| Legal Information for HS |
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. |
Texas Home School Coalition (THSC)
THSC is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving and informing the home school community and promoting home education in Texas. |
| Athletics/Physical Education |
President's Challenge Fitness Program
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. |
Home School Athletic Association
North Texas' Home School Sports Association. |
| Art |
Shirley's Prepackaged Crafts
Shirley's Prepackaged Crafts are a way for a mom to spend 5 to 15 minutes with their preschoolers doing fun crafts without having to spend ANY time prepping. The preschool non-curriculum for homeschoolers. |
Teach Art at Home
Free art projects. Has a number of great art projects for young and old. |
Kinder Art
Free Art Lessons! |
DLTK
fun stuff and art |
Klutz Crafts & More
Klutz publishes great craft and activity books and kits. Learn something new today, even if you are a Klutz. |
Creative Arts Theater School
A great destination for a fieldtrip. |
How Great Thou Art
Art for all levels by Barry Stebbing, an excellent art teacher! |
The Katrina School of Art
This site explains the Katrina School of Art, a one-week advanced school held near the Rockies in beautiful Montana. |
| Christian Living |
Hollywood and God
This website is committed to fighting the profanity coming from Hollywood. |
Screen It
Although not written from an expressly Christian perspective, these movie reviews give you the kind of details you want to know before allowing your children (or yourself!) to see a movie. |
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews from moral perspective. |
Movie Guide
check it our before buying tickets |
Beautiful Girlhood
This area of Vision Forum's excellent website is specifically designed to help girls become godly young ladies. |
Crosswalk
A little bit of everything to encourage your family in their Christian walk. |
Desiring God
John Piper is one of the foremost Christian teachers alive today. His teaching adheres to scripture and will challenge you while also encouraging you. |
Dr. S. M. Davis
Many excellent audio series for issues homeschooling families face in raising children in a lost world. |
The All-American Boys' Adventure Catalog
Vision forum caters to the boy who wants adventure along with godliness at this site. |
Do Hard Things/The Rebelution
Brett and Alex Harris encourage our young people to rebel against low expectations! |
Clear Play
A system to allow your family to filter out the sex, violence, and foul language from the movies you want to watch. |
| Classical Education |
Sonlight Curriculum
Sonlight Curriculum® is a Christian homeschooling company that specializes in literature-based homeschooling programs. We provide complete homeschool programs and individual homeschool materials so you can build the curriculum that best meets your family's needs. |
Heart of Wisdom
The Heart of Wisdom Publishing Company publishes a variety of homeschool materials to help Christian families bring up children with a heart's desire for true wisdom and knowledge from the Lord.
The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach begins with the Bible as the center of education. Academics play an important part, but they are secondary. |
The Well Trained Mind
A guide to classical education at home. |
| Curriculum and Materials Sources |
A Beka Book
Three decades ago, God raised up A Beka Book to provide Christian schools with Godhonoring, high-quality textbooks and teaching aids to help each school fulfill the goal of its ministry. |
Alpha Omega Publications
Alpha Omega Publications has been revolutionizing education since 1977 by developing innovative Christian curricula and providing outstanding service and support. The AOP story blossomed from a vision to provide families, Christian schools, and bookstores with outstanding educational products. |
Bob Jones University Press
BJU Press produces explicitly Christian texts with the best scholarship to help students learn to do critical analysis, to solve problems and to consider values in making godly choices in their lives. |
Rainbow Resource Center
Learning tools for homes and schools. |
Chrisitan Book Distributors
Christianbook.com, the online home of Christian Book Distributors (CBD), has been providing the Christian community with the best in Christian products for over 22 years. Whether they happened on a CBD catalog years ago and have ordered ever since or they found us online while surfing, folks throughout the Christian community have come to know CBD and Christianbook.com. Many love the tremendous selection of well over 80,000 items in 30 specialized categories like Bibles, reference works, music, homeschool, videos, fiction, kids or gifts to name just 8. Some know us as the company with the great customer service and product specialists, or the online tools for choosing products like study Bibles or software. All know us as the company with the best prices everyday, period. In many ways and for different reasons, hundreds of thousands of folks have come to rely on CBD and Christianbook.com over the years. We invite you to become one of them! |
Book Peddler
Homeschooling books for homeschooling families. Discount prices. |
School of Tomorrow / Accelerated Christian Education (A.C.E.)
