| Educational Helps |
Donna Young's Printables and Resources
From a member who enjoys this site: "I love to use 'Donna Young's Printables and Resources for Homeschools and Classrooms.' I use her homeschool planner forms, handwriting forms, household planner forms, and others. She also offers general information about homeschooling. And it's all free." |
Enchanted Learning
This is not a fancy commercial website, but you'll find TONS of usable things here. They do have a pay site for members, but there are literally thousands of educational resources available free of charge. Here a some sample categories: Animals, Crafts, K-3 Theme Pages, Astronomy, Dinosaurs, "Label Me!" Printouts, Books to Print, Geography, Math, Calendars, Graphic Organizers, Picture Dictionary, and over 17,000 more! |
Puzzlemaker (Discovery Channel)
Try this fun online puzzle generator for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Site also contains lots of other resources, many free, from the Discovery Channel. |
Reference Desk
This amazing web page gives you online access to virtually every type of information you can imagine: dictionaries, news sources, calculators, encyclopedias, magazines, style and writing guides, and much, much more. This is one you'll want to bookmark! |
Academic Kids Encyclopedia
Looking for an online encyclopedia with beautiful pictures that can be easily enlarged, lesson plans, clip art and coloring pages? Academic Kids encyclopedia is a beautiful resource with over 40,000 articles at your fingertips and even has an extensive math worksheet section on everything from Roman numerals to printable graph paper. |
Top 100 Teacher Resource Sites
How about a list of the top 100 educational sites for teacher resources for everything from grammar resources to free printable forms? |
Knowledge Quest Maps
Historical outline maps and timelines designed for the interactive study of world history and geography. |
Homeschool Freebie of the Day
Something free for homeschooling Monday through Friday. Check it every weekday so you don't miss anything. |
| Art/Music |
Teach Art at Home
Free art projects. Has a number of great art projects for young and old. |
| Bible |
Bible puzzles
Printable Bible word puzzles your children will enjoy while you reinforce their knowledge of scripture |
Through the Bible with My Child
An engineer father realized his responsibility to teach his children and decided to make note of some questions to ask about their Bible reading. Later he decided to compile the notes into a website but was told it would be a good book. Through the Bible with My Child is the finished product. http://anchorcross.org/books.shtml It is also available as a pdf download right from that link (in the second or third paragraph).
So, if you are looking for a Bible study program for your kids this year ( and the next several years to come) you might check this one out. |
| Government |
White House for Kids
Interesting and educational link. There are videos, virtual tours, games and quizzes for every age. |
| History/Geography |
Best of History
An award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. |
A Book in Time
A Book in Time originally began as a chronological history booklist, but listings of crafts, timelines, maps, and other resources have been added over the years. Their purpose is to help history teachers find all kinds of extracurricular resources to enrich their classes! |
| Language Arts |
Spelling advice/worksheets
Spelling advice and worksheets |
Spelling City
Revolutionary free spelling site that lets you put in your own spelling list, and students can hear the words in a real human voice, and play games with them. You can even use it as your weekly spelling test with the testing feature. One other incredibly cool perk is the ability to create handwriting worksheets out of the spelling words!! |
As You Type (Spelling Helps)
If your homeschooler does most of his or her writing on the computer, this is a wonderful program to install because it not only spell checks as they type, but keeps track of their misspelled words in a file, so you can collect them for further spelling study, or spelling lists. |
Skillwise Spelling
This site focuses on the ?why?s? behind our spelling rules, and examines words from every angle. The site includes sections on root words, prefixes and suffixes, homophones, letter patterns, silent letters and more. Interactive games help students practice each of the concepts taught, and most of the lessons include printable factsheets for further reference and instruction. |
Spelling Corrector (Free Online)
Similar to the Franklin spelling corrector, but in an easy to access web version. No matter what the word, or how strangely it is entered, the LookWayup program will decipher the word and give you the correct spelling and definition. Only know how the word sounds phonetically? No problem. Just type in the sounds you hear, and the program will tell you its top choice based on your input, and then list other possible choices underneath. |
Basic Spelling Rules
This is a site called Basic Spelling Rules that has it boiled down to eight rules with online practice tests. |
Spelling Lists
Free spelling lists -- wow! |
| Literature |
Project Gutenberg
How would you like to have access to thousands of books including many of the classics without spending a dime or leaving your home? Project Gutenberg has ebooks to download for free. |
Bright Kids
Looking for a great list of twaddle-free literature for children listed by suggested age levels? |
| Math |
Math Worksheet Creator
I just found a great worksheet creator. I used to have one that I downloaded, but it is only good for up to about 3rd grade. This one you can make work a little longer! |
Math Worksheets
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Interactive math games
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Math Dictionary
An awesome, interactive Math resource. Broken down alphabetically kids can click on a wide range of Math terms from abacus to zero! Not only will they get a definition, but they also get a little demonstration of how the concept works! From Acre, binary system, co-efficient to dodecahedron this has information to keep your child learning for hours! |
Rainforest Math
Interactive mathematics activities K-6 |
Wolfram MathWorld
Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource |
Kid's and Money
This website is brimming with great esources to teach about wise spending, saving money and managing finances. |
Math Games
This site presents a collection of games and puzzles with mathematical contents and a few practice exercises disguised as games.
