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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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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
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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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