Self-paced curriculum, all subjects, all levels. Free online diagnostic testing helps you determine where to start in each subject. Bible-based, worldwide headquarters in Lewisville, TX. |
Sing N Learn
"Sing 'n Learn was established by Fred and Sarah Cooper of Garland, TX, in 1991 as a source for products which use music to teach facts such as geography, Presidents, books of the Bible, and Bible verses. In addition to the musical sets, we sell other auditory products such as story tapes, audio books, and radio theater. |
Library and Educational Services
Don't let the rather plain name of this company fool you. They consistently have the very lowest prices on Christian and educational books, videos, audiobooks, bibles, etc. Their newsletter features great sale prices. |
Cornerstone Curriculum
Building a biblical worldview and some of the finest fine arts curriculum resources available have been favorites of ours for years. |
Lifetime Books and Gifts
Founded by long-time homeschoolers who believe in the Living Books approach to teaching, Lifetime Books and Gifts have provided literally dozens of valuable resources to our family over the years. If you're looking for a standard textbook approach to education, this site is not for you, but if you love REAL books and desire to use them as your primary teaching tool, you will love this company. |
Free educational printouts
Here you can print out a model of a farm, castle, village and more. Has free activities for early learning and for fun! |
| Discovery Learning and Unit Studies |
Five in a Row
A unit study approach. |
KONOS
A character unit study curriculum for homeschoolers. |
Tapestry of Grace
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Home-Made Living
A wonderful site about a mother who uses the Charlotte Mason methods. |
Hands On Homeschooling
Curricula for Toddlers and Preschoolers with sample lessons, lesson overviews, and lists of skills to work on with children at age 2, 3, 4, and 5. |
Advanced Training Institute
Character and Bible based unit-study style program for home schoolers. Also emphasized apprenticeships for older students. |
| Fun Links for Students |
ABC Toon Center
Theme park fun for young students. |
Billy Bear 4 Kids
Making computers fun for kids and parents. |
National Zoo
Animal webcams at the National Zoo will enhance your study of animals without leaving your living room. |
Bible Puzzles
Printable Bible word puzzles your children will enjoy while you reinforce their knowledge of scripture. |
Gamequarium
lots of short educational video clips for all ages |
Brain Pop
Reinfornce learning with fun games. |
Kids Bank
Learn all about money and banking. |
Kids Space
International Kids' Space for creative activities such as pen pals, art gallery, and more. |
Cyber Kids
a place for fun and games |
| Helpful Links for Home Educators |
Vegsource
Homeschool talk and swap board. |
Home schooling curriculum reviews and archives.
Home schooling curriculum reviews and archives. |
Homeschool Highlights
By Dean & Karen Andreola. |
Texas Home Educators
The place to start your search for information on home schooling in Texas. |
The Gutenberg Project
A website dedicated to posting public domain books online. It's like going to the library from your computer but no due dates.
"Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks." - gutenberg.org |
Home Educators Resource Directory (HERD)
A fabulous, user friendly site filled with worldwide comprehensive resources for the home educator. Extensive listings of support groups in every state. |
The 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! |
Homeschooling Family To Family
This organization's mission is to encourage every experienced Christian homeschool family to mentor one new family into homeschooling each year and to help build a bridge to Christian homeschooling for families contemplating homeschooling. |
National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
NHERI is "the principal source for home education research on the Internet. |
Find & Contact Your Elected Officials
Enter your street address on this website to find your state congressional district and to see who represents you in the Texas House of Representatives, State Senate, State Board of Education, and the Texas delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. (U.S. Senators are elected by the entire state, but your U.S. Representatives are elected by congressional district.) Includes complete contact information. |
North Texas Home Educators Network
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Texas Advocates for Freedom In Education
Texas Advocates for Freedom in Education - Texas homeschool information and resources. Taffie has both an announcement list for events and a general discussion list. Taffie is the oldest Texas homeschool mailing list. The website includes resources, statewide events, and support group information. |
Home Educators Resource
HER is a local source of everything you will need to homeschool your child with confidence. Great prices on new and used materials. |
Hearth & Home Bookfair Arlington, TX
Annual homeschool book fair in Arlington. Held on Mothers' Day Weekend (Friday & Saturday) each year at the Arlington Convention Center. |
Veritas Press
