Free Educational Resources

Index

Art

• Creativity Resources for Teachers (Denver Art Museum)
• Google Art Project
• Art history resources and ArtHistory.net
• How to Draw Cartoons

Academics

• AcademicEarth.org
• Annenberg Learner videos
• Connexions
• Cooperative Extensions
• Hippocampus
• Coursera (free online courses)
• MIT Open Courseware (Free course materials and lesson plans)
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• OpenCulture.com
• UDACITY (free university-level courses)
• YouTube.com/edu

Computer

• Computer application tutorials

Economics

• No Free Lunch: Economics for a Fallen World by Dr. Jeff Haymond, professor of economics at Cedarville University

English

Common Writing Mistakes

• Adjective/adverb mistakes
• Comma Splices and run-on sentences
• Dangling phrases
• Dashes
• Extended rules for using commas
• Hyphens
• Muddled modifiers
• Parallelism
  • Faulty parallelism
  • Other examples
• Passive Voice
  • What’s the Problem with the Passive Voice?
  • Hunting for Passive Voice
• Perfect Tense
• Pronoun References
  • Pronoun confusion and dangling participle phrases
• Proof reading issues
• Quotation basics
  • Long versus short quotes
• Subject and verb agreement
• Sequence of Tenses and here
• Verb tense consistency
• Wordiness

Grammar and punctuation resources

• Grammar exercises
• Punctuation exercises
• Spelling exercises
• Sentence structure exercises
• Eliminating wordiness exercises
• Writing numbers exercises
• ESL exercises
• Mechanics of sentence organization and style

Grammar Check Online

• Grammarly
• Grammar Check for Sentences
• Grammar Checker
• After the Deadline

Literature Study Guides

• Glencoe Literature Guides
• American Literature (free outline for course)
• Gutenberg Project (free e-book downloads)
• Poetry (course and resources)

Stylistic Development

• Five-part series on creating flow in writing
  • Part 1: Create Logical Connections
  • Part 2: Topic Sentences
  • Part 3: Transitioning with Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs
  • Part 4: Developing a Clear, Concise Style
  • Part 5: Vary Sentence Structure

Finance

• Finance in the Classroom
• Hands on Banking for Young Adult
• National Endowment for Financial Education
• School on Investing

Forms

• Donna Young Printables & Reproducibles
• 4-Year High School Plan
• HSLDA transcripts
• Resumes
  • College Board Tips on Writing a Resume
  • Entry Level Resume
  • How to Write A Masterpiece of a Resume
  • Jobweb—Resumes and Interviews
  • Resumes for High School Students
  • Resume Writing 101
• Rubrics (to evaluate coursework)

History/Government

• Civics and Citizenship—Reagan Foundation
• Constitutional Law—The Harlan Institute
• Current Events—Student News Daily
• Generation Joshua civics classes
• Glencoe U.S. Government online resources
• Glencoe U.S. History online resources
• Glencoe World Geography online resources
• Glencoe World History online resources
• Hillsdale College—Free Online Constitution Course
• Maps at University of Texas Libraries and University of North Carolina
• The Heritage Foundation’s Guide to the Constitution (online version and teacher’s guide are free)
• U.S. Government—Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government

Life Prep

• Life Smarts (free lesson plans from National Consumers League)
• Career Aisle (career development course ideas)

Math

• A+ Interactive Math (Free math placement tests)
• Math Is Fun (Statistics and Probability)
• Khan Academy
• Homeschool Math
• Cool Math
• Stat Trek (Free tutorial for AP Statistics exam)
• IXL pre-algebra practice
• IXL algebra 1 practice
• IXL geometry practice
• IXL algebra 2 practice
• IXL precalculus practice
• IXL calculus practice

Online Libraries

• Google Books
• Internet Archive
• Project Gutenberg
• Open Library
• Free Ebooks—you can read five ebooks free each month. More than that costs $50 for three years of unlimited access.
• Barnes and Noble—offers the same software download for your PC and many free ebooks as well. There is a kids’ section where books, complete with full color illustrations, are read by their authors or celebrities.
• Books Should Be Free—free, downloadable audio books of all genres.
• To make your laptop/PC Kindle friendly, download the Kindle software free.

Placement Tests

Language Arts:

• National Right to Read Competency Test
• Schonell Test to determine reading age
• Sonlight reading assessment

Math:

• Math-U-See.com
• Sonlight curriculum math readiness
• Teaching Textbooks placement tests
• Thinkwell math placement

General:

• Alpha Omega Publications placement tests
• Internet 4 Classrooms
• Other sources for placement tests

Project Management

• Basecamp For homeschooling families savvy in computer technology, consider signing up for a free Basecamp account, which offers digital ways to organize schoolwork, communicate work status, and present completed work. One account can handle multiple students and multiple subjects. These techniques can drastically reduce the amount of paperwork floating around your homeschool.

Science

Subject Index:

Anatomy & Physiology

• Anatomy Zone offers tutorials, flash cards, 3-D atlas, and question bank
• Biology Corner
• AP Resources
• Get Body Smart
• The Anatomy Lesson

Biology

• PhET Interactive Simulations in Biology (produced by the Carnegie Melon University) offers virtual labs, virtual lab problems, tutorials, real-world scenarios, simulations, and concept tests
• Reasons to Believe
• Answers in Genesis
• Khan Academy Tutorials on Biology
• Get Body Smart

Chemistry

• ChemCollective (produce by the University of Colorado at Boulder)
• PhET Interactive Simulations in Chemistry (produced by the Carnegie Melon University) offers virtual labs, virtual lab problems, tutorials, real-world scenarios, simulations, and concept tests
• Periodic Table Song
• Khan Academy Tutorials in Chemistry
• Khan Academy Tutorials in Organic chemistry

Physical Science

• Geology.com: Teaching Earth Science (produced by the University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Phet Interactive Simulations in Earth Science (produced by the University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Reasons Academy: Earth Science

Physics

• Phet Interactive Simulations in Physics (produced by the University of Colorado at Boulder)
• The Physics Classroom Tutorials
• Reasons to Believe: Physics
• Khan Academy Physics Tutorials

Other Sciences

• Reasons to Believe: Astronomy
• Khan Academy
  • Astronomy
  • Health & Medicine
  • Robotics

Study Skills

• Study Skills: Your Teen’s Path to Future Success
  This edition of the Homeschooling Thru High School newsletter offers ideas and resources for teaching your teens good study habits and time management skills during high school.

Encourage students to adapt the following resources to suit their needs. Dual-enrollment and college prep students will find the college resources quite useful.

• College Time Management and Study Scheduling Tool
• How Is College Different from High School?
• Improving Reading Speed
• Long-Term Assignment Planning Tool
• Note Taking Methods for Effective Learning: 40 Best Templates by Jack Milgram
• Note Taking Skills
• Note Taking Strategies
• Sharpening Teen Study Skills
• SQR3 Method of Reading
• Study Guides and Strategies
• Study Skills Help from the College Board
• Test Preparation Strategy Sheet
• Test Taking Tips
• Tips to Help College Students Get the Semester Off to a Good Start
• Weekly Goal Setting

Test Preparation

• ACCUPLACER
• ACT
• COMPASS
• CLEP
• PSAT
• SAT