Homeschooling & Educational

New Sites Added and Links Checked June 17, 2008


Teach our kids about voting! Kids Voting USA is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization that fosters an informed, participating electorate by educating and actively engaging young people and their families in voting and other elements of effective civic engagement.

Homeschooling

Discount School Supply This site features educational materials for teachers and parents. You'll find arts and crafts, furniture, curriculum materials, infant/toddler items and much more! Great site!

Homeschoolblogger.com The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, the nation's largest homeschool magazine, recently created www.HomeschoolBlogger.com. HomeschoolBlogger hosts, as well as provides easy to use templates for all interested homeschoolers as well as homeschool related groups and businesses. We believe that this is a great way to combine resources into one site, and further reach the homeschool community.

HomeschoolPortal.com Listing of homeschool site links.

Homeschooling Teens Web Sites Listing of websites focusing specifically on homeschooling of teens. Several sites set up by homeschooled teens are featured in the listing.

About Homeschooling About.com's homeschooling page.

Homeschool.com This comprehensive site features resource guides, a starter kit, online courses, a bookstore, and much, much more.

Homeschool Fun! Everything homeschooling!

Homeschool Math Resources for homeschool math teaching: free basic operations/decimals/fraction worksheets, curriculum guide, elementary math ebooks, free lesson plans, teaching tips, math hangman game, resource link list emphasizing interactive content and games.

Homeschooling Lesson plans, questions and answers, curriculums.

Homeschooling@Suite101 A vast resource of articles about homeschooling laws, testing, government compliance, and more. A valuable resource for any homeschooling parent.

Homeschooling Online Tips Free homeschooling curriculum, helpful articles, and resources.

Homeschooling Parent Website for the magazine.

Homeschooling Catalog Your online source for many homeschooling sources and materials.

Educational Links

SchoolMatters This site is a place for parents, educators and leaders to research information about public schools. Compare schools, find out where your tax dollars are going, and learn how to become more educated about what is happening in your district.

Metric Conversion Calculator Converts lengths, weights, pressures, volumes, temperatures. Links to a currency converter as well.

National Geographic.com/Kids! This great interactive site includes a parents' section, homework help, arts & crafts, recipes, games & just about all of the animal facts a child would need! Great site.

ABC Home Preschool.com. ABC Home Preschool is a resourceful site for parents teaching their children preschool at home. This is the site of the original use and reuse wipe-off ABC Home Preschool Workbooks. These workbooks are a 9-month curriculum for preschool age children.

Discount School Supply Thousands of supplies for arts & crafts, learning, active play, dramatic play & much more.

Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities. This site is dedicated to teaching children through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities for children. Most of the crafts and activities on this site are Bible-based. You will find complete Bible curriculum with math, reading, phonics, writing, science, and learning games included.

Ancient Greece History for Kids! Teacher's guides, books, crafts & projects, and much, much more. Great site also links to information on many other countries.

Familyeducation.com Parenting advice, child development, homemade gift ideas, kids' recipes, educational information ... this site has it all! Very comprehensive.

Discovery Kids This Discovery Channel website has information on children's programming, games, nature - even a very cool Tiger Cam!

Natural Science Fun for Kids This site features loads of information about animals & the outdoors. There are some great arts & crafts projects, activities by season, sketchbook ideas, and more!

Discover Illinois Kid Zone This interesting site is chock-full of information about The Land of Lincoln, geared to kids. Also info on bike & fire safety, the environment, and nature. (I live in Illinois, so that's how I happened upon this site. If you do a search on your state's website, you'll probably find they have an area like this, too.)

Funbrain.com Educational site for kids of all ages. Loaded with games, a teachers' site & parents' site.

BookAdventure.com Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is a non-profit organization.

Cool Math 4 Kids This site features math games for kids - algebra, calculus, geometry, math puzzles & problems, as well as games. The companion site is Coolmath4Teachers.

