Below are links to some great freebie homeschooling and teaching resources either on the web or as pdf downloads. Please let me know if you have problems with any of the sites or links.
American Sign Language Freebies:
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
- YouTube art lessons
- Art Lessons for Kindergarten through College Level
Christmas Freebies:
Some really good Christmas craft websites:
- http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/index.shtml#kids
- http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Christmas-Crafts-for-Kids.html
- A fun melting snowman craft
- A snow playdough recipe
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
- Education.com’s kindergarten worksheets and printables
Easter Activities:
- Marbled Paper Eggs
- Easter Coloring Pages
- A free Resurrection set to cut out, color, and assemble
- Easter Finger Puppets from pipe cleaners
Economics Freebies:
Fourth of July Freebies:
- Education.com’s 4th of July Activities
- Enchanted Learning’s 4th of July Activities
- Apples for the Teacher’s 4th of July Activities
Geography Freebies:
- An online states and capitols quiz
- A site where you can print out very large maps
- A site full of Geography online activities
- A site of historic maps you can print out
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 site to help kids learn the difference between confusing words such as, lie vs lay
- A free mini punctuation unit
- A site with free grammar games. It’s for ESL, but can be used by all.
History Freebies:
- Sue’s Free Pilgrim Activities
- Sue’s free King Philip’s War (and colonial) Activities
- Sue’s free Salem Witch Trial (and colonial) Activities
- Sue’s free Revolutionary War Activities
- Sue’s free Pioneer Activities
- Sue’s free Civil War Activities
- A site full of games and information for history studies
- A teachers’ guide for teaching the constitution
- A history site for kids written by a kid!
- Around the Horn, a game about the ships heading
for the California Gold Rush
Language Freebies:
General Language Freebies
- A site with games to help learn a number of different languages
- A site full of fun ideas for teaching languages
- A site with free foreign language courses
- A site with free foreign language courses
Chinese Freebies:
Spanish Freebies
Literature Freebies:
Magazines:
- Free online subscription to Canada’s Homeschooler’s Guide
- Old Schoolhouse (This link should send you to the newest issue)
- Homeschooling Teen Magazine is a magazine written by homeschooling teens
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!
- A pdf full of math games using playing cards
- A website where you can generate free elementary math worksheets
- Math Play.com has free online math games for grades 1-8
- IXL has online math problems for grades Pre-K-8
- Online math flashcards
- Some free math exercise downloads
- A free download of an old elementary school math book
- This site is full of online math quizes to take for all grades
- Math Planet has free online instruction for high school math
- A free lesson teaching a new method for factoring trinomials
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
- Lakeshore Learning has lots of printables for educators
- A site with lots 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
- A free planner for homeschoolers
- This site has old plans for all kinds of fun projects
- A site for making your own online flashcards
- Sheppard Software’s site of online educational games
- A collection of old audio kids’ records that you can listen to online
- A website full of practice tests for various age levels, including college prep
- A website with links to all kinds of free online courses. Just type in what you’re looking for in the search box.
- Watch, Know, Learn’s listings of free online videos for k-12
- A site with free online educational videos and games for k-12
- Fun recipes for learning
Money Freebies:
- Investor Warren Buffett’s videos that teach kids about business and investing
- A site that has financial literacy lessons on it.
- Another site to help teach financial literacy
Music Freebies:
- Free online piano lessons
- A YouTube site with free guitar lessons
- A site full of instructions for making homemade musical instruments
- An online course that teaches how to read music
- The Kids’ Music Corner
- A site with free sheet music
- Free piano lessons from Piano Lessns 4 Children
Newsletters:
Science Freebies:
- Sue’s Free Plant Unit Study
- Sue’s Free Atoms and Molecules Unit Study
- Sue’s Free Map Lesson for Ages 4-7
- Sue’s Free Lesson on Fun Ways Scientists Use Math
- Some NASA activities for teaching optics
- 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 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
- A site where you can find real science projects to join in on
- Anatomy Arcade has fun games for learning anatomy
- NASA’s site full of fun astronomy activities
- A free anatomy game on the circulatory system
- A site full of neuroscience activities
Sewing Freebies:
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Thanksgiving Freebies:
- Family Education.com has lots of Thanksgiving crafts
- A website full of Thanksgiving crafts, worksheets, and printables
- Parenting.com has 20 fun Thanksgiving crafts
Typing Freebies:
Woodworking Projects:
Writing Freebies:
- A site full of creative writing ideas and projects for kids
- A free online writing guide for undergrads
- An online writing course for grades 7-12
- A website that has lots of writing tips for essays, research papers, and more
- A site with free creative writing worksheets for preschool to 6th grade
- A site with free illustrated story starters for younger children
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