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Helpful Homeschool Websites

Curriculum
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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. OCHEC has an open policy for using their discount group. The group discount code is #291062. This applies to new applications and renewals.
Homeschool forums
vegsource.com/homeschool/
Homeschooling forum and swap boards
Homeschool Books and Materials Suppliers
Christianbook.com
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!
Educational Websites
Enchanted Learning
Lots of free resources, reproducibles, etc.
Homeschool Books and Materials Suppliers
ICC Kits
At ICC Kits, we sell > model-sized house > building kits that are used to teach students the > basics in the fields > of architecture,construction, and drafting. ICC > Kits has been in > business since 1977,and our kits are well-known > amongst public and > private schools, as well as colleges.
Educational Websites
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."
Educational Websites
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!
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
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!
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
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?
Educational Websites
Knowledge Quest Maps
Historical outline maps and timelines designed for the interactive study of world history and geography.
Educational Websites
Spelling City
A great website for spelling games, lists, etc. Great fun!
Educational Websites
Free Spelling Lists
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Spelling advice/worksheets
Spelling advice and worksheets
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
Bright Kids
Looking for a great list of twaddle-free literature for children listed by suggested age levels?
Educational Websites
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!
Educational Websites
Rainforest Math
Interactive mathematics activities K-6
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
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!
Educational Websites
Astronomy
Do you have a budding astronomer or astronaut? Check out this site
Educational Websites
Science With Me
Fun science experiments
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Dallas Zoo Education
Educator Workshops at the Dallas Zoo.
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
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!
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National Zoo
Animal webcams at the national zoo will enhance your study of animals without leaving your living room.
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Bible puzzles
Printable Bible word puzzles your children will enjoy while you reinforce their knowledge of scripture
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Teach Art at Home
Free art projects. Has a number of great art projects for young and old.
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
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.
Educational Websites
Wolfram MathWorld
Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource
Educational Websites
How to Homeschool
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:
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Chemistry Experiments you can do at home
I found some fun chemistry projects while I was searching
Adobe Reader Download
Download the latest version of Adobe Reader to read those wonderful pdf documents for FREE!
Educational Websites
Chemistry Apologia Helps