National Wildlife Federation Kidzone This very kid-friendly site features information grouped into age categories, starting as young as 1 - 3 years. There is conservation information, animal facts, crafts, coloring pages, reading lists, contests, and much more!


EZSchool is a site designed to ease the day to day work of teachers, parents and students. You can create your own assignments (worksheets) from ready to go, grade appropriate questions for K-5 (conforms to State Standards). Kids complete their assignments interactively (online). Along with these goodies they even provide automatic grading and tracking, performance analysis, tutorials, games, and presorted reference links. Sign-up now and have fun!

Mapping the National Parks The Mapping the National Parks collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, reflecting early mapping of the areas that would become four National Parks, as well as the parks themselves.

Literacy Center - the Early Childhood Education Network. This great site, available in English, Spanish, French & German, offers a host of educational games for preschool children.

Little Explorers Great picture dictionary with links.

Exhibits Collection - Collapse This informative website discusses how & why civilizations collapse.

FreeTranslation.com This free site will translate text from one language into another, quickly & easily.

Edhelper.com This extremely comprehensive site offers over 9500 lesson plans as well as webquests, file downloads, worksheets & links to hundreds of other educational sites. A must see for any parent!

Get Smarter! The Internet Learning Network is an animated & interactive testing & learning site unlike any you have experienced! Compare your math performance against students worldwide and access learning hints & links to help you "get smarter"!

High School Hub This is a GREAT site! If offers sections on many different school subjects, information on colleges & careers, teen health, news links, chat rooms, quizzes, and an enormous reference section. Great site.

Scholastic's Homepage This superb website offers educational information, activities & news for kids, parents & teachers.

The History Net - where history lives on the web. World history, American history, the Civil War, travel, aviation & technology - this site is a fountain of useful historical information. Check out "Today in History" or join a chat group.

How Stuff Works Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!

McGraw-Hill Kids Online Workbooks & teaching aids from toddler/preschool through grade 8 in all subject areas. Different freebies are available from time to time.

HandSpeak This online sign language dictionary offers a large listing of words, and the corresponding hand signs. Also, a hand speak search engine, information on foreign sign language, an ASL dictionary with numbers & much more. There is also a neat first timer's tour.

LearningPlanet.com: Fun, Educational Activities & Games! This site features fun interactive internet-based learning activities for preschool through 6th grade. There is also a parent & teacher component.

The eSkeletons Project The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, chimpanzee, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database.

Froguts.com Virtual dissection software. Lots of fun, and not at all gory. There is a charge to buy the software.

Dave's Math Tables Theorems, tables, identities, proofs & graphs are available at this very wonderful math-based site - everything from general math to advanced topics. There are also messageboards & whiteboards, and links to other educational sites. Click to display the site in Spanish.

Teachernet.com is a K to 8 teaching resource for educational projects & classroom tools. This site is so huge, I can't even begin to list it all! There are great chat groups, information on internet in the classroom & an enormous amount of resource information for anyone teaching children (be it in the classroom or at home) aged preschool to grade 8.

ePALS Classroom Exchange ePALS is the world's largest online classroom community, connecting over 2 million students and teachers through 29,464 profiles. Members from over 65,000 classrooms in 182 countries use ePALS' free online collaborative technology. Information is available in English, French, German & Spanish. Also get free email, language translators, ecards & chat groups at this informative site!

The Perpetual Preschool This site was built to celebrate the creativity and dedication of all those who contribute to the perpetual education of young children. While visiting, hands-on participation is encouraged! Add to this site by sharing your ideas for working with young children.

Making Friends & Other Crafts for Kids At Making Friends you'll find lots of creative activities for kids ages 2 through 15.

KinderArt - Art Lessons Art lesson plans, seasonal crafts, printable pages, early childhood education tips & more are offered at this informative site.

Ben's Guide to US Government This is a great site which gears information to grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. There is also a parent & teacher component, and some interesting background information on Ben Franklin (tour guide of the site).


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