General Resources

Think Quest — find websites and enter the competition

Search Engines/Research

Information You Can Trust

Ivy’s Search

Fact Hound

Encyclopedias

Kid’s Online Encyclopedia

Kidepede history and science encyclopedia for kids

Online Encyclopedia (search several encyclopedias for free)

Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopedia — all cartoons on the various subjects

World History Encyclopedia

Online Curriculum

Ambleside Online

An Old-Fashioned Education

Brightly Beaming Resources pre-school and elementary

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans Teacher jargon outline is at the beginning of each lesson. Scroll past this to get to the actual activity pages of the lesson.

Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool my curriculum, currently pre-K through 8th includes all subjects and all resources and all assignments all free

The Puritans’ Home School Curriculum

Blank Notebooking Pages

Lined paper of all sizes and designs (there are plain pages, notebooking pages and journal pages–look around)

20 pages by Jimmie at Jimmie’s Collage Jimmie has other notebooking pages at HER NOTEBOOKING BLOG

20 notebooking pages from Just Us Half black and white, half color — all regular lined — lots of drawing space

20+ pages from Notebookingpages.com

Notebooking Pages organized by topic by Notebooking Nook

5 pages from Practical Pages — this one comes with 3 minibooks and places to attach to the notebooking page

Science Notebooking Pages for older and younger students (includes astronomy, botany and lots of animals)

Create notebooking pages with primary lines and space for drawing

Graph paper (including graph paper notebooking pages) also on Math page under “graphs”

Blank Lapbook Templates

Choose an appropriate minibook to print out — homeschool share

12 pages of minibook templates — practical pages

Templates from Notebookingpages.com

College

AP classes

CLEP exams practice exams

SAT Practice test (and practice questions)

SAT Prep tips and practice and for math and English sections

Coursera free online courses from Standford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan; from what I looked at, it does not require textbooks and includes online interactive practice and online meetings for study groups

Carnegie Mellon College Courses

Colleges that Offer Free Online Courses

Free University Project

University of the People

University of California Television

Flash Cards

Flash Card maker, plus premade cards in many subjects

Flash card maker plus word searches and more

Graphs

Many Eyes visual data in a variety of ways

Find more graph makers on the math page.

Graphic Organizers

Tons of Graphic Organizers, browse or search

Here’s a place to go for ideas with all of the graphic organizers listed in one place.

5 W’s for newspaper article

KWLH Chart — what I know, what I want to know, what I learned, how can I learn more

Problem-Solution Chart

Sequencing Chart

T-Chart — compare two things

Venn Diagram (interactive, fill in online)

Venn Diagram (with lines)

Venn Diagram (no lines)

Narration Ideas

Narration Cards, Narration Starters (creative mommy)

Photographs

Smithsonian photograph galary

Reading Level

Find a book’s reading level

Scope and Sequence…I hate to put this on here, but I know someone’s going to want one…here is one from World Book so it’s not geared to someone’s curriculum. Course of Study

Software

Jarte a simple word processing program for home use

Open Office comparable to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point…) and allows you to open Microsoft files

Page Plus comparable to Microsoft Publisher

Paint Net comparable to Photoshop

Pixlr online photo editing (no download) This is more advanced or more simply, PicMonkey.

Inkscape Graphic Design

Power Point Viewer (if you don’t have power point but a lesson online comes in power point format)

Tests

Online Test Maker

Math and Reading Assessments for K-6

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills — Texas standardized test