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Administration
Administration: Library Organization: Elementary Printable Library Organization System
Administration: Planner Software: Homeschool Tracker
Administration: Planners, Info, Lessons (K-12): Donna Young
Administration: Planners: Homeschool Scheduling with Printables
Administration: Printable DIY Planner: 7 Step Planner
Bible
Bible: Free Lesson Plans: Future Flying Saucers
Bible Character Traits: Rachael Carman
Bible: Online Games and Activities (K-6): Adventure Bible
Fine Arts
Fine Arts: Art Appreciation Games from the National Gallery of Art (K-8): Kids Art Zone
Fine Arts: Art History (3-12): Timeline of Art History
Fine Arts: Art Lessons (K-6): Art Projects for Kids
Fine Arts: Art Lessons (K-6): Video Art Lessons from Deep Space Sparkle
Fine Arts: Art Prints (K-12): Art Prints
Fine Arts: Artist Study (K-6): Printable, grade level art lessons from Concordia Univeristy
Fine Arts: Classical Music (K-8): Classics for Kids
Fine Arts: Music Theory (3-12): Music Theory Web
Fine Arts: Piano Lessons (K-12): Hoffman Academy
Foreign Language
Foreign Language: French (K-6): Just for Kids French
Foreign Language: Japanese (9-12+) Japanese 1 with Video Lessons
Foreign Language: Latin (3-12): Headventure Land
Foreign Language: Spanish (K-2) Salsa Spanish
Foreign Language: Spanish/ESL (5-6): McGraw-Hill
Health
Health: Health and Safety topics (K-12): Kids Health in the Classroom
Heath: Health Workbooks (K-6): Harcourt Health and Fitness (to use with these low cost textbooks- buy used)
History
History: American History (3-7): Mission US American Revolution Interactive Website
History: American History (K-12): US History
History: Ancient History (K-6): Mosaic Maps, Myths, and Marvels
Kindergarten
Kindergarten: Lessons (K-1) Kindergarten Themes Monthly Lessons
Language Arts
Language Arts: Levels 1-5: Good and the Beautiful
Language Arts: Aesop Stories and Lessons (K-6): Aesop Stories
Language Arts: Audio books (K-12): Librivox Audio Books
Language Arts: Daily Grammar (K-12): Daily Grammar Lessons and Quizzes
Language Arts: Dolch Word Lists (K-4) Sight Word Vocabulary Lists
Language Arts: Early Reading (K-3) You Can Read Sight Word Program
Language Arts: Early Reading- I see Sam (K-2): I See Sam Downloadable Readers
Language Arts: Grammar (K-6): Scholastic DoDEA Workbooks
Language Arts: Grammar and Spelling (?) National Treasures Grammar and Spelling Workbooks
Language Arts: Grammar from Daily Grammar Lessons
Language Arts: Grammar Sentence Diagramming (K-12): Parse a Sentence
Language Arts: Grammar- Mad Libs (K-12): Kids MadLibs
Language Arts: Grammar Textbook (K-9?): English Banana Grammar Courses
Language Arts: Handwriting (K-6): Donna Young Handwriting Worksheets
Language Arts: Handwriting , D’Nealian (K-2) Editable Handwriting Worksheets
Language Arts: Handwriting help (K-2) Handwriting Helps and Information
Language Arts: Handwriting: Copywork: Copycat Books
Language Arts: Literature (K-12): Manybooks
Language Arts: Phonics (K-3) Progressive Phonics Phonics Readers
Language Arts: Phonics (K-3) Reading Bear
Language Arts: Phonics (K-3): Reading Games with Printable Worksheets from Starfall
Language Arts: Reading and Grammar (K-6) Scott Foresman Reading Workbooks
Language Arts: Reading, word families (K-3): Word Family Printables
Language Arts: Spelling (K-12) VocabSpellingCity Free Spelling Games
Language Arts: SightWords (K-3) Free Resources for Teaching Your Child to Read
Language Arts: Word Families (K-3): Lots of Printables and Lesson (scroll to the bottom for the Freebies)
Life Skills
Life Skills: Financial Literacy from the Actuarial Foundation (9-12) High School Finance Curriculum
Mathematics
Mathematics: Preschool to Highschool: Khan Academy
Mathematics: Advanced Math Complete Courses (6-12): Math Planet
Mathematics: Algebra from Purple Math (9-12) Algebra Video Lessons
Mathematics: Explorations and Fun with Math from the Actuarial Foundation (grades 3-8) Real World Math Units
Mathematics: Games (K-12): Learn with Math Games
Mathematics: Games and Lessons (K-12) Xtra Math Fact Drill
Mathematics: Living Books (K-6) and Ancient History Living Math
Mathematics: Virtual math manipulatives from Utah State University (multiple grades) Virtual Manipulatives
Multiple Subjects
Multiple Subjects: BBC (k-12) BBC Educational Videos
Multiple Subjects: CM curriculum (K-12) Charlotte Mason Help
Multiple Subjects: Free Textbooks, mostly science and math (9-12) CK 12 Textbooks
Multiple Subjects: Full Curriculum (K-12) Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
Multiple Subjects: Full Curriculum (K-9) Guest Hollow Little Otter’s Lesson Plans
Multiple Subjects: Full Curriculum (Pre-K-5) Head of the Class
Multiple Subjects: Full Curriculum: Teach with Me
Multiple Subjects: Full Curriculum program from Ambleside (multiple ages) Ambleside Online
Multiple Subjects: Games (K-12) Family Games Downloads
Multiple Subjects: Games (K-6): Educational Games by Grade Level
Multiple Subjects: Lapbooks (K-12) Homeschool Share Lapbooks
