General Resources

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 12th 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 (high school at my curriculum)

Links for courses or materials to prepare for these different exams

AP classes

CLEP exams (list of exams)

practice exams (exam content list and sample questions for each exam)
learn about the content of exams
a few free study guides
study guides
Daily practice CLEP questions (Test prep, study tips)

DSST study guides

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 How To

Colleges that Offer Free Online Courses

Education Portal online courses geared to the CLEP exams — in development

Free University Project

Open Culture links to online courses

Saylor.org online college classes, seems to use free online materials, lots of subjects, not specifically connected to exams for credit

Udacity 11 math and computer science courses taught by video labeled as beginner, intermediate and advanced

University of the People

UC Open Access you need to buy textbooks

University of California Television

Verity

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)

High School

The high school page on my curriculum.

Links to free high school courses Same person: more links

High school courses from Georgia Virtual Learning

CLEP Exams — listed under college

Middle school courses: use the high school link above from Georgia Virtual Learning

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

TuxPaint Computer graphics for elementary school

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

Teacher Tools

ABC Teach make different kinds of worksheets

Puzzle Fast make crosswords, scrambled words, matching puzzles online A great thing is that most of the things you make can be saved and completed online. Also, you can make multiple types of puzzles just filling in the words once.

Make online matching games I use this a lot.

Different Types of Online Organizers and games

Tests

Online Test Maker

Math and Reading Assessments for K-6

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills — Texas standardized test

Learner’s TV — lectures and online timed tests with immediate feedback in all subjects

Textbooks

150 online textbooks

Unit Studies

One site of unit studies for science and history

Videos