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Free Curriculum |
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Ambleside
Curriculum - 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. 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. |
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Old
Fashioned Education - Utilizes the Internet and free
resources as much as possible to design a complete curriculum for K
through 12th grade. Some textbooks may be required. |
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Low Cost Curriculum |
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Learning Adventures
- Covers all subjects except Math for grades 4-10. This unit study
approach with daily planning is lots of fun and lots of learning. |
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Notgrass
Company - Another great reasonably priced curriculum
supplier, especially for high school (although they have material for
all ages.). |
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Bible |
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Christian Courses - Provide various classes online for high
school and adult. Continuing Education (CE)
Certificate Programs and Course
Completion Certificates
are available. |
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Free
Homeschool Bible Study [Preschool - 3rd] Lessons A, B, C
and D are free sample lessons. |
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Narnia
Academy - this free Biblically based course on the Lion,
Witch and the Wardrobe PLUS Prince Caspian, is provided by Learning by
Grace. |
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Art and Music |
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Classics For Kids
- Great radio broadcast and wonderful website for introducing
children to classical music. |
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Museum of Modern
Art - This wonderful interactive program introduces children and
adults to various artists including Van Gogh. |
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Draw and Color with Uncle
Fred - "Uncle Fred" Lasswell, artist/writer of the comic strip
Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, leads you step by easy step through
drawing a variety of cartoon characters. All you need is a pencil and
some paper then follow the instructions page by page to draw Kitty,
Happy Puppy, Walrus, Baby Chick, and lots more. Elementary to Middle
School. |
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Free Piano Music
- From primer level to keyboard classics, this site gives you some
excellent music to help learn the piano. |
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Music Theory - Gilbert DeBenedetti has provided excellent free
worksheets on learning Music Theory.. Young or old, these lessons are
easy and clear. |
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Free 3-D
Paper Crafts from Canon- Have an inkjet printer? Print
these wonderful craft projects for all ages. Make an entire town! |
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Ricci Adams' Music Theory
- Simple lessons that are easy to use. Also provides
trainers, utilities and more! |
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Music Theory abounds on the Internet.
Music
Theory Resources |
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Mathematics |
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Figure This! - This website is designed to challenges for you
and your family. Focus is on middle school to high school students, but
advanced elementary kids will enjoy helping as well and may help them
get a jump on upper math concepts when applying them to real life. Over
80 challenges will keep you active in story problem mathematics for
quite a while. |
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Mr. Martini's Classroom
- Interactive flashcards from addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division and even Geometry. Make sure you read "how to use this page"
before you begin. |
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Math League Help
- This is a math resource for 4th through 8th grades. |
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Math for Morons
Like Us - Ok, so the name isn't great but the site contains
great math resources for pre-algebra and up. |
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Understanding Algebra
- No kidding! An online algebra text
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Purple Math
- More online Algebra in module format |
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Math to Build
On - Excerpts from the book Math to Build On, by Johnny
and Margaret Hamilton. |
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FEMA Disaster Math
- This website is predominately story problems. If you click on the
various links, you can select from multiple choice questions. Elementary
to Middle School. |
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Algebrahelp.com - Just like the name says, this website
provides lessons, worksheets and equation calculators to help you
through the tough ones. |
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Language Arts |
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Vocabulary University -
FREE vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. Latin and Greek roots are in the vocabulary
lesson plans farther down the page. |
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Literature Guides - Free PDF Study Guide for a wide variety of
classic books. Each study guide includes background information
and reproducible activity pages for students. |
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Alphabet Letter Activity Sheets - Although I do feel that Pre-K
and Kindergarten should have minimal text books and work sheets, I am
aware that some children enjoy learning "like the big kids". Here is a
great website with Alphabet Letter Activity Sheets. Use these
worksheets to teach a new letter and sound to beginning readers. |
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School
Scrabble - Use your Scrabble game for language arts and a
learning tool! Great activities, posted every couple of weeks. |
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Homeschool Spelling - (grades 6-9) Free, thirty lesson spelling
course. |
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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary not only provides a free
dictionary and Thesaurus, you can "hear" the audio of the word, check
out the word of the day and play word games on the website. If your
child is really to young for MW complete.. they have a kids section as
well! I give this one an A+ |
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Ready for
Handwriting? Check out these handwriting readiness worksheets
for your pre-K and K-1 students. If they are ready, Donna Young
makes it easy with these beginning manuscript writing worksheets.
http://www.donnayoung.org/penmanship/index.htm |
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Learn to Type
- with Dance Mat Typing! This fun interactive site is a great way to
introduce typing to your elementary and middle school aged children |
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Science |
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Steve
Spangler Science - Science doesn't require special tools or
chemistry sets... Stop by this site for some great science in your
kitchen or backyard. Great for all ages. |
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Janice Van Cleave's Science for Fun - This Discovery School page
is full of science for your curious and adventurous children. Fun facts
and experiments to do at home, this is worth a visit. |
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Cosmic
Quest - This website is a visit into outer space with the Field
Guide to the Universe.. but don't stop there.. visit "Living in Space:
Design a Space Station". Brought to you by the Children's Museum of
Indianapolis. |
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Remember, Smokey the Bear? Well, he has his own web page with
fire safety tips, games and coloring pages. Kids can sign up (with
parental permission) to receive a newsletter from Smokey. |
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History |
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American Journeys - A
wonderful journey through source documents and images of explorers,
Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers. Teacher lesson plans and
more! |
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Adventures
of the American Mind HS Program [Middle School, High
School] - A great online program combining History and Technology. |
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Great Achievements of the 20th Century -
How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will
you use today? |
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Online Field Trip |
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Wild
Sanctuary: Sound Safaris - Take a walk on the wild side using
your imagination and sounds of animals around the world. |
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Tramline's Virtual
Field Trips - For various ages and grade levels, these field
trips are full of ideas for teachers as well as considerable information
for the students. |
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Petrified Forest
National Park Virtual Tours - Illustrated online
story "The Tourist, the Park Ranger, and the Petrified Forest"
(Recommended for younger students) |
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Literature/Stories |
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Internet Public
Library - Story Hour - Illustrated stories for younger children,
ready to view and for you to read to them. |
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Phys. Ed. |
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FunnyJuggler.com - Anyone who is willing to spend a half of
an hour or so picking up dropped balls, can learn to juggle. It is
easier than most people think, even children can learn starting at
around age 7 or 8.
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Resources |
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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary not only provides a free
dictionary and Thesaurus, you can "hear" the audio of the word, check
out the word of the day and play word games on the website. If your
child is really to young for MW complete.. they have a kids section as
well! I give this one an A+ |
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Testing Prep |
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CLEP
Lesson Plans - I would not normally include this as I dislike
tripod freebie websites, but this contains some excellent information on
CLEP. |
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Free University has
more on AP Classes and CLEP tests. |
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Online
Courses - GED and College Prep, Math, Science, Electronics,
building and construction and much more.. for a great price... FREE. |
| Foreign Language |
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How to Learn any
Language - This website is about teaching yourself about
other languages. It includes many details on ease to learn, advantages
or disadvantages of the language and much more. This is a great
site! |
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Hello-World - Games, activities and songs in
various languages! |
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