homeschoolers
      Homeschool blog of a family led by Christ, eclectically learning, Charlotte Mason influence with a dash of fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants mentality thrown in for good measure.
    • Unschooling Lifestyle
      On this site you'll find Sara McGrath's "practical unschooling" collections of free online resources on various useful subjects, such as math, reading, and science, as well as an abundance of helpful articles on homeschooling and unschooling.
    • Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
      At Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers, you'll find Kris promoting family values, building the Christian faith, providing a quality education...changing the world one homeschooled kid at a time.
    • Why Homeschool
      Explore why homeschooling can be a better option for children and families than a traditional classroom setting, and issues in general, educational thoughts, family issues, and some other random stuff.
    • World of Homeschooling
      An inspirational blog by a homeschool mom who loves writing to encourage others to spend more time with their kids.
  •  Charlotte Mason (11)
    • Amble Auctions
      An growing online marketplace for buying and selling Ambleside Online books, Charlotte Mason books, and other homeschool curricula. You'll find both auction-styled and buy-it-now listings. No seller fees.
    • Ambleside Online
      Ambleside Online is a free homeschool curriculum designed to be as close as possible to the curriculum that Charlotte Mason used in her own private and correspondence schools. Their goal is to be true to Charlotte Mason's high literary standards. Ambleside Online uses the highest quality books and costs no more than the cost of texts. The curriculum uses as many free online books as possible, and there is no cost to use this information or join the support group.
    • Ambleside School International
      Ambleside Schools International seeks to build and to serve a worldwide community of schools and training centers that provide what Charlotte Mason called a “living education,” guiding and empowering students, parents and teachers to author lives which are full and free, rich in relationship to God, self, others, ideas, and all of creation.
    • An Old Fashioned Education
      You'll find here a directory of free homeschool curricula, literature and text books organized for the use of homeschooling families.
    • Charlotte Mason
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    • Charlotte Mason Club (Free!)
      "Wondering what Charlotte Mason is all about? Join CurrClick's free class and learn about this gentle but thorough method of educating your students. They will discuss a Go-Ahead-And-Get-Started approach so you can begin implementing some of her wonderful methods quickly and effortlessly into your routine. Discussions will be Topic-Driven with plenty of hands-on, real-life questions and answers, and lots of tips!
    • Charlotte Mason Education
      Charlottemasoneducation.com - the Official Website of Catherine Levison.
    • Charlotte Mason Help
      Charlotte Mason Help - Practical ways to apply the lofty ideas of Charlotte Mason in your home and school.
    • Mater Amabilis
      A free Charlotte Mason style curriculum for Catholics.
    • Penny Gardner's Charlotte Mason Website
      Charlotte Mason Approach articles by Penny Gardner, author of Charlotte Mason Study Guide and Nine-Note Recorder Method.
    • Simply Charlotte Mason
      Simply Charlotte Mason offers a curriculum finder, discussion forum, and blog, and also provides a free Charlotte Mason-style curriculum guide. This site is a great resource!
  •  Curriculum Resources (94)
    • A Journey Through Learning Lap Books
      A Journey Through Learning specializes in lapbooks, unit studies, copywork, and notebooking pages. Most of their lapbooks and unit studies include an in-depth study guide.
    • Abe Books
      AbeBooks is an online marketplace where you can buy new, used, rare and out-of-print books, as well as cheap textbooks. They connect you with thousands of professional booksellers around the world and millions of books are listed for sale. Shopping on AbeBooks is easy, safe and 100% secure - search for your book, purchase a copy via their secure checkout process and the bookseller ships it straight to you.
    • Academic Superstore
      The Academic Superstore is committed exclusively to academic customers, offering thousands of top hardware and full-version software titles at great discounts. They have partnered with the top technology manufacturers including Adobe, Microsoft, Sibelius, Sony Media Software, and Wacom, to bring excellent service and prices which are available only to students, schools, and teachers.
    • Activities in a Bag
      If you're looking for something to keep your preschooler busy while homeschooling your older children, Activities in a Bag is worth checking out!
    • All About Learning Press
      All About Learning Press offers All About Reading and All About Spelling programs that are complete, comprehensive, and based on the Orton-Gillingham approach and the latest research. All About Spelling is a seven-level program created to take the struggle out of spelling. All About Reading consists of eight levels and begins with Level Pre-1, which gives your child the best possible start in learning to read.
    • All Educational Software
      Run by 2 sisters who have seen their 6 (total) children through the trials of grade school, middle school, high school and college, All Educational Software offers discount educational software--typing, language, math, and more--for kids and adults with free shipping.
    • Alpha Omega Publications K-12 Curriculum
      Alpha Omega Publications (AOP) offers affordable and time-tested homeschool curriculum for grades PreK-12. With print-based, computer-based, and online formats, their innovative line of curriculum includes Monarch™, Switched-On Schoolhouse® (SOS), LIFEPAC®, Horizons, and The Weaver Curriculum®. (Save 12% on AOP products with Coupon Code SAVEBIG)
    • Amazon.com
      Amazon, we're sure you've hear of them, is America's largest online retailer. Its product lines include books, school supplies, music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, toys & games, musical instruments, industrial & scientific supplies, and just about everything else under the sun. A great resource for buying new and used items for less.
    • Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc.
      Apologia offers a Science Curriculum, a Worldview Curriculum (Writing and Geography and Inspiration and Help for Parents) an Online Academy, and Conferences for Homeschool Moms
    • Avanquest Software
      Avanquest Software is one of the world’s 10 leading consumer software developers of personal and professional software, encompassing a large number of categories including Mobility, Utilities and Multimedia. Find curriculum software titles from Dorling Kindersley, Sesame Street, Berlitz, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
    • Barker Creek
      Barker Creek sells educational products such as curriculum, thematic unit studies, classroom supplies, and more.
    • Beautiful Feet Books
      Beautiful Feet Books provides quality products to homeschoolers. They integrate the best works of children's literature into all aspects of the educational curriculum by publishing noted authors and study guides that enable parents and teachers to incorporate those works easily into a comprehensive study.
    • Bookbyte
      Bookbyte.com sells (and buys) new and used textbooks, school books, cookbooks, and novels. Most orders processed and shipped within 24 hours, and they offer some of the highest buyback prices in the industry.
    • Bright Ideas Press
      Bright Ideas Press publishes Christian-oriented curriculum such as The Mystery of History series, Hands-On Geography, Illuminations, and WonderMaps. Their curriculum is both affordable and easy-to-use with children of different ages at the same time.
    • Broderbund
      Broderbund is your source for quality, easy-to-use software at an affordable price. Broderbund offers leading family software for Education (Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego), Typing & Keyboarding (Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing), Design & Print (The Print Shop, Print Master), and more.
    • Castle Heights Press
      Your source for high school lab manuals and real science for all ages! Great e-books and unit studies.
    • Christianbook.com
      Christian Book Distributors offers an enormous selection of homeschool and educational products at an excellent value, with strong customer service and support. This link will take you directly to Christianbook.com's homeschool curriculum page.
    • Classical Home Education
      Classical Home Education is a non-sectarian curriculum supplier with no political or religious agenda of its own. CHE provides carefully selected quality and diverse products so you can create a classical curriculum that is right for your children.
    • ClickN KIDS Phonics and Spelling Programs
      Used by Schools and Homes in Over 100 Countries for 6 Years! The Only Programs Guaranteed To Teach Your Child To Read And Spell Or Your Money Back!
    • Connect The Thoughts
      Connect The Thoughts™ is dedicated to creating methods and complete homeschool and classroom curricula that will truly make a hands-on, thorough education available. They offer a secular, religion-friendly core curricula for ages 5-adult. They currently focus on and offer core curricula for home schoolers and schools broken into five groups; pre-literate students and ages 5-6 (STARTER), beginning literacy students and ages 7-8 (ELEMENTARY), literate students ages 9-10 (LOWER SCHOOL), literate students ages 11-up (UPPER SCHOOL); and literate continuing adult education (UPPER SCHOOL).
    • Core Knowledge Curriculum
      If you have been considering using the Core Knowledge curriculum, look here for frequently asked questions as well as links to the curriculum and homeschoolers network.
    • Covenant Home Curriculum
      Covenant Home Curriculum provides a complete, eclectic, classical approach, Pre-school through 12th grade curriculum for home educators with a reformed Christian world view.
    • CP Toys (by Constructive Playthings)
      CP Toys strives to inspire learning, creativity, and fun by offering a unique mix of high quality products with unparalleled play value for young children. These toys are durable, encourage creativity, have long-term play values, are open-ended, and are fun.
    • CurrClick - Curriculum in a Click!
      Your one-stop shop for electronic lapbooks, affordable curriculum, and homeschooling resources. Unit study, novel study, and bargain home study online downloads for home education!
    • Curriculum Services
      Curriculum Services keeps abreast of the latest trends and products in education in an effort to select only the best materials for each course and level. This secular curriculum is provided from suppliers of K-12 public and non-religious private schools. They sell complete programs (K-12) through the mail to home educators across the country.
    • Discount School Supply
      Discount School Supply offers the highest quality products at the lowest possible price. You'll find thousands of arts and crafts materials, school supplies, educational toys and instructional materials.
    • eBooks.com
      eBooks.com has a vast range of ebooks from the world's leading book publishers. The books are arranged in over 50 subject categories and are available in formats suitable for a wide range of PCs, mobile phones and hand-held devices. (Use the coupon code Categorysalecp for a 20% discount on monthly selected categories!)
    • Educational Supplies Sarasota
      Look here for your teaching supplies. Save 20% when you use your teacher's ID.
    • Egghead Academics
      Egghead is run by two moms Stephanie Ruby and Christi Gifford. Together they create a variety of different styles of lapbooks, activity books, literature guides and more! Stephanie writes and creates the text and the concept for the activities and Christi brings them to life with her graphic design skills. They combined their love for writing and designing to craft a product that parents and kids alike will love to use in their homeschools.
    • Enki Education
      Enki Education offers three different kinds of classroom and homeschooling materials to support an arts-integrated education which nurtures the whole child. Our Resource Libraries come in loose leaf form so that each teacher can regroup the material to best serve her unique needs. They offer: Teaching Guides; Resource Libraries; and Grade Level Packages.
    • Epi Kardia
      Christian literature-based homeschooling curriculum using Charlotte Mason methods for Kindergarten through high school. Epi Kardia offers innovative Christian homeschooling curriculum that uses living books and Charlotte Mason methods to teach history, science, language arts and fine arts.
    • Evan-Moor
      Evan-Moor Educational Publishers provide teachers and educators with practical, creative, and engaging PreK-6+ educational materials to support and enrich the curriculum. They produce materials that are aligned with current standards and best educational practices, but that are also aligned with student interests and motivations. You will find products for reading, writing, math, science, the arts, social studies, and geography. Click here for a variety of low-cost books available on Amazon. Visit www.evan-moor.com to learn more about their products.
    • Florida School Book Depository
      Florida School Book Depository does not carry any special home school instructional materials, however, they carry many instructional materials used in the Florida public schools. You will find the guidelines for purchasing these materials for use outside of the school here.
    • Getworksheets.com
      Getworksheets.com, owned and operated by Teachnology, Inc., offers over 50,000 printable PDF worksheets, lesson plans, and teacher resources. Membership is required. Click here to take a sneak peak at what they have to offer.
    • Heart of Dakota Publisihing
      Heart of Dakota strives to publish Christ-centered homeschool curricula that is easy to use, flexible, and educational and can also be used with multiple ages at the same time. Heart of Dakota desires to help homeschool teachers have a successful experience from the very beginning, while keeping God's Word at the heart of their children's academic training.
    • Hewitt Homeschooling Resources
      At Hewitt Homeschooling Resources, you will find books and materials by subject, including unit studies for Grades Pre-K through Grade 2, evaluations and counseling for Grades 7-12, standardized testing for grades 3-8, and more.
    • Highlights for Children Magazine and Highlights High Five Magazine
      What do games, puzzles, stories, crafts, riddles and jokes all have in common? They're all fun! And you know what's even more fun? Having all these things delivered to your mailbox each and every month. Children love getting mail addressed specifically to them. And a Highlights or High Five magazine might just be the best piece of mail of all.
    • Homeschool Buyers Co-op
      The Homeschool Buyer Co-op is a free homeschooling organization for both new and veteran homeschoolers. Co-op membership is free and confidential, and entitles homeschooling families to discounts from over a hundred educational suppliers. They also sponsor "Group Buys" for curriculum packages that save homerschooling families lots of money. On the site you'll find lots of free information, such as databases of free curriculum, field trips, and educational contests and scholarships. Highly recommended.
    • Homeschool Entrepreneur - Home Business Curriculum For Teens
      Teach your teen how to start a business at home with a standards-based 45 lesson course! Includes worksheets, email support, and a Huge Resource Center with hundreds of free homeschool links, tutorials, videos and audios.
    • Homeschool Services - Educational Unlimited
      Education Unlimited is based in Broward County, South Florida. Services include classes and curriculum, evaluations, homeschool gifts and merchandise.
    • Homeschool Supercenter
      Homeschool Supercenter seeks to provide variety and excellence to their entire line of homes school programs. They've been doing it since 1998 and have thousands and thousands of families utilizing their quality materials.
    • HomeschoolingSupply.com
      HomeschoolingSupply.com offers over 20,000 homeschool curriculum products, microscopes and science products, toys and home schooling resources for parents, teachers, schools, and families.
    • Horizons Workbook Curriculum
      Horizons is a brightly illustrated, engaging workbook curriculum filled with consumable lessons and hands-on activities. Designed with fast-paced lessons, Horizons uses a spiral learning method to help your student master concepts through the process of introduction, review, and reinforcement. This learning method allows students to quickly grasp difficult concepts in a colorful, motivating format. Available in grades PreK-12, Horizons has a precise curriculum structure and six core subjects, plus the preschool course.
    • K-12 School Supplies
      K-12 School Supplies is an online distributor of quality educational supplies for teachers, parents and home school families. You will find over 325 publisher/manufacturers, 25,000+ products, and over 1,000,000 items in stock.
    • Khan Academy
      The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. With over 2400+ videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises, they're helping students learn whatever they want, whenever they want, at their own pace.
    • Kids Software Outlet
      Kid's Software Outlet provides great products at a great price. Their DVD products are from award winning producers who need help getting their products out there in the market. From John Deere, to Mommy Teach Me Spanish, to Let's Talk w/ Puppy Dog...they have something for all ages. Their software products are from Publishers worldwide and are very popular.
    • KONOS Unit Studies
      KONOS was written by two homeschooling moms for homeschoolers. With KONOS, you have the structure of weekly lesson plans including daily activities written as part of each unit but still have the flexibility to tailor your curriculum to meet the needs of your own family. KONOS does not include math, phonics for the little ones, or grammar workbook and speller for the older ones. KONOS does cover everything else: science, social studies, art, music, literature and all of their reading, health and safety, and Bible. All of the subjects studied are intertwined around a character trait of God, so the art project, the class reading and the English writing assignment will be part of what the kids are doing in science or social studies.
    • Kumon Publishing
      Kumon workbooks and learning aids introduce basic learning skills to children aged 2 and up. Subjects covered include early learning and fine motor control skills; verbal skills; and math skills. Concepts are introduced in a step-by-step manner that allows the child to master each in turn without getting frustrated
    • Learn & Master Home School Lessons Series
      Legacy Learning System's Award-Winning Learn & Master Home School Editions presents the highest quality DVD-based instruction on the planet. Courses include Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar plus courses for Piano and Painting!
    • Learning A-Z
      LearningA-Z.com provides professionally produced learning materials for the elementary classroom. Printable worksheets, activities and lesson plans for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade.
    • Learning Things
      Learning Things offers mostly school books and software, but they also have science kits, math manipulatives, games and educational toys. They carefully review all of their products, both Christian and secular, to screen out any that they believe teach falsehoods, especially regarding history, science and God.
    • Learning Train
      Learning Train provides high-quality educational games, children's books, learning toys, and fun activities for children. You can search for products by category, age, or price range. You will find sample pages of their books, and they offer several free activities that you can download.
    • Library and Educational Services
      Offers a variety of Christian, wholesome, and educational DVDs, CDs, books, games, and more. NOTE: You need to create an account to access their site.
    • LIFEPAC Consumable Worktext Homeschool Curriculum
      LIFEPAC is a full-color, consumable worktext homeschool curriculum with Bible-based content for grades K-12. Worktexts include engaging lessons, activities, review questions, and tests. This best-selling homeschool curriculum offers five core subjects and a wide variety of electives. Scripture passages are integrated throughout worktexts to help students connect daily learning to biblical truth. Independent projects and activities help stimulate creativity and reinforce concepts. Save 12% on Alpha Omega's LIFEPAC Curriculum. Click here and use code "SAVEBIG" during checkout.
    • Living Books Curriculum
      Living Books Curriculum offers homeschooling parents curriculum packages and materials based on the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason. The curriculum packages provide instruction in the traditional subjects such as history, language arts, and science and incorporate classic literature, nature studies, narration, storytelling, and the use of local resources to enhance the educational experience. Curriculum may be purchased by Grade or by Subject.
    • MakeWorksheets.com
      MakeWorksheets.com, owned and operated by Teachnology, Inc., is an on-line application that allows you to make and save (on their site) customized printable graphic organizers, lesson plans, puzzles, rubrics, and worksheets! Membership is required. Click here to take a sneak peak at what they have to offer.
    • Melissa & Doug - Educational Toys for Children
      MelissaAndDoug.com offers nearly 800 unique and exciting products to both engage and educate children of all ages. And with its exclusive Sunny Patch™ outdoor lifestyle collection, classic toys, and value-priced arts and craft kits, MelissaAndDoug.com customers will always find the perfect gift that’s fun and educational, too!
    • Memoria Press
      Memoria Press is a family-run publishing company that produces simple and easy to use classical Christian education materials for home and private schools. It was founded by Cheryl Lowe in 1994 to help promote and transmit the classical heritage of the Christian West through an emphasis on the liberal arts and the great works of the Western tradition.
    • Mindware
      MindWare is an award-winning creator, manufacturer, and distributor of Brainy Toys for Kids of All Ages and has been delivering unique, award-winning educational toys and games since 1990. Their diverse product line includes games, puzzles, brainteasers, arts and crafts activities, mysteries, mazes and more.
    • Monarch Internet-Based Homeschool Curriculum
      Monarch is an interactive, internet-based homeschool curriculum for grades 3-12. Monarch engages homeschooling students with cutting-edge, media-rich lessons infused with movie clips, animations, learning games, audio clips, and web-related links. No matter if you're at home, on vacation, or halfway around the world, you can release the wonder of learning and homeschool anywhere with Monarch by simply logging in online! (Save 10% on Alpha Omega's Monarch curriculum! Click here and use Coupon Code "MON10CJ" during checkout!)
    • My Father's World - Christian Curriculum
      My Father's World curriculum for Home Schools and Christian Schools combines the best of Charlotte Mason, classical education, and unit studies with a Biblical worldview and international focus. My Father's World curriculum utilizes hands-on, unit studies with daily lesson plans that are easy-to-teach, enables families and multi-age groups to learn together, and uses a comprehensive, sequenced learning program beginning with preschool through high school.
    • Nest Learning Homeschool Curriculum
      A homeschool curriculum store that understands homeschoolers and provides homeschool curriculum and supplements including the NEST Animated New Testament, Animated Bible Stories and Animated Hero Classics series and many respected homeschool curriculum publishers like Saxon, Rosetta Stone and Math in Focus, for all subjects and grade levels.
    • Notebooking Pages
      Notebookingpages.com specializes in providing affordable notebooking products to accommodate any subject and style of homeschooling. You will find that their notebooking products offer a variety of everything from layouts to the types of lines and number of lines on a page so that each product will fit a variety of children at the same time. You can purchase products individually or become a Treasury Member and gain access to all of their products.
    • Queen Homeschool Supplies
      Queen Homeschool Supplies, Inc. has a vast selection of books for the Charlotte Mason style educator. Browse by "Categories" to see the different series and subjects of the books they publish or by "Products" for a complete listing of each and every book that they publish.
    • Rainbow Resource Center
      RainbowResource.com provides the best educational products to homeschoolers, parents, and educators. They currently carry over 40,000 quality educational products in all subject areas, for grades PK-12 and beyond!
    • Robinson's Self-Teaching Homeschool Curriculum
      The Robinson's Self-Teaching Homeschool Curriculum is a combination of CDs and Saxon Math (purchased separately). Everything is printed and the course uses a self-teaching methodology.
    • Rod and Staff Curriculum
      Rod and Staff Publishers offer affordable Bible-based curriculum and character-building storybooks, to help build a solid Christian education for schools and homeschools. These Bible-based textbooks by are designed to make the child God-conscious. This curriculum not only teaches the Bible but uses many illustrations of how Bible principles can be applied in everyday life. These quality textbooks take a traditional approach to schooling.
    • Sadlier-Oxford
      Sadlier-Oxford publishes math, vocabulary, phonics, grammar and writing, and reading curriculum products. Products include Sadlier Phonics and Reading Program, Vocabulary Workshop, Grammar Workshop, Grammar for Writing, and Progress in Mathematics.
    • Saxon Publishers
      Saxon offers math and reading programs. Saxon Publishers is an imprint of Harcourt Achieve. The company is also the publisher of the Rigby and Steck-Vaughn product lines.
    • Scholastic Printables
      Get instant access to over 15,000 award-winning reproducibles for all grades and subjects--organized by subject, skill, and theme. Find lesson plans, worksheets, learning activities, "Leveled Learning Packs" in reading and math, "Make Your Own" tools, and more.
    • Schoolhouse Publishing
      Christian-based resources for homeschoolers.
    • Seton Educational Media
      From Kindergarten through Elementary and High School, Seton Educational Media (SEM) offers a full range of excellent books and resources for the Catholic home schooling family.
    • Sing 'n Learn
      Sing 'n Learn provides teachers and parents with a source for products which use the medium of music to teach. In addition to the musical sets, they sell other auditory products such as story tapes, audio books, and radio theater.
    • Smart Kids Software
      Smart Kids Software your #1 resource for special education products and educational software for Schools, School Districts, Teachers & Students!
    • SmartTutor
      SmartTutor's award-winning elementary Math and Reading software is designed to help children succeed by customizing a learning plan that targets their strengths and weaknesses based on the results of their placement test. SmartTutor.com accommodates your child’s home school learning program and can be a great additional resource for your child if he is struggling in Math or Reading.
    • SmileMakers
      SmileMakers was established with one simple idea-- to be the absolute best supplier of fun, consumable products used to incent, reward, and entertain children, adolescents, and even adults! SmileMakers is a great resource when planning a homeschool group activity.
    • Sonlight
      Sonlight Curriculum provides quality, literature-rich K-12 Christian homeschool curriculum and related educational products, resources, and programs. They provide complete curriculum packages and individual resources and materials so you can build the preschool or K-12 homeschool curriculum that best meets your family's needs. Sonlight is based in Littleton, Colorado and serves customers in over 150 countries worldwide.
    • Spidersmart
      SpiderSmart Learning Centers offer instruction in reading and writing, math, and SAT preparation around the country. SpiderSmart Online offers all the benefits of the learning center program with the convenience of working from home. Choose from a wide variety of books to read, complete writing assignments, and get personalized feedback from our experienced teachers--all online.
    • Switched-On Schoolhouse Bible-Based Curriculum (SOS)
      Switched-On Schoolhouse (SOS) is a comprehensive, Bible-based curriculum that offers computer-based learning for grades 3-12. With 3-D animation, video clips, and other fascinating multimedia, Switched-On Schoolhouse is the perfect homeschool curriculum for today's generation. SOS offers five core subjects and a wide variety of electives. Save 12% On The New 2010 Version Of Switched-On Schoolhouse (SOS). Click here and use Coupon Code SOS12CJ during checkout. 12% off SOS Electives, too! Use Coupon Code "SAVEBIG"
    • Teacher Created Resources
      Teacher Created Resources is an educational publishing company founded by Mary Dupuy Smith, a classroom teacher. All of Teacher Created Resources's products are "created by teachers for teachers and parents." Look here for an extensive inventory of quality and affordable teaching materials, school supplies, free lessons, and much more.
    • Textbooks.com
      Textbooks.com makes it easy to save money on the textbooks you need. They claim to have the most used textbooks on the planet, the largest selection of digital textbooks and the fastest free shipping to anywhere in the USA. Browse the largest selection of new and used textbooks online, rent textbooks or sell your college textbooks for cash.
    • The Critical Thinking Co.
      The Critical Thinking Co. designs critical thinking into reading, writing, math, science and history lessons so students carefully analyze what they are learning. Their products are fun, easy to use, and guaranteed to produce better grades and higher test scores.
    • The HomeScholar Total Transcript Solution
      Lee Binz shares the secrets of creating great homeschool transcripts that will impress colleges. No matter how you homeschool, parents are capable of creating effective transcripts that provide a clear picture of their students academic record.
    • The Phonics Road to Spelling and Reading
      The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading is a complete K-4 curriculum offering the parent a comprehensive video teacher training text with an emphasis on accurate speaking, spelling, writing, reading, grammar, composition, and preparation for The LATIN Road to English Grammar.
    • The Sycamore Tree
      The Sycamore Tree carries Christian items from publishers like Bob Jones, Alpha Omega, and Christian Liberty Press, and secular items from publishers such as Prentice Hall, Glencoe, and Steck-Vaughn. Choose from grade-level curriculum packages to individual products.
    • The Tanglewood School Curriculum
      The Tanglewood School Curriculum features a homeschooling program which utilizes Charlotte Mason's method in order to give your child an outstanding well-rounded classical education. You can follow their suggestions or create your own curriculum.
    • The Weaver Unit Study Curriculum
      The Weaver Curriculum is a unique unit-based, Bible-centered homeschool curriculum. For grades PreK-12th, this family-based curriculum uses the same daily Bible theme as a foundation and then creates lessons for each student. In this hands-on, activity-based curriculum, lessons include experiments, maps, murals, timelines, models, field trips, and more! The Weaver Curriculum is as flexible as it is fun. Save 12% on all of Alpha Omega's Weaver Curriculum homeschooling products. Click Here and use Coupon Code SAVEBIG at checkout.
    • Timberdoodle
      Timberdoodle provides homeschool products and homeschool curriculum. They specialize in hands-on homeschooling and help you customize your homeschool curriculum to meet your child's unique needs. You can choose from complete curriculum packages to individual items.
    • Time4Learning
      Time4Learning is an online home education program that combines learning with fun educational teaching games. The online language arts and math comprise a comprehensive program for preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Science and social studies programs are provided as a free bonus for most grades. Time4Learning is a great homeschool education partner because it offers each child their own learning path, with animated lessons, interactive activities, unit assessments, and integrated printable worksheets for reinforcement.
    • Tin Man Press
      Tin Man Press originates and publishes thinking-skills materials for the elementary grades. Their products are used in gifted programs and conventional classrooms, and also by home-schoolers and parents. You can find free samples from each of their products here. Their books and eBooks offer a variety of approaches, including independent seat work, scripts for full-class activities, learning centers and bulletin boards. Their card sets (our favorite!) are flexible, fun, and always thought-provoking. They are designed to be done independently by children but all work great as small-group and whole-group activities. Tin Man Press also offers Enrichment Packets include 16 themed units, grouped into four levels of difficulty.
    • TRISMS Homeschool Curriculum
      The TRISMS curriculum offers a classical approach to education through unit studies. Students read literature, biographies, historical fiction, cultural studies, and most varieties of reference materials.
    • We Choose Virtues
      We Choose Virtues brings memorable catchphrases, endearing characters, and just plain fun to simply inspire character that lasts. They offer products designed for homeschoolers (and others) and their system is available in both Community (without Scripture) and Faith-Based (with Scripture) versions. (Save 25% off the Home School Kit with code HOMESCHOOL25)
    • WonderBrains
      WonderBrains provides you with quality educational toys and games that inspire the natural wonder and genius in all of us. They constantly seek new and innovative educational toys and learning products to help stimulate a child's creativity and critical thinking. Shop by age or subject.
    • Zaner-Bloser
      Zaner-Bloser is one of the premier publishers of research-based reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, and vocabulary programs. Zaner-Bloser’s mission is to make a significant contribution to the education of children in Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade by publishing materials of the highest quality. Its handwriting program has been a national institution for several generations.
  •  Classical Education (7)
    • Classical Curriculum Guide
      This list contains the writings that have generally been held to be the core of Western intellectual history. They provide an excellent opportunity to understand and critique the influences that have shaped Western culture.
    • Classical Education Movement
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Classical Home-Schooling Consultants
      Classical Home-Schooling Consultants offers Curriculum Development for Home Schoolers (including outlines, what books to buy, etc.), and telephone tutoring and advice Home-Schooling Educators.
    • Creative Classical Curriculum
      The concept of CCC is unique - the company is designed to be a resource for Latin teachers, on all levels of teaching and will offer curricular materials that can be implemented immediately into a class, monthly memberships with incredible features, and online classes that can earn CEUs and exclusively address the unique professional development issues that concern Latin teachers and our field. All homeschooling materials include instructional guides designed for parents who do not know Latin themselves, but wish to include it in their child's course of study. Additionally, online tutoring is available for homeschooled students, and coaching is available for parents.
    • The History of the (Whole) World
      Learn more about Susan Wise Bauer's progress for writing and promoting her four-volume history of the world series on her informative blog.
    • The Well-Trained Mind
      This site complements the information in the book, "The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home" by Susan Wise Bauer and Jesse Wise, providing updated resources, articles, links, forum, support, and more.