Multiple Subjects: Lesson Plans (K-12): Lesson Pathways
Multiple Subjects: Montessori (ages 3-6): Full 40 week Montessori Lesson Plans
Multiple Subjects: Resources and Lessons (K-12): Teachers Pay Teachers Freebies
Multiple Subjects: Resources and Lessons (K-12): SAS Curriculum Pathways
Multiple Subjects: Teaching Resources (K-12): Learning Page
Multiple Subjects: Topic Links (K-12) Usborne Topic Links
Multiple Subjects: Unit Studies (K-9) The Homeschool Mom Unit Studies
Multiple Subjects: Units (K-12) School Express Free Worksheets
Multiple Subjects: Videos and Lessons (3-12): Khan Academy Video Lessons and Math Help
Preschool
Preschool: Full Curriculum, Letter of the Week (PreK-K) Letter of the Week Preschool
Preschool: Montessori: (PreK) Free Montessori Printables
Science
Science: Anatomy (5-12): Anatomy Arcade
Science: Animation (5-12): Pixar in a Box
Science: Animal Science (K-6): National Wildlife Federation
Science: Archeology, Dinosaurs and Fossils (3-12) Earth Science Lesson Plans
Science: Astronomy (K-12): NASA Lesson Plans
Science: Biology (9-12) Quarks and Quirks High School Biology
Science: Chemistry (grades 3-6) ACS Inquiry in Action Chemistry Curriculum
Science: Chemistry, Periodic Table (K-12): Periodic Table Videos
Science: Coloring Pages (K-12): Science Coloring Pages from Home Training Tools
Science: Computer Programming (6-12): CodeAcademy
Science: Computer Programming (K-12): Kodu Programming
Science: Computer Programming (K-12): Scratch Programming
Science: Computer Science (K-12): Computer Science Unplugged
Science: Elementary Science (K-5): Discovery Education Free Resources
Science: Elementary Science (K-6): Howard Hughes Medical Center Resources
Science: Engineering (K-12) Teach Engeneering
Science: Engineering (K-12): Engineering Games Online
Science: Evolution (k-12): Berkeley Education
Science: Evolution, Tree of Life (K-12): Tree of Life Website
Science: Experiments (K-12) Science Fair Projects and Experiments
Science: Free Course (grades 3 – 12) Supercharged Science Freebie
Science: Full science courses (grades 6-9) Jason.org Free Science Courses
Science: Full Curriculum from McGrawHill (grades 1-6) McGrawHill Science Texts, Activity Books and Labs
Science: Games (K-6): PBS Kids Science
Science: Games (K-6): 24/7 Lawrence Hall of Science
Science: Geography (K-6) Gutenberg Primary Geography
Science: Geology (K-5): AGI GeoSource
Science: Human Evolution (K-12): Human Origins by the Smithsonian
Science: Life Science (1-6): Mr. Q Printable Life Science Course
Science: MIT courses (9-12): MIT OpenCourse
Science: Multiple Subject Curriculum (K-12): Science Mate Science Lesson Plans
Science: Multiple Subjects (K-12): Science Lessons
Science: National Geographic (K-6): National Geographic Kids
Science: National Geographic (K-9) Teacher Lesson Plans
Science: Nature Study (K-6): Nature Studies Printables
Science: Physical Science, various ‘ologies’ (K-12): American Museum of Natural History ‘Ologies
Science: Physics (K-9): Physics, and yearly free PhysicsQuest science kits
Science: Projects (K-6): PBS SciGirls
Science: Satellite Earth Science (K-12): NASA Weather Adventures
Science: Science Journal (4-8): Natural Inquirer
Science: Videos (K-12): The Happy Scientist Freebies
Science: Virtual Museum (K-12): Virtual Museum
Science: Zoology Links (K-12): National Zoo Homework Helper
Social Science
Social Science: American Folklore (K-12): Famous American Folklore
Social Science: American History (3-9): History of US
Social Science: American History (K-3): Mind Fires Academy
Social Science: Current Events (3-12) Time for Kids
Social Science: Current Events (3-12): YoungZine
Social Science: Current Events (K-12): Smithsonian TweenTribune
Social Science: Geography (K-6): World Maps
Social Science: Government (K-6): Ben’s Guide to US Government
Social Science: Greek Myths Flashcards (3-9): Greek Myths Flashcards
Social Science: History, National Archives (3-12) National Archives Teacher Lesson Plans
Social Science: Human Trafficking from Free the Slaves (grades 6-12) Free the Slaves
Social Science: Multiple Subjects (3-12) Social Studies for Kids
Social Science: Mythology (3-9): Myth Web
Social Science: Narrative History (K-12): Macrohistory
Social Science: Talking Pyramids (K-9): Ancient Egyptian Games
Social Science: US History Timeline (3-9): History Timeline
Social Science: Vikings (K-9): Vikings Lessons from BBC
Social Science: World History (K-12): World History for Us All Lesson Plans
Supplemental Resources
Supplemental Resources: Information (K-12): Free Lesson Plans
Supplemental Resources: Maps (K-12): Printable Maps
Supplemental Resources: Worksheets (k-12): Printable Worksheets
Supplemental Resources: Logic (7-12th): Self-Taught Logic
Test Prep
Test Prep: Official SAT Prep (9-12th): The College Board and Khan Academy
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Free and Frugal Preschool and Kindergarten
Free and Frugal Art, Music, and Foreign Language
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