The following links are only a few places where you can buy (or FREE to use) curriculum materials. Please note that I am NOT affiliated with any of these companies and do not earn money from you clicking on the links. Please also see my post for new homeschoolers as I also post links to resources and some free online curriculum choices. Included below are other resources for free help, tools, and other websites I found valuable.
Homeschool Curriculum resources
- Christian Liberty – Offers whole grade kits, individual course materials, and offers 2 different types of distance learning by their, C.L.A.S.S distance learning academy or to use their service for record keeping only. They also sell the CAT test fairly cheap with the provided testing service. (I have used this service)
- Abeka – offers books sales to homeschool families as well as several distance school options.
- Christian Book Distributors – possibly best deals for homeschool curriculum. I have bought from them many times.
- Timberdoodle – offers Christian and secular homeschool courses in all grades
- Sonlight
- Bob Jones Press – curriculum from Christian worldview, they offer text books and online
- CTCMath – unlimited access to all lessons, across all grade levels with your subscription
- Memoria Press – Classical Christian Curriculum
- Masterbooks – We love Masterbooks. We’ve used them for Math and Science.
- Christian Light Publications/Education – I have used some of their course materials and been pleased.
- Veritas Press – Their History of Art course is excellent.
- Alpha Omega Press – I have used their Lifepac curriculum and been mostly satisfied
- EasyPeasy All-in-one Homeschool – Free
- LibriVox – Free, legal, audiobooks
- iCivics – Free civics courses
- Aesop Fables – legal and free from Library of Congress
- ExplorePA – Free PA History
- Ambleside – Free curriculum
- Discovery k12 – Free curriculum
- Independence Hall Association – 3 free US History Textbooks
Help / Resources
- Virtual Nerd – “Over 1,500 video lessons covering Middle Grades Math through Algebra 2.”
- Plain and not so Plain
- Khan Academy – “offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.”
- Math Antics – “Our goal is to provide simple and engaging math resources that make learning math more fun for students of all ages.”
- Crash Course This is not Christian based but you can still get some good supplemental information here (they also have a YouTube channel).
- Answers in Genesis I highly recommend this website and their materials.
- Chrome Music Lab
Keeping Track
- Five J’s Gradebook +– I have used this spreadsheet to keep track of grades. You can also print out report cards if you do that.
- HomeschoolPlannerPlus – from The Homeschool Mom site. This is what I currently use and have for a couple years now, to keep track of my teens grades.
FREE Tools
- LibreCAD free Open Source CAD application
- FreeCAD “FreeCAD is made for everybody, by everybody. It is developed and maintained by a community of developers, users, moderators, translators, all united by their wish make FreeCAD a free and powerful tool.”
- Sweet Home 3D ” a free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.”
- Blender 3d modeling, rendering, sculpting, video editing, animation
- LibreOffice I’ve been using this alternative to Microsoft for years. It works exactly the same.
- Unreal Engine 3D creation tool from Epic Games
- VisualStudio this is one of the tools that programmers use to code
- CodeBlocks Free coding application
Other places to visit:
- The Homeschool Mom
- IHomeEd
- TheHomeScholar
- Homeschool.com
- Alsion (free courses)
- Saylor.org (Free courses, earn college credit)
- Sophia.org (subscription to earn college credits through courses)
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