    • Trivium Pursuit
      Here are resources to apply Christian classical education to homeschooling. You'll find informative articles, free downloads, and a blog.
  •  Delayed Academics (3)
    • Excellence in Education
      The Excellence In Education Game and Book Store offers homeschool books from a wide variety of publishers, both secular and faith based, and educational games for all core subjects. You will also find a variety of articles and essays under their Words of Wisdom section.
    • Moore Formula Homeschooling Method - FREE Lesson Plans and Activities
      At Custom Homeschool Curriculum you'll find curriculum suggestions and teaching strategies that focus on your child's unique learning style. You'll learn tips for teaching tough subjects like math, reading, and writing, plus ideas for those days when you seem to hit a wall. You can also access FREE ebooks and get monthly lesson ideas.
    • The Moore Formula
      How to teach with low stress, low cost, high success and behavior from the Moore Foundation.
  •  Early Learning (26)
    • ABC for Kids
      The ABC for Kids website is designed to appeal primarily to pre-school children. It provides a gateway to online content relating to ABC for Kids TV programming, as well as providing other games and activities that will appeal to this age group.
    • ABC Jesus Loves Me
      A free Preschool Curriculum website - Dedicated to preparing a child for Kindergarten in a simple and non-stressful way while giving the child a solid foundation in both the Bible and education.
    • Busy Bee Kids Crafts
      Fun, Easy and Inexpensive Kids Crafts Ideas for Toddlers, Preschoolers, Kindergarten and School-Aged Children.
    • DLTK Craft Sites
      DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more, including projects for holidays, educational themes and some cartoon characters. Be sure to check out their sister (and daughter) sites!
    • GameGoo - Learning that Sticks
      Look here for fun, stick-with-you educational games that help develop early reading skills identified as important language arts building.
    • Homeschool Lesson Plans For Kindergarten
      Kindergarten Lesson Plans has collected for you more than 1000 FREE kindergarten worksheets, lesson plans and games. The site provides a searchable directory of lesson plans, as well as the ability to browse by subject, by month and by grade level.
    • Homeschool Preschool - The Fun and Simple Way!
      A perfect place to find free, creative and super fun preschool lesson plans, preschool worksheets, and preschool activities for your homeschool preschool, while keeping it simple and organized.
    • I Can Teach My Child!
      This blog offers activities and resources for parents of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. You will find a variety of craft ideas, free thematic units, and inspirational posts.
    • Kabongo
      GoGo Kabongo offers exciting online brain games that help 4 to 7 year olds build the cognitive skills that are essential to reading. Their games are based in proven cognitive development research to help kids become stronger, more confident readers. Originally launched in classrooms,Kids can play for free or expand access with a low one-time fee.
    • Kiboomu
      Songs For Children with Lyrics, Free Kids Crafts, Preschool Printables, Recipes and More at Kiboomu.
    • Kids Chalkboard
      Educational preschool and kindergarten activities and teaching ideas.
    • KidsLearningStation.com
      KidsLearningStation.com is the newest addition to the All Kids Network. This site provides hundreds of free printable preschool worksheets and kindergarten worksheets that are perfect to add to any preschool or kindergarten lesson plan. You'll find collections of worksheets for learning the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, math, phonics and much more.
    • KidSparkz
      Hundreds of FREE curriculum pages and preschool activities to download instantly.
    • Kindergarten-Lessons.com
      Check out the complete skills lists for home schooling kindergarten and preschool children. Know what skills to teach, then teach science, math, reading and other subjects with or without a curriculum.
    • Lil' Country Kindergarten
      This is a wonderful blog written by a Kindergarten teacher who has contributed several activities to Mailbox magazine and has had teacher created materials published at atozteacherstuff.com. You will find a wonderful collection of free printables, as well as links to great early learning resources.
    • Making Learning Fun
      An early childhood education website filled with free printables designed for students in pre-kindergarten through first grade.
    • Mr. Printables
      Quality free printables for the home and classroom, focusing on creativity, learning and fun for kids of all ages! Preschool activities, party items, stationery, crafts and more.
    • Panwapa
      Panwapa helps children gain empathy for others while encouraging a broader international perspective. When a child visits Panwapa.com, she is transported to Panwapa Island, a floating island that travels the world's oceans. On Panwapa Island, children and their caregivers enter the virtual Panwapa community and meet new Panwapa Muppet friends, including Athena the Owl and Azibo the Monster. Children can then "travel" safely around the world and visit with Panwapa Kids from other countries. They can also watch interactive movies, learn words in other languages, and go on international treasure hunts to collect themed trading cards.
    • Preschool Express
      Early childhood education site for preschool themes, curriculum ideas, and toddler activities - language, art, games, songs, crafts, printable patterns, and school supplies - written by Jean Warren for teachers and parents of preschool, day care, kindergarten, and home school to develop lesson plans.
    • Preschool Printables by Homeschool Creations
      Free printables to use with preschoolers to teach colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and other preschool concepts. Includes printables to go along with the Before Five in a Row studies.
    • Printable Reading Games
      Free printable word games, phonics games, reading games, comprehension strategies and phonics posters. A great resource for individual phonics instruction, learning center activities, homework and special needs education.
    • School Sparks - Preschool and Kindergarten Readiness
      Assess your child's readiness to begin preschool or kindergarten and get information and tips on helping your child start school prepared to succeed! You'll find an awesome blog and free worksheet, too!
    • Shirley's Preschool Activities
      Easy, purpose-filled preschool activities, preschool themes, free printable worksheets, preschool lesson plans, crafts for kids, gross motor activities, free ezine and more to enrich children's lives.
    • The Coloring Spot
      A ton of high-quality coloring pages in a number of themed categories. For the younger crowd, they also have online coloring (click-to-color) images of animals. They're also occasionally adding printable tools, such as printable award certificates. A perfect tool for putting together unit studies.
    • Universal Preschool by Diane Flynn Keith
      Provides free information and resources to help you learn how to use the universe as a preschool, so that your child will grow up to be a successful, well-adjusted, happy adult.
    • Worksheet Lab
      A database of free printable activities for pre-school and kindergarten children. Worksheets can be sorted by category, theme, level and activity type.
  •  Early Learning Curriculum (14)
    • ABC Fun & 1-2-3
      ABC Fun & 1-2-3 is a literature-rich preschool curriculum with weekly preschool lesson plans, printable preschool worksheets, easy kids crafts, children's stories, nursery rhymes and more. E-books and printed copies are available.
    • ABC Home Preschool
      ABC Home Preschool offers a variety of Preschool Lessons for Preschoolers ages 2 to 6. You will find curriculum downloads, CD's and workbooks, as well as free printable coloring pages and activities.
    • ABCmouse
      ABCmouse.com offers more than 2,000 fun and engaging books, games, songs, puzzles, and art activities that help prepare young children for success in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classes and to develop a lifelong love of learning at an early age.
    • Before Five in a Row
      Before Five in a Row includes 23 Five in a Row-style mini-units (plus an extra mini-unit) based on children’s books for ages 2-4 as well as a large section of learning readiness activities for every day life. You’ll find an entire treasury of ideas to prepare children for pre-learning necessary for their educational foundation.
    • Cheekie Early Learning Educational Jumbo Workbooks
      The Cheekie Early Learning series Jumboworkbooks include hundreds of high quality practice coloring pages set out in easy and fun worksheets with clear directions. Each practice page has plenty of space to encourage expression of your child's imagination. Designed to be fun, stimulating and educational for children ages 3- 7. (This link takes you to the publisher's PDF version. They are also available in Paperback on Amazon.)
    • Five in a Row
      Five in a Row, designed for children ages 4-8, provides students with a unit-study approach to early education based on children’s literature. Together, the four volumes of Five in a Row provide 70 unit plans covering Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science. Intended to be easily usable, even for new homeschool mothers, each day’s activities are carefully laid out. Expect to be ready to teach with as little as five minutes of preparation time.
    • Hands on Homeschooling
      Hands on Homeschooling offers lesson plans and activities for preschoolers age 2 through 5. Each curriculum is shipped in a 3-ring binder with prep and planning information, a year at a glance overview, lesson plans, alternate activities, and worksheets and patterns. (You can also download free letter tracing pages.)
    • Homeschooling Resources by Diane Flynn Keith
      Diane Flynn Keith, a leader in providing homeschooling resources to parents, offers an Unschool Your Teen Audio-Seminar & Resource Guide, a hands-on activity guide for parents with children Ages 3-7, and an 84-page Learning Calendar designed to help you boost your preschooler's knowledge of the world all year long!
    • My Father's World Toddler and Preschool Packages
      My Father's World offers curriculum for Home Schools and Christian Schools that combines the best of Charlotte Mason, classical education, and unit studies with a Biblical worldview and international focus. Look here for toddler and preschool packages and products.
    • Preschool Kidz
      Preschool Kidz is an online store offering preschool learning materials and fun resources made especially for you and your child. Colorful and easy to use, their hand-selected preschool products include learning activity books, activity guides, children's videos, sing along CDs, and more! Find everything you need to prepare your little one for kindergarten. With colorful, eye-catching preschool learning materials that foster both academic and emotional growth, Preschool Kidz has everything you need to prepare your child for kindergarten. (Save 12% with coupon code PREK12CJ)
    • Preschool Lesson Resources
      The curriculum and other resources listed at Learning Things are designed to help teachers present preschool lessons for alphabet, reading, math, handwriting, science, counting, and more. This selection is not limited to traditional school books. Learning Things also offers educational materials that can help preschool kids develop skills through play time, using games and toys designed to facilitate learning.
    • Sonlight Pre-Kindergarten Program
      Sonlight offers a complete Pre-Kindergarten program for 4- and 5-year-olds. You can purchase a complete multi-subject packaged curriculum, a customizable Core program, or individual products that allow you to update earlier core programs with specific items.
    • Timberdoodle PreK Core Curriculum
      Timberdoodle has combined pre-reading, language arts, math, thinking skills, science, construction, history, geography, fine-motor skills/art and more to make this year an engaging and memorable, yet simple-to-plan, introduction to learning. If you find the curriculum doesn't quite fit your child, Timberdoodle offers free customization of their Preschooler's Curriculum Package.
    • World Book
      In addition to encyclopedias, reference sources, and digital products, World Book also offers complete reading packages, books, and a Reading Web online subscription for early learners.
  •  Florida School Districts (67)
    • Alachua County
      Alachua County Public Schools. You will find links to homeschooling documents and forms here (copy and paste link): http://www.sbac.edu/~research/HomeSchool.html
    • Baker County
      Baker County School District
    • Bay County
      Bay District Schools. You will find homeschooling information and forms here (copy and paste link): http://www.bay.k12.fl.us/DEPARTMENTS/StudentServices/SchoolChoice/HomeSchool/tabid/73/Default.aspx
    • Bradford County
      Bradford County School District. (You must allow cookies from www.mybradford.us in order to access this site.)
    • Brevard County
      Brevard Public Schools Student Services Home Education Page
    • Broward County
      Broward County Distance Guidance Home Education Program Page
    • Calhoun County
      Calhoun County School District Home Page
    • Charlotte County
      Charlotte County Public Schools Home Page. You can find the Home School Department contact information here (copy and paste link): http://www.yourcharlotteschools.net/students/curriculum.cfm
    • Citrus County
      Citrus County School District Home Page
    • Clay County
      School District of Clay County Home Schooling Information Page
    • Collier County
      Collier County Public Schools Department of Student Services Home Education Program Information Page
    • Columbia County
      Columbia County School District Home Page
    • DeSoto County
      DeSoto County Schools Home Page
    • Dixie County
      Dixie District Schools Home Page
    • Duval County
      Duval County Public Schools Home Education Page. You'll find a very helpful information packet--Home Education Program Guidelines and Program Procedures--on their site.
    • Escambia County
      Escambia County School District School Choice of Escambia County Home School Information Page
    • Flagler County
      Flagler County Public Schools Page
    • Franklin County
      Franklin County School District Home Page
    • Gadsden County
      Gadsden County Schools Home Page
    • Gilchrist County
      Gilchrist County School District Home Page
    • Glades County
      Glades County School District Home Page
    • Gulf County
      Gulf County Schools Home Page
    • Hamilton County
      Hamilton County School District Home Page
    • Hardee County
      Hardee County Schools Home Page
    • Hendry County
      Hendry County Schools Home Education Information Page
    • Hernando County
      Hernando County Schools Home School Page. Be sure to download their information packets. They're full of great information!
    • Highlands County
      The School Board of Highlands County Parent Resources Page
    • Hillsborough County
      Hillsborough County Public Schools' Home Education Information Page
    • Holmes County
      Holmes District School Board Home Page
    • Indian River County
      The School District of Indian River County School Choice Information Page
    • Jackson County
      Jackson County School Board Home Page
    • Jefferson County
      Jefferson County School District Home Page
    • Lake County
      Lake County Schools Student Services Home Education Page
    • Layfayette County
      Layfayette District Schools Home Page
    • Lee County
      Lee County Public Schools Student Services Home School Education Page
    • Leon County
      Leon County School Board Home Education Program Page
    • Levy County
      The School Board of Levy County Home Page
    • Liberty County
      Liberty County School District Parents Page
    • Madison County
      Madison County District Schools Home Page
    • Manatee County
      Manatee County Public School Home Education Page (For the Manatee County District main site visit http://www.manateeschools.net/
    • Marion County
      Marion County Public Schools Home Page
    • Martin County
      Martin County School District Student Services Page
    • Miami-Dade County
      Miami-Dade County Public Schools Parents Page
    • Monroe County
      Monroe County School District Home Page
    • Nassau County
      Nassau County School District Home Page
    • Okaloosa County
      Okaloosa County School District Independent Education Information Page
    • Okeechobee County
      Okeechobee County Schools Home Page
    • Orange County
      Orange County Public Schools School Choice Home Education Page
    • Osceola County
      School District of Osceola County Home School Instruction Page
    • Palm Beach County
      The School District of Palm Beach County Home Education Page
    • Pasco County
      Pasco County Schools Home Education Page
    • Pinellas County
      Pinellas County Schools Step to Register Page
    • Polk County
      Polk County Public Schools Student Services Page
    • Putnam County
      Putnam County School District Home Page
    • Santa Rosa County
      Santa Rosa County District Schools Office Of Special Projects Home Education Page
    • Sarasota County
      Sarasota County Schools Home School Page
    • Seminole County
      Seminole County Public Schools Home School Page
    • St. Johns County
      St. Johns County District Home Education Website
    • St. Lucie County
      St. Lucie County Public Schools Student Assignment Home Education Page
    • Sumter County
      Sumter District Schools Home Page
    • Suwannee County
      Suwannee County School District Home Education Page
    • Taylor County
      Taylor County School District Home Page
    • Union County
      Union County School District Home Page
    • Volusia County
      Volusia County School Home Education Page -- You must allow cookies from blackboard.volusia.k12.fl.us to view this website.
    • Wakulla County
      Wakulla County School District Student Services Home Page (You must accept cookies to view this site.)
    • Walton County
      Walton County School District Home Page
    • Washington County
      Washington County School District Home Page
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  •  Foreign Language (29)
    • 123 TeachMe
      Free Online Spanish Lessons from 123TeachMe.com. They offer online Spanish learning materials for grammar, vocabulary, verb conjugations, and more.
    • American Sign Language University (ASLU)
      ASLU offers free self-study lessons including an ASL (American Sign Language) dictionary, signing videos, a printable sign language alphabet chart (fingerspelling), Deaf Culture study materials, and resources to help you learn sign language. Good for homeschool students, parents (baby signing), interpreters, and people who just want to learn fun ASL phrases like hello, thank you, I love you, etc.
    • BBC - Languages
      Learn a language in your own time with interactive courses, videos and audio clips: essential facts, holiday phrases, games and worksheets.
    • Chillola.com
      chillola.com is a free foreign language website for children. Kids learn foreign languages through games and activities. This exciting website help kids learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, and English.
    • Chinese with Mike
      If your kids have ever considered learning Mandarin Chinese, you should take a look at this free resource. You'll find engaging videos--most with textbook lessons you can download, a vocabulary list, and helpful links.
    • Digital Dialects Language Learning Games
      The Digital Dialects website features free to use online games for learning languages. Language resources include games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets. Games use Macromedia Flash Player.
    • Free Japanese Lessons
      If you want to learn how to speak, read, and write the Japanese language, you've come to the right place! On this site you will find such things as the Japanese alphabet (including Hiragana and Katakana) as well as Kanji, Japanese grammar, Japanese sentence structure, and common Japanese phrases.
    • French Spanish Online
      French and Spanish lessons for beginners and kids. You will find a conjugator for all French verbs and an English French Dictionary, also with ImTranslator you can write in French in the box at the bottom of the page and listen to the text. Includes mp3 audio files to improve your pronunciation.
    • FrenchAssistant.com
      Free French language lessons and a unique learning engine help you to practice and learn French online. Editor's Note: You will need to register for a free account.
    • Hello World - Languages for Children
      Games, songs and activities make learning any language fun. Use hello-world by itself or as an enhancement to any language program! Hello-World has free activities in every category! The free games and activities are clearly indicated at the top of each page.
    • Japanese-Online
      Japanese-Online.com provides free learning services to people who wish to study the Japanese language. They also provide a means for Japanese learners to find and talk to one another, as well as seek language exchange relationships with Japanese speakers. Membership is free, however, there is a waiting list and new members are accepted as space allows.
    • Kids Web Japan - Language
      In this section you can take Japanese lessons and try speaking the language. You can also learn the characters used to write Japanese. Learn basic phrases that people use everyday. You can practice them yourself after hearing how they're pronounced.
    • Languages4Free.com
      Languages4free.com offers free lessons in Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, and Japanese.
    • Learn Chinese
      Learn Chinese for FREE at zapchinese.com
    • Learn French
      Start with greetings and courtesies, then continue with alphabet, numbers, days, months and seasons, question words, quantities, weather and time, asking for help, emergencies, banks, taxis, restaurants, transportation, finding your way, touring, places to see, socializing, some famous French expressions and finally (whew!) some very romantic French expressions to impress someone special.
    • Learn Latin Online!
      Learn Latin Online! is a free online course for anyone wanting to learn the Latin language. You will find everything you need to excel in Latin-- including texts and personal tutoring!
    • Learn Mandarin Chinese
      Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily! 40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.
    • Linguasnet
      Linguasnet is an interactive multimedia language course specially designed for improving listening and speaking skills. You can learn totally free ENGLISH, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE and ROMANIAN. There are fourteen lessons including animations, interactive exercises, listen and repeat and games.
    • Medical Spanish (and more)
      This is a free medical Spanish website that includes greetings, history, examination, and everyday speech, all with translation and audio. It is designed to help medical personnel, however, homeschool students will find the basics, anatomy, geography, and grammar and exercises sections helpful as well.
    • Online Free Spanish
      Study Spanish for free with bilingual online lessons. Learn Spanish with free online tutorial with audio, cultural notes, grammar, vocabulary, verbs drills, books, mini-books, and links to helpful sites.
    • Online Spanish Help
      Online Spanish Help provides the most enjoyable interactive lessons, games, crowd-sourced translations, and reference materials to make studying Spanish fun.
    • Saber Francés
      At this free site you will be able to learn new words with pronunciation and translations, play interactive exercises and games to practice vocabulary and grammar, learn French with songs, and more.
    • Spanish Flash Cards from SpanishSpanish.com
      Learn Spanish with this great interactive site. Practice vocabulary, grammar, and more!
    • Spanish for Kids
      Spanish For Kids is brought to you by SpanishTown, a free Spanish teaching website. Here you can follow along with vocabulary taught in Spanish Bilingual education programs and listen to the pronunciation of the vocabulary. Parents who don't speak Spanish can practice with their children, learning the pronunciation from a native Spanish speaker. To compliment and reinforce the vocabulary you will also find a selection of wordfind puzzles, crosswords and matching activities.
    • Spanish Town
      SpanishTown.ca is full of free Spanish language learning material for all levels and all ages. Children learning Spanish will love their free downloadable vocabulary lists. Virtually all of their introductory vocabulary has audio files that will let you listen to a native Spanish speaker pronounce the words and phrases in Spanish. Have fun with crossword puzzles, word searches or matching activities.
    • SpanishDict
      SpanishDict offers the premier English to Spanish dictionary and Spanish to English dictionary on the web. This free online Spanish to English translator can help you with all your English to Spanish translation needs.
    • StudySpanish.com
      Free Spanish Tutorials on Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabulary, Verbs, and more!
    • Textkit - Greek and Latin Learning Tools
      Textkit offers a large library of over 180 Greek and Latin textkbooks on their Ancient Greek and Latin Learning pages free of charge world-wide. Their grammars, readers and keys are public domain textkbooks which Textkit has converted.
    • The French Tutorial
      The French Tutorial is a web-based step by step lesson covering basics, pronunciation, but also grammar, vocabulary and everyday French. It offers audio support for better oral comprehension, a table of contents and an index for faster searches.
  •  Foreign Language Curriculum (7)
    • Greek 'n' Stuff
      Biblical Greek and Classical Latin for children. You will also find free educational pages that can help students learn the Greek alphabet and Greek and Latin words.
    • Memoria Press
      Memoria Press publishes Christian-based Latin, Greek, and French foreign language curricula. They offer Latin for students in grades K-12, a Greek alphabet book for grades 2 and up, and French for students in grades 6-8. Click here and save 20% when you purchase Memoria Press products through our affiliate Nest Learning, or visit www.memoriapress.com to learn more.
    • MUZZY
      Created by the BBC, the acclaimed MUZZY language learning courses target your child's “window of opportunity” years to learn a second or even a third language. The lovable MUZZY and his delightful friends will guide your child on the journey to learning a new language. This program is oftentimes available at your local library, so if you would like to try it before you buy it check there first!
    • Rosetta Stone
      Rosetta Stone Homeschool is rated the #1 language learning software by homeschooling parents. Help your children learn a second language quickly and effectively with Rosetta Stone Homeschool.
    • Tell Me More
      Learn to speak a foreign language with TELL ME MORE language learning products. Learn a new language online or with software. Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese for Individuals and Homeschool.
    • The Latin Road
      A complete Latin curriculum for homeschoolers. Recommended for grades 5-12. The Latin Road curriculum is designed in a multisensory style of teaching. It is a balanced combination of oral and written work. Students will hear, say, see, read, and write the language constantly. In this way all students can learn with their strengths and yet get to practice their weaknesses.
    • The Learnables Foreign Language Programs
      With The Learnables®, foreign languages can be learned easily and without the need of a tutor. No teacher guides or manuals are required. Special tests and answer keys are provided in order to enable the parents to grade the progress of their children. The beginning material is organized into year/levels. Each year/level is equivalent to one year of high school. However, children can complete a year's level as an elementary or junior high school student.
  •  Free Homeschool Materials (12)
    • America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty
      America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty is a tested lesson plan resource and supplement for Kindergarten-12th grade teachers of social studies, U. S. history, U. S. government, political science, economics, geography, speech, and/or related subjects. Written by fellow teachers, the resource consists of age-appropriate and modifiable lesson plans grouped into three separate books according to level: elementary, middle, and high school. Download online or order a free CD.
    • Entomological Foundation
      Educating Young People About Science Through Insects. Free educational insect materials. Editor's Note: $6 Shipping & Handling - but worth it!
    • Federal Reserve System
      Federal Reserve System Publications Catalog. View, order and/or subscribe to public information materials for students, teachers and the general public.
    • Free Jermichael Finley Poster and Accelerated Reader Info Packet
      Visit Renaissance Learning to order a free poster featuring Jermichael Finley from the Green Bay Packers and an Accelerated Reader™ information packet. Decorate your school room and inspire your little sports enthusiasts to read!
    • HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
      HHMI is a non-profit medical research organization founded by Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United States. This link takes you to the HHMI Catalog where you can order DVD's and CD's and download PDF's about evolution, genes, infectious diseases, and more. All products ordered through the HHMI Catalog are free and there is no shipping charge.
    • Imagine the Universe! Free Materials
      NASA offers free posters, booklets, lithographs, and an Imagine the Universe! CD to teachers and homeschoolers. The CD captures three websites: Imagine the Universe!, Starchild, and Astronomy Picture of the Day, all of which are available online. (See our Science Links)
    • Intel® Teach Elements: Project-Based Approaches
      Free CD for the first course in a new series of high interest, visually compelling short courses that provide deeper exploration of 21st century learning concepts using animated tutorials and audio dialogs to explain concepts; interactive knowledge checking exercises; offline activities to apply concepts
    • Journey to the Stars DVD & Activity Sheet
      Are you ready to take your students a Journey to the Stars? The American Museum of Natural History and NASA have joined forces to produce a planetarium show about the amazing variety of stars that dot our cosmos--exploding stars, giant stars, dwarf stars, neutron stars, even our own star! But you don't have to go to a planetarium to experience this mind-blowing journey. NASA will send you a DVD and Educator's Guide, for free!
    • Just Choices
      This program is designed for middle and high school students. It reinforces analytical thinking and reasoning, reading comprehension skills, and civic responsibility.
    • Southwest Florida Water Management District's Free Publications
      Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFMD) offers free brochures, posters, DVDs, coloring/activity sheets, bookmarks, posters, and teaching guides to Florida teachers within a 16-county area. (For those not in the area, you can download free PDFs) Learn about our wetlands and water sources, common species on SWFMD lands, the hydrologic cycle and more.
    • Supercharged Science Experiment & Activity Guide
      Your kids will be so jazzed about science that they'll be begging to learn more. Click here to get the Science Experiment Guide. This eBook download comes bundled with the Rocket Scientist Newsletter, which includes a weekly free science experiment in your email box. (You will need to enter your email address so they can email you the guide.)
    • Timez Attack - FREE Version!
      Timez Attack is a stunning, high-end video game just for multiplication! There's a downloadable free version and a premium version. Give it a try!
  •  Geography (16)
    • 50 States and Capitals
      Find facts and statistics on all 50 states at this helpful website.
    • Classroom Antarctica
      A comprehensive online teaching resource produced by the Australian Antarctic Division. It is particularly aimed at grades 5 to 8. Each unit has a selection of adaptable activities that you can mix and match to meet your child's needs.
    • Educator Resources from National Geographic
      Search National Geographic Education for online adventures, maps and geography, lesson plans, history activities, a teacher's store, and much more!
    • Epic Voyages: Uncovering the World
      This website centers around the explorers who have left their discernible mark on the parallels of time. Read about the great voyagers who after treading through uncharted territories revealed unknown lands.
    • FactFinder Kids' Corner
      Interactive map of fun state facts.
    • Geographic.org
      All in one geography site for climate, flags, maps, countries, geology, country codes, airport codes, and great places.
    • Geography Glossary
      Interactive Landform Map
    • HRW World Atlas
      A great map resource from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
    • Kids Web Japan - Explore Japan
      Here you'll find everything you want to know about Japan, from basic facts to descriptions of Japanese lifestyle, culture, and traditions.
    • Mission:Explore
      Mission:Explore is a game, but not as you know it. There are two aims to the game. One is to collect points and unlock rewards. The other is to experience the world in new ways by doing vitally important random and warped challenges. The more missions you do the more rewards you'll unlock and the more fun you'll have during your stay on planet Earth.
    • National Geographic Kids
      Kids will find fun games, videos activities, and more!
    • Online Map Creation
      Create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser. The maps are actually created by the "Generic Mapping Tools" (GMT). This means a PostScript* version is drawn first which you can download onto your harddisk after completion. The PNG-version (the one you get to see in your browser window) may be saved by terms of your browser.
    • Rader's Geography4Kids.com
      Geography4Kids.com teaches the basics of physical geography and earth sciences to all ages. The site has sections on earth energy, earth structure, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, climates, and bgc cycles (biogeochemical). If you are looking for physical geography or earth science basics, visit this informative website complete with live cameras, activities & quizzes, and real world examples.
    • Smithsonian's My Wonderful World Geographic Resources
      Explore rich online resources created by Smithsonian experts for learning more about our world. Discover education resources and information, lesson plans, field trips, and fun interactive activities for educators, families, and students. All based on Smithsonian museum collections and research.
    • Stately Knowledge
      Stately Knowledge offers facts about the United States. These web pages will help you find out the basic facts of any state in the Union, including Washington, D.C. Need to know the capital of Alabama? Want to know which hockey teams are in California? How about the size of Montana? All that information is here — and more!
    • The Traveler IQ Challenge
      Practice locating countries, states, capitals, and cities, and identifying flags and historical places with The Traveler IQ Challenge from TravelPod.com.
  •  Geography Curriculum (8)
    • A Child's Geography: Explore His Earth
      “A Child's Geography: Exploring His Earth” is a "living" geography primer for grammar age students, (gr.1/2--gr.6/7). It's about getting to know what's under our feet, over our heads and in the world around us-the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere-and then how to get around this world-maps, latitude and longitude.
    • A Child's Geography: Explore the Holy Land
      “A Child's Geography: Explore the Holy Land” is a "living" geography course for grammar age students, (gr.1-gr.6). Explore six Middle Eastern countries (Iraq, Jordon, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey) with engaging text, narration prompts, and notebooking & mapping activities.
    • Around the World in 180 Days
      Around the World in 180 Days is a geography and history program covering each continent's history, geography, and culture. And yet this is not a textbook. It is a series of questions that the student must research in order to answer. Plenty of resources (available in most public libraries) are suggested to help students conduct their research, and the teacher's edition provides all the answers.
