Free
Homeschooling Curriculum Materials
Home schools can be expensive or not so much. Take care not to spend so much that you can't change course
while you take time to plan for the future. You will be learning
and making changes. Take advantage of
these opportunities to borrow materials or to get some free supplies
outright for your home school.
Supplies for home schools. This page has interent locations for physical materials,
curriculum and supplies. Get the homeschooling and educational for
less. You may send away
for. Free material that is available online is under the relevant
page elsewhere on A to Z Home's Cool. Use the site index or search
engine above to find free internet resources.
Multiple
Topics
Free Resources
AN A TO Z RESOURCE
A sortable database of homeschooling supplies, other learning
materails and free curriculum Some supplies and curriculum are online and off. Sort by age, topic, and specific terms.
Described and Captioned Media
Provides services to benefit students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Available to schools and families
and are a free-loan library of described and captioned educational media and information related to accessible media. U.S. Department of Education funded.
Education Publications
Free or nearly free booklets from the government for learning
activities, college planning, parenting concerns. Cover a huge
range of subjects for families, homeschooling, bullying, colleges,
distance and local school type activities.
Free Teaching
Aids
Resource books, that aren't free, which list lots of things that
are available to homeschool parents as well as teachers.
Freecycle Network
Made up of many individual groups across the globe, it's a grassroots
movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free
in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer
moderator (them's good people). Membership is free.
Lesson Plans
AN A to Z RESOURCE
Websites that have planning home schools can use. The structured lesson plans
are helpful. Usually these have
goals and objectives and meet state standards for home schools.
Video Placement Worldwide
VPW offers educational materials FREE to qualified teachers,
librarians, media specialists, and youth leaders throughout the
United States, courtesy of some of America's leading companies
and organizations.
Animals &
Pets
Bear Safety in Alaska packet
Booklet and sticker to send for, or download pdf file and print
for yourself.
TeachKind
Kindness to animals. Videos, DVDs, lesson plans, worksheets all
free to network members. About how to affect the kind treatment
of all animals.
Arts
& Crafts
eCals -
Calendars for Kids Recycling Program
Need old calendars for craft projects for your kids. Have your
family
donate some old calendars? Find more craft and arts materials for
specail projects.
Computing
Free Color
Printer from Xerox
If you are running a home business, an association or large support
group, a resource center or cottage school, you may qualify.
You must buy all ink through them, and report on your usage.
Homeschooling is a perfect enviroment for learning the value of
utilizing business resources offered to the educational community
including home schools.
Free
Computers
Why throw away that 486 machine when its perfectly usable? Here
is a very incomplete list of groups involved in reusing computer
equipment.
Freebyte's
Guide to Free Computers
Free used and recycled computers, mostly for schools, non-profit
organizations and disadvantaged individuals.
Health
& Safety
FEMA Publications
Order a Disaster Public Information Catalog to find out all the
materials that FEMA offers. You can call, toll-free 1-800-480-2520.
NICHD/Milk
Matters Clearinghouse
View, download as .pdf file, or send away for brochures about
milk. Also available in Spanish.
Safe Kids
Order free booklets about safety around electricity and natural gas.
Will
Rogers Institute Educational Resources
Educational material on health issues for teens.
Homeschool-Specific
Tip: Many books specifically on home schooling can be found
under the Dewey Decimal call numbers 371.042 and
649.68 at your public library.
101 Ways to Save Money on
Homeschooling
This free e-book by Carletta Sanders can help you save hundreds of dollars by showing you what to buy, where to buy it, where to find freebies, how to have fun on a budget, and how to earn income from home.
Internet Site Hosting
A2Z Homeschool Blogs
AN A TO Z RESOURCE
A free hosting service for homeschoolers wanting to learn about
blogging and teaching online writing to thier children. 160
templates and social networking monitored for families and
homeschooling class work. Visit our
Homeschool Community.
Free Social Project Management Tools
AN A TO Z RESOURCE
Share your homeschooling plans on the web.
Math, economics,
journalism
Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Free curriculum about money, monetary policy, banking supervision,
financial services, and more for elementary through high school
students.
The Kingdom
Of Ern
Free book teaching economics to children. The free book explains the relationship between productivity
and inflation to kids. From Monetta Mutual Funds.
Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
30 copies may be a bit much for one homeschool family. Home school
groups, church groups, study home school groups may
be just right for an ISP or support group needing 30 copies 9 times a year at a good discounted price.
Reading and reporting assignment 9 times a year and share online
at a2zhomeschool.com the Homeschool Community
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