Homeschooling Information & Resources

Homeschooling The FUN Way!
Free Curriculum, Free Lesson Plans, Free Resources, Free Interactive Online Studies, Free Unit Studies, Free Worksheets! Join us and 40,000 other homeschoolers every week for fun, topical curriculum, lesson plans, resources unit studies and more! Every week we scour the Internet and all our resources and compile a whole bunch of free homeschool resouces.

About.com Homeschooling Community
THE starting place for exploring homeschooling. Find everything from how to get started in homeschooling to homeschool resources for the more experienced. An active homeschool community with forums, email courses, curriculum reviews, unit studies and activities for the kids!

Homeschool World: "The World's Most Visited Homeschool Site
Lots of good articles about homeschooling, plus access to the latest products, groups, and events, a forum / experts area, and much, much more!

Homeschooling Today Magazine
Every issue packed with essential tools for educating your children successfully at home! Homeschooling Today® Magazine - A focus not only on the mechanics, but also the mission and metrics of homeschooling. Homeschooling Today is one of the most respected homeschool magazines available. Homeschooling Today is published 6 times per year, by homeschoolers, for homeschoolers. Homeschooling Today offers fresh and relevant material by some of the best writers in homeschooling in each issue. No other homeschooling magazine gives you instantly usable features!

Live Math Homework Help 24/7

Stuck on an impossible to solve math assignment? Our online Math Tutors can help you 24/7. We have been connecting students to qualified online math tutors around the world for the past five years. Our online expert community was created to help you find the ideal tutor who will provide one-on-one personal assistance in real-time or via email over the course of the semester. Our experts can simplify even the most challenging problems, help you understand the main concepts, and teach you how to apply the skills necessary to excel.

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
A a source of neutral, non-commercial homeschooling information for nine years now. I am not trying to sell anything to you, nor am I advocating any position or methodology. I am a homeschooling Dad and you can find occasional references to what we do in this house scattered through the pages of this site, but I select resources on the basis of clarity and breadth, not politics or religion. I have amassed an enormous collection of home schooling resources. He also has links to the frequently-asked-questions (FAQ's).

The Journal of HomeSchooling Online, HomeFires.com
Homefires is a homeschooler's gathering place for tested theories, wry lessons learned, hundreds of ready-made curricula lessons in all subjects, for any age group, and provides a support system for parents. At the same time, Homefires is a support system for parents - whether homeschooling or not - who are committed to being great parents to their kids. We're here to help you build a foundational, nurturing environment for your children so that they grow into independent, capable, contributing adults.

KIDware Educational Software
Quality Children's Educational Software Visual Basic, Visual C#, Java Tutorials for Kids and Adults. Low-cost, high-quality Windows-based children's educational software. Are you looking for a complete array of educational software for your school at a very low price? KIDware offers a special site license that allows unlimited installations of over 100 programs within your school. The total price for this license is just $500. That's a savings of $1500 over our regular site license pricing.

Ray's Educational Software
Great educational software - spelling, math, chemistry plus totally FREE software for young children and teachers. Free educational software, maths games, educational games, spelling, math, educational freeware, spelling bee, time tables, chemistry software, free kids games, kids software, chemical software adn more!

TeachKind
TeachKind's mission is to provide you, the educator, with free high-quality lesson plans and materials that will help your students develop critical-thinking skills, empathy, compassion, and civic responsibility while empowering them to take compassionate action for animals in their own communities. We also help educators and schools implement healthy and humane educational policies that benefit students, educators, and animals. Since its creation in 2002, TeachKind has grown to become a network of more than 10,000 educators working toward a kinder, more humane world. TeachKind is the education program of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that is funded primarily by the generous donations of members and supporters.

A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
WARNING: Before entering this homeschool site, be sure small children are safely occupied, you have gone to the bathroom, and have plenty of snacks on hand. This is a large education site with lots to read and do! I am Ann Zeise, your web guide to the best and most useful sites and articles about homeschooling.

Water Crafts: for Kids and Parents - National Wildlife Federation
Fun things to do with your child as you teach them about water and the animals that depend on water for survival. Download water curriculum and incorporate them into your lessons. Read more about water in National Wildlife® magazine’s June/July 2004 water issue. Make a difference!

The World's Largest Online Library of Books - 5,000+ Research Topics
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs.