    • Evan-Moor Geography
      Since 1979, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers has provided teachers and educators with practical, creative, and engaging PreK-6+ educational materials in language arts, math, reading, science, social studies, arts & crafts, and writing that support and enrich the core curriculum. Look here for geography lesson plans and resources.
    • Geography Matters
      Looking for homeschool curriculum? Geography Matters offers a diverse selection of curriculum for homeschool. While they specialize in geography curriculum, such as the Trail Guide to World Geography and Geography Through Art, they also have a complete curriculum for your homeschooling education.
    • Geography Through Literature
      This award-winning hands-on course for teaching geography through literature is designed to use the first four Holling books for a year-long course in geography, history, science and more. This study provides you with a guide for getting the most out of these books as well as maps of each region which are designed to be colored, labeled and completed by your student. Three main geographic regions of the U.S are covered as well as an introduction to world geography in the book, Seabird. The Geography Through Literature Study Guide contains 38 weekly lessons and is recommended for grades 3-6.
    • Hands-On Geography
      Written from a Christian perspective, Hands-On Geography will get you excited about teaching an oft-forgotten subject. Includes specific instructions for many activities, games, and projects designed to be appealing to kids and easy for parents. An easy, yet thorough, introduction to a very important subject. Grades K-5.
    • Little Passports - A Global Online Adventure
      Little Passports is your child's ticket to an exciting global adventure. Inspire a love and understanding of the world as your child learns about a country's geography, history, culture, and language in a fun and memorable way. Every month your child will receive an exciting package in the mail that includes a letter from Sam and Sofia describing their in-country adventures, souvenirs and gifts, and a secret code to access online games & activities.
  •  Gifted /Special Needs (16)
    • Aut 2B Home in Carolina
      A blog by Tammy Glaser who shares stories about homeschooling her twenty-two-year-old daughter with autism and aphasia.
    • Autistic Homeschooling
      Homeschooling is a great choice for education. Homeschooling for Aspergers and Autistic children is a must in many situations. This website offers insight on Autism, Aspergers, Unschooling and Homeschooling.
    • Aven's Corner - Preschool Online Games
      All of the free kids games at Aven’s Corner are developed with young children with autism in mind, but they appeal to all children because of their simplicity. They have also included fun online kids activities for parents and teachers to do with their children.
    • EzineArticles Expert Author: Crystal Pratt
      Inspirational articles written by Crystal Pratt, a freelance writer and copy editor. She writes education-related articles for online companies such as LessonPathways.com, Calvert School, and VerticyLearning.org.
    • Family Friendly Fun
      This website has lots of family-related information, activities and resources for homeschooling your child with special needs and disabilities. Join their free online forum to share stories, questions, and concerns, too.
    • Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
      The Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF) supports gifted homeschoolers in the United States and around the world through education, advocacy, community and support.
    • GiftsNC
      The goal of GIFTSNC is to support, empower, guide and educate families home schooling children with special needs through conferences, workshops and family to family support.
    • Homeschooling Special Needs Kidz
      This is a Yahoo support group for those who are homeschooling a "special needs" child, ages preschool to 19. Whether your child has ADHD, a earning disability (LD), dyslexia, emotional or neurological disorder, bipolar, Tourette syndrome, deafness, autism, anxiety disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, blindness, any type of emotional or physical handicap, then this group is for you.
    • Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner
      Visit HSLDA's website for checklists, encouragement, resources, and legal information. You can also find a downloadable brochure.
    • Learning Abled Kids
      Learning Abled Kids is a resource and support site designed to provide families with information, curriculum resources, and tools to help you teach your bright child with learning difficulties at home.
    • NATHHAN National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network
      Encouraging homeschooling families with special needs children in ways that glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and equipping parents to confidently homeschool their children with special needs or disabilities.
    • Navigating College A Handbook on Self Advocacy Written for Autistic Students from Autistic Adults
      Navigating College is an introduction to the college experience from Autistic adults. You'll be given advice that they wish someone could have given them when they headed off to college. You can download the book for free here.
    • Parentpals.com Special Education Resources
      Parentpals.com provides special education information, support, tips, games and book and product resources for parents and professionals. Therapists, audiologists, teachers, nurses and physicians contribute information on the following subjects: ADHD, autism, deaf and hard of hearing, emotionally disturbed, homeschooling, gifted, learning disabilities, mental retardation, orthopedically impaired, otherwise health impaired, severe and/or multiple disabilities, speech and language impairment, stuttering, traumatic brain injury and, visually impaired.
    • Special Education Resources for Kids
      Special Education Resources for Kids offers low cost downloadable games, flash cards, and ebooks, and provides links to other great games and books they have used themselves or had recommended by parents and rofessionals. You'll also find free worksheets and activity ideas and tips.
    • Special Needs Homeschool
      This is your homeschool resource for special needs. If your child has special needs and you are thinking of homeschooling or already do so, you will find support here.
    • Uniquely Gifted
      Online resources for families with gifted/special needs children (including learning disabilities, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, etc.)
  •  High School (10)
    • HippoCampus
      HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), provides FREE high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students. Students will find free help with Math, Natural Science, Social Science, and Humanities.
    • Homeschool Guidance Councelor
      Sharing information and resources with homeschooling parents and high school students about college applications and admissions.
    • Homeschooling High School by Cindy Downes
      General information and printable forms by Cindy Downes of Oklahoma Homeschool.
    • HSLDA Homeschooling Through High School
      From getting started to college admissions, HSLDA offers advice and resources to help. And you don't need to be a member to access this information.
    • Living Montessori Now - Homeschool High School
      Deb Chitwood shares her experiences homeschooling her two children through high school on her inspirational, informational blog.
    • MIT OpenCourseWare
      MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. You have access to free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. Look here for Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers. No registration required.
    • Mr. Guch's Cavalcade o' Chemistry
      Chemistry help for students and free resources for teachers and homeschooling families! Students can learn chemistry with free Mr. Guch-written tutorials and practice problems or through other great internet resources; parents will find free chemistry labs, worksheets, handouts, books, and more.
    • TestPrepReview.com - Free Online Practice Tests
      This is an awesome resource! Free test prep help for exams like the ACCUPLACER, ACT, GED, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, NCLEX, Praxis, SAT, etc. Start prepping for your test today!
    • The American Legion Scholarships
      The American Legion offers a number of scholarships and other resources to assist young people in their pursuit of higher education. Each year, the Legion facilitates the awarding of millions of dollars in scholarships to high school students. There are opportunities for everyone, including kin of wartime veterans and participants in Legion programs. The Legion also publishes a valuable resource in “Need a Lift?” – a comprehensive guide to seeking and obtaining scholarships.
    • The HomeScholar - Helping Parents Homeschool High School
      Lee Binz, Homeschool Consultant helps parents create a great Home High School education. Lee provides training to parents for High School at Home. Sign up for a FREE mini course about homeschooling high school. Have questions? Lee Binz even sets aside an hour of her time every Wednesday just to take calls from homeschooling parents like you.
  •  Homeschool Associations (65)
    • *Alliance for the Separation of School & State
      The Alliance for the Separation of School & State helps parents and others understand the true nature and the dangers of compulsory state schooling and shows parents and others how they can take back their freedom and ensure a bright future for their children and our country. Through their web site, literature, conferences, speaking engagements, newsletter and volunteers, they spread this message of hope and liberty, and encourage parents to Keep their Children, and encourage others to support parents in this cause.
    • *American Homeschool Association (AHA)
      The American Homeschool Association (AHA) has been serving homeschooling families with advocacy, support, information and networking since 1995. The AHA supports, encourages and promotes all approaches to bona fide homeschooling. Current AHA services include a discussion list and online forum which provides news, information, networking and resources for homeschooling families, support group volunteers, legislators, the media and other advocates of homeschooling.
    • *Association of HomeSchool Attorneys (AHSA)
      AHSA is an informal network of attorneys and legal experts in the United States supporting homeschooling and homeschoolers by providing legal information about homeschooling issues, empowering homeschoolers to have the legal tools they need to meet homeschooling challenges, and providing a network of attorneys for legal representation.
    • *Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
      Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
    • *Homeschool Legal Advantage (HLA)
      HLA is an outreach of the Christian Law Association (CLA). The CLA has faithfully served churches and families since 1969, and has successfully defended over 8,000 educational freedom-related cases. The CLA assembled a dedicated team of homeschool parents, homeschool graduates and attorneys to form Homeschool Legal Advantage – a division specifically charged with protecting the rights of homeschoolers, and providing practical advice regarding home education and compliance with homeschool laws. Today, the HLA team includes a large group of full-time attorneys and an additional 200+ affiliated attorneys throughout the United States.
    • *National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD)
      NHELD, LLC is a national organization open to all who wish to join, that seeks to protect and defend the rights of families who wish to educate in freedom.
    • *National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
      National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) conducts and collects research about homeschooling (home-based education, home schooling), and publishes the research journal called the Home School Researcher.
    • Alaska Private and Home Educators Association (APHEA)
      The Alaska Private and Home Educators Association (APHEA) is a membership-based coalition of parents and others who have banded together for the furtherance of educational excellence through alternatives to the government-operated public schools.
    • Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE)
      Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE) is a statewide organization that serves the needs and protects the rights of Arizona's homeschooling families. AFHE is a non-profit educational corporation directed by a Christian Board. AFHE membership is open to all homeschooling parents in Arizona.
    • California Homeschool Network (CHN)
      California Homeschool Network (CHN) is an inclusive organization of energetic and dedicated homeschooling families working to preserve our own educational freedom. CHN monitors and responds to legislation which may pose a threat to homeschooling. They also inform and empower homeschooling families, educate the public, and foster community among home educators in the state of California.
    • Christian Association of Parent Educators of New Mexico (CAPE-NM)
      CAPE-NM is a non-profit membership organization serving New Mexico's home educators and support groups with information, encouragement, and support. They maintain an active presence with the NM Public Education Department and with the state legislature monitoring laws, rules, and policies that affect home education and parental rights. CAPE-NM offers an Education Resource Center and Lending Library, a Quarterly Magazine, and an annual convention and curriculum fair.
    • Christian Home Education Fellowship (CHEF)
      Christian Home Education Fellowship (CHEF) of Alabama exists to promote and encourage Christian home education for the glory of God. Whether you are thinking about homeschooling, just beginning homeschooling, or are a veteran homeschooler, CHEF exists to encourage, inspire, and equip you.
    • Christian Home Educators Association of California, Inc. (CHEA)
      The Christian Home Educators Association of California, Inc. is a non-profit ministry established in 1982 to provide information, support, and training to the home education community throughout the state.
    • Christian Home Educators Fellowship (CHEF) of Louisiana
      The Christian Home Educators Fellowship (CHEF) of Louisiana is a Christian organization comprised of Christian home school support groups from around the state. This gives CHEF of Louisiana an effective membership of hundreds of families without competing with local support groups for memberships. The unique relationship CHEF of Louisiana has with local support groups offers each home school family the comprehensive, unified and affordable support it needs at local and state levels.
    • Christian Home Educators Fellowship (CHEF) of Oklahoma
      The Christian Home Educators Fellowship (CHEF) of Oklahoma is dedicated to the support of families who believe God has called them to an active role in the education of their children. CHEF of Oklahoma is a support and service organization for home educating families throughout the state of Oklahoma. CHEF was formed in 1986 and became a statewide organization in 1995. Based in Tulsa, CHEF of Oklahoma has local support groups in the Tulsa and surrounding areas. (Click on your county or select from the list below).
    • Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC)
      Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) is a non-profit, Christian organization dedicated to providing information, resources and leadership to all families involved in home-centered education. They offer an annual state conference, homeschool introductory seminars, curriculum fairs, their own Independent School, and more.
    • Christian Home Educators of Kentucky (CHEK)
      Christian Home Educators of Kentucky (CHEK) is a statewide homeschooling educational and informational organization established to assist families who choose to educate their children according to the dictates of their conscience and their fundamental rights as parents. CHEK's goal is to better equip homeschoolers with the necessary skills, tools, and information to successfully fulfill their convictions and the God-mandated responsibility to train and educate their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
    • Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire (CHENH)
      Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire (CheNH) serves and supports Christian home educators. CheNH is a statewide organization that actively tries to keep State regulation to a minimum.
    • Christian Home Educators of Ohio (CHEO)
      Christian Home Educators of Ohio (CHEO) is a non-profit state organization founded to serve the homeschool families of Ohio and to provide them with the tools to succeed. CHEO seeks to preserve the God-given, constitutional right to home educate, and to support and encourage families in fulfilling this Biblical responsibility.
    • Christian Home Educators of West Virginia (CHEWV)
      Christian Home Educators of West Virginia (CHEWV) was formed to minister to evangelical Christian homeschoolers in West Virginia. They sponsor an annual conference, a graduation ceremony, testing services, and Home Schooler’s Day at the Legislature.
    • Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania (CHAP)
      Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania was founded to encourage and support families interested in home education. CHAP assists parents in understanding and fulfilling the laws requirements and is affiliated with several national organizations: the Home School Legal Defense Association, the National Center for Home Education, and the National Alliance of Home Education Leadership. CHAP provides leadership and direction on issues facing Christian homeschoolers on a national and state wide basis.
    • Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii (CHOH)
      Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii (CHOH) shares information regarding homeschooling from a Christ-centered perspective and provides support for homeschooling families. CHOH's mission as a statewide, non-governing service organization is to organize activities to educate, assist, and encourage families in homeschooling endeavors and be a liaison between homeschooling families and national, state, and local organizations and agencies.
    • Education Network of Christian Homeschoolers of New Jersey (ENOCH)
      ENOCH of New Jersey is organized exclusively for the purpose of providing service and support to Christian home education support groups and home educators within the State of New Jersey. ENOCH monitors and advises the State Department of Education and other appropriate officials, monitors cases before family, state and federal court, reviews and disseminates home education materials and information considered vital to home educators, publishes a state newsletter, and conducts an annual state home education convention.
    • Families for Home Education (FHE)
      FHE was founded in 1983 to provide a strong defense against assaults to home education in the Missouri legislature. They closely monitor legislative activity in the state capitol. FHE’s purpose is to protect the inalienable right of the parents of Missouri to teach their own children without state regulation or control. FHE represents and supports the rights of all home educators in the state and is not affiliated with any religious or political organization, or special interest group.
    • Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA)
      The Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA) exists solely to serve homeschooling families in Florida. The FPEA executes that mission through support for the legal right to homeschool, local school board education and interaction, support group networking, a state convention, local conferences and events, informative communications, and most importantly, by giving individual encouragement, all in accordance with Judeo-Christian principles.
    • Georgia Home Education Association (GHEA)
      The Georgia Home Education Association is a network of home education families and support groups dedicated to observing the Biblical commands for parents to train their children.
    • Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV)
      Home Educators Association of Virginia is the oldest and largest member-supported, statewide, non-profit homeschool association. Since 1983 they have successfully worked to promote and protect home education in Virginia through information, legislation, and resources. HEAV, coming from a biblical worldview, serves all homeschoolers—regardless of religious or philosophical beliefs.
    • Home Educators' Resource Organization of Oklahoma (HERO)
      HERO of Oklahoma's primary purpose is to provide information concerning the many local and state educational resources available to Oklahoma home educators. As a network of homeschooling families and support groups, HERO of Oklahoma also helps families connect with each other through their web site, gatherings, and e-mail discussion groups. HERO is an inclusive statewide resource organization; not a support group.
    • HomeSchool Association of California (HSC)
      The HomeSchool Association of California is a nonprofit volunteer-run homeschool organization that provides advocacy, legislative watch, and family events. HSC is fully inclusive and celebrates diversity.
    • Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME)
      Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME) is a Christian ministry dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting home education in the State of Maine. HOME maintains a current list of support groups and refers new homeschoolers to their HOME Regional and County Representatives. HOME Email News Updates contain information on events, activities, news, legislative alerts, etc., to share with local support groups. HOME Regional Leaders form around the state gather at the annual convention, held in the spring, for further updates, sharing and fellowship.
    • Homeschoolers of Wyoming (HOW)
      The Purpose of Homeschoolers of Wyoming (HOW) is to provide support and further the interests of family-funded, parent-directed home education of children. The support provides a network for legislative purposes, newsletters, conventions, and activities. The leadership is Christian directed and lead, consisting of couples serving as board of directors. These officials advise and inform the county contacts throughout the state. The county contacts volunteer to pass on information and help those in their county. Local support groups are very loosely structured in most cases.
    • Idaho Coalition of Home Educators (ICHE)
      The purpose of the Idaho Coalition of Home Educators is to protect the right to home educate within the state of Idaho. To this end, ICHE sponsors standardized testing, Legislative Day (an annual reception at the Statehouse), and E-mail Legislative Alerts.
    • Illinois Christian Home Educators (ICHE)
      Illinois Christian Home Educators is a not-for-profit Christian organization composed of families dedicated to the success of home education in Illinois. ICHE is governed by a Board of Directors and is not a membership organization. ICHE serves to network different support groups from all over Illinois for the purpose of sharing information and encouraging one another. For the individual home educator, ICHE sponsors conventions and conferences throughout the year and sponsors some family outings. For the beginning home educator, ICHE offers a Beginner's Packet to answer questions and to help new home educators find a local support group.
    • Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE)
      The IAHE is a non-profit organization founded in 1983 for the purpose of serving the Lord Jesus Christ through supporting and encouraging families interested in home education. Primary functions are maintaining visibility as home educators with civil government leaders, influencing the legislative process, and sponsoring seminars for parent education. They also publish a free bimonthly magazine, The IAHE Informer. Their statewide annual convention serves to encourage those who have been homeschooling for a number of years and those who are just getting started.
    • Information Network for Christian Homes (INCH)
      Information Network for Christian Homes serves families interested or involved in home education by providing the information, resources and encouragement needed to teach their children at home in the state of Michigan, and to work to ensure the continued freedom to do so. They provide assistance and information via telephone, mail, email and their wehsite; provide resource materials such as books, videos, cassettes and information packets; sponsor annual conventions and seminars; establish and maintain communication with state and national home education leaders, legislators, attorneys, and media officials; assist in contacting and forming local support groups; and much, much more.
    • Kentucky Home Education Association (KHEA)
      Kentucky Home Education Association is a non-sectarian organization open to all conscientious supporters of home education. KHEA is the oldest, statewide homeschooling organization. Their purpose is to recognize, encourage, and protect the inalienable, God-given right of parents to educate their children at home; to monitor legislation as it relates to home education; to disseminate information concerning pertinent home education issues; to provide spokespersons for home education in Kentucky; and to inform the general public and policy makers of the credibility and value of home education.
    • Loving Education At Home (LEAH)
      Loving Education At Home (LEAH) is a statewide organization dedicated to supporting and promoting home education throughout New York. One of their major purposes is to support a statewide network of mutual support groups by and for home educating parents. They publish a statewide quarterly newsletter, conduct annual homeschool conventions, and monitor the New York State Legislature and the State Education Department regarding developments on home education policy and regulations.
    • Maryland Association of Christian Home Educators (MACHE)
      MACHE exists to support the Christian home schooling families and support group leaders in the state of Maryland . They provide a quarterly newsletter to member families and groups, offer a discount for membership in the Home School Legal Defense Association , and host an annual curriculum fair, symposiums, workshops, and other events. MACHE also coordinates with the Maryland State Department of Education, giving input and advice to them on issues that relate to home schooling in the state of Maryland. They also monitor the Maryland state legislature to ensure that our freedoms to teach at home are not compromised.
    • Massachusetts Home Learning Association (MHLA)
      The Massachusetts Home Learning Association (MHLA) is an advocacy and education organization which endorses home learning as an alternative to public or private schooling. MHLA informs and educates families, school officials, the media, elected officers, policymakers and other constituencies about the benefits, societal impacts and unique educational methods of homeschoolers.
    • Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators (MÂCHÉ)
      Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators (MÂCHÉ) is a statewide organization for parents who have chosen to homeschool. MÂCHÉ provides information to the home educator and acts as an effective vehicle to facilitate and safeguard the home education opportunity in Minnesota.
    • Mississippi Home Educators Association [MHEA]
      The Mississippi Home Educators Association [MHEA] seeks to enable, equip, and encourage those families committed to teaching their children at home. MHEA accomplishes this goal through their annual conferences, and through their affiliated local support groups; by monitoring and influencing state and national proposed legislation and sponsoring programs that inform and educate prospective and veteran home educators; and by encouraging Mississippi home educators to excel in their home education program and to have strong Biblically-based families that will bring up Mississippi’s next generation of Godly leaders.
    • Montana Coalition of Home Educators (MCHE)
      MCHE brings homeschoolers together to protect Montana's home school freedom while maintaining the independence and autonomy of the individual families and the existing local and state organizations. An executive committee serves as a central clearinghouse for information, sets up and maintains a communication network, watches for political and legal threats to Montana's freedom, and informs homeschoolers and suggests possible actions to meet those threats.
    • Nebraska Christian Home Educator's Association (NCHEA)
      NCHEA serves homeschool families in Nebraska. They provide newsletters full of information and practical ideas, an annual conference and curriculum fair with national experts and vendors, legislative oversight to keep you informed on the issues that impact your family, a speakers bureau for your support group or civic group to help educate others about homeschooling.
    • Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE)
      Homeschooliowa.org is the official site of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators. NICHE is a Christian organization that exists to provide support and information to home educating families in the state of Iowa.
    • Nevada Homeschool Network (NHN)
      Nevada Homeschool Network (NHN) strives to advocate for homeschooling and the freedom of each family to educate their own children as they see best. It is their intent to respond to the wishes, concerns and interests of the homeschooling community, and to report on legislative, legal and other matters relevant to homeschooling and family education.
    • New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition (NHHC)
      The NHHC supports all reasons for homeschooling and is not tied to any particular method, religion or philosophy. The statewide New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition functions as an important source of information. The Coalition also publishes the New Hampshire Home Education Guidebook, provides a bi-monthly newsletter, and offers support through annual workshops and other events.
    • New Jersey Homeschool Association (NJHA)
      The New Jersey Homeschool Association (NJHA) is an inclusive, nonpartisan organization and exists to protect the homeschooling freedoms of all New Jersey citizens. NJHA acts as a statewide information clearinghouse for active and potential New Jersey homeschoolers and others interested in homeschooling, and monitors and addresses legislative and other encroachments on homeschooling freedoms.
    • North Carolinians for Home Education (NCHE)
      NCHE is a private, volunteer organization active at the state level, serving North Carolina homeschoolers. NCHE was organized to support and encourage home educators and to protect the right to freely home educate in North Carolina. NCHE is operated on the basis of Biblical principles and living faith, welcoming members of all races, nationalities, and religions who subscribe to the NCHE ideals.
    • North Dakota Home School Association (NDHSA)
      The North Dakota Home School Association (NDHSA) encourages and assists Christian families in the education of their children according to Biblical principles. They provide home educators and the general public information pertaining to the Biblical, academic and legal aspects of home education. There are benefits to becoming a member of NDHSA, however, non-members may still choose to be on their mailing list and receive the legislative action alerts and e-newsletters at no cost.
    • Oregon Christian Home Education Association Network (OCEANetwork)
      OCEANetwork exists to serve the Lord Jesus Christ through supporting, encouraging, protecting and advancing private Christian home education in Oregon. They support families all over Oregon and SW Washington with workshops, conferences, and written materials. One of their goals is to protect the rights of families to home educate by monitoring legislative and congressional actions that may jeopardize those rights.
    • Rhode Island Guild of Home Teachers (RIGHT)
      RIGHT is a Rhode Island non-profit organization offering local and national events to homeschoolers. Their support groups are organized into chapters representing geographical locations. State-wide activities, chapter activities, and local homeschool events are included in their newsletter. Members are also alerted to legislation that could be detrimental (or helpful) to homeschooling and parental authority through their newsletter as well as their email list.
    • South Carolina Home Educators Association (SCHEA)
      SCHEA supports home educators in South Carolina and performs a lead role to create legal protection for home education in South Carolina. SCHEA monitors legislation on both state and federal levels, produces an annual convention, and operates an information system networked with support groups across the state communicating events and announcements.
    • South Dakota Christian Home Educators (SDCHE)
      South Dakota Christian Home Educators is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to promoting private Christian home education as an outstanding educational opportunity and to protecting the God-given rights of parents to direct the education and training of their children. They are committed to fostering an accurate and favorable image of home education to the general public and to providing Christ centered events, information, resources, support, training and leadership to all member families involved in home-centered education throughout the state of South Dakota. Membership in SDCHE is free.
    • Southeast Texas Home School Association (SETHSA)
      The Southeast Texas Home School Association is Christian service organization established to minister to the home-schooling community in the greater Houston and southeast Texas area. SETHSA is dedicated to the rights of parents to choose the type of education that is best for their children and to ministering to those choosing to pursue a home-based, parent-directed alternative. SETHSA’s ministry provides support and encouragement in the efforts of teaching at home through hosting a yearly curriculum fair, publishing a monthly newsletter, and sponsoring of a spelling bee, geography bee, and Read to Succeed programs. SETHSA, also, periodically publishes a beginners’ handbook. SETHSA’s goals are to provide support and to help connect homeschool families with the local homeschool stores, support groups, co-ops, graduation sponsors, sport organizations, bands, choirs, robotic clubs, 4-H, and a variety of educational class providers.
    • Teaching Parents Association (TPA)
      The Teaching Parents Association (TPA) is a Christian organization networking new, current, and former homeschool families within the state of Kansas. TPA provides education, edification and encouragement through multiple channels such as support groups, programs, and events.
    • Tennessee Home Education Association (THEA)
      The Tennessee Home Education Association (THEA) was provides a statewide network of support, encouragement, and assistance to homeschooling families. By dividing the state into seven geographical areas to establish chapters and having THEA members elect area leadership, they have developed a unified, representative homeschooling voice and strong state, regional and local support for thousands of families that home school.
    • The Arkansas Education Alliance
      The Education Alliance is Arkansas' leading group for the promotion, protection, and improvement of home education. The Education Alliance is a division of Family Council (a conservative research and education organization established in 1989 in association with Focus on the Family and Dr. James Dobson). Family Council and the Education Alliance are nonpartisan, non profit, and tax-deductible. The Education Alliance serves as Arkansas' largest state-wide home school organization and they are the contact organization with the Home School Legal Defense Association.
    • The Education Association of Christian Homeschoolers (TEACH)
      TEACH is a non-profit, all volunteer, Christian organization which has labored to establish and preserve home education freedoms in Connecticut since 1990. The purpose of TEACH is to support, inspire and work to protect families in their God-given right to direct the education of their children. TEACH is actively involved in influencing legislation regarding home education in Connecticut and, when necessary, at the federal level.
    • The Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers
      VaHomeschoolers appreciates that homeschoolers are diverse in their beliefs and backgrounds, but united in loving our children, valuing their education, and treasuring our freedom to homeschool. For this reason, VaHomeschoolers is an inclusive organization and is neutral in matters of politics and religion. VaHomeschoolers enables parents to come together to promote and protect our homeschool freedoms.
    • The Utah Christian Home School Association (UTCH)
      The Utah Christian Home School Association (U-TeaCH) provides support, education and fellowship for Christian families who have made the decision to educate their children at home. They provide field trips; workshops; support group meetings; a discount to membership in HSLDA; a high school graduation ceremony; an annual convention; an annual used book sale; a private, umbrella school; a resource library; and a regular newsletter. They also alert members to pending legislation which might affect their right to educate their children at home.
    • Vermont Home Education Network (VHEN)
      Vermont Home Education Network (VHEN) was formed to promote, lobby, network, and enhance home education in Vermont. They offer a newsletter and discussion forum.
    • Washington Homeschool Organization (WHO)
      The Washington Homeschool Organization (WHO) is a statewide, non-profit membership organization. Its mission is to serve the diverse interests of home-based education in Washington State. WHO is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nondiscriminating in its views of homeschooling and participation in its activities.
    • West Virginia Home Educators Association (WVHEA)
      WVHEA is an inclusive, statewide homeschool organization serving the interests of the diverse homeschooling community. WVHEA supports and reports on homeschooling in West Virginia. WVHEA’s offers Homeschoolers Day at the Legislature, Family Day, and the Fall Conference. WVHEA also offers annual testing in the Spring and publishes its newsletter, The WVHEA Report, during the even months.
    • Wisconsin Christian Home Educators Association (CHEA)
      Wisconsin CHEA is a non-profit ministry serving home educators in the state of Wisconsin. CHEA maintains an informative website, conducts media interviews upon request, and works diligently to inform the general public about the benefits of home education. CHEA keeps the public informed of all homeschool news, both state and nationwide, and conducts an annual statewide home educators’ conference.
    • Wisconsin Parents Association (WPA)
      WPA is a statewide, inclusive, grassroots organization founded in 1984 to oppose legislation that would have severely limited homeschoolers' freedoms by giving the Department of Public Instruction power and authority over homeschools. WPA brings families together through annual conferences and a network of Regional Coordinators, informs the legislature, the media, and the general public about homeschooling, and maintains a favorable climate of opinion for homeschooling in Wisconsin.
  •  Language Arts / Grammar / English (7)
    • Common Errors in English Usage
      Based on the book by Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, this website is an excellent resource for learning proper pronunciation, proper word usage (especially homophones), and other strange and amusing word confusions.
    • Daily Grammar
      Daily Grammar is a fun, convenient way to learn grammar. By simplifying complex grammar subjects, Daily Grammar is a great free teaching tool for both public and home-schooled children, ESL students, and anyone needing to refresh English grammar skills. The Daily Grammar lessons consist of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes.
    • Grammar Bytes!
      Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, printable handouts, PowerPoints, and more!
    • HyperGrammar: Electronic Grammar Course
      The HyperGrammar electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre covers approximately the same ground as their English department's ENG 1320 Grammar course. This free course is designed to allow users a great deal of freedom and creativity as they read about grammar and create and follow their own lines of thought.
    • Online English Language Games
      English Language Games that you can play online and downloadable games to play offline from english-online.org.uk
    • ReadWriteThink
      ReadWriteThink's mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials. Find lesson plans, student interactives, printables, and more.
    • Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide
      Sentence Sense Online is designed to take advantage of the interactivity possible on the Internet. There are over 200 computer-graded or self-grading exercises to encourage students to apply ideas, test their mastery, and have fun with language along the way.
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    • Analytical Grammar
      Analytical Grammar is a unique method of teaching grammar, which starts from "ground zero" - assuming that the student knows no grammar - and continues on from concept to concept, until the entire body of knowledge which we call grammar is covered. The concepts, rather than being taught separately, are woven together into a logical whole which the student will recognize to be what he already knows about how words are put together into sentences to make meaning.
    • Climbing to Good English
      Climbing to Good English is a comprehensive grammar and writing curriculum designed by Schoolaid to complement the Pathway Reading Series. Can be used independently. Suitable for home educating families and for school classrooms. Click here to see the books available at Rainbow Resource. Grades 1-8.
    • English for the Thoughtful Child
      A Charlotte Mason styled language arts course. Originally published in 1903, this book uses pictures to stimulate the child's imagination and lead him or her into writing. There are memorization assignments, oral compositions, written compositions and practice exercises. Useful as a second grade English text, but it is also very useful as a first course for older, reluctant writers. No teacher's edition necessary; everything you need is in the student text.
    • Grammar Ace
      Grammar Ace, by Sonlight, has all the practical grammar your student needs, in one set-your-own-pace program. Packed with examples, answers and other teaching help. Includes a consumable workbook. For Grades 4-7.
    • Growing with Grammar
      Each level in the Growing with Grammar series teaches basic and advanced concepts that are age-appropriate for the level, and also briefly reviews advanced concepts taught in prior levels. Each level contains approximately 108 lessons and assumes the grammar course is being taught three times per week during a 36-week school year. Grades 1-8.
    • Simply Grammar: An Illustrated Primer
      In this revised and expanded edition of Charlotte Mason's grammar, you will discover a simple method of narration that focuses on conversation as a natural means of teaching grammar to your fourth to eight graders. A large and curious Victorian illustration accompanies each lesson. Simply Grammar brings to bear more of your child's natural thinking ability than ordinary grammar lessons. The student is given the opportunity to create his own sentences, often to tell a story using the large illustrations. By this method he uses his new understanding of the sentence to demonstrate a more thorough knowledge. Simply Grammar allows you to follow a pace that matches your child's ability. Keeping this in mind, in most cases, a several year program where the teacher is free to decide when and how often review is necessary. Simply grammar can be used to enhance any other grammar program.
    • Sonlight Language Arts Programs
      Sonlight's Language Arts Programs let your children develop their Language Arts skills naturally in your homeschool. With Sonlight's Language Arts program, your students will enjoy learning with the natural method. With expert help from Dr. Ruth Beechick.
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    • A to Z Teacher Stuff
      A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
    • abc teach
      abcteach's free site offers over five thousand documents and a monthly newsletter to anyone who wants to stay on top of the newest materials added. abcteach's membership site offers access to an even larger selection (over 35,000 documents) of cross-curricular materials.
    • Advanced Calendar Creator
      This is a great place to create custom school calendars. Timeanddate.com offers more options than you can imagine!
    • All Kids Network
      All Kids Network provides resources for parents, teachers and anyone who works with children. You'll find tons of kids crafts, free worksheets, kids activities, coloring pages, printable mazes and much more.
    • Apologia Freebies
      Dozens of free downloadable book samples, online seminars, articles, and audio teachings from Apologia authors. You can also subscribe to their free monthly e-newsletter.
    • Apps for Homeschooling
      Homeschooler, Jennifer Bogart, reviews the best apps for homeschooling, giving you the educational app news you need, and more. You will find apps rated and organized by grade/age, subject and cost (including FREE).
    • Apps-School
      Visit Apps-School for the most comprehensive listing of mobile apps for education, along with helpful rating and reviews.
    • ArtsEdge Educators
      ArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through and about visual and performing arts. Look here for art-centered lessons, activities, and projects.
    • Awesome Library
      Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
    • Beginning Homeschooling - EHO Lite
      Eclectic Homeschool Online has created this excellent comprehensive homeschool resource, EHO Lite, for those considering or planning to homeschool.
    • Best Homeschooling
      BestHomeschooling.org is full of helpful articles written for homeschoolers and other educators. The Gateway to the Internet contains links to educational sites, free homeschooling resources, fun interactive learning activities, information about homeschooling, and lots of other "homeschooling freebies!
    • BillyBear4Kids
      Look here for free clipart, worksheets, games, certificates, puzzles, and more.
    • BrainPOP Free Stuff
      Free movies, quizzes, activities, and more to supplement your homeschool curriculum. Find free stuff on science, health, math, English, social studies, engineering and technology, and arts and music.
    • Classroom Jr. - Teaching Resources
      Free and affordable educational resources for teachers and homeschoolers with math, reading, history, science and language arts printable worksheets, classroom ideas, and holiday activities.
    • Computer Lab Favorites | Scholastic.com
      Here are all the quick, compelling one-session activities you need to incorporate interactive learning and technology into your curriculum. Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes.
    • Copycat Books
      Copycat Books provides wholesome, educational materials for children that glorify God and to provide practical, economical resources for other busy homeschooling families. They offer free printable cursive and manuscript copywork and other free printable forms.
    • Core Knowledge Bookstore
      Look here for one-click links to free classics and Grace Abounding teacher guides, content and skills guidelines, and forms, brochures & samples.
    • CurrClick Free Downloads
      Over 300 free downloadable products from Currclick--your one-stop shop for electronic lapbooks, affordable curriculum, and homeschooling resources. Unit study, novel study, bargain home study online downloads for home education!
    • Discovery Education
      Discovery Education offers a broad range of free resources that complement and extend learning. Foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to take charge of their own learning with high quality, engaging, relevant tools designed for today’s busy teachers and parents. Explore our programs and contests, interactive games, puzzles, lesson plans, videos and more.
    • Donna Young's Homeschool Resources and Printables
      Donnayoung.org offers free homeschool planners, free printable resources for home, homeschooling, and school, tips, lesson plans, book reviews, calendars, and household planners.
    • Easy Test Maker
      EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.
    • EasyFunSchool - Over 1,500 Pages of Free Educational Resources
      EasyFunSchool.com has over 1,500 pages of free unit studies, science projects, recipe and craft ideas, history activities & many other resources to make homeschooling more enjoyable for both child and parent!
    • Eclectic Homeschool Online
      Eclectic Homeschool Online is an online homeschool magazine and community with thousands of pages of Homeschool resources, homeschool reviews, and homeschool articles for creative, eclectic homeschoolers.
    • edHelper.com
      edHelper was created by a team of teachers who have edhelped (!) in its development. EDITOR'S NOTE: You need to sign up for a paid membership in order to view most of the material offered on this site.
    • EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web
      EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the Thinkfinity Consortium of premier educational websites. EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
    • Education World
      Don't miss this fantastic resource! Find lesson plans, hundreds of ready-to-print student work sheets, printable tools and templates, access to national and state standards, and more.
    • Educational Songs at KidsKnowIt Network
      Educational Songs are both entertaining, and informative. Research shows that children learn better through music than through almost any other medium. Use these educational MP3s to support and enhance your lesson plans. All songs will appear within the KidsKnowIt Network Educational Music Player.
    • EduPlace
      Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company offers more than just textbook support. At EduPlace.com you can find other resources like shape-book patterns, spelling lists, graphic organizers and outline maps.
    • edWorksheets.com
      edWorksheets.com is a subscription-based website from Remedia Publications, but you can find over 80 printable worksheet sets in their FREE zone. No need to sign in or become a member to access these. For full access, consider becoming a member!
    • Enchanted Learning
      Enchanted Learning® produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Site members have access to the entire website with print-friendly pages and no ads.
    • Everything Homeschooling
      This site offers free homeschool lessons and a free Homeschool Magazine, as well as weekly lessons and more for subscribers.
    • FamilyEducation.com
      Parents find practical guidance, grade-specific information about their children's school experience, strategies to get involved with their children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities.
    • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
      A comprehensive site full of FREE teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies. Find animations, primary documents, photos, videos, and more in all areas of your child's education.
    • FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
      FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies.
    • Free Clip Art
      Free Clip Art by Phillip Martin!.. It really is FREE art for your classroom, newsletters, or wherever you can find a non-profit use.
    • Free Printable Calendars
      Free Printable Calendars from Printfree.com Monthly calendars to print. Cheap enough to write on, fold up, and throw in the glove box for future reference. Nice enough to display in the office. These are very conservative on ink usage to keep printing costs down.
    • Free World U
      Free World U offers a complete preschool through 12th grade curriculum. They invite you to study their online flashcards, free of charge. Their knowledge base covers everything from Preschool to Medical School! Their electronic flashcards enable students to master curriculum content quickly and efficiently. You will need to register, however, registration is free and not obligatory in any way.
    • Freeology - Free School Stuff
      Freeology provides free school resources like graphic organizers, teacher forms, printables, worksheet makers, calendars, clean jokes and journal topics.
    • Fun Educational Apps
      Review of the Best apps for kids to turn your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad into a Fun Educational Learning Center with some top fun educational apps for children. Find out all about the best Kids Apps that make learning fun.
    • Gamequarium
      This site is awesome! Check out Gamequarium for games and activities, videos, ebooks, printables, teacher resources, and more!
    • Head of the Class
      Head of the Class is Free! After you create your login, you can access curriculum-based instruction, videos, multimedia, applications, and worksheets for free! Their software runs on PCs, Macs, and Smartboards. You do not need special software or downloads, just your Web browser.
    • Heart of the Matter Online
      Heart of the Matter presents you with motivational posts, encouraging articles from “real” parents, and resources so that you can take 100% control of your child’s education. They provide a blog that is updated daily, a quarterly digital magazine, online conferences, how-to tutorials, reviews, giveaways, and more for the busy parent.
    • Heart of Wisdom
      Heart of Wisdom offers free lapbooks, lesson plans, handwriting worksheets, and Bible scrapbooks. You will find hundreds of free printables for Bible study, homeschooling, and home organization.
    • Hello-World Freebies
      Find a free talking picture dictionary, free printable flash cards, songs, games and more! Hello-World has free activities in every category! The free games and activities are clearly indicated at the top of each page.
    • HomeSchool Dads
      Geared specifically for the fathers who homeschool. Get the latest homeschooling news, articles, organizations, events, Homeschool Mall, and much, much more!
    • Homeschool Tracker
      The Homeschool Tracker Basic Edition is entirely free to the Homeschool community. It is a solid program with many useful features. Track attendance, assignments, field trips, and more!
    • Homeschool World
      The official website of Practical Homeschooling Magazine. You'll find the latest homeschooling news, articles, organizations, events, forum, curriculum, and more.
    • HomeschoolClassifieds.com
      One of the largest sites on the web for buying and selling new and used homeschool materials, and for finding and announcing homeschool groups, activities, and events.
    • Homeschooling on a Shoestring
      Homeschooling on a Shoestring makes available ways of cutting costs while homeschooling and how to have a high quality home education on a shoestring budget. You'll find homeschool discussion forums, homeschool methods, educator discounts, homeschooling classifieds, unit studies, great recipes, safety tips, and Michigan homeschool support groups.
    • Internet 4 Classrooms
      Internet 4 Classrooms ("i4c"), a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.
    • Interpretation and Education from the National Parks Service
      If you are a teacher searching for classroom materials, a student doing research, or a person looking for a place to spend some time, have some fun and learn in the process, LearnNPS is for you. Here you'll find curriculum, fun and games, a guide to park Junior Ranger programs and a host of other fun and educational media created by the National Park Service and our partners.
    • ipl2 - Internet Public Library
      ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections.
    • KidCourses - Free Online Courses and Programs
      kidCourses.com offers, free, fun, interactive, and educational online courses, programs, and content for parents, educators and the kids in their lives. Practice cursive writing, learn sign language, practice math through MathLibs, and more.
    • Kidzone
      The KidZone site, a sister site of DLTK, is targeted to the Kindergarten thru Grade Six age group. This website is loaded with free printables.
    • kitZu
      kitZu, brought to you by the Orange County Department of Education, provides free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic.
    • Learning is for Everyone
      Learning is for Everyone is an education resource organization serving families and learners with information and networking resources, on the web and off, at all stages of life. Their website offers a content rich treasure trove of learning opportunities and countless ways to stay informed and connected about great cost effective and enduring ways to engage in and inspire Lifelong Learning.
    • Learning Page
      The developers of LearningPage.com have been producing educational materials for major U.S. publishers since 1989. LearningPage.com is among the family of Learning A–Z websites. Look here for free teaching resources.
    • Lesson Pathways
      Lesson Pathways has over 900 weekly topic units containing free educational resources and curriculum for grades K-5. They also have a handy Planning Tool!
    • Lesson Tutor: Free Printable Lessons
      Within this website you will find free lesson plans, print ready worksheets for all levels, all abilities and all subjects from Pre-school to High School and cross curriculum unit studies. These learning tools are all FREE for you to print and use for personal or educational purposes.
    • LessonSnips
      LessonSnips offers free teaching lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, and more, to supplement your lessons in Social Studies, Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
    • Light Up Your Brain
      Light Up Your Brain is about inspiration, creativity, and the fun of being a kid. Light Up Your Brain offers great audio stories, games and links to outside resources.
    • Little Brick Schoolhouse
      This website features all sorts of educational projects, lesson plans, unit studies, and creative play ideas that you can do at home or school using classic LEGO® components. Most activities will also work with other brands of plastic bricks.
    • Living Math
      This site is dedicated to sharing resources for learning, exploring and enjoying math in a dynamic and holistic manner. You'll find inspiring articles, activity ideas, and links to resources for both the parent and student.
    • MrNussbaum.com
      MrNussbaum.com is an interactive website designed specifically for students in grades K - 8. On MrNussbaum.com you will find dozens of interactive games, activities, worksheets, and teacher tools that pinpoint essential skills.
    • My Schoolhouse
      FREE Lessons & Worksheets in math, reading, language arts, spelling, science, and social studies. Self grading!
    • National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network
      National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATHHAN) helps families homeschooling special needs children in ways that glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
    • PBS Parents
      A homeschooling parents guide to going to school, including what kids learn each year, learning disabilities, reading strategies and early math.
    • PBS' ZOOM Printable Activity Pages
      ZOOMify your volunteering with cards and signs. Print, concentrate and flip some ZOOMers! ZOOMify your party with cards and invites, Get the latest ZOOMY activity booklet. Download and print activities to do... anywhere!
    • Practical Pages - Charlotte Mason Inspired Pages
      Here you will find free notebook pages, minibooks and lapbook projects, handwriting charts and booklets, and organizational tips and ideas that a Charlotte Mason homeschool mom in South Africa shares with other homeschoolers.
    • Primary Resources
      Free worksheets, lesson plans, and teaching ideas for primary and elementary teachers.
    • Saxon Home School Free Samples
      Visit Saxon Homeschool's Resource Center for free downloadable PDF samplers. Includes their math and grammar and writing series.
    • SchoolExpress
      SchoolExpress offers numerous FREE items including 16,000+ worksheets, make your own worksheet generators, games, and software. Non-free items are available through annual memberships and individual sales. If you do unit studies, this is a great resource. Sign up for their newsletter to receive a free thematic unit every week.
    • SchoolTube
      SchoolTube.com is the nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations. The videos are student produced and moderator approved and includes sponsored channels like National Geographic and Disney's Planet Channel.
    • Show Me UK
      Show.me.uk is a free to use, non-commercial site produced by Culture24. The site is packed with games and resources generated by the UK's museum, gallery and heritage sector.
    • SMILE - Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement
      The SMILE program was designed to enhance the elementary and high school learning of Science and Mathematics through the use of the phenomenological approach. Between 1986 and 1997 each summer session participant was asked to create and publish a single concept lesson plan. These lesson plans include the materials needed, a suggested strategy and expected outcomes. There are currently almost 900 of these lesson plans available. In addition, starting in 1997 the participants in the academic year program have been asked to present a brief single concept lesson or idea. Summaries of the academic year lessons are at academic year notes.
    • Student Handouts, Inc.
      100% free teaching materials–lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, games–everything you can imagine and then some. Everything on this site is instantly accessible and useable. Studenthandouts.com has materials for every major subject, with a primary focus on secondary education (junior and senior high school, grades 7 through 12).
    • Super Teacher Worksheets
      Look here for thousands of free printable materials for teachers and homeschoolers, including math worksheets, spelling lists, reading comprehension passages, math games, flashcards, and science activities.
    • Teacher Created Resources - Free Resources
      Teacher Created Resources offers a treasure chest of free lessons, activities, calendars, brain teasers, teaching tips, daily quotes, and much more!
    • Teachers@Random
      Find teachers guides, Accelerated Readers lists, planning calendars, Classroom Clubs, and more.
    • TeachersFirst
      TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. They offer their own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.
    • TeachersPayTeachers
      TeachersPayTeachers offers 130,000 free and priced teacher-created materials for download including lesson plans, unit plans, novel studies, worksheets, printables, PowerPoint Presentations, quizzes, exams, workbooks, projects and more. Buy and sell used classroom resources. Ebooks from major publishers now available. There are over 16,000 free items and over 67,000 items under $3. You can search by grade, price, and subject.
    • TeacherVision
      TeacherVision.com features tools and resources that save educators time and make learning fun for students in grades Pre-K--12. Resources include a vast online library of lesson plans, graphic organizers, printables, classroom management advice, and more to help teachers manage their teaching lives and classrooms with ease.
    • Teaching Resources | Scholastic.com
      Look here for literally thousands of teaching resources and student activities. View lesson plans, booklists, and educational products for children grades Pre-K to 12. Classroom materials include online activities for kids, printables, and author interviews.
    • Teachnology.com
      Offers over 7,600 free printable K-12 teacher worksheets that can be used for reinforcement and review. Teachers should feel free to use and distribute these worksheets for educational purposes, so long as the copyright and footer information are left intact.
    • The Homeschooling Resource Center
      HomeschoolingResourceCenter.org provides a sort of “clearing-house” of information for getting started, choosing curriculum, organizing your homeschooling, learning styles, record-keeping, planning, and practical teaching tips. You will need become a "member" in order to access most of the information offered on this site.
    • The Learning Network
      The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Parents can use or adapt their lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to Opinion questions, take News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try Test Yourself questions, complete a Fill-In or read our Poetry Pairings.
    • The Resource Room from Kids Can Press
      Kids Can Press offers a Resource Room--a user-friendly online library of free educational resources to help make teaching more enjoyable and learning more fun. Editor's Note: Requires you apply for a free membership.
    • The Teacher's Corner
      Find completely free worksheet generators to make customized crossword puzzles, word searches, money worksheets, brain teasers and more. The Teacher's Corner has also put together a great collection of lesson plans in all subject areas and for a variety of grades.
    • TheHomeSchoolMom
      TheHomeSchoolMom is home to quality, hand-picked resources including homeschooling lesson plans, unit studies, software, webquests, websites and more. You will also find support groups, classes, conventions, and other local resources. They have thousands of hand-picked homeschool lesson plans and activities as well as articles, planners, freebies and more for homeschool moms.
    • Thinkfinity
      You HAVE to check out this website! Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by nine of the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. There are educational resources and activities for teachers, parents and students for grades K-12. Easily filter through thousands of free lesson plans in Math, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Music, Physical Education, Reading, Writing, Geography, Science, and Thematic units.
    • ThinkQuest Library
      This awesome resource has over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition. A must see!
    • Tools for Educators
      Free tools for teaching: worksheets, worksheet templates, printables and on-line teaching materials makers that allow you to generate your own free worksheets and games.
    • tvSchoolhouse
      A free and fun way to support your classroom or homeschool curriculum using time-proven Educational Films, Newsreels, TV Shows, PSAs, and Movies from the past.
    • Wartgames - Links to Thousands of Free Eductional Games
      This website is a fabulous resource that contains thousands of external links to free educational games. Organized by subject.
    • World Book's Typical Course of Study
      As a source of information, World Book offers the results of ongoing research into curriculum requirements and standards. The learning levels include preschool through grade 12. Naturally, there are regional and local variations that cannot be accounted for in every detail. But the typical course of study reflects general curriculum requirements across North America. The information is categorized by grade level and general skill type or discipline.
  •  Links for Students (61)
    • ABCya!
      ABCya! is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. ABCya! educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. ABCya! games and activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducing basic computer skills.
    • Animal Planet Games
      The best animals games on the web!
    • apricotpie
      apricotpie is a place for homeschooling students and homeschool graduates to share their thoughts, poetry, and fiction in a creative and thoughtful way with other homeschoolers.
    • Arcade Diner - Serving Brain Games for Your Enjoyment
      Test your puzzle solving skills and challenge your mind with the largest website for free brain games.
    • BBC - History for Kids
      Enter ancient worlds, meet famous people and discover fascinating facts by exploring a wide selection of historical games and activities.
    • Campsite24
      Campsite24 is an interactive website designed for both students and teachers. It brings Ontario's parks and protected areas to your home, classroom or library. Have fun while you explore the site and learn about environmental protection, plants and wildlife and Ontario's magnificent provincial parks.
    • Carnegie Hall's Games-and-Listening Guide
      Trace the development of African American musical styles, take an adventure through Carnegie Hall's history, navigate the classic Dvo?ák's "From the New World", and learn about the Orchestra.
    • CBBC: News for Children
      CBBC Newsround Online provides news for and about children every day of the year. A team of six journalists work on the site, updating it from 6am to 8pm, 365 days a year.
    • ClickON@ambleWeb
      ClickON@ambleWeb is a major interactive learning section of the Ambleside C.E. Primary School website. It's full of fun, educational games in the following subjects: numeracy, literacy, science, art, geography, and music, as well as some games just for fun. You'll even find an InfantZONE with pages for early learners.
    • CNN Student News
      CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program for middle and high school students produced by the journalists and educators at CNN. This award-winning show and its companion website are available free of charge throughout the school year.
    • Dance Mat Typing
      Dance Mat Typing is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years. There are 4 levels divided into 3 stages. Worksheets are available for each stage that can be printed out and used offline with a typewriter or computer.
    • Discovery Channel: Game Central
      The Discovery Channel offers games, quizzes, puzzles and interactives at Game Central.
    • Discovery Kids: Fun and Games
      Discovery Kids inspires kids to explore the awesome world around them and satisfy their curiosity with innovative games, activities, quizzes and articles. Discovery Kids is trusted by parents, and helps children exercise their minds and bodies while actively learning through exploration.
    • Drive of Your Life
      Drive of Your Life is a fun online career exploration game that helps middle-school and high school students learn more about themselves, higher education and careers. This free educational tool lets kids answer a series of questions about themselves to learn what careers could interest them and then go on a virtual drive to learn more about each of those careers – all in their own customized car.
    • EduPup Educational Games
      This website is loaded with FREE interactive math, history, geography, and science games, as well as word games, logic puzzle games, and games just for fun.
    • Energy Kids - a Fun Place to Play and Learn
      Energy Kids features more than 100 pages of fun educational content for kids, parents, and teachers. Kids can learn about energy and challenge their brains with energy Sudoku, crossword puzzles, word searches, and the new "Energy Sliders" game. Teachers can submit energy lesson plans, share their expertise and get chosen as contributor of the month. The site also features energy-related stories, hands-on activities, and research articles for the classroom.
    • FamilyEducation Kids
      FEkids makes learning fun and interactive. It's the perfect blend of cool, interactive, educational games, special projects, and instant homework help—with a reference area and a current event center.
    • Free Homework Help Videos from Brightstorm
      Free Homework Help Videos in Math (Algebra 1-2, Geometry, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus); Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology); SAT, ACT, AP; and PSAT.
    • Free Kids Educational Games - theKidzpage.com
      This website for kids has a ton of fun learning games in many different fun & interesting subjects. Here, you and your children can print games and play online games for free.
    • Free Typing Games
      FreeTypingGame.Net is the premiere site to play free typing games, lessons and tests. Their Typing Tutor is the best way to learn to type. No downloads, installations or registration required.
    • Fun Island - Educational Games
      FunIsland.com is a FREE online gaming entertainment site for all age groups. They have all types of free online games such as: arcade games, action games, kid games, fun games, flash games, casino games, and poker card games. This link takes you to their Educational Games section.
    • FunBrain.com
      FunBrain is an interactive website for grades K-8. Includes activities for math and reading, and more.
    • Funschool
      Fun and educational games and activities for kids.
    • I Know That
      iKnowthat.com has interactive, multimedia educational games and activities for kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary grades. There are hundreds of fun educational games in math, language arts (phonics, spelling, reading and writing), social studies (geography and history), science, and the arts (art and music).
    • Interactives - Learner.org
      Interactives provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. Choose from math, science, history, language, and the arts.
    • Just for Kids University of Illinois Extension
      Join Pierre, C.P., Maria, Herman, bud, Sprout and the rest of the Just for Kids Team in a learning adventure! Kids will learn about plants, friends, food, insects, weather and more at fun, interactive websites from the University of Illinois Extension.
    • Kids - National Wildlife Federation
      Learn about wildlife, make fun crafts, print coloring book pages, play games, and more.
    • Kids Games - Prongo.com
      Prongo.com has fun, interactive, educational kids games, puzzles and mazes divided into three age groups. They provide free educational games where kids can interact and learn. Parents, check out their Quiz Station!
    • Kids Online Resources
      Links for kids from Kindergarten - College
    • Kids Web Japan
      Kids Web Japan provides fun content that helps children learn about Japan. The site is widely used in elementary and middle school classrooms around the world. Parts of the site are available in French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic.
    • KidsHealth
      If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
    • Kidsnewsroom.org
      Kidsnewsroom's number one goal is to provide educational material useful to its primary user groups: students, teachers and parents. With the current emphasis in schools on standardized testing, many teachers and parents have appealed directly to Kidsnewsroom to assist in providing preparatory materials for these tests. Indeed, parents and teachers alike feel that far too little material concerning Standard of Learning (SOL) testing is easily accessible.
    • Knowledge Adventure Educational Games
      Knowledge Adventure is the leader in providing educational games to kids since 1991. Learning games help kids build confidence while enhancing the skills they need to succeed in school. Have fun while playing educational games.
    • Learn4good
      Learn4good provides fun free Kids Online Games with hours of fun for Children, Teens & Big Kids. Relax at your computer and have a laugh. Just click on a category & play loads of free downloadable, online games, educational word games & jigsaw puzzles.
    • Learning Games for Kids
      These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You've come to the right place!
    • Make Beliefs Comix
      Make your own comics online with MakeBeliefsComix.com! This online comic generator from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and a sense of fun!
    • Math Angle
      Free multiplayer and single player math, geography and language arts games to help reinforce your skills.
    • Mr.Nussbaum.com - A Thousand Sites in One
      Educational Games in math, reading, science, social studies and more!
    • Museum of Unnatural History
      This virtual online museum was created in an effort to develop the public's interest in science and the natural world by exposing visitors to information on the history of science, scientific method, and alternate science in an entertaining, but accurate, way. The museum has garnered good reviews from such notable journalistic sources as USA Today and The Lancet. It was also named one of Popular Sciences Fifty Best Science Sites on the web for the year 2000.
    • NASA: The Space Place
      Check out their games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
    • National Audubon Society Kids
      The Just for Kids page provides a variety of fun activities and games about birds and other animals. (You'll also find videos and a couple of live web cams!)
    • NCES Kids' Zone
      The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
    • NeoK12 - Educational Videos and Games for Kids
      Science, math, social studies, history, geography and other educational videos, lessons, quizzes and educational games for K-12 grade kids that make learning fun and interesting.
    • Online Sunshine for Kids
      Kids can learn all about Florida at this great government site.
    • PBS Kids Games
      PBS KIDS GAMES - All Game Topics: Choose from ALL of the Game Topics on pbskids.org!
    • Primary Games
      Primary Games features free educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, worksheets, and more!
    • Quizlet
      Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 10 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.
    • ReadKiddoRead
      Find books you'll love to read! There are tons of book reviews and lots of links at ReadKiddoRead, a website created by James Patterson, the number-one selling author in America for the past three years.
    • Savings Quest
      An interactive flash game by Wells Fargo Advisors that teaches children how to save for the things they want while paying for the things they need.
    • School Time Games
      SchoolTimeGames.com provides learning activities for students of all ages. Find a variety of engaging games and puzzles that are connected to all the major subject areas in today's school curriculum.
    • Sheppard Software - Free Online Learning Games
      Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online. Topics include math, geography, animals, and more.
    • Son of Citation Machine
      This Citation Machine helps students and professional researchers properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources. You can choose from MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago styles.
    • Student Zone: Science Education at Jefferson Lab
      The Student Zone has homework helpers, online games and puzzles for Math and Science, and more
    • The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
      Create a sculpture, design an installation, learn how glass is blown, and more at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
    • The Evil Tutor's Guide - How NOT to Create Scientific Graphs
      The Evil Tutor's Guide is a humorous guide that teaches how (NOT) to make graphs. It is a valuable teaching aid for highschool and university science students. The Evil Tutor’s Guide guide illustrates how to fail properly and what to do to get really the lowest marks when creating graphs.
