We are an all inclusive, non-denominational group. All are welcome no matter what their race, religion, sexual orientation or special needs. We believe that children (and adults) thrive best when they are socialized with as diverse a group as possible. No matter how you home teach your children -- whether you use a structured curriculum, unstructured curriculum or unschool -- you are welcome here.
The parents (and kids) of our group have gathered together a collection of useful homeschool links. These are learning-based sites that many of us use on a daily basis, and we hope that they will help to enrich your home (or school) educating experience.
While our website will always be open to the public, the group itself and access to our message board is for members only. To become a member of this group you must attend at least one group activity -- be it a park trip, field trip, organized class or party. We do this for the protection of the children and group members. To get in touch with a member of our group committee, please email us at info@neworleanshomeschool.org. We will be more than pleased to help you join our group.
The construction of this site is in its early stages, so please visit often to see how things are coming along.
Homeschool.Com - If you're new to homschooling and a little intimadated, here's a good place to start. In fact, from the newcomer to the seasoned veteran, there's something for everyone here in this comprehensive and valuable site.
IPL Kidspace - Kidspace @ the Internet Public Library is one of the most useful and exhaustive places on the web for homeschoolers.
The Lesson Plans Page - Over 2,000 free lesson plans, from Pre-K to 12th Grade.
Teachers.Net - An extensive teaching resource, including free lesson plans, printables, etc.. Recommended.
DonnaYoung.Org - Printables and Resources For Homeschooling and Classrooms. Includes homeschool journals, schedules and more.
Free Forms For Home Schools - From the excellent Christian Homeschooler's Association of South Eastern South Carolina. Whether your schooling is Christian or secular, and no matter what type of homeschooling you do, there's a multitude of school forms that you will find useful here.
Printable Graph Paper - From the ever-useful Mathematics Help Central website, this is the place to go if you run out of graph paper - or if you just want to print it out yourself and save a few dollars!
Educational Web Adventures - Award-winning online learning activities about art, history and science. "Our mission is to create exciting and effective learning experiences that hit the sweet spot where learning theory, Web technology, and fun meet."
GigglePotz.Com - Curriculum resources, printable worksheets and much more. Requires a one time subscription payment of $14.95.
National Park Service School Zone Curriculum Based Learning Tools - Contact these National Park sites to obtain more information about pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit curriculum-based education programs.
The Home School Mom - TheHomeSchoolMom guides you through the free homeschooling resources available online, making the most of your budget and your planning time.
ABCTeach.Com - This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets.
World Book - As a source of information, World Book offers the results of ongoing research into curriculum requirements and standards. The learning levels include preschool through grade 12.
Sites For Teachers - A nearly endless collection of links to websites designed to help teachers.
Snaith Primary School - A very useful website from Snaith Primary School in the United Kingdom.
Homeschool Links - A wealth of homeschool related links.
Pagan Parenting and Kids Links - Many links related to parenting and homeschooling for Pagan families.
Enchanted Learning - Printable fact, craft and worksheets galore in many subjects. Includes loads of stuff for beginning students. Much of what is here is free, but there is also a very extensive members section which costs $20 per year.
The Learning Page - Learning Page is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found on the site.
Learning Treasures - "Helping with all your homeschool & educational needs."
Super Kids - This great site provides reviews of educational software.
Elementary Test Prep Center - This site was put together by teaching professionals to help students and teachers gain more information and preparation for the New York State tests. Each testing area provides lessons, practice activities, teacher resources, and sometimes literature tie-ins.
PBS Kids - Educational fun for the kids, helpful resources for teachers and parents.
NickJr.Com - Educational fun for the kids, helpful resources for teachers and parents.
Playhouse Disney - Educational fun for the kids.
Teletubbies Page - For your toddler, here's the BBC's interactive page featuring the dreaded Teletubbies.
FunBrain.Com - Educational fun for the kids, helpful resources for teachers and parents.
Easy Fun School - A great website from Kathryn Martinez, "EasyFunSchool.com has free articles, resource links, a free newsletter, and many other features to help make homeschooling easier and more enjoyable, both for the child and the parent!"
KidZone.Ws - Lesson plans, coloring pages, magic tricks and much more. Free printable activity worksheets available in each section.
FE Kids.Com - From the Family Education Network, here's a great selection of games and homework help for kids.