Classical Christian Homeschooling: Classical Education at Home
Classical education and its practical application in grades K-12 for homeschooling families. Here you will find historic and modern explanations of classical education, an analysis of the trivium and its components, ideas for the practical application of classical education to homeschooling from experienced homeschoolers and other educators, a complete curriculum guide and online catalog for grades K-12, networking opportunities with other classical educators, comprehensive links to Internet resources for classical education, and much more.

Heather's Homeschooling
In our lives as homeschoolers, the home-ed mailing list has been a constant source of inspiration and support. I've been active on the home-ed list since early 1993. I've collected some of my favorite posts to the home-ed list here. These posts cover a lot of territory - from anecdotes about our homeschooling experiences to basic educational philosophy to approaches to individual topics of study. I've tried to categorize the posts, but, like learning itself, some of them fall neatly into categories and others don't.

HEM's Homeschooling Information and Resource Pages
Home Education Magazine Homeschooling Information and Resource Pages presents free online newsletters, discussion boards, a networking list, and selections from the magazine, including articles, interviews, columnists, resources, reviews and more! Remember to bookmark your favorite pages at this site!

Heritage Homeschool - Home Schooling Requirements - Home Schooling Programs and Curriculum
Home schooling information, home school curriculum and resources needed to home school your children. Making Home School Work For You! Accredited, Simple, Affordable and Exciting. The Heritage Home School Academy is committed to providing a positive homeschooling experience for children, parents and teachers alike. If you're thinking about homeschooling, or are just looking for home schooling information, you can depend on us. Home schools are available to give you choices. Homeschooling provides top-quality education, flexibility, and freedom to create your own schedule. At Heritage Home School we believe the choice should be yours.

Homeschooling 101: Why We Do It
This month's Changing Face of America focuses on one aspect of how education has changed in the past fifteen years. In a three-part series, All Things Considered examines homeschooling. We begin by talking with three families across the country to find out how they homeschool. The families have written about their philosophy of home-based education and we've asked them to share Web links that have helped them in the education of their children.

Homeschooling Adventures on the Web!
Free worksheets online, as well as software to help you create your own! Links to some other sites that may be helpful in answering questions and finding ideas, tips, etc. All help for you, the teacher! Lesson plans, unit studies, resources. I have searched through hundreds of links to find some of the best lesson plans, activities, and unit studies that have been specifically designed for a homeschool setting, or that can be adapted to homeschool.

Homeschooling Answers
What you need to know about homeschooling before you start. Making the decision to homeschool is often a difficult process, but that process is worth it. You definitely wouldn't want to homeschool if it's not right for you; and you definitely wouldn't want to miss out on homeschooling if it is right for you. So do your research carefully and take the time you need to make an informed decision. Our catalog and web site offer many valuable insights into the whole homeschooling process. If you'd like to learn more, please request a free Sonlight® catalog. Or if you'd prefer, simply browse Sonlight's web site.

Homeschooling at Homeschool.com - Your Virtual Home School
Homeschooling is the most exciting movement in education today! It's not exactly new; up until 1850 most children in America were educated at home. But the past 25 years have seen a revival in homeschooling, and now between two and three million children in the United States are learning at home. Homeschool.com was created to empower parents to create the ideal school for their child at home! Homeschool.com’s founding principle is to consistently provide resources, information, and support to all homeschooling families.

Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities
Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities (http://www.specialedathome.com/) offers information and support to people who are homeschooling children with special educational needs. Access to information is linked on the scroll-down menu to the left.

Homeschooling on a Shoestring
The purpose of this website is to make available ways of cutting costs while homeschooling. We hope this will enable you to save money while maintaining a high quality of education. Some homeschoolers love bargains. Others try to cut costs out of necessity. Regardless of why you want to cut costs, our goal is to help you do the best you can to save money.

Homeschooling the LD & Special Needs Child
The Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Differences - I have put together these pages to act as a resource for those families with "special needs" kids who are considering homeschooling. I will constantly be adding to these pages - so check back periodically! I'm always on the lookout for new resources, so let me know of others that aren't listed here that will be useful for other families of special needs children.

Homeschooling: Back to the Future?
Isabel Lyman is codirector of Harkness Road High School in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a long-time homeschooling parent. The victory of homeschooled 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon in the 1997 National Spelling Bee brought new attention to the growing phenomenon of homeschooling. Dissatisfied with the performance of government-run schools, more and more American families have begun teaching their children at home. Estimates of the number of homeschooled children vary widely; the best estimate is 500,000 to 750,000, but some estimates range up to 1.23 million. All observers agree that the number has grown rapidly over the past 15 years... read more!