There are a few games whose purpose is to allow for a relaxation period before or after taking up the mathematical challenges. One does have to relax from time to time. |
Cyberchase
I love this website, it is colorful and fun. It has all kinds of games and activities from math, to creating e-cards, games, club
adventures and even a parents link. This site is fun! |
| Physical Education |
President Challenge Fitness
Help in setting fitness goals for your children with specific exercises and evaluations. You may also order "awards" through the website when goals are reached. |
| Science |
Science Site
Good weather and solar system pictures. |
Chemistry Website
Full of information about teaching chemistry to kids. |
Astronomy
Do you have a budding astronomer or astronaut? Check out this site |
Science With Me
Fun science experiments |
Dallas Zoo Education
Educator Workshops at the Dallas Zoo. |
KidsHealth.org
Click on a body part to watch movies, take quizzes & solve word finds. Looking for simple animation of the human heart pumping or of muscles contracting and expanding? This has dozens of video clips and diagrams that are designed with the elementary student in mind. |
Africa Wildcam
Studying Africa or animals? This link will take you to a live camera feed at Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa. We've seen elephants, gazelles, crocodiles and exotic birds. Remember, it is a live feed and they are 7 hours ahead of us, so there isn't always something exciting happening, but beware, when you learn the times to tune in, this can be addicting! |
National Zoo
Animal webcams at the national zoo will enhance your study of animals without leaving your living room. |
Eagle Cam
This is a site that has a live camera shot of an eagle and her eggs
it has live video of Mom and the eggs. Scroll down for more info on the
Eagle. |
Chemistry Experiments You Can Do at Home
I found some fun chemistry projects while I was searching |
| College |
Info for college-bound students
To register your high school student for the PSAT or SAT exam, you will need to go here. In addition, this offers extensive information for parents including scholarship advice, practice exams and study tips for students. |
| Homeschool Helps |
Home School Legal Defense Association
The Home School Legal Defense Association is a non-profit 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. Being a member of HERO qualifies you for a group discount to HSLDA! |
T.H.E. Coalition
Tulsa Home Educators. HERO is a proud member of THE Coalition. |
OCHEC
Oklahoma Christian Home Educators Consociation. HERO is an Affiliated Member of OCHEC. Click on the link to get information concerning the annual State Convention in Oklahoma City, Capitol Day, or the Homeschool Leaders' Retreat. |
Adacemic Advantages
Jo Anne Bennett's website. This site offers help with educational consulting and resources. |
National Home Education Research Institute
NHERI is the 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. The institute has hundreds of research works documented and catalogued on home schooling, many of which were done by NHERI. Simply put, NHERI specializes in homeschool research. |
How to Homeschool -- Free eBook
Do you know someone who is thinking of homeschooling? Are you new to homeschooling and looking for some answers? Cindy Downes is offering a free, e-book entitled, Homeschool-How to Get Started on her website. It answers questions such as:
What is homeschooling?
Is it legal?
Do homeschooled students get into college?
What about Socialization?
How do I get started?
What supplies do I need to homeschool?
How do I know I am teaching my child everything he needs to know?
How does my child get a diploma?
How do I schedule my homeschool?
What subjects do I teach?
How do I give high school credits?
How do I create a transcript?
What are learning styles and how do I use them to teach my child?
What teaching method should I use?
What is a scope and sequence?
How do I choose curriculum?
How do I keep records?
For more info or to get your copy, go to her webpage at: http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/HSGetSeBook.html |
Homeschool ID Card **FREE**
This is a free homeschool ID card -- you can even put a photo on it! Wow! |
| Computer Helps |
Microsoft FREE Word Viewer
Word 97-2000 Viewer
This freeware program allows users who do not own Microsoft Word to view and print documents that were created in Word. The latest version of Word Viewer can open documents created with all previous versions of Word for Windows and version 4.x and later of Microsoft Word for Macintosh. |
Adobe Reader for pdf Files
Click on this Adobe Reader link to download the latest free software if you are unable to view pdf files. |
OpenOffice
This is a free suite of programs similar to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It will open these files and you will be able to make changes too. |
Serif Software
PagePlus is similar to Publisher but it is free. It also has 4 other programs that are free downloads as well. Check it out, there might be something there you or your children can use. |
Irfanview
Irfanview is a free downloadable program that allows you to view and print graphics and more. When you get to the website, click on What Is Irfanview? on the left hand side to find out more about this wonderful little program. |
| Driver's Permit/License |
Dept. of Public Safety
The manual is here in pdf to download. The listing of places to take driver's test is also here. You want the DRIVER LICENSES AND IDS section on the left hand side. |