A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling - Ann Zeise's great collection of links to homeschool resources. Organized by subject.
Brain Pop - "The More You Know, The More You Know." Educational fun for the kids, helpful resources for teachers and parents.
Fact Monster - Online atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and fun educational stuff for kids.
Dictionary.Com - Online dictionary, thesaurus & many other references.
BigCalculator.Com - A simple online calculator.
Calculator.Com - A selection of complex calculators including graphing, scientific, fractions, currency, unit conversion, etc...
Free Printable Calendar Templates - Create free printable calendars that are formatted for Microsoft Word.
Multiplication.Com - This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers.
TheMathWorkSite.Com - An online math worksheet generator.
CoolMath.Com - An amusement park of math designed for fun!
EdHeads.Org - Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. "We partner with various school systems in the United States, which help us research, design and test our activities every step of the way!"
No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In - A fun interactive site invovling geometric pattern blocks, developed by Cynthia Lanius.
Discovery School's Puzzlemaker - Discovery's online puzzle maker includes customizble word search, crossword, mazes, and math puzzles.
Broderbund.Com's Download Zone - A variety of games available for free download. Includes Math and Map skills. They even have a free greeting card maker.
Mathematics Help Central - A helpful site by Holly Camp designed to make learning math less stressful. Includes printable graph paper!
Math Car Racing - Outdrive FunBrain's math car by getting the highest score.
Math Brain - From the great FunBrain.Com site, here are 25 arcade style games designed to hone your child's math skills.
Peep and the Big World - The animated series PEEP and the Big Wide World gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers. Wry and distinctive visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters combine with a comprehensive science program to attract and engage kids three to five years old.
I. Science MaTe - A reference curriculum integrating science, math, and technology. Includes seperate sections for elementary and secondary levels.
ScienceIQ.Com - "Our topics are diverse and range from the human mind to nanotechnology, and from basic scientific concepts to the latest discoveries. Our science content is made for teachers, students, parents, hobbyists, and lifelong learners, ages 5 to 105."
United States Fire Administration Kid's Place - A place where kids can learn about home fire safety while having fun.
Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff - This site is devoted to the wonders of science and technology. This is an interactive place where you can explore, learn, and ask questions. The focus is on unusual, interesting, and thought provoking topics.
Gravitas Publications: Home of Real Science 4 Kids - Real Science -4 -Kids lays a solid foundation for science education by introducing the fundamental terms and concepts found in high school and college level texts to elementary grade students. However, by using real hands-on experiments, Real Science -4- Kids keeps science fun and interesting!
Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week - Weekly science experiments that can be done with household items. Topics vary from physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, etc. Most are easy enough for young students, and most can be adapted for older students and adults.
Building Challenges - From PBS, explore large structures and what it takes to build them.
Grossology.Org - "The Science of Really Gross Things." If you know the books, you'll hate the site....but your kids will love it!! Recipes, etc. for making things you'd rather NOT know about!
How Stuff Works - The title says it all! As interesting for adults as it is for kids.
NASA Kids - Yes, NASA has a site for kids! Games, info & quizzes related to space and air travel. Includes a "teacher's corner."
The Electronic Naturalist - The Electronic Naturalist is a new on-line education program providing a weekly environmental education unit. Each unit has artwork, text, activities, additional web sites, plus online access to a professional naturalist. Two reading levels are available for grades K-3 (Quick Read) and 4-8 (Full Read).
Cool Science for Curious Kids - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology.
Cool Science - "Welcome to the website of Mrs. Schorr's science classes! It is my hope that students and their parents will use this page to keep up to date on what is happening in our class."
The BBC's Science and Nature Homepage - A great and extensive science resource that includes games and activities for kids.
Beardley Zoo's Just For Kids Page - Great activities for kids related to animals and nature, along with a section for parents.
Animal Explorers - From Zoo Atlanta, featuring a series of web based multimedia learning packages on science and technology for middle school students.
New Orleans Audubon Nature Institute Website - Celebrating the wonders of nature.
Animals You Can See at the Zoo - A nice interactive story by Rolando Merino that your little ones will enjoy.
Club Hammerhead - The National Aquarium in Baltimore's kid's page.
Prehistoric Life - From the BBC's great Science and Nature page, here's some great info and visuals about dinosaurs, cavemen, etc..
