Here are links to some great freebie homeschooling and teaching resources either on the web or as pdf downloads:
American Sign Language Freebies:
Animals
- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s Zookeeper Training Game
- A free unit study on bony fishes
- A free unit study on invertebrates
Art Freebies:
- A great recycling crafts pdf book
- A neat series of online video art lessons with artist Jan Brett
- A site with lots of free online video drawing, painting and digital art lessons
Christmas Freebies:
Some really good Christmas craft websites:
- http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/index.shtml#kids
- http://crafts.kaboose.com/holidays/christmas/our-featured-christmas-crafts.html
- http://familyfun.go.com/christmas/
- http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Christmas-Crafts-for-Kids.html
- A fun melting snowman craft
Early Learning Freebies:
- Some preschool lesson ideas to help with learning letters
- This site has fun activities to do when teaching children letters, numbers, colors, and shapes
- A site full of worksheets and activities for young learners. Just click on one of the subjects in the column on the left to find printables for that subject.
- A site with free coloring and puzzle pages
- A site of worksheets and other things for kindergarten
- Education.com’s kindergarten worksheets and printables
Easter Activities:
- Easter Worksheets
- Marbled Paper Eggs
- Yarn Crosses
- Yarn Wrapped Eggs
- Egg Bunny
- Easter Puzzles
- Easter Coloring Pages
- A Free Book with 21 Easter Activities
Geography Freebies:
- This site has some handy outline maps you can print out
- A free pdf on how to use a map and compass
- A free pdf lesson on navigation
Grammar Freebies:
- A site with over 400 free grammar lesson
- A site with songs to help teach grammar
- Grammar 101 for upper elementary grades and higher
- A grammar site for people high school age or older
- On this site kids pretend that they are newspaper editors and learn proof-reading skills.
- A site where you can practice your grammar using Mad Libs
- A site to help kids learn the difference between confusing words such as, lie vs lay
- A free mini punctuation unit
- A site of free grammar lessons
- A site with fun grammar games
- A site with information on how to use commas that includes quizzes
- A free grammar course!
- A site where kids fill in the adjectives, etc… to create a story
History Freebies:
- Sue’s Free Pilgrim Activities
- Sue’s free King Philip’s War (and colonial) activities
- A site where you discover what was happening back in time in various places
- A site with free reprints of old historical newspapers
- A site full of games and information for history studies
- BBC site full of games and information for history studies
- A great site full of recipes for different time periods in history
Literature Freebies:
Math Freebies:
- A site with Free Math Videos for Middle School
- Math mad libs for third and fourth graders: make-up your own silly math problems!
- Math worksheets for primary grades
- A pdf full of math games using playing cards
- A website where you can generate free elementary math worksheets
- A website full of free math worksheets
Magazines:
- Free online subscription to Canada’s Homeschooler’s Guide
- Free online subscription to Home Educator’s Family Times
- Classical Homeschooling
Misc. Freebies:
- A site with over 2100 free videos explaining high school level subjects
- The American Boys Handy Book–A great old-fashioned boys activity book from the late 1800s.
- The American Girls Handy Book–A great old-fashioned girls activity book from the late 1800s
- Some online interactive lessons on a variety of subjects
- A site with lots of great online education games. However, there are some games on this site that aren’t particularly educational, so be sure to look it over first.
- Lakeshore Learning has lots of printables for educators
- New Beginnings has a free curriculum planner
- A free E-book with information on helping your homeschooler get into college
- A site with lots of free unit studies for elementary school
- Scholastic’s site of free unit studies for elementary school
- A site full of free printable mazes
- Enchanted Learning’s Site which is full of free activities for elementary school
- Quiz Tree’s site is full of free quizes and games on many subjects
Money Freebies:
- Investor Warren Buffett’s site that teaches kids about business and investing
- A site to help teach financial literacy
Music Freebies:
- The folks at Carnegie Hall have come up with a fun online game to teach children about orchestras
- A free online guitar course
Newsletters:
Science Freebies:
- Sue’s Free Plant Unit Study
- Sue’s Free Atoms and Molecules Unit Study
- Some NASA activities for teaching optics
- A USDA website that helps kids learn about nutrition
- A site with a virtual tour of the sun
- A site with chemistry worksheets and labs for middle and high school students
- A site where you can learn about various elements by clicking on the periodic table
- A site with online science games
- A great site for learning about cell biology
- A video that tells how to make a model electric generator
- Directions on how to make a model electric generator
- A free course of freshwater research
Sewing Freebies:
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