Homeschool Resources Educational Links

General Homeschooling & Education (multiple topics):

Visit homeschool.com for a vast array of information and tools for home educating your child(ren)

http://www.edhelper.com/ - consistently ranked in the top 10 for free education help

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html - Discovery Education - these resources are free. They also have over 9000 high quality videos and other classroom resources available to homeschoolers at a much discounted rate as compared to schools.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/k-5.html - free lesson plans from Discovery Education

http://homeschooling.about.com/ - About Homeschooling

http://www.learningpage.com/ - Learning Page - printables for education on multiple topics

http://www.studystack.com/ - Study Stack - I just love this website

http://www.easyfunschool.com/ - Easy Fun School - over 1,500 pages of free unit studies, science projects, recipe and craft ideas, history activities & many other resources to make homeschooling more enjoyable for both child and parent!

http://hippocampus.org/ - Hippo Campus - multimedia lessons and course materials

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ - National Geographic Education

http://www.ngsednet.org/index.cfm - National Geographic Education Network

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ - National Geographic Kids

http://www.enchantedlearning.com - Enchanted Learning - 20,000 web pages. A small yearly free.

http://www.softschools.com - SoftSchools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - How Stuff Works - a great resource which includes information and videos about science, history, geography, and more

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html - a huge list of resources for educators ranked by popularity

http://www.worldofteaching.com/index.html - Powerpoint presentations for learning - numerous topics

http://www.pppst.com/index.html - An even larger selection of powerpoint presentations for education

http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library - over 7000 presentations on numerous topics

http://schoolexpress.com/index.php - School Express - over 15,000 free educational worksheets

http://abcteach.com/index.html - abc Teach - YOUR ONLINE RESOURCE FOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION. Thousands of FREE printable worksheets and activities
Plus over 35,000 pages of worksheets and activities, abctools, and more, available to members.

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ - Tools for Educators - custom worksheets, games, and more designed for classrooms

http://teach-nology.com/ - TeAchnology - 30,000+ Lesson Plans, 7,500+ FREE Worksheets and printables, 950+ teacher downloads, 60 teaching themes, teaching tips, and a ton of FREE web tools for teachers.

http://www.mes-english.com - MES English - Free resources for teachers of young learners. All of the resources are designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms. I have free flashcards, worksheets and handouts to match, free phonics cards, free ESL games, an international project exchange library, printable certificates, printable stickers and activities all ready for printing.

http://www.tlsbooks.com/ - Free educational worksheets for early childhood through fifth grade.

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml - eThemes - eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources that will help enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on topics ranging from Aerodynamics to Zebras and everything in between!

http://dictionary.reference.com/ - great resource. What I love about this site is that they pronounce the words. So if you look up something, you can click the little speaker symbol and they say it the way it should be pronounced.

Early Learning

http://www.first-school.ws/ - First School

Games, Crafts, and Fun:

http://www.softschools.com/ -Soft Schools - interactive games for learning on multiple subjects

http://www.kinderplanet.com/makestuf.htm

http://www.zeeks.com/

http://funschool.kaboose.com/index.html - fun games for learning

http://akidsheart.com/ - A Kids Heart - play and learn

Geography:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/ - National Geographic Xpeditions

http://www.davidrumsey.com/ - David Rumsey Map Collection

History

http://americanhistorycalendar.com/ - American History Calendar - a calendar of american history with links and google maps.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/ - Food Time Line - when we began eating certain foods throughout history - very interesting and a fun addition to history lessons

http://www.historyforkids.org/ - Kidipede - a great resource for history and science for middle school kids

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html - history through the eyes of those who lived it. A wonderful history resource.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ - BBC History for Kids

http://americanhistory.about.com/ - About American History

http://pbskids.org/wayback/index.html - Way Back by PBS Kids

http://classroom.history.com/america-dvd/event/form - The History Channel

Languages

http://www.studyspanish.com/ - Study Spanish

http://www.byki.com - all languages. You can download them for free.

Math

http://www.youtube.com/user/psychosides - great math youtube videos

www.bigbrainz.com/ - very fun video game for learning multiplication. There is both a free and a paid version. They both teach multiplication 2's - 12's. The paid version has much more exciting graphics and interactivity.

http://www.multiplication.com/index.htm - another great resource for learning multiplication. Includes videos, worksheets, practice tests, and more.

Music

http://www.songsforteaching.com/ - Songs for Teaching - Using music to promote learning

Reading / English

http://www.starfall.com/ - considered the best for helping your child learn to read

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/ - To Learn English

Reference

http://www.wikipedia.com/ - my favorite resource for looking up anything with links to more information and various images

http://www.britannica.com/ - a very extensive encyclopedia on line

http://www.ipl.org/ - the Internet Public Library - a great resource

Science

http://www.jason.org/public/whatis/start.aspx - The Jason Project with National Geographic. Exploring science with actual explorers. Free membership.

http://weirdsciencekids.com/FunExperiments.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/ - Kidipede - a great resource for history and science for middle school kids

http://www.periodicvideos.com/contact.htm# - science videos

http://www.sciencejim.com/webclasses.html - physics videos

Video Learning

Here's a great way to find video through Google: Type in genre:educational followed by ANY subject you're looking for.

http://www.kidinfo.com/onlinevideos.htm#HisV - Kid Info Learning Videos - extensive list of educational videos available on-line.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ - National Geographic Video files

http://oedb.org/library/features/236-open-courseware-collections#VU - Online Education Database - contains a very impressive selection of links to sites where you can learn practically anything - often in depth. A great resource.

http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html - University of California, Berkeley, live lectures on numerous topics.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/index.html - NOVA - view whole episodes on numerous topics

http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-computer-science-video-lecture_24.html - Free Science Online - numerous free videos on science and computer science topics

http://www.ehow.com/videos.html - eHow - how to do many things

http://www.sutree.com/ - SuTree - a very popular, very extensive, how to video site

http://www.5min.com/ - 5min - a Videopedia. Great resource

http://www.viewdo.com/ - View Do - another very popular how to video site

http://teachertube.com/ - Teacher Tube - a great selection of videos on numerous academic and other subjects.

http://www.vidipedia.org/ - Vidipedia - another video encyclopedia

http://sciencehack.com/videos/index - Science hack - science videos pulled from numerous locations

http://internet-tv-search-engine-swicki.eurekster.com/online+lectures/?=lectures - Internet TV Search Engine - find thousands of online lectures

http://www.periodicvideos.com/contact.htm# - science videos

http://www.khanacademy.org/ - math and science. Pretty extensive list.

http://www.sciencejim.com/webclasses.html - physics videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/psychosides - great math youtube videos

Come back soon for many many more. We have hundreds of links on paper. Now we are getting them on the web.

Feel free to suggest a link - email takara@homeschoolsantafe.com

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