Veritas Press, the king and innovators in the resurgence of classical education among homeschoolers states its, ?commitment to providing christian educators in the home and school setting with quality tools for a quality education.? Dedicated to ?raising the bar? for the American educational system, their reading lists and art resources are top notch and will challenge your concept of how old children have to be before they are capable of understanding difficult concepts. |
Home School E-Cards
Send an E-card to encourage someone today. Designed by home educators for home educators. A FREE service of Titus2.com |
White House
all about the white house |
Best Educational Sites
lots of links for you to check out |
Whole Heart Online
This site is home of the wonderful resource by Clay and Sally Clarkson, Educating the Whole-hearted Child. |
| Homeschooling Magazines |
Homeschooling Today
One of the top homeschooling magazines. |
Homeschool World
The official website of Practical Homeschooling magazine and Mary Pride's Complete Book of Homeschooling. Shop online for homeschooling books, DVDs, and materials of all kinds. Find Information on events and organizations around the country. |
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
Each 200-page quarterly issue of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is packed with articles covering different teaching styles, current homeschooling issues and events, and encouraging articles from homeschoolers just like you! Featured in the magazine and on the website are noted Christian authors such as Elisabeth Elliot, Joni Eareckson Tada, John Taylor Gatto, Ken Ham, Josh McDowell, Dr. Ruth Beechick, Little Bear Wheeler, Michael and Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Michael Farris (HSLDA), Josh Harris, Susan Wise Bauer, and others. Visit the website to get a sample issue of the magazine or to find helpful resources for homeschooling. |
The Teaching Home
A 64-page bimonthly magazine with a distinctively Christian perspective on home education. A reader writes, "The Teaching Home has truly been inspiring to me over the years. I have been getting it since I started home schooling. It has been worth far more than the amount I've paid for subscriptions. I'll always treasure my past issues." |
Home School Enrichment
Magazine for homeschooling parents with an extensive list of articles monthly, including unit study ideas, encouragement, reviews, features, and much more. |
| Hunt County Area Attractions |
Children's Museum-Commerce
fun field trip place |
Angel Food Ministry
Look how far $30 will go in your food budget! Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing food relief and contributing to benevolent outreaches in communities throughout the United States. |
| Language Arts |
Starfall
Teaching comprehension and phonics to young children. |
The Literature Network
Another website that posts public domain books online. It's like going to the library from your computer but no due dates.
"We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes." - online-literature.com |
Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW)
Comprehensive writing curriculum. Recommended by Susan Bauer (Well-Trained Mind) and many others. |
Writing Strands
Comprehensive writing curriculum. Recommended by Susan Bauer (Well-Trained Mind) and many others. |
Spelling City
A great website for spelling games, lists, etc. Great fun! |
All About Spelling
Free Spelling Lists |
Spelling Helps
Spelling advice/worksheets. |
Bright Kids
Looking for a great list of twaddle-free literature for children listed by suggested age levels? |
National Christian Forensics and Communications Association
(NCFCA) believes that formal speech and debate can provide a means for home schooled students to learn and exercise analytical and oratorical skills, addressing life issues from a Biblical world view in a manner that glorifies God. |
Starfall
This website teaches basic phonics and will help you teach your kids to read. has neat games, books and activities! Very kid friendly! |
| Lapbooks |
Lapbook Making
Learn to do these great hands on projects to enhance learning! |
Lapbbok Printables
Print your own lapbook templates |
Free Online Lapbooks
free lapbooks to make with your kids! learn and have fun! |
Lapbook Site
Lots of help for making learning fun! |
More on Lapbooks
More good info and printables for lapbooks! |
| Math |
Batter's Up Baseball Math Game
Learn multiplication like a real slugger! |
Copy Cat Jack
Repeat the colors in this Simon-like game. |
Math-U-See
A manipulative-based K-12 math curriculum. |
Math Score
Online Math Practice |
Math Worksheets
The name says it all |
Interactive Math Games
Educational math fun. |
Math Dictionary for Kids
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 Maths
Interactive Math activities for K-6. |
Math Cats
math fun for kiddos |
Web Math
solve your math problems here! |
| Music |
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
DSO has a wonderful educational sight for site for teachers and kids! |
Music
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| Parent Taught Driver's Ed |
National Driver Training Institute
Driver's Ed. |
Driver Ed in a Box
Pat Barret teaches collision-free driving with the use of commentary and lots of behind-the-wheel practice. |
Curb Buster
Driver's Ed. |
Driver Ed at Home
Just what it says! :o) |
Texas Driver Traffic Safety Ed. Assoc.