    • The World Almanac for Kids
      Find games, quizzes and printable puzzles at the World Almanac for Kids website.
    • Time for Kids Homework Helper
      Don’t do your homework alone! TFK’s Homework Helper is packed with tips and tools to help you succeed. Learn how to write eight different types of school papers, practice your times tables and state capitals with TFK’s flash cards (or create your own), review grammar rules and quiz yourself with TFK’s Punctuation Practice, get great writing tips, and find a helpful dictionary and thesaurus.
    • TVOKids.com - Free Educational Games
      Free educational games for kids aged 2-11. Play over 150 free games! You can also download songs, wallpapers, flashcards, coloring pages, and more. This site is awesome for preschoolers and elementary school students!
    • WatchKnowLearn - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.
      WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness.
    • We Choose the Moon
      Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time. Once where only three men made the trip, now millions can.
    • Youngzine - News and More for the Young
      Youngzine is a one-of-a-kind Web site where children can learn about current news and events shaping their world -- in a simple, engaging and interactive manner. Along with news stories written specifically with a young audience in mind, Youngzine strives to inform using fun trivia, compelling visuals and videos. Children are encouraged to express their views, submit articles, book reviews or travelogues, and all content is moderated by the editorial team.
  •  Mathematics (48)
    • AAAMath
      AAA Math features a comprehensive set of free interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.
    • Art of Problem Solving: Alcumus
      Alcumus is a free online learning system that offers students a customized learning experience, adjusting to student performance to deliver appropriate problems and lessons. Alcumus is specifically designed to provide high-performing students with a challenging curriculum appropriate to their abilities.
    • Ask Dr. Math
      Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers (parents). A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions.
    • Calculation Nation®
      Calculation Nation® is a free education service of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The games of Calculation Nation® are organized around content from the upper elementary and middle grades math curriculum. By becoming a citizen of Calculation Nation® (creating an account), your child will have access to online math strategy games that allow them to learn about fractions, factors, multiples, symmetry and more, as well as practice important skills like basic multiplication and calculating area — all while having fun.
    • Conceptua Math: Free Fractions Tools
      These free visual fractions tools are designed for teacher-facilitated, whole-class instruction in fractions, "Number Talks" and for parents supporting their students at home. Each interactive math tool is supported by Common Core State Standards alignment, key vocabulary, and IEP goals.
    • Coolmath.com - An Amusement Park of Math and More
      Coolmath has a ton of cool math games and puzzles, lots of really clear math lessons (arithmetic, fractions, decimals, algebra, etc.), fractals, geometry, tessellations and more. Tons of very cool math stuff for kids, teens, parents and teachers too!
    • Count On
      Maths games and activites for students, resources for teachers, and general maths investigations. A fun and informative site for kids and parents alike.
    • Dad's Worksheets.com
      Dads Worksheets is your source for thousands of free printable math worksheets (and answer keys). You'll find worksheets for adding and subtracting, multiplication and division, fractions, word problems, geometry, time, and more, for all grade levels. If your kids like to be challenged, there is also an online timer. You can also print handwriting paper and graph paper.
    • Decimal Squares | Interactive Games
      Practice your decimals with these great interactive games.
    • Fraction Games
      Practice your fractions with these fun interactive Fraction Bar games.
    • Free Math Worksheets at math-drills.com
      Math-drills.com offers thousands of free math worksheets in PDF (printable) format for use in the classroom or at home. Use the free math worksheets on this website to assess students' mastery of basic math facts, to give students extra practice, to teach new math strategies, and to save precious planning time.
    • Free Online Graph and Grid Paper
      Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
    • Free Stuff from Zapple
      You can print workshop handouts, find Math Makes Sense support, download general math materials, organizers, and find a list of cool math books! (There's a few free language arts activities, too.)
    • Fun 4 the Brain
      This site is full of exciting games to help your child review and learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, English, and science. You'll find free online educational games and quizzes to help your child review their facts. Tons of fun, Lots of learning.
    • Googol Resource Center
      Hours of entertaining resources that inspire math and create an interest in learning. Find free lesson plans, activity ideas, articles, and more.
    • Home School Math: 3rd Grade Worksheets
      These 3rd grade math worksheets are generated automatically each time you click on a link, so you'll get a different set of problems every time you refresh your browser. Generate worksheets on mental addition, place value, column-form addition, mental subtraction, subtraction in columns, roman numerals, and mental multiplication and the tables.
    • Homeschool Math
      HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and math teaching help articles/lessons. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules.
    • Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math
      Over 100 online activities and over 600 lessons for preK-12 grade math teachers. brought to you by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
    • iPlaymathgames
      All of the math games, math activities, math worksheets, math e-books and interactive math games on www.iPlaymathgames.com are designed to foster math skill building. However, there are myriad games on the site that do allow differentiated instruction for an interested math learner who wishes to test their budding math skills against their peers or the computer. The math games and math activities available on www.iPlaymathgames.com are meant to be used to either support any math curriculum or just have fun with math!
    • Johnnie's Math Page
      Johnnie's Math Page offers interactive math tools, math activities and math fun for kids and their teachers.
    • Learn with Math Games
      Look here for printable math games and activities for students of all ages. You'll find free games and some games you have to pay for. You can also read reviews of games others have created and find links to other online Math resources.
    • LINKS Learning for Kids: Math Illustrated Lessons
      Illustrations that show fun ways to learn about math. You can start out with Estimation of Length, Place Value and Weight and Capacity. If you want something more challenging, take a look at Line Symmetry, Patterns and Tangrams.
    • MasterMath
      Free middle school math video lessons, worksheets, and quizzes. (Plus a tutoring option.)
    • Math Fact Cafe
      Free math worksheets for elementary school and home use. This includes generators for math drills, flashcards, time, money, and more!
    • Math Goodies
      Math Goodies is a math help portal featuring interactive lessons, worksheets, and homework help. There are over 500 pages of math resources for students, teachers and parents.
    • Math is Fun
      This free resource offers games, puzzles, an illustrated dictionary, printable worksheets, and more. Practice numbers, money, algebra, geometry, using data, and measurement. Designed for grades K-12.
    • Math Night
      A great resource for anyone planning a homeschool math coop or looking for hands-on math activites. You'll find a variety of different math activities designed for displaying on tri-fold poster boards. Each activity includes a detailed description, materials list, and printable materials to be put on the poster board display or used as worksheets.
    • Math Nook
      This site is a great resource filled with lots of free online math games and other fun stuff. There are also videos and a worksheet generator. For a small annual fee you can get access to awesome teacher tools, too!
    • Math Planet
      At Mathplanet.com you can study Pre-algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and Geometry online - for free. If you are studying at high school or are preparing for college this is the perfect place for you. You will find all the theory needed to complete your math studies in respective field. You will also find sample SAT and ACT problems.
    • Math Play - Free Online Math Games
      Math Play has a large collection of free online math games for elementary and middle school students. Here you can find interactive games designed to make math drills fun and entertaining.
    • Math Snacks
      Smart and yummy educational animations, mini–games, and interactive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts. Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games designed to present mathematics in a very different way. They give students, especially those who don't particularly like math, another way to look at math concepts.
    • Math Worksheet Wizard
      Free, math worksheets for children. The Math Worksheet Wizard is a simple-to-use tool that generates printables for kids. Teachers and parents can create thousands of custom worksheets for homework or class.
    • Math Worksheets
      Free math worksheets from Math-Drills.com. If you like to use math drills, this is the place to go!
    • MathABC.com: Free online math practice
      Everyday hundreds of kids make use of MathABC.com to improve their math skills. MathABC.com is designed in such a way that each child can practice and work on improving math results. Grades K-6.
    • Mathwire.com
      Mathwire.com is designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards. The activities are classroom-tested by teachers and appropriate modifications have been made to reflect this field-testing.
    • Multiplication Games
      from helpingwithmath.com. Multiplication doesn’t have to be all worksheets, table, charts, tests and problems. Games are often an excellent way for your child to learn math. This site offers fun multiplication games.
    • Nicks Mathematical Puzzles
      A collection of puzzles, with hints, full solutions, and links to related mathematical topics.
    • PBS Kids - Math Games
      PBS KIDS Math Games are a fun way for kids to practice math skills such as counting, addition, estimation, and measurement, as well as many other early math concepts.
    • Rader's NumberNut.com
      NumberNut.com teaches the basics of math to all ages through tutorials and activities. It has sections on arithmetic which includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There are also more advanced ideas like fractions, decimals, percentages, and pre-algebra topics.
    • SoftSchools.com
      SoftSchools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.
    • That Quiz
      Interactive online math test activities for students and teachers of all grade levels. Includes quizzes on integers, fractions concepts, geometry, as well as vocabulary, geography and science.
    • The Math Worksheet Site
      With The Math Worksheet Site you can create an endless supply of printable math worksheets. The intuitive interface gives you the ability to easily customize each worksheet to target your student's specific needs. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time.
    • Totally Free Math - Elementary Algebra
      Look here for a free download of Terry H. Wesner's 3rd edition Elementary Algebra textbook, plus two accompanying ancillaries.
    • Vedic Mathematics Academy
      Vedic Mathematics is the name given to the ancient system of Indian Mathematics. In the Vedic system 'difficult' problems or huge sums can often be solved immediately. Read their introduction and then try the simple tutorial to get a feel for how it works. Cool!
    • Virtual Math Lab
      If your high schooler needs help in College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Beginning Algebra, Math for the Sciences, or preparing for the math part of the general GRE, THEA or ACCUPLACER test, you'll want to visit the West Texas A&M University Virtual Math Lab. You'll find clear, step-by-step tutorials and videos. (You do not have to be a student at WTAMU to use any of these online tutorials.)
    • Visual Math Learning
      Visual Math Learning offers free math lessons featuring an interactive on-line tutorial for teaching elementary mathematics and basic arithmetic for grades K-12 at the pre-algebra level. It is an instructional aid for parents, teachers, and educators of primary, elementary, and middle school students, as well as a resource for lesson plans, homework help, and home schooling math lessons. The tutorial includes games, puzzles, interactive diagrams, and computer animated virtual manipulatives that emphasize active learning concepts by visualization.
    • XP Math
      Mr. Hui's XP Math features a math games league, free math lesson plans, free math eBooks, a database of mathematical careers and a discussion board.
    • Yay Math! Algebra & Geometry Math Videos
      The YAY MATH video project is a free service dedicated to meeting the growing need for math success in a POSITIVE, LIVELY, and CONFIDENCE BOOSTING way. YAY MATH stands as the only online video lesson series filmed in a live classroom, with real student interaction.
  •  Math Curriculum (20)
    • ALEKS Mathematics Program
      ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) can provide you with the instruction and support you need to homeschool your children in mathematics for grades 3-12. ALEKS is accessible from virtually any computer with Internet access, making it a flexible and mobile educational solution for your children.
    • Algebratwist
      Algebratwist designs and manufactures unique flashcards that build and strengthen fluency in basic algebra. These are an excellent alternative to traditional multiplication flashcards.
    • Googol Power Math Series
      Award-winning Googol Power albums combine great music, an entertaining story and layered learning that is educational and entertaining for all ages. Learn about the world, space, science, history, music, and art while building a solid foundation in math. Ages 3-12.
    • Horizons Math
      Horizons Math is designed to help your children understand math from the ground up. The program introduces math properties, truths, and principles one at a time, builds the strength of the student's foundation through practice, and then moves to the next principle. Each year's program consists of three pieces: two colorful, well-organized workbooks that contain 80 lessons apiece (160 total for the year), and a wonderful Teacher's Handbook.
    • Kinetic Books
      Kinetic Books offers digital Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry textbooks to homeschoolers. Here you can view an interactive demonstration to learn about their deep content, hundreds of activities and whiteboards, thousands of interactive problems, built-in scoring and more.
    • Making Math More Fun - Printable Math Games
      Printable board games, card games and game sheets for children. These educational games are ready for your homeschool. They make math fun and easy.
    • Math Foundations Online Math Course
      Math Foundation is an award-winning program which features interactive e-learning tools to help you master the concepts of mathematics quickly and easily. Their courseware is highly effective for adult learners, homeschool and traditional students. Try their free demo lessons now and discover how easy and enjoyable learning math online can be!
    • Math Mammoth
      Fully reproducible math workbooks and worktexts for grades 1-12. Incredibly affordable! You can also get yourself a PACKAGE of about 280 free sample worksheets and pages from Maria Miller's books! Awesome!
    • Math-U-See
      Math-U-See provides a firm foundation in mathematics for students struggling in mathematics and with special needs. Designed with the homeschool “tutor” environment in mind, Math-U-See’s unique approach targets each individual student and focuses on their specific needs. The lessons are short, hands-on, and topics are grouped together by concept.
    • Miquon Math
      Miquon Math helps children learn to view the world mathematically. The program emphasizes mathematical patterns and relationships rather than pre-set formulas and methods. It uses Cuisenaire® Rods* and a unique graphic layout to help children discover mathematical patterns and relationships with just a bit of guidance from their teachers as necessary.
    • Mixing in Math
      Mixing in Math offers over 200 English and Spanish resources that blend math with fitness, nature, cooking and other areas familiar to grades K-6 children. Resources include games, projects, movement activities, and museum-type displays.
    • RightStart Mathematics
      RightStart Mathematics uses the AL Abacus to provide a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience. The elementary and intermediate program lessons guide the teacher day-by-day and year-by-year, helping children understand, apply, and enjoy mathematics while surpassing state standards. The RightStart™ Mathematics homeschool program is set up with levels, rather than grades, so that your child can begin at the proper level and advance at their own pace.
    • Saxon Math
      Saxon is probably the best-selling math program among homeschoolers. It takes an incremental (little by little) approach to math, introducing a new skill or principle each day, then reviewing these concepts and skills day after day for weeks. This link will take you to Christianbook.com where you can view different products and download placement tests.
    • Singapore Math
      Singapore MathTM books as used in the U.S.A. and Canada refers to the Primary Mathematics series. The Primary Mathematics Series was first published in 1982 and was the only series used in Singapore primary schools up till 2001. Primary Mathematics was written by members of a project team put together by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. Homeschoolers are welcomed into the expanding circle of Singapore MathTM, Science and English curricula users.
    • Sonlight Math Programs
      Sonlight offers a wide variety of math programs so you can find one best for your homeschool. You will find Teaching Textbooks, Horizons, Singapore, Saxon, Miquon, Thinkwell, and more.
    • Teaching Textbooks
      Teaching Textbooks were designed specifically for independent learners. They are both a teacher and a textbook combined into one. You will find math textbooks for grades 3-7, algebra, geometry and pre-calculus. There are also downloadable placement tests available.
    • The Math Board Games Book
      Printable Math Board Games to make math practice fun. A great math resource for home educators. Perfect for students to use at home to practice basic math skills.
    • The Math Riddle Book - Puzzle Worksheets that Teach Math
      Learning math is fun when you're solving puzzles and riddles! That's the secret behind The Math Riddle Book. When kids complete a set of Math problems, they'll be able to decode the answer to a laugh-out-loud riddle!
    • Thinkwell Math Curriculum
      Thinkwell provides college-level Internet-based video and text courses useful for both Windows and Mac users. And they are remarkably inexpensive. The Thinkwell courses consist of Internet-based video tutorials; full-color, comprehensive, printable review notes; dynamic animations; links to web resources external to the Thinkwell website; online glossary; and thousands of interactive exercise questions (good for quizzes), complete with immediate feedback including answers and explanations, all available on the web. For those who prefer to read rather than watch video, Thinkwell even provides unedited rough transcripts of the tutorials online.
    • Timez Attack
      Timez Attack is a stunning, high-end video game just for multiplication! It's as polished as a high-end real video game, yet as effective as a top math tutor one-on-one. The built-in assessment, adaptation, and post-test research data guarantee total mastery. There's a free version and a premium version. Give it a try!
  •  Montessori (10)
    • Lisa Nolan Montessori
      Lisa Nolan Montessori (formerly Montessori for the Earth) offers affordable online Montessori and homeschool lesson activities and email consulting for parents & teachers of infants, toddlers, preschool, elementary & special needs children.
    • MariaMontessori.com
      MariaMontessori.com is a project from the Montessori Administrators Association (MAA) with a goal of providing accurate and relevant information about the Montessori method of education to parents around the world.
    • Montessori At Home!
      This website, by John Bowman, author of the ebook Montessori At Home!, a Complete Guide for Parents to doing Montessori Early Learning at Home, offers sample pages and information about the book, as well as links to Montessori resources, a blog and information about Maria Montessori.
    • Montessori Homeschool (MontHome)
      Here is a website with lots of activity ideas suitable for children from about age 2 to 7.
    • Montessori Materials
      Here you will find montessori materials to download for home and school. Montessori supplies for your classroom include classified cards, templates, word lists, puzzle cards, art cards, leaf nomenclature, maps, music and more.
    • Montessori Method
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Montessori Print Shop
      In addition to a super helpful blog and links to additional Montessori resources, you find free and affordable printable Montessori materials for Toddler, Preschool, and Elementary children.
    • Montessorihomeschool.com
      Montessori & Homeschool Resources
    • New Child Montessori
      A resource for teachers and homeschool parents with affordable curriculum materials and teaching guides for use with preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary to age 12.
    • The Montessori Method
      Michael Olaf Montessori provides an introduction to Montessori philosophy in all its aspects and offers help for parents of children from birth to three, and parents and teachers of children from three to twelve years of age.
  •  National Standardized Test Providers (5)
    • Bayside School Services
      Donny & Sandy Ball's Bayside School Services offers nationally standardized tests, available all year. Their test prices include shipping, handling, scoring, and FREE practice exercises for ALL grades where available.
    • BJU Press Testing and Evaluation
      BJ Testing and Evaluation offers reliable, nationally recognized tests. Their testing services are fully authorized by the test publishers. Whether you represent a private school, church, distributor, homeschool group, or just yourself, they're here to provide you with the tests that suit your needs.
    • Family Learning Organization Testing Services
      Family Learning Organization offers standardized tests for homeschooling families. Through their Educational Assessment & Testing Service, tests may be obtained by you to administer to your homeschooled children.
    • Seton Testing Services
      Distributes the California Achievement Test (CAT) Survey Edition. Not available in the state of Indiana.
    • Triangle Education Assessments, LLC
      Triangle Education Assessments uses the finest assessment tools and newest norms to help assess children’s academic and cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Their staff and consultants include qualified and trained testers, teachers, tutors, a licensed speech pathologist, and experienced homeschool parents. They carry nationally standardized ability and achievement tests, career tests, practice tests and parent materials and offer year-round scoring. They also offer Tutoring and Curriculum Consulting.
  •  Online Fun and Games (13)
    • Alfy.com
      Alfy.com is a free website for kids featuring tons of free kids games, fun word games, printable coloring pages, free clip art, fun jigsaw puzzles and more.
    • American Girls - Fun for Girls!
      Includes games, activities, and quizzes.
    • Barbie.com - Activities and Games for Girls
      Explore a fab virtual world designed by Barbie!
    • Build a Toy
      Build a toy from a selection of heads, bodies and legs and then get it to its toy box safely through three rooms. Avoid traps and the bad robot toys who will suck your energy.
    • Club Penguin
      Club Penguin is a snow-covered, virtual world where children play games and interact with friends in the guise of colorful penguin avatars. Club Penguin is designed for 6-14-year-olds but is open to all ages. There are memberships available for added features, however, you do not need one to have fun on this site.
    • Fun Games for Kids Online
      Play a variety of free online games by Mattel.
    • GettyGames
      Play free online educational games with Getty art from the Getty Museum! Test your memory, play detective, or solve a puzzle.
    • KrazyDad's Mazes and Software Fun
      A huge collection of free printable mazes, and online puzzles and games.
    • Littlest Pet Shop VIP
      When girls enter the LITTLEST PET SHOP VIPs virtual world, they'll be able to explore an online pet community, name and outfit their online pets, customize their pet's home, earn Kibble points to keep their pets healthy and happy, play games and interact with other VIPs through community features and activities. If you do not have a pet, you can borrow a pet from the adoption center.
    • My Lego Network
      My LEGO Network is a new social networking site built especially for children. It's a safe environment that lets you create and control your own web page. You can collect, build, and trade with virtual items. You mail with your friends, and show off your creativity to the whole wide world!
    • Online Games HQ
      Play free online games including action, arcade, puzzle and sports games.
    • The Chevron Cars Game Page
      Play free online games with the Chevron Cars! You'll find dozens of free games, including Car Games, Arcade Games, Puzzle Games, Card Games and lots of other fun Kids' Games to choose from.
    • The Funbrain Arcade
      Games for your down time.
  •  Open Source Links (23)
    • Books in My Phone
      Classic books / ebooks you can read on your mobile / cell phone, read at home or on the go! Get a book in your phone! Hundreds available. A pocket library of formatted and packaged books that you can read on any java enabled phone.
    • Books Should Be Free
      All audio books on BooksShouldBeFree.com are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copy right on these books and anyone is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on BooksShouldBeFree.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.
    • Classic Literature Library
      Classic Literature Library of Free Public Domain Books. Complete Literary Works of William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more.
    • Clker.com
      Need graphics to add to your homemade worksheets? Look here for online royalty free, public domain clip art.
    • Free Courses - University of Washington
      Explore a variety of learning in free online history, health, literature, and HTML basics courses from the University of Washington.
    • Free Education Software
      SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education. There is a variety of Free Software and Open Source (for Windows and GNU/Linux) needed in a school environment: network security and monitoring to keep the school networked and safe, grade and timetable tracking (student information systems / SIS) software for teachers, educational software for classes, general network clients for email and web access.
    • Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning
      The Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative brings a selection of noncredit online courses featuring Harvard faculty to the public for free.
    • Internet Archive
      The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Look here for movies, music, texts, and more.
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
      MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
    • Open Clip Art Library
      This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
    • Open Culture
      Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.
    • Open Library
      Open Library is a catalog. They have well over 20 million edition records online and they provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon.
    • Open Source Initiative
      The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.
    • Open Source Software Institute
      The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization comprised of corporate, government, academic and Open Source Community representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities.
    • Open Yale
      Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
    • Project Gutenberg
      Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. You will find high quality ebooks previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers. All of their ebooks can be freely downloaded.
    • Qedoc
      Qedoc provides interactive learning resources which center on quiz-making and quiz-taking. Qedoc learning modules are self-contained modifiable pieces of learning software which you can download to play with, learn from, modify and upload again. Under their open content concept, anyone can use or contribute learning resources for free.
    • SourceForge
      SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience.
    • Tux4Kids
      Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistible package. Their software is free: you can download it for use at home or onto hundreds of computers in a school. They support all major platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix.
    • UCLA Language Materials Project
      The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) is an on-line bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials for over 150 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). Find detailed descriptions of K-12 teaching materials that are available from libraries and retail dealers in North America. They also describe selected authentic native-language materials that are useful in the language classroom, including periodicals, maps, audios, videos, and images of everyday items with language content. Many of the authentic materials can be downloaded from this site.
    • Wikibooks
      Wikibooks is an open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course or for self-learning.
    • Wikijunior
      The aim of Wikijunior is to produce non-fiction books for children from birth to age twelve. These books could take the form of macropedias, textbooks, or primers. Wikijunior is a source of books for children written by an international community of volunteers.
    • Wikimedia Commons
      A database of millions of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
  •  Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Theatre) (19)
    • ArtsAlive
      ArtsAlive.ca is the National Arts Centre's performing arts educational website. Learn about orchestral music, dance, English and French language theatre, and explore engaging archival collections.
    • ArtsEdge Students
      ArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through and about the arts. Their student section offers audio stories, video clips, and interactives.
    • Classics for Kids
      Classical music's great composers come to life through music and stories. Listen to the classics online and have fun online with classical music games. Parents will find great lesson plans and teaching resources.
    • Free Drum Lessons
      Learn how to play drums with free drum lessons online. This site features drum lessons that will guide you every step of the way. They include video lessons, articles, and printable sheet music!
    • Free Kids Music
      Free downloadable children's songs.
    • Free Printable Music Images
      Lots of high quality music graphics.
    • Guitar Buzz
      Think of Guitarbuzz as your old-fashioned beginning guitar method book re-fashioned into a multimedia experience you can use on any computer connected to the internet. Jeff Findley offers a free 20 lesson course. Everything on this site is designed to work together. If you go through all of the lessons thoroughly, you will have assembled the foundation for success, and a real understanding of the guitar.
    • KUSC - Creative Kids Central
      Free web resources and games for classical music education for children of all ages and their families and teachers. Check out their interactive games!
    • Lesson Tutor - Music Index
      Index of music lesson plans, worksheets, puzzles, and more.
    • Making Music
      Reference Articles, Composers Collectors and Lyricists, Musical Instruments, Music of Countries and Cultures, Music from Historical Periods, Performers, Musical Styles & Genres from Silver Burdett & Ginn's Making Music (Grades K-6)
    • Making Music Fun
      Free creative resources for elementary music education. Find free sheet music, composer worksheets, award certificates, music theory worksheets, practice charts, manuscript paper, lesson zone worksheets, and more!
    • Music Education @ DataDragon
      Explore some parts of music with the DataDragon online tutorials and guides.
    • Phil Tulga - Music through the Curriculum
      At this site, Phil Tulga shares a large number of free music activities and arts integration lessons that connect music to reading, math and science. This is a great resource!
    • Quaver's Marvelous World of Music
      Kids will find a wide array of resources on QuaverMusic.com, a website featuring a whole world of musical discovery where kids can explore, discover and create music. For example they can travel from Quaver's Music Shop on the Metro or through a time travel Phone Box to learn different music styles - from rock to reggae - and become on-the-spot musicians as they create music on cutting edge games and play alone or interact safely with friends, to post and share with others.
    • Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
      This website was created under a Creative Commons license. Ricci Adams offers lessons, exercises, and interactive tools for learning the fundamentals of music. There is a downloadable offline version available on his Classic Edition page.
    • Science of Music
      Explore the science of music with the Exploratorium through online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen.
    • Sphinx Kids
      Sphinx Kids contains interactive games and videos from the Sphinx Classical Connections CD-Rom as well as from the New York Philharmonic's KidZone website.
    • The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall
      Deepen your ability to teach, create, and appreciate music by mining the wealth of useful and enjoyable content found at WMI’s Online Resource Center (ORC). Sit in on master classes alongside such acclaimed artists as Leon Fleisher and the Emerson String Quartet; dig deeply into more than a dozen topics in our Music in Depth multimedia library; download podcasts; and enjoy video interviews with artists who have appeared at Carnegie Hall. Educators can browse resources by grade level, skills and concepts, and instruments.
    • Wild Music
      Explore the sound environment and create your own soundscape compositions from combining and editing sounds; learn about frequency, wavelengths and voice boxes, and make your own sound objects; learn how different animals form their sounds and why bird songs have inspired music around the globe; and more!
  •  Performing Arts Curriculum (9)
    • Classic Tunes & Tales
      Classic Tunes & Tales, Ready-To-Use Music Listening Lessons & Activities for Grades K-8, helps build students' interest and appreciation of classical music while developing their knowledge of the basic elements of music. The lessons include well-known melodies selected from the works of the greatest composers in history as well as interesting stories about the work or its composer, and fun and engaging activities and games that reinforce the lesson themes.
    • Discovering Music Curriculum
      Discovering Music, a lively and entertaining romp through history, adds a serious study of music and the arts to your high-school or middle-school homeschool curriculum. Also suitable for adults who want to expand their understanding of Classical music and the arts. The curriculum is taught by Professor Carol on 8 DVDs (13+ hours) Professor Carol and many other experts tie the history of art and music to math, science, technology, geography, and more.
    • Elementary Music Curriculum by Pfeiffer House Music
      Pfeiffer House Music offers elementary music curriculum for grades K-6. They've made it possible, easy, and fun to teach music in a classroom or at home, even if you are not musically inclined. With lesson plans, audio CD and removable worksheets and flash cards included, you are equipped and capable of teaching musical concepts.
    • Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar Home School Edition
      Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar Homeschool Edition, a winner of Telly Awards, is recognized as the best in-home instruction course available. It is a complete 2-year guitar curriculum designed for home school families. It contains their full extended guitar course plus: 68-Page Teacher's Guide (with full 2-Year Scope-and-Sequence) and 2-DVD Teacher's Resource Set.
    • Learn & Master Piano Home School Edition
      The Learn & Master Piano Home School Edition is a complete 2-Year piano curriculum designed for home study. It contains their complete piano course plus: 68-Page Teacher’s Guide (with full 2-Year Scope-and-Sequence) and 1 DVD Teacher’s Resource. You’ll be able to take your home-school students (and yourself, if you like) through a comprehensive Piano-Learning system, even if you have no musical skills and no previous experience.
    • Music Wizard Academy
      A fun, intuitive program that teaches your children to play the piano through a natural game ... even if you have no music experience! This package includes all you need; you may also purchase the software and curriculum and keyboard separately.
    • Ready-To-Use Music Reading Activities Kit
      Ready-To-Use Music Reading Activities Kit, a Sequential Approach to Music Reading for Voices and Instruments, includes 150 hands-on activities that help students of all abilities in grades 1-8 master the basics of reading music by actually singing and playing favorite children's songs on a variety of instruments. Sections include: reproducible worksheets, games, song sheets, composition worksheet award certificates, and Teachers' Resource Materials providing end-of-section tests and answer keys, follow-up activities, suggestions for extending the learning experience and classroom management. Also added is a new CD with clever accompaniments for many of the rhythm chants, melodic exercises and songs found in the text.
