Free Home School Materials
Free home school materials can make teaching at home much easier and help save money.  Parents who home school their children definitely do not have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to curriculum materials.  There are a number of high quality curriculum programs available, ranging from full printed programs to comprehensive online curricula.

In addition to many excellent comprehensive home school programs, home school educators can also benefit from a wide variety of additional non-cost home school materials and other resources.  There are a number of free home school material resources that can be of great benefit to home schooling families.

It is a great idea to check out the many free home school material options before investing money in supplemental home schooling materials.  By taking advantage of the many free resources for home school material you will be able to incorporate a wide variety of activities into your daily home school lessons.

It is very likely that there are a number of nonprofit organizations in your area who have free teaching resources that they will be happy to provide to home schoolers.  Many cities have hands-on science museums that have comprehensive education programs.  Most symphonies have educational outreach programs. 

Your local public library is a good place to start when trying to identify local groups that provide educational materials to home schoolers.  Additionally, check with the various nonprofits in your area to see which ones have education as part of their mission, and you will be pleasantly surprised by the ready availability of free home school materials you will be able to access. 

There are of course a number of online resources for free home school materials.  May of the online free home school materials were designed specifically for use by home school educators.  Others are designed for use in traditional classrooms, but are excellent supplemental materials for home school curricula.  Free online home school information and resources include:

ABC Teach
Adrian Bruce
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Easy Test Maker
Ed Helper
Wiki Books
Free Ed
Free Worksheets
Homeschool Free Stuff
Primary Resources
RHLSchool
RHL School Reading
Scholastic Teacher
Teacher Created
Teaching Ideas
Teach-nology
Teacher-net
Teacher Printables

Subject-matter specific free home school materials include:

Computer & Data Processing skills:
csta.acm.org/Resources
teach-ict.com
Kids Learn2Type
Microsoft Office Training


History & Social Studies
Burnt Cakes
C-Span Classroom
History.com Classroom
Lewis & Clark lessons

Language Arts
AETV Classroom
Childrens Literature
English-to-Go
RHL School English
RHL School Reading
Teach It

Math
Homeschool Math
Learner.org
Math Forum
RHL School Math
Totally Free Math

Science
Amazing-Space
E4S.org
Free Science Fair Projects
Cool Science
NSTA.org
Sea Turtles
Discovery.com
School Science

Social Skills
Character Counts.org
Good Character.com

Free resources for home school multimedia materials.
Free resource for checking out described and captioned videos
National Repository of Online Courses
Planet CDROM (S&H charges apply)

Free special needs teaching resources:
Sent Teacher

Free Catholic home school material:
chcweb.com
materamabilis.org
amblesideonline.org

With some many excellent free home school material sources, you can certainly save money when it comes to purchasing supplemental curriculum content.  Just think of all the fun and exciting home school field trips you can plan with the money you saved from taking the time to find free home school materials that meet your needs. 

Written by Mary G. White
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