Driver's Ed. |
Virtual Drive of Texas
Driver's Ed. |
Driver's Ed Dot Com
More driver's ed. :0-) |
I Drive Safely
Safe Driving Ed. :0) |
| Science |
Institute for Creation Research
"The Institute for Creation Research equips believers with evidences of the Bible?s accuracy and authority through scientific research, educational programs, and media presentations, all conducted within a thoroughly biblical framework." - icr.org |
Answers in Genesis
"Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (i.e., Christianity-defending) ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith, and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively." - answersingenesis.org |
World Wide Flood
An educational fieldtrip that explores a feasible design range for Noah's Ark and helps to explain the existing knowledge relating to those 3 chapters of Genesis that compose Noah's Flood. |
The True Orgin Archive
"The TrueOrigin Archive comprises an intellectually honest response to what in fairness can only be described as evolutionism - the doctrine of strict philosophical naturalism as a necessary presupposition in matters of science history (i.e., origins)." -www.trueorigin.org |
Inner Life of a Cell Animation (view first)
Microscopic science comes to your home! |
Inner Life of a Cell Animation (view second)
Select your connection speed on the left. |
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! |
Astronomy
Do you have a budding astronomer or astronaut? Check out this site! |
Home Educators' Science Partnership
Home Educator's Science Partnership: information on participating in a science fair for elementary and highschoolers |
Science With Me
Fun science experienments. |
Dallas Zoo Education
Educator Workshops at the Dallas Zoo. |
Peep And The Big Wide World
Games and episodes for young 'uns. |
Science Fair
Wonderful information to help you prepare for the CHEFS Science Fair. |
Weather
all about the weather |
How Stuff Works
Are you curious about how the world works? Find out here! |
Chemistry
learn chemistry the fun way! |
Try Science
Roll up your sleeves and have some science fun today! |
Science University
science is tons of fun! |
Home Educators Science Partnership
Noth Texas Science Fair |
Mad Scientist Lab
cool science fun for students |
BEST Robotics--Boosting Engineering, Science, & Technology
Our Mission
To inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, technology, and math through participation in a sports-like science- and engineering-based robotics competition |
Creation Evidences
This site keeps families up with the happenings and publications of the Creation Evidences Museum in Glenrose, TX. |
| Social Studies/History |
Beautiful Feet Books
This curriculum allows the student to learn American and world history using REAL literature, not just textbooks. Several age and ability levels. |
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! |
Social Studies For Kids
Have a great time learning about many Social Studies topics. |
Hands and Hearts History
Make History fun with these kits! |
US History
history of US |
World History
World History is a very helpful site to enrich your studies. |
Presidents
all about the presidents |
Early America
All about the early days of the USA |
Geography
Learn all about geography and have fun doing it! |
History Place
Learn what life was like in the past. |
Lone Star Junction
All about Texas! Yee-Haw! |
Alamo
learn all about it |
Texas Indians
All about the Texas Tribes. |
Famous Texans
Learn about the people who have made this state GREAT! |
civil war
all about the civil war |
Lewis and Clark
Go west with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Explore US History with PBS. |
Ancient Egypt
learn about it here! |
Colonial Williamsburg
all you ever wanted to know |
Liberty's Kids
kids learn about the beginnings of the USA |
Wall Builders
History that digs into the original intent of the constitution and the fledgeling U. S. government as established by our founding fathers. |
| Special Needs Children |
Texas Special Kids
Texas' Special Kids is a nonprofit ministry whose purpose is to help families with special-needs children. Doug and Patsy Arnold, who are parents of a special-needs child, minister through the organization to provide connections to people and resources. If you are not sure whether your child has "special needs," ask yourself these two questions: 1) Do the child's needs require a non-traditional approach to instruction? 2) Do the child's needs affect the family's lifestyle? If the answer to either question is "Yes," then this is the place to begin your search for help. |
National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network
Christian Families Homeschooling Special Needs Children
NATHHAN'S Goal
and Purpose:
To encourage homeschooling families with special needs children, in ways that glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ and equip parents to confidently raise their children with special needs or disabilities. |
| Worksheets, Forms, Tools, Organization |
A Kid's Heart
A play and learn site with free rexources for kids and their teachers. |
Enchanted Learning
Lots of printable resources, reproducibles, etc. |
Donna Young
Home school printables & resources. A wonderful sight! |
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. |
Miller Pads and Paper
art suppleis, cheap |
The Learning Page
free educational printouts for kids up to 3rd grade |
Handipoints Make Fun of Work!
Handipoints is a fun way to earn cool Rewards for completing your chores, homework, and simply lending others a hand! FREE! This site is a great tool for parent educators. |
Homeschooling at the Speed of Life
Many tips to help moms design their own plan for managing their homeschools. |