    • Stories of the Great Composers
      Stories of the Great Composers is a book and CD set. The 12 units in Stories of the Great Composers give elementary students a glimpse into each composer's life, character and music. Includes a CD recording of the suggested listening, featuring one composition by each composer. Click here to read customer reviews on Amazon.
    • The Story of Movies
      The Story of Movies, presented by the Film Foundation, is an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum introducing students to classic cinema and the cultural, historical and artistic significance of film. Find lessons & activities for: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962, d. Robert Mulligan), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, d. Frank Capra); and The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951, d. Robert Wise) NOW ONLINE!
  •  Placement Tests (19)
    • Alpha Omega Publications Academic Placement
      Free placement test resources for Monarch, LIFEPAC, and Horizons curricula.
    • AVKO Pretests and Placement Tests
      Use these pretests and placements tests to aid in your diagnosis and remediation of problem areas in your students' spelling and reading abilities. From the makers of Sequential Spelling.
    • Calvert Partners Placement Tests
      A variety of placement tests for grades K-8 ready for you to download.
    • Electronic Practice Assessment Tools (ePAT)
      The tools here are intended to support and enhance student preparation for Florida's computer-based assessments. These practice tests provide direct exposure to the format and structure of the items. You can access installation instructions, practice test answers, and practice test scripts under the Resources tab. Find Algebra, Biology, Geometry, FCAT Reading & Math, and FCAT Retake Practice Tests.
    • Excellence in Spelling Placement Test
      Use this test to assess your child's spelling competence. This test is designed to help parents determine which level to begin their children (ages 9 and up) in the Excellence in Spelling program.
    • Free SAT Practice Test
      Taking the SAT Practice Test is a stress-free (and free) way to find your high schooler's strengths and weaknesses on the SAT. Your child can take the test online at CollegeBoard.com, or you can print it out.
    • Internet4Classrooms Assessment Test Resources
      Free resources to help students practice skills required on various assessments.
    • K12 Language Arts/English Placement Tests
      Reading Placement Assessments (Grades K - Middle School); Language Skills Placement Tests (Grades 3 - Middle School only); and Writing Tests (Grades 3-Middle School Only)
    • K12 Math Placement Tests
      Math Placement Assessments (Grades K - Middle School)
    • Kindergarten Readiness Test
      This kindergarten readiness test will guide you through the eight developmental areas related to success in preschool and kindergarten, highlighting skills that your child will need in school. After completing this readiness test, you will see personalized commentary about your child and tailored suggestions to help him or her develop skills that are essential for beginning school prepared to succeed.
    • Math Mammoth Placement Tests
      Printable placement tests for Math Mammoth Light Blue Series. (Grades 1-6)
    • Math-U-See Placement Testing
      Printable competency mathematics exams for the Math-U-See books. The competency exams were created to determine what level of mathematics the student has mastered.
    • NRRF Reading Competency Test
      Are you wanting to know how well your child is reading? Print out The National Right to Read Foundation's Reading Competency Test and find out today.
    • Saxon Math Placement Tests
      Find downloadable Saxon Math Placement Exams (Saxon K-3, Saxon 5/4 - Algebra 1/2, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Adv. Math & Calculus) at Christianbook.com.
    • Sonlight Placement Tests
      Links to free Singapore, Saxon, Horizons and Teaching Textbooks math placement tests. There is also a Quick Reading Assessment designed to help you determine your student's approximate reading level.
    • Test Prep
      TestPrepReview.com provides free unofficial review materials for a variety of exams. Find free test prep help for exams like the ACCUPLACER, ACT, GED, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, NCLEX, Praxis, SAT, etc. This is a great resource for high schoolers!
    • The Cambridge Academy Placement Testing
      Free online placement tests by Learning By Grace in language arts and mathematics. (Grades K-12) Note: You'll have to register for a free account to access the tests.
    • The Online Test Page
      100% Free Practice Tests and Drills (SAT, ACT, SOA EXAM P, EXAM FM, EXAM MLC, EXAM C)
    • Thinkwell Homeschool - Free Math Placement Tests
      Online printable math placement tests for middle school math, Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, and Calculus.
  •  Principle Approach (3)
    • American Christian History
      A helpful website by Dorothy Robbins on the Principle Approach. Want to know more about the Principle Approach? Why Not Ask Dorothy?
    • Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE)
      The Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE) offers training for classroom and home educators. Look here for the Noah Plan® curriculum, the premier complete Principle Approach curriculum.
    • PrincipledMom
      A blog started by Anna-Marie Hawthorne in 2005 as a way to share her growth and excitement about home education and the Biblical Principle Approach.
  •  Reading / Literature (30)
    • Absolute Shakespeare
      Your essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
    • Aesop's Fables - Online Collection
      Look here for an online collection of Aesop's Fables that includes over 655 fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine and more.
    • Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
      The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project publishes online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922). This is a wonderful resource for homeschoolers following Waldorf or Ambleside curricula.
    • Book Adventure
      Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.
    • Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
      A fabulous resource for book reviews. Themed reviews are organized by specific subject or by special calendar days. You can also meet the authors and illustrators. This is also a great resource for homeschoolers doing unit studies.
    • Edgar Allan Poe Museum
      Learn about Poe's life, sample of some of Poe's classical works, watch The Tell-Tale Heart come to life in an awesome animated video, answer Fact or Fiction trivia questions, and try to solve the mystery of Poe's death.
    • Google Lit Trips
      Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.
    • Hoadworks: Literary Games and Resources
      Hoadworks provides innovative educational content, resources, games and multimedia design promoting creativity and literacy [and more fun than you can throw a dictionary at!!]. *One of our faves!
    • Homeschool Literature
      Homeschoolliterature.com was created to highlight books that pertain to homeschooling situations. They read and review each book personally. Their goal is to provide an honest, family-friendly online directory where everyone can come read book reviews and comment on them.
    • Homeschool Share
      Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources.
    • I Did It On the Computer - Book Report
      A "how to" guide on writing a book report.
    • Lit2Go
      Lit2Go is an online treasury of children's literature in audiobook format that can be played on any computer or MP3 player. Each passage is aligned with the Sunshine State Standards and includes reading strategies and other information to support classroom use.
    • LitCharts
      LitCharts provides literature study guides that are free to download and print as PDFs. LitCharts are the faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes literature guides. Now available as iPhone apps on iTunes.
    • Long Long Time Ago Stories for Children
      A story website for all ages, by Rohini Chowdhury. The website brings together stories from round the world. Fables, folktales, fairytales, myths, tales from history, stories behind great discoveries, the great classics retold, science fiction, fantasy, as well as illustrated stories for younger children, and original fiction for older readers. The site also provides reviews of children's books, and brief biographies of children's writers.
    • PBS Kids - Reading Games
      PBS KIDS Reading Games are designed to help children practice their reading skills while playing with their favorite PBS KIDS friends like Curious George, Super Why and Big Bird.
    • Progressive Phonics
      Progressive Phonics is an all-in-one reading program that is easy, fun, and completely free! (Registration is required (free), but there are sample books you can view before registering.)
    • Reading is Fundamental Activities
      Reading is Fundamental (RIF) is the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the United States. They prepare and motivate children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. In addition, you can find scores of literacy resources on their website.
    • Reading Rockets
      Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.
    • Reading with Roy the Zebra
      The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be used at school or at home. It's one of the most comprehensive interactive literacy resources on the net that is freely accessible... no area of the site is password protected.
    • Reading with Tom McCabe
      Tom McCabe has inspired children to read and write for over 25 years. Listen to Tom McCabe tell stories or create one of your own.
    • ReadKiddoRead Lesson Plans
      You'll find free lesson plans, activities ideas, book lists, interviews, and more at ReadKiddoRead. You'll also find a community forum and blog.
    • RIF Reading Planet
      This site is provided by Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit children's literacy organization. At the Reading Planet you can have fun with reading and writing games and activities, be able to watch and listen to animated stories and songs, and find some fun things to do at home or on the go.
    • Robert Louis Stevenson Website
      The RLS website is the most comprehensive site dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), providing resources for academics, school children, and people interested in learning about RLS. Not only can you read his books online, you can easily incorporate Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde into your homeschool with free printable "School Packs" full of vocabulary words, comprehension questions, activity pages, games, and more.
    • Silly Books
      This website is filled with animated books, children's music, puzzles and games.
    • Starfall
      Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. Be sure to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost writing journals and books that parallel this website.
    • Storyline Online
      Storyline Online is an internationally recognized website that currently streams 19 stories featuring celebrities including Jane Kaczmarek, Bradley Whitford, Sean Astin, Esai Morales, Amber Tamblyn, Eric Close, and Elijah Wood. It also features supplemental activities for each book developed by an early literacy specialist. Together, the videos and related curriculum strengthen comprehension, verbal and written skills of English language learners worldwide.
    • Storynory
      Storynory, sponsored by The Center for Guided Montessori Studies, publishes a story every week! You can download these free audio stories from iTunes, have them sent to you via email, subscribe to their RSS feeds, or download them on Yahoo or Google. You'll find original stories, classics, fairy tales, and educational stories. There is also a Junior page for younger children.
    • The Stacks for Kids
      You, your friends, your reads from Scholastic.com
    • Ticket to Read
      Ticket to Read, a fun and motivating online reading program, helps students become active readers. The program is designed for grades K–6, and students work independently on leveled fluency and reading skills. Students read passages, answers questions, and wins tickets.
    • World Public Library
      The World Public Library Association has a Give-Away Page with over 200 Kid's eBooks, MP3 Audio eBooks, Classic Books made into movies, and Technical eBooks. With a paid membership, you can have access to over 500,000 more titles.
  •  Reading Curriculum (10)
    • All About Reading
      All About Reading helps you teach reading in the most effective way possible. Results are guaranteed!
    • ClickN READ Phonics
      ClickN READ Phonics teaches the entire kindergarten to 3rd grade phonics curriculum taught at USA public schools through 100 interactive cartoon animated online phonics lessons. Any child can learn English, and learn to read correctly, in a phonics game-like environment that is great fun and easy to use. This phonics program is designed for children as young as 4 years old learning to read English for the first time, older children struggling to learn to read, learning disabled children and even adults learning English as a second language.
    • Go Phonics Reading Program
      Go Phonics is a teacher-developed, Orton-Gillingham based/compatible, explicit and systematic multisensory phonics curriculum with K-2 language arts. It features 6 volumes of stories that are 93% decodable with controlled vocabulary. They are designed for teaching beginning reading skills. They follow a phonics building block sequence that minimizes confusion. As skills are taught, they are linked to and embedded in meaningful reading. Integrated tools include lessons, 50 phonics games (word decoding & fluency practice), workbooks, and key word charts. Download free sample lessons and storybook samples to try before you buy.
    • Hooked on Phonics
      Hooked on Phonics products are a powerful tool for education in a homeschool setting. Easy and effective lessons make for confidence and success. Whether you are new to homeschooling or a seasoned veteran, Hooked on Phonics gives children the fundamentals to become successful learners.
    • Pathway Readers
      Pathway Publishers is an Old Order Amish publishing house founded by David Wagler and Joseph Stoll. Their books are known for their modest prices, readability, interest, and good solid Christian moral teachings. They have issued thirteen readers in the Pathway Readers series. These readers are designed to take a student from kindergarten through eighth grade. There are also optional workbooks and teachers manual for all of these readers. Each of the Pathway readers, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals can be purchased separately or as a packaged set.
    • Phonics Pathways
      Dorbooks,Inc. publishes the award-winning Phonics Pathways and other phonics books and phonics games that teach reading and spelling using systematic phonics. Phonics Pathways is one of the finest phonics programs, reading programs for teaching children and adults to read and spell.
    • Reading Eggs
      Reading Eggs is a web based literacy learning program for children. This online program is built on 5 essential elements of reading instruction: Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension. There are over 500 interactive games and fun animations to deliver these elements of reading. It supports each child’s learning by offering individual, one-on-one lessons that allow children to progress at their own rate. Reading Eggs offers monthly and annual subscriptions.
    • Rusty and Rosy Reading
      Rusty and Rosy Reading™ software provides personalized learning by monitoring and responding to your child’s performance in order to present activities that match your child’s skill level. Struggling learners receive more instruction, more practice, and intense review where needed. Children who master a skill early skip explicit instruction, spend more time in practice and application of the skill, and quickly move to learning new skills. Because the content is engaging and personalized to your child’s needs, 15 minutes is all it takes for your child to progress in learning.
    • Sound Bytes Reading
      Sound Bytes Reading is ideal for teaching beginning readers. Download the first ten lessons and give Sound Bytes Reading a try—for free!
    • Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
      Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.
  •  Research Tools for Kids (21)
    • Animal Planet
      Surprisingly human! Try the search bar to find lots of great information.
    • Ask Kids
      Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It's a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that's safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines.
    • Awesome Library for Kids
      Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
    • Children's Encyclopedia
      This encyclopedia from 4to40.com is a free portal for kids without any give and take business or deals.
    • CyberSleuth Kids.com
      An internet search guide for the K-12 student.
    • Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online
      Free online dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.
    • DK World Desk Reference
      Find information on a county's climate, resources, politics, economics, education, environment, and more at DK's World Desk Reference. A wonderful resource!
    • Encyclopedia Britannica
      Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a leading provider of learning and knowledge products. They're proud to be one of the world's most trusted sources of information on every topic imaginable.
    • Fact Monster
      Fact Monster offers a Homework Center, Almanac, Dictionary, Atlas, Encyclopedia, Timelines, Games and Quizzes, and more.
    • How Stuff Works
      HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.
    • Information Please
      Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Information Please is part of Pearson, the world’s largest integrated education company.
    • Internet Public Library: Kids
      ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections.
    • Kids Encyclopedia Britannica
      Britannica Online For Kids is an essential online homework helper for children aged 6-14 years. It covers core subjects - Mathematics, English and Science as well as History, Geography, the Arts and many more subject areas.
    • Kids Know It Network
      The KidsKnowIt Network is your student’s free portal into the many exciting facets that make up our Universe. From the human heart, to the moons of Jupiter you will find it all on the KidsKnowIt Network. Free Educational Websites.
    • KidsClick! Web Search
      KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians to help guide young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
    • Merriam-Webster's Word Central
      Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Rhyming
    • Newpapers US and Worldwide
      Get links to newspapers all over the world with this web page compiled by refdesk.com.
    • refdesk.com
      A free, family friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current reference resources.
    • Surfing the Net with Kids
      Educational website recommendations by nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Barbara J. Feldman.
    • Visual Dictionary
      Visual Dictionary, where words are defined as pictures, for leaning the exact names of objects. Different from a traditional dictionary or from encyclopedia because the images replace the words. Every image and term is fully defined. Sometimes, animations allow to better understand a phenomenon and also stimulate the interest for consultation.
    • Wordsmyth
      A premier educational dictionary-thesaurus for beginners, children, and advanced users.
  •  Science (65)
    • Atomic Emporium
      Look here for an interactive Periodic Table.
    • Bill Nye the Science Guy
      Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life.
    • BioKIDS
      The BioKIDS/DeepThink research group is engaged in educational research to improve science learning in high-poverty, urban, elementary and middle school classrooms, with particular focus on the Detroit Public Schools, and it is also a great resource for homeschoolers. Students can learn about common animals found in Michigan and their tracks, markings, homes, and things they leave behind.
    • Butterfly Metamorphosis
      Watch the transformation of a monarch butterfly from egg, caterpillar, chrysalis to butterfly in detail by many different series of photos at this wonderful website offered by David Britton.
    • California Department of Conservation
      California Geological Survey (CGS) believes that there is a need to increase public awareness and understanding of the importance of the earth sciences in our lives, that is why CGS provides educational resources for teachers and others who are interested with the hope to make earth science learning more meaningful.
    • Canadian Museum of Nature - Games and Activities
      Explore nature and science even while you have fun with games and interactives from the Canadian Museum of Nature web sites.
    • Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
      Perform total knee replacement surgery; run a farm; manage a bakery; learn about simple machines, acceleration, and the speed of light; and more a COSI's online activities page.
    • Chemicool - Periodic Table and Chemical Elements
      Award winning periodic table, with user-friendly element data and facts. Cool, online chemistry videos, dictionary, tools and forum.
    • Cool Science for Curious Kids
      The goal of this project is simple: to help your child appreciate science. HHMI looked at some of the best science projects from some of the best museums in the country. Then they adapted them for the Web. Some of these activities are entirely electronic. Your child will do everything on screen. Others require you to go to your kitchen or backyard. They are designed for students in kindergarten through second or third grade.
    • Cool Science Resources from HHMI
      The Howard Hughes Medical Institute offers a database that contains a wide range of resources—from lesson plans and detailed curricula to tutorials, animations and laboratory exercises—for educators at all levels. You can search these resources by topic, type, or target audience.
    • Cosmic Quest
      Cosmic Quest, by the Children's Museum Indianapolis, is where kids can explore the universe and learn about how astronauts survive in space. Design a space station, learn about the solar system, read about astronomers, and more.
    • Creative Chemistry
      Creative Chemistry offers full-color worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, and around three hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for GCSE and A Level Chemistry. You will also find fun chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes and molecular models.
    • Denver Museum of Nature & Science | Science Bites
      The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has launched a brand new video series called Science Bites! Their scientists explain the how and why behind headline news, as well as the science you see in your own backyard.
    • E=McQ - The Lab of Mr.Q
      A science teacher by day, homeschool helper by night! Mr. Q offers a 36-week Life Science Textbook that you can download for free! He also offers courses year-round to teachers and homeschool families, and graduate school credit is available for all courses. (Be sure to sign up for his free monthly newsletter!)
    • Earthquakes for Kids
      U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
    • Edheads - Activate Your Mind
      Edheads helps students learn through free educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.
    • EHP Science Education
      Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is the leading environmental health journal in the world. It is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. EHP provides the most current and credible peer-reviewed original research and news articles on the effects of the environment on human health. It is an open access journal, meaning the contents of EHP are available online for free to anyone. The mission of EHP is to educate, inform, and enlighten by disseminating the best environmental health research and information throughout the world.
    • Exploratorium
      The Exploratorium stands in the vanguard of the movement of the "museum as educational center." It provides access to, and information about, science, nature, art, and technology. Look here for links to online exhibitions and activities.
    • Exploring Nature Educational Resource
      Exploring Nature Educational Resource is an award-winning website with natural science content and materials for educators, students, and parents. There is free content and content accessible to members only.
    • Greg Landry's Homeschool Science Academy
      Greg Landry is director of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory at Appalachian State University. He teaches Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab to pre-professional students (pre-med, biology, chemistry, exercise science, pre-physical therapy, pre-dental, etc.). He also teaches a variety of online science classes to 6th - 12th grade homeschooled students. Greg has a master of science degree from Louisiana State University (LSU). Look here for Anatomy Camps, Online Classes, and free 45 Minute Seminars.
    • Imagine the Universe!
      Imagine the Universe! is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Dr. Alan Smale (Director), within the Astrophysics Science Division (ASD) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This site is intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe.
    • InnerBody - Your Guide to Human Anatomy Online
      Each topic has animations, 100's of anatomy graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body online using anatomy charts, models and diagrams. It's fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions and anatomical terms used by doctors and nurses.
    • Inquiry in Action
      Inquiry in Action provides free physical science activities, online learning, and information about upcoming workshops offered by the American Chemical Society for elementary and middle school science teachers. With Inquiry in Action (free downloadable book), you can teach physical science and chemistry concepts using an inquiry-based approach that supports national content standards.
    • KidWings
      This site was designed to teach young and old about the wonders of birds. The most exciting part of the site is the Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection. Many interactive activities await you.
    • LearningScience.org
      learningscience.org is an organization dedicated to sharing the newer and emerging "learning tools" of science education. Tools such as real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, remote instrumentation, micro-worlds, and imaging, among others, can help make teaching science an exciting and engaging endeavor.
    • MSNucleus Free Science Curriculum
      Free Elementary and Secondary Science curriculum that integrates Math and Technology. The elementary curriculum is a complete science program for every week of a child's K-6 experience. Includes 3 lesson plans for 34 weeks. This curriculum continues into secondary school. These modules increase the knowledge from the Elementary I. Science MaTe. Each module can be developed into a semester or year course depending on the instructor. An electronic textbook for students is part of the program. Hands-on activities are built from the textbook. Included are Biology, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Human Biology.
    • My Science Box
      The My Science Box website is a closet full of free lessons, hands-on activities, assessments, and field trip ideas for science teachers. Each box contains a complete set of scaffolded lesson plans to teach a 4 to 6 week middle school science unit. Find boxes for ecology, watersheds, geology, tectonics, physiology, and genetics.
    • NASA: Educators
      A full set of NASA educational resources including Web sites, video clips and printables.
    • NASA: Kids' Club
    • NASA: Students
    • National Geographic Creature Feature
      Browse animals by species or habitat to access National Geographic Kids' in-depth Creature Features, including amazing photo and video footage from the world's wild places.
    • NEWTON BBS Ask A Scientist Service
      NEWTON BBS BBS has posted over 20 000+ questions since its inception in 1991. The archives of the Ask A Scientist question and answer postings between 1991 and 2008 can be found within this web site. You will also find a LOT of great science links!
    • NOAA - Weather
      Specially for Kids - These items are designed especially for children (grades K-5) and provide fun activities for kids to explore the planet they live on.
    • NOAA - Climate Change and Our Planet
      Specially for Kids - These items are designed especially for children (grades K-5) and provide fun activities for kids to explore the planet they live on.
    • NOAA - Oceans and Coasts
      Specially for Kids - These items are designed especially for children (grades K-5) and provide fun activities for kids to explore the planet they live on.
    • NOAA - Satellites and Space
      Specially for Kids - These items are designed especially for children (grades K-5) and provide fun activities for kids to explore the planet they live on.
    • Oakland Zoo ZooKids
      Log in for a wild ride in the Top Trumps - Wildlife In Danger! on-line game or check out Oakland Zoo's educational trivia videos for children. Watch videos and learn fun facts about the Oakland Zoo's animals.
    • PBS Kids - Science Games
      PBS KIDS Science Games encourage kids to explore early science concepts and reinforce skills such as measurement, categorization, and observation.
    • PhysicsCentral
      PhysicsCentral runs programs for all ages with the goal of making physics fun and interesting for everyone. From coloring books to at home experiments they have something perfect for you and your students to enjoy. Explore the Science shows you what is going on in the physics community. Ask & Experiment gives you experiments to try at home, information about current Physics Central projects and even a way you can get your physics questions answered. Physics Buzz gives physics fun and science news.
    • PhysicsCentral: Color Me Physics
      Color Me Physics is a series of free printable PDF books created with the goal of introducing children to physics in a fun, exciting way. They have both a coloring book of famous physicists and an activity book with games and puzzles.
    • Rader's Biology4Kids.com
      Biology4Kids.com teaches the basics of biology and life science to all ages. The site has sections on cell structure, cell function, the scientific method, classification, microorganisms, invertebrates, plants, vertebrates, and animal systems. If you are looking for basic biology information, you'll definitely want to visit this informative interactive website complete with activities, quizzes, and real-world examples.
    • Rader's Chem4Kids.com
      Chem4Kids.com teaches the basics of chemistry to all ages through this informative and interactive website complete with a glossary and quizzes. The site has sections on atoms, matter, elements, the periodic table, biochemistry, and chemical reactions.
    • Rader's Cosmos4Kids.com
      Cosmos4Kids.com teaches the basics of astronomy and space science to all ages. The site has sections on the solar system, the universe, galaxies, stars, missions, scientific instruments, systems, and the history of space exploration. If you are looking for astronomy basics and the science of the stars, check out this informational site complete with real-world examples, activities, and quizzes.
    • Rader's Physics4Kids.com
      Physics4Kids.com teaches the basics of physics to all ages. The site has sections on motion, light, thermodynamics, sound, waves, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics. This site tries to explain the topics with as little math as possible and offers quizzes to help you remember some of the information you will learn.
    • Robert Krampf - The Happy Scientist
      Looking for easy science experiments to do at home? You definitely want to check out this website. Robert Krampf offers tons of free videos, experiments, and resources. He also offers an annual membership for only $20 a year.
    • Sand Lot Science
      Sandlotscience.com: The Exciting World of Optical Illusions. A massive collection featuring interactive live optical illusions, exhibits, artwork, games, puzzles!
    • Science For Kids
      A comprehensive New Zealand science website offering a wide range of fun experiments, facts, games, activities, quizzes, videos and projects that are perfect for kids.
    • Science News for Kids
      Science News for Kids (SNK) is an award-winning online publication dedicated to children 9-14, their parents, and their teachers. SNK offers timely, interesting news stories and features, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, and web resources.
    • Science of Cooking
      Discover how a pinch of curiosity can improve your cooking! Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking.
    • Science Toy Maker
      This website is a non-commercial, teacher-created site for people who like to roll up their sleeves and make science toys and projects. Science toy maker is a resource for inspired kids, parents, teachers, teenagers, home schoolers, science fair participants and citizen scientists everywhere.
    • Science With Me
      Help Your Children Learn Science the Easy, Hands-On Way with Science With Me! Science With Me! is a free educational science website for elementary age children. This website offers science movies and songs, free science coloring sheets, free science worksheets, fun science projects for kids and stories to help young children learn scientific principles and science the fun way.
    • SciJinks
      Learn about Earth science at this great NASA website! Parents, look here for instructions for fun science projects, to print calendars, posters, and bookmarks, and more. There are also great interactive games for kids!
    • Sea and Sky
      Sea and Sky is your one-stop source for all things related to the oceans, seas, and space exploration; features information, games, images, news, and much, much more.
    • Siemens Science Day - Discovery Education
      Here you'll find videos, tools and revealing hands-on activities for students in grades 4 through 6 to help reinvent your science class. New, original experiments with intuitive directions, materials lists and home extensions. EDITOR'S NOTE: You need to register for a free account to access the material on this site. They also require your school information.
    • Smithsonian National Zoological Park - Online Resources
      The Smithsonian National Zoological Park offers online resources for Educators and Students. Look here for animal fact sheets, web cams, homework help, photos, and more.
    • StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
      Intended for students in grades K through 8, StarChild (an astronomy website developed at NASA) offers information and activities to engage, excite, and educate students. You will also find a Teachers' Center with lesson plans showing you some of the ways you can use StarChild in your teaching.
    • Steve Spangler Science Blog
      This is Steve Spangler's blog. You'll find videos of all of Steve’s most amazing, most requested experiments from his 9NEWS television segment as well as other appearances throughout his career.
    • Steve Spangler Science Experiments
      Look here for Steve Spangler's favorite science experiments, recipes, and cool science projects. This hands-on science library represents Steve's most requested science experiments from his weekly television appearances and live presentations throughout the country. Just search for an easy science project idea or browse the entire library of experiments.
    • Teacher Resources: Science Education at Jefferson Lab
      Teacher Programs, Education Events, Workshops, Reference Materials, Hands-on Activities, Worksheets, Puzzles and Games, On-line Games and Puzzles, Jefferson Lab's Workbench Projects, and more.
    • The Biology Place
      Pearson, as an active contributor to the biology learning community, is pleased to provide free access to the Classic edition of The Biology Place to all educators and their students.
    • The Magic School Bus | Scholastic.com
      Games, Stories, Printables, and more!
    • The Vega Science Trust
      The Vega Science Trust`s extensive collection of science videos include lectures, discussions, interviews, Nobel Prize interviews, careers profiles, educational resources, and research news. A great resource for parents and students alike.
    • The Virtual Body
      Learn about the brain, skeleton, heart and digestive tract through detailed illustrations, close-ups, interactive games, animations, and narrated tours.
    • USGS Education
      The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.
    • Volcano World
      A place for educators and kids. Ready made lessons for parents, virtual fieldtrips and games for kids, and much more. Volcano World is sponsored by the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consortium and housed in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University.
  •  Science Curriculum (12)
    • Apologia Creation-Based Science Curriculum
      Apologia provides fun and challenging K-12 creation-based science curriculum specifically designed for the home school. ritten by a former university professor and homeschool parent, Apologia courses provide college-preparatory science in a way that is both clear and challenging. The texts are readable, easy to understand, and full of engaging experiments that can be performed at home. Click here and save 20% when you purchase Apologia products through our affiliate Nest Learning, or visit www.apologia.com to learn more.
    • Exploration Education
      Exploration Education's science curriculum offers the unique combination of having all the materials included, the ability for the student to work independently, the thoroughness of a text, with the hands-on approach of a kit.
    • Home Science Tools
      Home Science Tools is an online science curriculum supply store. You find hands-on science supplies & lab tools for Chemistry, Biology, and more. Grades K-12 & college.
    • Homeschool Science
      Hands-on science is the best way to learn and with Home Science Adventures you get all the advantages of a hands-on science program with all the convenience of a textbook. Everything you need is included!
    • Homeschool Science Academy
      Homeschool Science Academy offers online classes and residential camps that are appropriate for all 6th -12th grade students, but are especially geared toward students interested in careers such as medicine, forensic anatomy / pathology CSI, nursing, exercise science, biology, chemistry, dentistry, athletic training, nutrition, health promotion, physical therapy, physician's assistant, occupational therapy, etc.
    • Noeo Homeschool Science
      Noeo Homeschool Science is a complete home school science curriculum that includes experiment supply kits and everything else you need for quality science lessons at home. This curriculum is best described as a balance between the classical method and the Charlotte Mason approach. Their emphasize is on narration and summarization, vocabulary development, observation, and the scientific method. They do not promote rote memorization or the worksheet and test methodology.