National Geographic Kids - A great multimedia site for kids from National Geographic.
ASPCA Animaland - "Humane Education" from the ASPCA teaches kids about animals, how to care for them, and have fun at the same time.
Kinetic City - "The most amazing science site on the Internet!" A great interactive animated site of science based games.
Science Monster - A great interactive learning site regarding all things scientific.
ReadWriteThink.Org - Providing educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
StarFall.Com - The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.
Glencoe Literature Library - A great resource for study guides in PDF format covering hundreds of classic novels & plays.
Sparknotes - A multitude of literary study guides, "always free online."
Grammar Gorillas - Another great page from FunBrain.Com, helping kids to identify different parts of speech.
Mad Libs on the Web - Fun with words.
Bembo's Zoo - A great interactive Flash site for your little ones, Bembo's Zoo teaches the alphabet with animals in a unique and artistic way.
Jan Brett's Homepage - The homepage of reknowned children's author and illustrator Jan Brett, inlcuding 2,601 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects.
English Banana - English and Drama resources for students and teachers.
USHistory.Org - A comprehensive American History website created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia.
Fifty States of the United States - This project focuses on the richness and diversity of the people, lands, and activities of the United States of America. Recognize that all nations have their own unique people, culture, resources, government, accomplishments, and history. Many of the ideas featured here could be adapted to learning about another country.
ArtsConnectEd - From the Walker Art Institute and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Using the power of the Internet to stimulate new approaches to learning, the goal of ArtsConnectEd is to make arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages."
Creative Drama Guidelines Page - Guidelines and handbook for creative dramatic workshop leaders.
DLTK's Crafts For Kids - A variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more.
Crayola.Com - Great printables and craft ideas.
Nathhan.Com - National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network. Equipping parents to raise their children with special needs or disabilities confidently.
Homeschooling Children with Special Needs - Links, information, support.
TeacherSource.Com - Educational Innovations Inc. The master teacher's source for science workshop supplies. GET THIS CATALOG!!!
Home Education Magazine - Home Education Magazine is one of the oldest, most widely respected, and most informative homeschooling magazines.
The Home School Mom - TheHomeSchoolMom guides you through the free homeschooling resources available online, making the most of your budget and your planning time.
The Teaching and Learning Company - Certificates, banners, posters, pencil grips, resource books and free teaching ideas and samples
FunBooks.Com - Homeschooling related books.
Rainbow Resource Center - Learning tools for homes and schools.
Handwriting Without Tears - "Handwriting Without Tears is the easy way to teach pre-printing, printing and cursive!"
TeacherSpecialty.Com - Frank Schaffer Publications has more than 4,000 elementary school workbooks, teacher resources, bulletin board ideas, character education products, math manipulatives, educational games and puzzles, posters, children's books, stickers and classroom supplies.
Home School Legal Defense Association - The first place to go on the Net with your homeschooling legal concerns.
Louisiana Home Education Network - A great place to go for the legal particulars of homeschooling in the state of Louisiana.
How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds - A great article from the Louisiana Home Education Network about your choices regarding immunization.
New Yorkers for Vaccination Information and Choice - Another informative site about your choices regarding immunizations.
National Home Education Network - Facilitates the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling organizations and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level.
Homeschool Media Network - A great site from David Hirschman designed to help you get in touch with other homeschoolers in your area.
American Homeschool Association - The American Homeschool Association (AHA), is a service organization sponsored in part by the publishers of Home Education Magazine. The AHA was created in 1995 to network homeschoolers on a national level. Current AHA services include an online news and discussion list which provides news, information, and resources for homeschoolers, media contacts, and education officials.
Learn in Freedom - "This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning. It shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you."
Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers - A list of colleges that admit homeschoolers from the Learn In Freedom website.
The Military Homeschooler - Serving American military homeschoolers around the world.
John Holt's Website - The website of the author of "Teach Your Own"
John Taylor Gatto's Website - "Challenging the myth of modern education."
Radical Unschooling - The web page of Sandra Dodd, with many essays on schooling outside the mainstream.
Skylark Sings - The web page of David H. Albert, with many essays on schooling outside the mainstream.
Unschooling.Com - A site for unschoolers.
The Well-Trained Mind - A guide to classical education at home.
Penny Gardner's Website - A great site by a music educator and advocate of the Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling.
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