    • Real Science-4-Kids
      The award-winning home school curriculum, REAL SCIENCE-4-KIDS, uniquely demonstrates how easy science can be. Science isn’t about memorizing facts; science is about appreciating the relationship of physical laws and how each discipline relates to another. REAL SCIENCE-4-KIDS provides both you and your child with a greater understanding of the opposing philosophies that form the basis of scientific critical thinking skills. It helps you focus on real science and still understand the effect of different philosophies, religions, and prejudices have on all scientific thought.
    • Science Excursion
      Science Excursion is a quality homeschool science curriculum for grades K-8. This curriculum is comprehensive, hands-on, and teacher friendly. It was created using top scientific resources from a creation perspective. Science Excursion contains easy to read lessons and easy to teach experiments which combine to form an inclusive curriculum. A Student Text, Tests & Answer Key, and a Science Materials Kit are available at each grade level.
    • Science Works, Inc.
      Science Works is an American owned and operated company that offers Virtual Dissections and other science software.
    • Supercharged Science
      This is a complete K-12 online science learning program for homeschoolers. It is self-guided so your kids can do it on their own, or you can do it with them. They use a combination of videos, live tele-classes, reading and exercises to teach kids real science.
    • The Quirkles
      The Quirkles are 26 imaginary scientists that help children develop a love and appreciation for science. They offer a fresh new way to integrate literacy and science at school, for educational programs, or at home. Vocabulary builders, two related science experiments, and a character education lesson are also included in each of the 26 alphabet-series books. The Quirkles® create enthusiasm and excitement for reading and science through whimsical illustrations, alliteration of the specified letter, and fun hands-on science.
    • Weird Science Kids
      Weird Science Kids offers a large selection of science toys, science fair kits and supplies. They also provide a large variety of free science experiments and demonstration videos that introduce children to the basic concepts of science and how it relates to the environment that surrounds them.
  •  Social Studies / History (47)
    • America the Beautiful Quarters Program
      The United States Mint offers free lesson plans (for grades K-12) based on the new quarter designs. The lesson plans are displayed by the year they were released. The majority are general in nature and can apply to multiple national sites, maybe even one in your own state!
    • American History Calendar
      AmericanHistoryCalendar.com shows American history in a unique way: through a user-friendly web calendar. Birthdays of people in American history as well as events in American history can be viewed using their web calendar, and events can be downloaded and loaded into your iCal compliant calendar program. You can also create a printer friendly calendar.
    • Ancient Greece
      Read and explore the History of the Ancient Greek World from the Neolithic to the Classical Period. This website covers important topics, such as Art and Architecture, Mythology, Wars, Culture and Society, Poetry, Olympics, History Periods, Philosophy, Playwrights, Kings and Rulers of Ancient Greece.
    • Archiving Early America
      At Archiving Early America you will be rewarded with a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings come to life just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than 250 years ago.
    • BBC - History
      An excellent resource to learn about ancient history, British history, World Wars, historic figures, and more.
    • Biography Channel's BioClassroom
      Parents, look here for study guides with curriculum links, vocabulary, discussion questions, extended activities, and references. You can also visit their featured exhibits, watch videos, read their Bio of the Month, find links & resources, and more.
    • Biography Channel's Video Guide
      Watch exclusive biography videos on the world's most famous people along with full episodes and clips of your favorite Bio Channel TV shows.
    • Congress for Kids
      Congress for Kids gives you access to interactive, fun-filled experiences designed to help you learn about the foundation of our federal government and how its actions affect you. Although designed for students in grades fourth through high school, other students, teachers, parents, and interested citizens will find helpful, engaging activities, too.
    • Constitution 101
      Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the U.S. Constitution is a free 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College. Each lecture is pre-recorded and lasts approximately 40 minutes. Constitution 101 follows closely the one-semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students.
    • Discovering Lewis & Clark
      Owned and managed by the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation of Washburn, North Dakota, this site offers hundreds of interactive illustrations, color photos, and historic art, with in-depth text by today's leading Lewis and Clark scholars.
    • Eagle Forum University
      Free classes on traditional American economics and politics.
    • Explore Lincoln
      President Abraham Lincoln presided over four years of civil war. Learn about his remarkable presidency, his assassination and its dramatic aftermath. You will also find additional research and resources to help you continue your exploration of these events that shaped American history.
    • George Washington's World for Kids
      Play games about our first president. Learn about George Washington, go on a treasure hunt, play music games, a cannon game, learn about artifacts, and more.
    • Go Social Studies Go
      Go Social Studies Go brings to you the most complete Social Studies teacher resources in cyber space. All for free. This website is our favorite by far! You'll find hundreds of stories, lesson plans, videos and weblinks.
    • H.I.P. Pocket Change
      Coins are history in your pocket! Learn facts at the United States Mint. Find interactive adventures, games, puzzles, facts, and more. Includes free resources for educators.
    • Have Fun with History
      Explore American History documentaries, TV shows, movies and more. Choose a topic of historical interest, social studies subject, or unit study from the Subject List - great for supplementing your history lessons.
    • Heritage History
      Heritage History publishes classic juvenile history books and illustrations in a convenient electronic form, featuring biographies, legends, historical fiction, geography, military history, legends, adapted literature, bible and saint stories, folk tales.
    • History.com Games
      History.com offers a variety of games, puzzles, quizzes, interactives, downloads and more.
    • History.com Videos
      Watch videos & full episodes online at History.com.
    • history2u
      In addition to a constantly expanding collection of texts from the great documents of America's past, History2u offers free e-books that provide a concise history of the United States from 1492 to the present.
    • HistoryBuff.com
      HistoryBuff.com is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years.
    • Historycentral.com
      Historycentral.com is your one source for everything on American History and World History. Special sections on: Americas Wars, American Presidential elections, Civic, Aviation History, The Sixties,and much more. There is also a Teachers Resource Center for parents that provides resources including lesson plans and teachers guides.
    • iCivics (formerly Our Courts)
      iCivics (formerly Our Courts) is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support. This is a MUST SEE website! The games on this site are the "coolest" way to learn about our government.
    • Kid's Corner of Shipwrecks
      Underwater Archaeology Kids' Corner of Shipwrecks at Historic Preservation of the Wisconsin Historical Society
    • Kids.gov
      Find links to government and other kids' sites -- just use the navigation bar above to browse through our site. Explore, learn, and have fun!
    • Mission Us - A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
      Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. Mission 2, “Flight to Freedom” (working title), which focuses on resistance to slavery, will launch in spring of 2011. Other missions, as well as a broadcast special, are planned for release in 2012.
    • MrDonn.org
      Free lesson plans and activities on ancient, world, and American history.
    • My American Farm
      The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s My American Farm project teaches agricultural literacy through an interactive computer game. Players learn where food comes from and how those products get from the farm to their dinner plate. My American Farm offers free activities & lesson plans. Each activity uses the context of agriculture to teach math, reading, science & social studies concepts & skills.
    • NOVA Online Pyramids Adventure
      On this Web site, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders.
    • Plimoth Plantation's First Thanksgiving Investigation
      The official site of the first thanksgiving. An online learning experience that takes you through the "real" story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
    • Raising Refounders - Free American History Curriculum
      Raising Refounders gives you FREE shovel ready homeschool history for the masses. Not a bail-out from the Government and no tax increase required.
    • Save the Manatee Club
      Free Printable PDF Manatee Education Materials for both students and educators.
    • Schools of California Online Resources for Education, History/Social Science (SCORE H/SS)
      There are over 1200 Lessons and activities on SCORE H/SS that address the California standards through active learning. Some require Internet access, but others may be printed. This is a VERY good resource!
    • Science and Technology of WWII
      The National WWII Museum presents the Science & Technology of World War II--an interactive website complete with information, lessons and activities.
    • Smithsonian's History Explorer
      Your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History. The Museum is a proud partner with Verizon Thinkfinity.
    • Social Studies for Kids
      This site is a resource for students, teachers, and anyone else who wants to learn about Social Studies. The author, David White, is the former About.com Guide for Social Studies for Kids. He is an expert in the field. This site covers history, geography, economics, cultures, current events, holidays, religions, languages, archaeology, and much more!
    • Student's Friend
      The Student's Friend is a concise narrative of world history that may used in place of a traditional textbook (free download or use online). This website has lesson plans, study guides, and other teaching tools designed to make world history and geography more meaningful for students and easier for teachers to teach.
    • Teaching with Historic Places
      Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
    • Teachinghistory.org
      Teachinghistory.org is an awesome U.S. history website designed for educators, but older students will find their links to quality websites & primary sources helpful, too. You can also test your history knowledge with weekly history quizzes and you can submit questions to Ask a Historian.
    • The Charters of Freedom
      Read and learn about the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights in the National Archives. This government site also includes images and links.
    • The Empire State Building: Official Internet Site
      The Empire State Building: Official Internet Site offers virtual tours, online games for kids and more!
    • The National Constitution Center - Online Resources
      From the complete, annotated Constitution, to a variety of games, podcasts and videos, the National Constitution Center’s online resources provide in-depth understanding of the Constitution and its relevance to citizens of every age.
    • U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour
      Take the U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour -- an interactive, user friendly, comprehensive and integrated multimedia tour of the U.S. Capitol.
    • ushistory.org
      ushistory.org features an online American History textbook and links to a variety of historical websites. This website is a terrific resource for students.
    • Virtual Museum of Canada
      Explore Canada’s rich history and culture in the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC). You will find virtual exhibits and interactive learning resources on numerous subjects, created by Canadian museums and galleries. You will also discover local history exhibits that capture exciting Canadian community memories, drawn from the collections of small museums and local memories and treasures.
    • Webrangers
      This is the National Park Service's on-line Junior Ranger program for kids of all ages. If you love your National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites, this site is for you. Play more than 50 games and learn about your National Parks.
    • Weedon Island Virtual Tour of Artifacts
      This special Virtual Tour of Artifacts exhibit is an initiative of the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Florida Power, the Ah Tah Thi Ki Seminole Tribal Museum, the Haskell Indian Nations University, University of South Florida, University of Florida and many other professionals and organizations.
  •  Social Studies / History Curriculum (7)
    • All-American History
      When combined with the Student Activity Book and Teacher’s Guide, All-American History is a complete 32 week curriculum for students in grades 5 – 12. It is also adaptable for younger students. Volume 1 covers Exploration through 1840, and Volume 2 picks up with the prelude to the Civil War and ends with the first years of the 21st century. Each week includes a chapter from the Student Reader, maps, forms, and review questions in the Student Activity Book, and plenty of hands-on and further research ideas in the Teacher's Guide.
    • Figures in Motion
      Cathy Diez-Luckie makes history come alive with interactive art activity books. Her Famous Figures series makes the study of history more memorable and lets children make movable action figures of the great men and women of the past. You can currently choose from Famous Figures of Ancient Times, Famous Figures of the American Revolution, Famous Figures of Medieval Times, and Dinosaurs on the Move.
    • Home School in the Woods
      At Home School in the Woods you will find a variety of Christian-based history curricula written by Amy Pak. She has created History Through the Ages timeline products, Olde World Style map sets, Time Travelers history based activity studies, activity-paks (both downloadable and on CD) and free unit studies.
    • Knowledge Quest and Bramley Books
      Look no further for historical outline maps, timelines, geography curriculum such as A Child's Geography and The Star-Spangled State Book, historical biographies your whole family will love, plus much more.
    • State History from a Christian Perspective
      From a "Christian perspective" means that the description of events and the choice of historical figures to set forth as examples reflect an emphasis on patriotism, character, and Biblical truth.
    • The Mystery of History
      The Mystery of History series, by Linda Lacour Hobar, is everything a family needs for teaching history with a strong Biblical worldview. Multi-age activities, book and video lists, memory helps, timeline suggestions, quizzes, and map work included. Chronological, Classical, Complete.
    • The Story of the World - History & Geography
      Written by Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children, or for older readers to enjoy alone. Use this four-volume set (Africa, China, Europe, and the Americas) alone or combine with Bauer's curriculum guides and tests for a complete elementary history/literature/geography program. Click here to learn more about the books available on Amazon. To learn more about Susan Wise Bauer and The Story of the World series, visit www.susanwisebauer.com.
  •  Spelling / Vocabulary (15)
    • AAASpell Spelling and Vocabulary Lessons
      Need help putting a spelling list together? AAASpell offers spelling and vocabulary list by grade level. Great resource!
    • Basic Cozy Spelling Course
      Free online Basic Cozy Spelling Course. Appropriate for grades 6 to 8. Note: It is best to take a look at the course outline and the spelling rules pages prior to beginning the lessons. This course is also available in print version.
    • BigIQkids.com -- FREE! Online Learning Kids Love
      BigIQkids.com turns your computer into an online learning academy by providing daily academic lessons for young learners in an interactive, easy to follow format. For the best results, children should log into BigIQkids.com daily and complete their lessons and quizzes. This “daily” strategy builds invaluable study habits, leads to better grades and greater self confidence. You can use their word lists or enter your own.
    • Interactives Spelling Bee
      This set of activities is like an old-fashioned Spelling Bee. Listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story. Grades 1-12.
    • KidsSpell.com
      The Absolutely Free And Totally Fun Way To Improve Your Spelling. Kidspell.com helps to dramatically improve your students' ability to learn and retain spelling words.
    • myvocabulary.com
      myvocabulary.com is a free (ad free) resource used to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots. Features include grade level interactive word puzzles (starting with High Elementary through College Prep).
    • PBS Kids - Spelling Games
      Play PBS KIDS Spelling Games made by educational children's media experts in collaboration with teachers and educational researchers.
    • Spelling City
      SpellingCity: the ultimate online spelling program. Ten games to play online or to print: Spelling, Vocabulary, Alphabetical Order; free printables for handwriting practice with your saved lists; plus custom sentences
    • Spelling Connections
      You don't need to use the books to benefit from this site. This is a great place for students in grades 1-8 to brush up on their spelling skills through interactive games.
    • Spelling Games
      Practice your own spelling words at Gamequarium.com. Many games to choose from.
    • Spelling it Right
      Spelling it Right - Learn How to Spell Confidently includes advice about how to deal with problems and become a better speller, a collection of free printable worksheets, each comprising a complete lesson designed to test and teach spelling skills, and games, puzzles and quizzes to help encourage an interest in spelling.
    • Spelling Time
      SpellingTime.com is a virtual spelling tutor that presents quizzes, spelling bees, spelling tests, and fun spelling games all customized to each child’s abilities. Our students score 100% on every spelling test!
    • Spin and Spell Interactive Game
      Great online game for practicing spelling. Click on a picture and spell the word!
    • Vocabulary.com
      Vocabulary.com is the easiest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary. It combines an adaptive learning system (The Challenge) with the world’s fastest dictionary (The Dictionary) so that you can more quickly and more efficiently learn words.
    • Word-Nerd - Vocabulary Test Prep
      Word-Nerd is an innovative, fun and easy way to learn vocabulary words for the SAT and PSAT! Word-Nerd uses a unique method of teaching vocabulary that is not focused on memorization, so you can improve your test score by learning more words in less time.
  •  Spelling / Vocabulary Curriculum (8)
    • All About Spelling
      Teaching spelling is organized and effective with the All About Spelling home school curriculum. This program teaches your child everything he or she needs to know about spelling with Multisensory Lessons and "Open and Go" Lesson Plans.
    • ClickN SPELL
      ClickN SPELL is a research based spelling program for PreK through 5th grade that teaches the 800 most commonly used words in the English language. The program may also be used as an intervention curriculum for struggling spellers regardless of age or grade level. Mastering this list of words has been proven to be very successful in mastering English. For example, the most commonly spoken 800 words are used 13 times more frequently than the next most common 800 words. ClickN SPELL therefore provides a solid foundation not just for spelling, but also for the English language in general.
    • Sequential Spelling
      Sequential Spelling is a seven-level spelling program by AVKO. Sequential Spelling is great for schools as well as homeschoolers. The sequences are not based on grade level curriculum, but the building from easy words to advanced words as from all, tall, stall, install, installment, installation.
    • Soaring with Spelling and Vocabulary
      Each level in the Soaring with Spelling and Vocabulary series is based on a 36-week school year. Each lesson has space provided within the workbook for the student to take a Pretest on Day 1 and a Final Test on Day 5. Each lesson is clearly divided into five separate days with specific assigned duties. Grades 1-8.
    • Spelling Power
      In one 350-page book, Beverly Adams-Gordon has put together a complete and effective spelling program to take students from early elementary school through college in only 15 focused minutes per day. With Spelling Power, your children will master the 5,000 most frequently used words at their own pace using research-proven strategies. Everything you need to teach your entire family is found in the one "Big Orange Book". It is still the only complete spelling program written by a home educator for home educators. Click here to read customer reviews on Amazon.
    • Spelling Wisdom
      Learn today’s 6,000 most frequently used words presented in the writings of great men and women of history. The five books’ exercises become progressively longer and contain more difficult words as you work through the series. Each book contains 140 exercises and uses the Charlotte Mason method of prepared dictation. Grades 3-12.
    • The Phonetic Zoo
      The Phonetic Zoo is a teacher-guided phonetically-based audio spelling program. After a short introductory lesson, students independently take spelling tests until mastery of the list is achieved. Students learn spelling rules incrementally, which will help with future spelling, and personal spelling lists ensure that all a student’s spelling needs are addressed. The spelling program is for students in third grade on up and consists of three levels (A, B, and C).
    • The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading
      The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading is a complete K-4 curriculum offering the parent a comprehensive video teacher training text with an emphasis on accurate speaking, spelling, writing, reading, grammar, composition. The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading provides students of all ages with the tools of learning HOW English is built and WHY it is built the way it is.
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  •  Unit Studies (16)
    • About.com Unit Study Directory
      Beverly Hernandez, About.com Guide, has put together a Unit Study Directory--an index of free online unit studies, sortable by letter, by subject, or by grade level.
    • Around the World: Learning About Our Globe One Country at a Time
      This full-color e-book, featuring nine different countries from around the world, is chock full of fascinating information, beautiful photos and fun activities to help you and your children learn more about our amazing world and the people living on it.
    • EasyFunSchool Unit Studies
      Free unit studies and themed collections to be used with the units or as stand alone activities or supplements for holidays.
    • Free Homeschooling Unit Studies from The Home School Mom
      Find free homeschooling unit studies conveniently grouped into grade levels from TheHomesSchoolMom.com
    • Fun Christian Homeschooling Unit Studies
      Free Printable Christian Unit Studies for Homeschooling.
    • Home Sweet HomeSchool
      Christian Cottage offers materials that they developed, tested and produced here Christian Cottage Schools. The "flagships" are their Christian Cottage Unit Studies. Each volume contains 2-week and one-month units planned to include enough science, history, bible, creative writing, literature and fine arts activities for more than one year. They're easy to use, and Christian textbooks can be used as resources. Four levels of fun and interesting activities are planned daily for first through twelfth grades. Lessons are prepared in a one-day-at-a-glance, easy to use format. No Gaps! Ability-leveled vocabulary and main points make mastery measurements a snap! A home education curriculum pre-tested by hundreds of home schooling families.
    • Homeschool Learning Network
      Free Unit Studies from the Homeschool Learning Network.
    • Intellego Unit Studies
      Intellego Unit Studies unites technology, learning style theory, and multisensory activities to help children reach their true academic potential. They pprovide comprehensive and complete K-8 curriculum in social studies and science, as well as multidisciplinary unit studies for electives and enrichment in the areas of science, history, art, music, civics, cultures, and popular interest.
    • Learning Adventures
      Learning Adventures is a home-based publishing company that provides unit study curriculum guides and accessories for homeschooling families. Their unit studies feature 180 days of daily lesson plans in each volume, a chronological history-based study for grades 4 through 8, all subjects (Bible, language arts/literacy, social studies, science and fine arts) but math, a real, living books approach to learning, and experiments, recipes, hands-on activities, and projects that make learning fun and meaningful.
    • Literature Based Unit Studies
      At Homeschool Share, unit studies are carefully grouped into age levels.
    • Online Units by Gay Miller
      These unit studies were put together by Gay Miller, a teacher at Mountain City Elementary in Tennessee. These are great!
    • SchoolExpress Unit Studies
      In addition to their large selection of FREE worksheets, games, and activities, SchoolExpress offers FREE thematic units when you subscribe to their email newsletter. Nice!
    • The Curiosity Files™
      As you read, learn, and research The Curiosity Files™ you’ll meet engaging information, puzzles, quizzes, games, and activities to keep your child actively learning in a unit-study format. Make a notebook or lapbook folder for starters, and then continue adding on to widen the study with more amazing topics in this wonderful series.
    • The Elephant Sanctuary Unit Studies
      The Elephant Sanctuary has developed two FREE units focusing on the study of elephants. One unit is appropriate for grades K–3; the second unit is appropriate for grades 4–8. The K–3 unit consists of 35 pages of background information for the teacher and learning activities for children. The curriculum for grades 4–8 consists of 72 pages of instruction, background information, charts and graphs, activities, etc. Areas of study including social studies, literature, math, and science, have been integrated into the units.
    • Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett
      Amanda Bennett plans her unit studies so that while the child is learning the basic material, he/she is also reinforcing other academic skills. Reading skills are emphasized with the various books studied. Writing skills are developed through writing assignments, copying and dictation and journal writing. Thinking skills mature through hands-on activities and problem analysis.
    • Unit Studies by Cindy Downes - Oklahoma Homeschool
      History, Science, holiday, music and photography unit studies offered free at Oklahoma Homeschool by Cindy Downes.
  •  Unschooling (11)
    • Family Unschoolers Network
      The Family Unschoolers Network provides support for unschooling, homeschooling, and self-directed learning. You will find newsletter articles, reviews, resources, web sites, books and lots of other information to help your homeschooling or unschooling efforts.
    • holtgws.com
      Pat Farenga maintains this site to keep John Holt's own ideas and words available to the general public so you can learn directly from him what unschooling means and how he envisioned it being implemented.
    • Joyfully Rejoycing
      This unschooling website is absolutely amazing! It's about parenting more peacefully and living more joyful family lives. Learn about unschooling, deschooling, learning and more.
    • Pat Farenga.com- Learning Without Schooling
      Patrick Farenga worked closely with John Holt until Holt’s death in 1985. He is the President of Holt Associates Inc. and was the Publisher of Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped publishing in Nov. 2001. This is his blog. A wonderful resource for unschoolers.
    • Radical Unschooling by Sandra Dodd
      Find a variety of topics, a blog, links, and more.
    • The Unschooler's Emporium
      The Unschooler’s Emporium was created as your one stop shop for all unschooling items, from books, to toys, to conference talks, natural remedies and much more.
    • Unschool Your Teen Audio-Seminar & Resource Guide
      Learn how to rescue your teen from the banality of standardized high school curriculum without forfeiting their options for the future. Diane Flynn Keith's audio program and resource manual will remove the guesswork, frustration and fear, save you time and money, and give you the confidence you need to succeed.
    • UnSchoolers Online
      UnSchoolers Online is a website dedicated to providing detailed and helpful information on everything related to unschooling and homeschooling.
    • Unschooling
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Unschooling Basics
      This is a Yahoo list designed for those new to the philosophy of whole-life (or "radical") unschooling. Ask experienced whole-life unschoolers all those niggling questions, and find out how it works in real families, across all aspects of life.
    • Unschooling.com
      Come explore unschooling.com, where parents and children have learned to trust themselves and each other!
  •  Virtual Field Trips (70)
    • A Virtual Pond Dip
      Take a dip in the jar to learn about some common types of smaller pond life, with links to Micscape Magazine resources. This virtual pond dip introduces some of the commoner types and hopefully encourages an exploration of the incredible 'world within a world' of a real pond.
    • American Revolution Virtual Marching Tour
      Take a virtual marching tour of the American Revolution, an internet exploration of the American Revolutionary War.
    • Antarctica Virtual Tour
      Take a virtual tour of Antarctica. Visit New Zealand, McMurdo (Antarctica's largest community built on the bare volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island) and the South Pole.
    • BBC History Virtual Tours
      This is the index page to all of the virtual tours, panoramas and 3D models from bbc.co.uk/history. You will find virtual tours on Ancient History, British History, and World Wars.
    • Betsy Ross House Virtual Tour
      Take a tour of Betsy's House. Room by room, you will enjoy a walk through this shrine to the American flag.
    • Biscayne National Park Virtual Field Trips
      Biscayne National Park is a great place to go on a field trip or to explore on your own, but not everyone lives close enough to get to the park. So what's the next-best thing? How about a virtual visit? There are two electronic field trips available: Wreck Ashore! and Underwater Ecosystem Adventure.
    • Bronx River Virtual Tour
      Take an interactive multimedia journey down the Bronx River. Explore 360-degree panoramic images and watch video interviews with local riverkeepers.
    • Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum Virtual Tour
      The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum is the largest collection of Microcars in the World, the collection can be viewed on-line or in Madison Georgia, USA.
    • Butterfly Conservatory Virtual Tour by the American Museum of Natural History
      Explore the vivarium and see how many butterflies you can spot at the Butterfly Conservatory Virtual Tour from the American Museum of Natural History.
    • Canadian Virtual Farm Tour
      At the Canadian Virtual Farm Tour site, you're only a click away from visiting a number of real, working Canadian farms. You'll be able to take a peek inside the barns and fields, see the animals that live on these farms, and learn about the work that goes into growing a wide variety of crops.
    • Cargill Salt Virtual Tour
      Take a virtual tour of Cargill Salt's San Francisco Bay Area salt works. On this informational photo tour, you'll see how they use the ancient technique of harvesting salt from bay water with the help of the sun and wind. You'll also see some of the modern tools they use to help harvest and refine 650,000 tons of salt per year.
    • CC Pollen Virtual Bee Hive
      The C C Pollen website was established to provide information about Bees, beehive social structure, and Superfoods from the beehive - Bee Pollen, Royal Jelly and Bee Propolis. Their Beehive Tour is a tour where you can meet all the different bees in the beehive and find out all about beehive society.
    • Charles Dickens Museum Virtual Tour
      Take a photographic tour of the former home of Charles Dickens, located at 48 Doughty Street, London. You can explore the house much as you would in an actual visit, going between rooms and focusing on items that catch your interest. This tour is meant to provide to you a feeling of actually exploring the house, from the comfort of any computer with access to the Internet.
    • Clara Barton National Historical Site Virtual Museum Exhibit
      This exhibit showcases the extraordinary life, tenacious personality, remarkable leadership, and humanitarian contributions of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.
    • Coins & Currency in Colonial America by Colonial Williamsburg.
      In this interactive, online exhibit, you will learn about varied coinage from all over the globe that influenced the currency we carry today. There is a glossary, top ten FAQs list, timeline, relative scale and value charts, zooming capability, and sidebars, all adding layers of discovery to this expansive exhibit.
    • Colossal Cave Mountain Park Virtual Tour
      The virtual tour will take you through some of the park's favorite spots in the cave located in Tucson, Arizona.
    • Dairy Farming Today Virtual Tour
      Experience life on the farm like you've never seen it before. Video footage guides you through each corner of the dairy, including cows giving birth and environmental practices that help grow healthy crops for cows to enjoy.
    • Dangerous Decibels Virtual Exhibit
      This is a collection of games, demonstrations and activities that will answer three important questions: What are the sources of dangerous sounds? What are the effects of listening to dangerous sounds? How do I protect myself from dangerous sounds? The Virtual Exhibit is based on the Dangerous Decibels exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon.
    • Edo - Tokyo, Japan - Virtual Tour
      A virtual tour of Edo, the ancient name for Japan's present day capital Tokyo. This tour describes the history of Japan's greatest city. See beautiful ukiyoe images and learn more about Japanese history, Japanese culture and Japanese traditions.
    • Egypt Virtual Tours
      Egypt is known as one of the greatest civilizations of the past and you can virtually visit Egypt through this wide selection of virtual tours. When you are done, learn its history here: http://www.egyptvoyager.com/history.htm
    • Exploring Life's Origins Virtual Exhibit
      Exploring Life's Origins includes: A Timeline of Life's Evolution, Understanding the RNA World, and Building a Protocell. This website is part of a multimedia exhibit at the Museum of Science that includes live presentations on the Current Science & Technology stage and a touch-screen kiosk.
    • Fermilab Virtual Tour
      This virtual tour will help you get acquainted with what they at Fermilab, the only U.S. laboratory dedicated to high-energy physics. Their mission is to discover what the universe is made of and how it works.
    • Ford's Theatre - Virtual Tour
      Take a virtual tour of Ford’s Theatre, experiencing it as if you were there in Washington, D.C. Look closely at artifacts from the Ford's Theatre Museum that shed light on the assassination and that fateful night.
    • Fossil Halls Virtual Tour by the American Museum of Natural History
      Continue the story of vertebrate evolution with the single largest collection of real dinosaur fossils in the world when you take virtual tours of the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs and the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs. Complete the story of vertebrate evolution through the Hall of Primitive Mammals and the Hall of Advanced Mammals.
    • Glacier National Park Virtual field Trip
      Learn how to interpret alpine glacial landscapes, including landform identification, geomorphic processes and glacial history, using information from photos, maps, surficial deposits, volcanic ash, stream flow and other data. Glacier National Park provides the backdrop for learning landscape interpretation.
    • Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
      A short illustrated guide to the Inca Trail, a hiking route through the mountains near Cuzco, Peru, leading to the Inca city of Machu Picchu.
    • Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
      This content resource is an interactive tour of Ellis Island. Students can explore different rooms in the main building at Ellis Island, and can view original photographs, listen to audio, or watch video.
    • John Muir Nature Trail Virtual Tour
      This is an interactive presentation of the John Muir Nature Trail in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The tour highlights key points of interest along the 1.7 mile trail.
    • Kennedy Center Virtual Tour
      Here you can enjoy 360 degree views of the theaters, lounges, and other public areas of the Kennedy Center. (Please note that these tours contain large files—you may experience increased download times.)
    • Kitt Peak National Observatory Virtual Tour
      The National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory has a virtual tour that presents the history and scientific achievements of Kitt Peak, the first national observatory of the United States, as well as the beauty of the mountain. There are engaging astronomical images and explanations of research programs conducted at the observatory.
    • Lincoln Memorial Interactive
      Experience a virtual walk through of the memorial and listen to park rangers share their reflections on the memorial and its history.
    • Louvre Virtual Tour
      Visit the Lourve museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre....Come along on a virtual tour and enjoy the view, thanks to the sponsorship of Shiseido.
    • Mapping Colonial America by Colonial Williamsburg
      Explore colonial maps from Colonial Williamsburg's collection in an online exhibition that includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782. The online exhibition looks at maps relating to colonial discovery, exploration, boundary disputes, navigation, trade, the French and Indian War, and the Revolutionary War. The exhibition features a zooming tool allowing a close look at map details, a glossary of terms, and a timeline of major events in history that occurred near the date a particular map was drawn.
    • Mount Vernon Virtual Mansion Tour
      Take a virtual tour of George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. Includes both Flash and Non-Flash versions.
    • Museo Galileo Virtual Museum
      The Online Catalogue of the museum presents the more than 1,200 objects on permanent exhibition through color images and detailed descriptions. You can access biographical data, explore "In Depth" information and find contextual background related to the selected object. For the more complex objects, simulation animations and/or videos are also made available.
    • Museum of Science, Boston - Virtual Exhibits
      Check out these online-only exhibits from the Museum of Science, Boston: Welcome to the Universe, Secrets of the Ice, Scanning Electron Microscope, Oceans Alive!, Leonardo, Interfaces, Firefly Watch Citizen Science Project, and Ancient Egypt.
    • Mysterious Places - Explore Ancient Civilzations
      Mysterious Places offers virtual tours of Ancient Civilizations. Choose your destination! Learn about Easter Island, Mali, Maya, and Stonehenge.
    • NASA Kennedy Space Center's Virtual Tour of Columbia and the Neurolab Payload
      Now you can see what the technicians and engineers see as they work on a Space Shuttle preparing for launch. The STS-90 Virtual Tour takes you through the Space Shuttle Columbia as it is being prepared for launch in the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. Tour in the cockpit, go through the airlock and see the inside of the Neurolab payload.
    • National Bonsai & Penjing Museum Virtual Tour
      The United States National Arboretum offers a 'short' Virtual Tour of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. You are invited to start at the begining and follow the "slides" through the Ellen Gordon Allan Entrance Garden, the Cryptomeria Walk, the International Pavilion, the Chinese Pavilion, the Japanese Stroll Garden, the Japanese Pavilion, the North American Pavilion, the Tropical Conservatory, and the Lecture/Demonstration Area.
    • National Gallery of Art - Online Tours
      As you "walk" through the National Gallery of Art's QuickTime VR tours of NGA exhibitions, you can select specific works of art for larger image views, close-up details, streaming audio commentary, and information about the object.
    • National Museum of the USAF Virtual Tour
      Take 3-D, self-guided virtual tour of the entire museum; view individual panoramas, and explore U.S. Air Force history through the Museum Lecture Series and Museum Tour podcasts.
    • New York Underground
      National Geographic brings you an interactive model of New York City. Go below the streets and marvel at what it takes to pump life into 'the city that never sleeps.'
    • Oshkosh Public Museum Virtual Exhibit
      The Oshkosh Public Museum has compiled six exhibits containing historic photographs, documents, and artifacts. Each of these six exhibits relates to national events and their effects on the Lake Winnebago Region. These events are Women's History; Pioneers and Immigrants; the Civil War; the Spanish American War; World War I; and World War II.
    • Plimoth Plantation Virtual Field Trip
      See a recast of Scholastic's "Virtual Field Trip to Plimoth Plantation" that aired to over 1 million students on November 16, 2010.
    • Pompeii Virtual Tour
      Enjoy an online tour of ancient Pompeii from a Christian point of view. Discover new insights about the world of the first century church.
    • Ponce De Leon Inlet Virtual Tour
      Step inside the white picket fence and take a trip back to 1887. Climb 203 steps to the top of the second tallest lighthouse in the United States. Tour the houses and buildings of one of the most authentic, complete and well preserved light stations in the country. Learn what life was like on a remote peninsula more than 120 years ago, and marvel at the courage of the lighthouse keepers and their families.
    • Roman Open-Air Museum Virtual Tour
      Roman Open-Air Museum Hechingen-Stein, a Roman Villa dating from the 1st to the 3rd Century A.D, offers a virtual tour where you can see the Villa from all sides and enter the inside rooms. There is a short explanation for every picture and a small plan shows you where you are.
    • Saint Petersburg, Russia - Virtual Tour
      Here you will be introduced to Russia’s greatest historical and cultural treasure, its "Northern Capital" - the famous "Venice of the North". Virtually unharmed by the 1930-50s period of Stalinist reconstruction, downtown St. Petersburg is crowded with splendid palaces, impressive historical monuments, tree-lined avenues and beautiful bridges. Although not yet 300 years old, St. Petersburg is a city crammed with historical and cultural associations and a refined air of mystery.
    • Seedling to Supermarket - Growing Avocados Virtual Tour
      Take our virtual tour and see the California Avocado growing process, from avocado seed to supermarket.
    • Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum
      Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum is a multimedia, interactive online museum presenting the rich history, culture and natural history of the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum is a project of Sierra College students, faculty, and staff; The Center for Sierra Nevada Studies; and the Sierra Nevada regional community.
    • Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Virtual Tour
      The Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Exhibit features six aquarium displays depicting important ecosystems of the Indian River Lagoon and surrounding coastal waters. The highlight of the exhibit is a 3,300-gallon model of a Caribbean coral reef. Learn more about these ecosystems when you take their online virtual tour.
    • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Virtual Tour
      This comprehensive virtual tour allows you to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. You can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where you can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
    • State Hermitage Museum - Virtual Tour
      This virtual tour offers you a unique opportunity to visit the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia. You can see descriptions and panoramic views of the rooms of the Winter Palace and Hermitages.
    • Statue of Liberty National Monument - Virtual Tour
      Whether you want to relive a previous visit to the Statue of Liberty, or you've never been to the park and want to get an idea of what it's like, a virtual tour is the way to go. You control your experience within the virtual tour, choosing from 360-degree panoramas, videos, pictures, and sounds.
    • Taj Mahal - Online Virtual Tour
      Explore the Taj Mahal through this awewsome virtual tour. View 360° panoramas, movies, photos, narration, maps, music and text and visit areas which are off-limits to the general public, such as the Roof, Minarets & Crypt. Includes in-line text for the hearing-impaired & complete downloadable MS Word files, mini-movies, and panoramas.
    • The Chocolate Making Process
      Click here for an interactive tutorial on how to make a virtual candy bar from scratch!
    • U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour
      The U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour is an interactive, user friendly, comprehensive and integrated multimedia tour of the U.S. Capitol. It includes panorama views and historical information about the rooms of the U.S. Capitol, as well as, information about the objects found in those rooms. This tour will leave you with the feel of an actual visit to the U.S. Capitol and serve to provide a unique "Capitol" experience.
    • United Nations Virtual Tour
      Take a tour of the United Nations. Click the places you want to visit and learn a bit about the history of the UN's buildings, main bodies, and artworks. When you're done, learn how it works! Read an introduction to the UN, or go to the main UN website by following informative links about the UN.
    • United States Botanic Garden Virtual Tour
      The Architect of the Capitol and the U.S. Botanic Garden welcome you to this virtual tour of the USBG. This botanic garden is run by the Congress of the United States. It is located in Washington, D.C.
    • United States Mint Virtual Tour
      The United States Mint will take you behind the scenes and show how they make the coins you use every day. The tour offers a general overview of how the United States Mint designs and manufactures its products.
    • Utah State Capitol Virtual Tour
      Explore the unique art, architecture, and history of the Utah State Capitol building through this interactive virtual tour.
    • Van Gogh's Van Goghs Virtual Tour
      Take a virtual tour of Van Gogh's Van Goghs. This exhibition was on view at the Gallery October 4, 1998 - January 3, 1999. This virtual tour allows you to navigate through panoramas of the exhibition galleries. As you walk through the space, you can select specific paintings for larger image views, close-up details, and more information.
    • Virginia State Capitol Virtual Tour
      This state of the art virtual tour provides online tours of both the Virginia State Capitol Grounds and the Capitol Building. You have the ability to explore areas on you own or view video presentations. There is a Non-Flash version available here: http://virginiacapitol.gov/virtualtours/Virtualtours508/home508.htm
    • Virtual Dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History
      The American Museum of Natural History's "virtual dioramas" immerse you in fascinating exhibits, presenting 360° panoramas complete with interactive components. Choose from the Alaska Brown Bear, Bison and Pronghorn, Upper Nile Region and Cuthbert Rookery dioramas. AMNH also offers videos and audio tours.
    • Virtual Tours of US National Arboretum
      The USNA Virtual Tours provide you with detailed tours of each of their major display gardens and collections: (1) The whole arboretum (including a tour for kids), (2), the Asian Collections, (3) Fern Valley, (4) the Gotelli Dwarf and Slow Growing Conifer Collection, (5) the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, (6) the National Herb Garden, and (7) the Power Plants Garden.
    • Virtual Whale Watching
      Take a virtual whale watching tour with Prince of Whales. Located in, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - the Whale Watching Capital of the World.
    • White House Virtual Tour
      White House Museum, the unofficial virtual museum of the president’s residence, offers an online tour that will take you through more than 140 areas in the grounds and mansion of the White House with photos and illustrations going back more than 200 years.
    • Windows into Wonderland - Yellowstone eTrips
      Explore award winning electronic field trips! (Both low and high bandwidth options) Since 2001, Yellowstone has been offering eTrips to share the resources and treasures of the world’s first national park. Embark on these exciting adventures and look through new Windows Into Wonderland.
    • WSCGA Educational Videos on Cranberries
      The Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association has two videos on their site that provide an overview of Wisconsin’s cranberry industry, including its history, the growing and harvesting processes, and packaging and processing systems for the tart tangy berry. There are also educational resources and games for kids, so be sure to look around their website!
    • Yellowstone Net - Online Tours
      The Yellowstone National Park offers three different online tours featuring 65 Video Clips and more than 200 pictures! Explore 22 National Park Sites with pictures, text and video clips. You can tour the Grand Loop Rd, take a look at the major geysers, or explore 22 National Park Sites with pictures, text and video clips.
  •  Visual Arts (22)
    • Art Activities
      Incredible art activities and games for kids.
    • Art for Kids!
      Learn about art! Visit Museums! Learn about cultures! Interactive sites to make Art! Galleries! Other fun sites to see!
    • Art Games
      Play interactive Albright-Knox Art Gallery Artgames
    • Art Lesson Ideas
      Search through hundreds of art lesson plans for all grade levels!
    • Artists Helping Children
      Find fun kids crafts, activities, coloring pages, creative arts & crafts ideas for children, preschoolers, kindergarteners.
    • Artsology
      Artsology's unique free online games involve major figures in the arts, such as art, music, literature and dance. Have fun and get a dose of the arts at the same time!
    • Artyfactory
      Artyfactory is a free resource for anyone who wants to learn about the visual arts. You can learn how to draw, paint and design by following illustrated step by step tutorials. You'll find free Art Lessons, Design Lessons and Art History Lessons,
    • Barker Creek Free Lessons and Ideas
      Company president, Carolyn Hurst, writes a regular column in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and you can download free reprints of her articles which feature a free drawing lesson from their Draw•Write•Now® series. You can also subscribe to their free e-newsletter for free lessons, teaching tips, and classroom decorating ideas.
    • Bomomo
      Create pictures with this clever online drawing program.
    • Captain Watercolor
      Free watercolor painting lessons on video; tips and techniques for beginner through advanced. These teaching videos, lesson and demonstrations are free to watch and share with friends and other artists.
    • Curious Corner - Art Institute of Chicago
      Children (ages 3–12) can learn about art through dynamic and entertaining interactive stories and games.
    • Drawing for Kids
      Learn to draw over 100 animals step by step for kids. Each animal lesson is printable and can be following in 6 step by step tutorials.
    • Huntsville City Schools Elementary Art
      This site is designed to provide a means of sharing ideas and images created through the Hunstville City Schools Elementary Art Program in Huntsville, Alabama. Student art, lesson plans, history of the art program, information relating to professional organizations are all part of this site, as well as some great links, of course.
    • Learn About Art - National Gallery, London
      Discover new ways to learn about Western European art at the Gallery, from talks and tours to online guides.
    • MoMA - Museum of Modern Art Online Activities
      The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Look here for online activities offered at MoMA.
    • National Gallery of Art - NGAKids Art Zone
      Create portraits and landscape paintings in the style of American naive artists, learn about digital photography and image editing, and create abstract art, still life, and your own Dutch dollhouse, all at the Art Zone at NGAKids.
    • Picassohead
      Attention Picasso fans! At picassohead.com you can create your own Picasso masterpiece and save it to their online gallery for the world to see. You can also email a link to it to your friends.
    • Silicon Valley Art Gallery & Museum
      A Virtual Online Art Gallery
    • SmARTkids
      SmARTkids was developed by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, to help children--particularly those ages 7-12--discover ways to look at, think about, and respond creatively to art. This interactive site helps students learn the language of art; understand that artworks invite multiple interpretations; and see how art is created for a wide variety of personal and social purposes. If you live in Chicago, be sure to visit the Smart Museum. Admission is FREE!
    • The Artist's Toolkit
      Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Each title has three sections: (1) Watch an animated demonstration (2) Find examples of the concept in works of art from museums (3) Create your own composition
    • The Virtual Instructor
      TheVirtualInstructor.com is your online source for free, high-quality art lessons, art instruction, and art lesson videos. Whether you are an artist, an aspiring artist, a student, a teacher, want art instruction at home, or if you are just curious, thevirtualinstructor.com has a lesson for you. And best of all, it is all free! This site is jam-packed with free drawing lessons, free painting lessons, tutorials, videos, art fundamentals, art instruction, and resources- all of which are high-quality. The lessons you get here are all original, and are taught to you by a National Board Certified Licensed Visual Art teacher!
    • WebMuseum, Paris
      Learn about different art periods and find information and examples of artwork from around the world when you explore the WebMuseum's unique Famous Artworks collections.
  •  Visual Arts Curriculum (10)
    • Art Adventures at Home
      This is a complete art curriculum for students in grades K-12. Each volume contains over 100 step-by-step lessons (which provides enough material for three years, if one lesson is taught per week). These lessons present the basic elements of art (line, shape, color, and texture) in five different units (drawing, print-making, painting, sculpture, and crafts). This curriculum is superior to other home school art programs in that it covers all areas of art experience (not just drawing or crafts), and clear objectives are presented in each lesson. In addition, art history is integrated directly into the curriculum.
    • Art for the Montessori Classroom
      Art for the Montessori Classroom is a complete art curriculum that makes art easy for even the non-artistic teacher or home school parent. Complete instructions are given for setting up each art activity, list of supplies needed, and the complete process or demonstration. The lessons are in the Montessori style- On a tray to be chosen as individual work.
    • Art in History
      Art in History provides unique products with "hands on learning" which is perfect for home schoolers. These student kits are individually packed and perfect for use in a homeschool. Each project uses an interdisciplinary approach to teaching by allowing students to replicate a historically significant artifact taught from a comprehensive lesson plan that is downloaded by the parent/teacher upon checkout. Each individual kit contains an insert that gives the end user the ability to download the files as well.
    • Art With a Purpose
      Art With a Purpose is a series of books that has simple step-by-step art lessons for children in Grades 1-8. Each student's Artpac is a complete unit, containing 36 lessons with art sheets, a few pages of instructions for the teacher, examples, and lists of materials needed. It's all ready to go and you don't need to be an accomplished artist to teach it. Click here to find books in this series on Amazon.
    • ARTistic Pursuits
      ARTistic Pursuits is an award winning homeschool art program that meets the specific needs of homeschoolers. A variety of fun applications teach both the expressive and technical aspects of art while allowing children to make choices about what and how they will draw, paint, and sculpt.
    • Atelier - Homeschool Art
      The ATELIER visual art program was developed to ensure outstanding results in the homeschool environment. Using DVD-based teaching methods, ATELIER provides the home educator with unprecedented ease of use, breadth of scope, and results-oriented validation.
    • Blick Art Materials
      Blick Art Materials is the premier art supply source for professional artists, students, and teachers, and continues to be a family-owned business. Their annual Artist's and Educator's catalogs, more than 500 and 600 pages, respectively, are considered industry "bibles." They also offer hundreds of printable lesson plans and video lesson plans for teachers, and product videos for artists, to help with purchase decisions and techniques.
    • How Great Thou Art
      Barry Stebbing's award-winning art curriculum makes learning art fun and easy. With well known titles such as I Can Do All Things, God & the History of Art and Feed My Sheep, you and your students will enjoy learning a vast array of topics including Fundamentals of Drawing & Painting, Art History, Journaling and so much more. Their art curriculum is time and family tested and your satisfaction is guaranteed.
    • Learn & Master Painting Home School Edition
      Learn & Master Painting Home School Edition is a complete painting curriculum designed for home study. It contains their full painting course plus a 56-Page Teacher’s Guide. You’ll be able to take your home-school students (and yourself, if you like) through a comprehensive Painting-Learning system, even if you have no painting skills and no previous experience.
    • Meet the Masters
      Meet the Masters is easy to teach; no art background is necessary. The step-by-step curriculum is fun. Art History, Techniques, and Activities based on the Masters combine to make this homeschool and small group art curriculum the most effective way to bring out the hidden artist in each child. Step-by-step art lessons turn YOU into the art teacher, guiding your art student through his or her “masterpiece”.
  •  Waldorf (7)
    • Americans for Waldorf Education (AWE)
      Americans for Waldorf Education's (AWE) purpose is to support Waldorf education in North America, including both private Waldorf schools and publicly funded schools using Waldorf methods, Waldorf teacher training institutions, and other Waldorf based and related activities. Look here for information, articles, and links.
    • Christopherus Homeschool Resources
      In addition to full Waldorf curricula and supporting publications and audio downloads, this website offers a full range of information about Waldorf education.
    • OpenWaldorf - The Waldorf Education Super-Site!
      The most open site on the web for new and prospective Waldorf parents. Learn about Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf's curriculum, the controversy surrounding Waldorf education. Be sure to check out the Reading Room. You'll find links to many of Rudolf Steiner's books that you can read online for free.
    • Waldorf Answers
      Waldorf Answers provide answers about Waldorf education, in depth, that parents and prospective parents may have, and to clear up some of the misconceptions that may exist about Waldorf education.
    • Waldorf Education
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Waldorf Homeschoolers
      If you are looking for support and information on home and/or un-schooling based on a Waldorf Inspired Curriculum, you have come to the right place! With over 600 pages of content, Waldorf Homeschoolers is bound to become your favorite resource.
    • Why Waldorf Works
      Why Waldorf Works is a comprehensive site about Waldorf Education sponsored by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA).
  •  Writing / Handwriting (15)
    • Book Report Sandwich Station
      Here's a great way to gather all the ingredients you'll need to write a tasty book report. With each sandwich layer, you'll enter a different piece of important information. Once you've made a sandwich, creating your book report will be a snap!
    • Book Report Wizard
      How to write a book report: plot, setting, genre, characters, themes and more. The Book Report Wizard tells all!
    • Great Source iwrite
      Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents. Find writing lessons, graphic organizers, assessments, and tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner. Students will find step-by-step support for completing writing assignments.
    • Handwriting for Kids
      Learning to write numbers and letters is an important tasks for children. It should be exciting and an enjoyable activity through which children can experience success. At Handwriting for Kids, each lesson is featured on its own page, and kids are shown in simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences. Kids can trace uppercase and lowercase letters, and even blank sheets are provided for kids to practice more before their next lessons!
    • Handwriting Worksheets
      Automatically make stunning handwriting worksheets saving you hours of time! Choose from all common printing styles including Block Print - D'Nealian Style - and Cursive Connected Letters. Click the MAKE WORKSHEET button and Presto - instant handwriting worksheets free of charge.
    • Institute for Excellence in Writing
      Excellence in Writing produces a comprehensive Christian writing program designed to teach students HOW to write. There website is a great resource for parents, as you will find ebooks, informational articles, free audio downloads and webinars, and more.
    • Let's Get Creative! Assembly Program on Creative Writing
      Bruce Van Patter offers free activities and information on all kinds of things that are meant to get creative juices flowing. You'll find fun writing activities, including story starters in The Story Kitchen and questions you can ask to build your own character in Mugshots.
    • PIZZAZ!
      PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only.
    • Purdue OWL - Online Writing Lab
      The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and they provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
    • Special Writing Paper
      from alphabet-soup.net. Alphabet Soup is a site for teachers, parents, and children. Alphabet Soup contains thematic units, holiday units, games and activities for kids; teacher and parent resources; and crafts, humor and recipes for all!
    • Story Writing Tips for Kids
      If you follow these tips, you should end up with a great story plan. Then your attitude will change from "How can I fill three pages?" to "How can I tell this magnificent story in only three pages?"
    • Writing Fun by Jenny Eather
      Writing Fun explains the types of text commonly written in schools with student examples showing text structures, grammatical features and publishing ideas. This is an interactive writing help site that includes downloads for off-line use.
    • Writing with Writers
      Students work with authors, editors, and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in developing their skills.
    • Writing Wizard
      The writing worksheet wizard automatically makes handwriting practice worksheets for children. You can create writing practice sheets in D'Nealian or Zaner-Bloser style, in print or cursive form - and it's all for free! Make alphabet worksheets or spelling practice sheets.
    • WritingFix
      Home of the interactive writing prompts. This free-to-use website has oodles of resources for writing. Learn about writing traits, the writing process, genres and modes, and more!
  •  Writing / Handwriting Curriculum (8)
    • A Reason For Handwriting®
      A complete K - 6th curriculum, A Reason For Handwriting® offers student desk cards, alphabet wall sheets, letter formation charts, vocabulary lists, daily lesson plans, and much more. Every weekly lesson in A Reason For Handwriting® is built around one carefully-selected Scripture verse. Verses are chosen not only for proper letter combinations, but also inspirational content. Click here to find a variety of books on Amazon.
    • Handwriting Books for Kids
      Nest Learning carries a large selection of handwriting books for homeschoolers. You'll find A Reason for Handwriting Curriculum, Bob Jones Homeschool Handwriting Books, D'nealian Handwriting Curriculum Books, Mcgraw Hill Handwriting Workbooks, Horizons Penmanship Books, School Zone Handwriting Books, and others.
    • Handwriting Without Tears
      Handwriting Without Tears is a complete handwriting curriculum for all children and aims to make legible and fluent handwriting an easy and automatic skill that students can master. Their dynamic curriculum design, teaching strategies, and compelling lessons make it easy for parents to teach Handwriting Without Tears in the home, in only 15 minutes per day.
    • Quick & Easy Essay Writing for Kids
      The fastest, most effective way to teach students essay writing. You will CREATE the SKILLS that will put your students in complete control and mastery over the paragraph, how paragraphs fit together within the essay, and the relationship between paragraphs and the introduction and conclusion.
    • Time4Writing
      Time4Writing provides online writing courses that help elementary, middle and high school students build writing skills through one-on-one interaction with a certified teacher. For eight weeks, students study a new topic each week through interactive exercises, lessons, readings, and written assignments. A personal writing teacher reviews and provides feedback on each assignment the day after it is submitted.
    • Winning with Writing
      Each level in the Winning with Writing series is based on a 36-week school year. Each lesson has space provided within the workbook for the student to complete all writing assignments. The lessons are clearly divided into five separate days, with a review lesson every five weeks. The writing assignments gradually become longer with each subsequent level and the material (subject matter) for each level is grade level appropriate. Many different types of writing assignments are covered throughout the program.
    • WriteShop
      Award-winning WriteShop offers quality, parent-approved writing resources for kindergarten through high school, helping new and veteran homeschoolers alike teach writing with confidence. Engaging, step-by-step lessons present students with the building blocks of the writing process—pre-writing, brainstorming, writing, and revising—and help you edit and evaluate their work.
    • Writing Strands
      Writing Strands provides high quality writing materials for elementary through high school students. The books use a step-by-step, structured format to help students master composition techniques, a process which prepares them for college-level writing. Throughout its nine levels, the series organizes writing into four strands: creative, argumentative, report and research, and expository writing. The books also allow students to learn the mechanics of writing: syntax, spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Click here to learn more about Writing Strands at Learning Things.
  •  Homeschooling in Alabama (5)
  •  Homeschooling in Florida (13)
    • Facts.org - Florida Graduation Requirements
      Selecting the right courses in high school and planning ahead is more important than ever. Qualifying for graduation, Bright Futures Scholarships, and state university admission all include meeting specific course requirements. To prepare for your career and education goals after high school, be sure to select the diploma type and graduation plan that best meet your need.
    • FCAT Released Tests & Questions
      The FCAT Released Tests in reading, mathematics, and science should be used to increase the comfort level of students and parents with the FCAT, enabling students to take the FCAT with confidence. Students, parents, and teachers should use the released tests to better understand the FCAT and the types of reading passages and questions included on the test.
    • FDOE - CPALMS - Resource Information System Homepage
      CPALMS is a state wide infrastructure project to build information systems and tools to support the implementation of the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS). Learn about Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and browse resources for math and science.
    • Florida Department of Education
      Florida Department of Education Office of Independent Education & Parental Choice - Home Education.
    • Florida Department of Health
      This link takes you to the Parent Information for School Entry - School Health Services Program. This page is intended to help parents find the health requirements related to student enrollment in Florida's schools. The Florida Department of Health provides requirements for school entry examinations, immunizations, and school health programs. Other requirements for school entry can be found through the Florida Department of Education or the local school district.
    • Florida Memory Project
      The Florida Memory web initiative provides access to archival resources housed in the State Library and Archives that illustrate significant moments in the state's history, offers educational resources for students of all ages, and makes available collections for historical research.
    • Florida Parent-Educators Association (FPEA)
      The Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA) exists solely to serve homeschooling families in Florida. The FPEA executes that mission through support for the legal right to homeschool, local school board education and interaction, support group networking, a state convention, local conferences and events, informative communications, and most importantly, by giving individual encouragement, all in accordance with Judeo-Christian principles.
    • Florida Statutes - Chapter 1002
      Florida Statutes - Title XLVIII - K-20 EDUCATION CODE - Chapter 1002 - STUDENT AND PARENTAL RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONAL CHOICES
    • Florida Student Scholarship and Grant Programs
      The Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) State Programs, within the Florida Department of Education, administers a variety of postsecondary educational state-funded grants and scholarships, and provides information to students, parents, and high school and postsecondary professionals.
    • Florida Then and Now
      Florida Then and Now consists of over 70 readings, "FCAT-like" questions, teacher notes, reading strategies, and activity sheets for Florida history. The reading passages are written at the upper elementary student's instructional reading level, so they are also appropriate as independent reading passages for secondary students. All of the files are available as PDFs for easy duplication. Your children can also learn about some of Florida's historic places and about famous Floridians.
    • Florida's K-12 Statewide Assessment Program
      The Bureau of K-12 Assessment is responsible for all aspects of Florida's K-12 statewide student assessment programs, including developing, administering, scoring, and reporting the results for the FCAT/FCAT 2.0 program, as well as assisting with the administration and reporting of several other K-12 student assessment programs. Look here if you are interested in learning more about the FCAT.
    • Home Education Foundation
      HEF was established in 1991 to raise support and direct lobbying for home education in Florida. HEF exists to safeguard existing legislation and evaluate future legislation.
    • HSLDA Homeschool Laws: Florida
      Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) offers a summary analysis of the homeschooling law in Florida.
  •  Homeschooling in Georgia (2)
    • GaDOE Home School FAQ
      Georgia Department of Education Home School Frequently Asked Questions
    • GeorgiaStandards.Org
      GeorgiaStandards.Org allows parents easy access to information about the state’s curriculum standards. The web site also offers a variety of free resources to help you motivate and support your child’s curriculum at home while reinforcing the standards your child is working on in the classroom.
  •  Homeschooling in Illinois (1)
    • Illinois H.O.U.S.E. (Home Oriented Unique Schooling Experience)
      Illinois HOUSE is a statewide network of nonsectarian, inclusive homeschool support groups. They provide email and phone support about issues related to Illinois homeschooling. They have member groups throughout the Chicago suburban area and more spread across the state.
  •  Homeschooling in New Mexico (1)
    • 2012 Passport Summer Reading Program
      Alamosa Books' 2012 summer reading program runs from June 1 through August 31. They have three lists of twelve books each, targeting three age groups. They will provide a passport booklet to track reading progress, and if a child reads eight of the twelve books in their age group list they earn a $10 gift certificate to their store. (Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  •  Homeschooling in Pennsylvania (2)
  •  Homeschooling in Texas (1)