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KidsArt - features art teaching resources, FREE art and crafts lessons, a gallery of student art, games and mad-libs for teachers and homeschoolers, families and artistic kids. We produce the "Master's Gallery" art history section for the popular PBS TV show, Imagination Station, and have an extensive on-line gallery of images and stories from the program. Visit our Art Map USA, Quick Art section and Top Ten lists for American folk art lessons, quick art activities, art lists and links. KidsArt offers secure online shopping for art teaching books and supplies.
College Confidential - College search resources, admissions informations, reviews of books on colleges, financial aid resources, and analyzed college rankings.
Be sure to check out Vendors for sites offering discounted or low cost software, hardware and classes.
Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial - Grammar tutorial with over 50 lessons (automatically graded), vocabulary section with Java-based word games, Directory of Language Schools with over 250 descriptive listings, plus cultural notes, random idiom generator, top ten list, many useful links, and more!
Tina's French Cafe - Over a dozen online French lessons.
Web Spanish Lessons - Actually hear how lots of words are pronounced.
Electronic Flashcards for Spanish - Great for elementary or beginning Spanish. Shows pictures then gives audio so you can hear how the word is pronounced.
Learn Spanish, Easy Language
Lessons - Free Interactive Spanish Lessons
with audio/visual buttons. Spanish CD-ROM and Cassette Lessons teach Spanish
for Business, Basic Communication and Travel!
Apricot Pie - The creator and maintainer of this beautiful website, Benjamin Kniaz, believes that homeschoolers are "people who are proving that learning flies free from tests and textbooks, and an education runs deeper than grades and classrooms." Through his website, Benjamin gives home schoolers a chance to meet each other, and let themselves be seen through their writing and thoughts.
Best Homeschooling offers "What's your best homeschool advice?" articles written by some of today's most experienced and notable homeschoolers. Chock full of information for thinking and learning parents with hungry minds.
Big Oak Curriculum provides families with excellent, affordable teaching tools for use with Oklahoma history, geography, and sign language studies.
The Family Education Project - A family site containing lots of information and great activities.
Funbrain - The Funbrain site contains educational, interactive games for children. Categories include "Numbers," "Words," "World," and "Extras" for ages (approx.) 4-18. Great for those times when you want to add a little reinforcement to learning but more fun than workbooks. Easy to use.
Grace and Truth Books - Grace & Truth Books offers character-building stories and readers, reprinted from past centuries. These are some of the most enriching stories for children available today.
Homeschool Hub
- Online Learning Resources Center for Homeschooling Families.
Homeschool
Social Register - Get in touch with other
homeschoolers in your area at the Homeschool Social Register.
Homeschooling Information and Resource Pages - Sponsored by Home Education Magazine, this web site explores homeschooling from many angles. Information for the new as well as the experienced homeschooler.
Homeschool Resource Guide - The most complete list of links I've ever found. Used to be Prodigy Homeschool Resource Guide.
Kaleidoscapes - Numerous message boards which are very active. There are boards for curriculum, unit studies, special needs. Also a closed forum to mentor children and a comprehensive bookstore. A large resource area with organized homeschool links.
Lifelong Learning -- A Database of Distance Learning Courses - Find out how your 15 y/o can learn chemistry or where to sign up for a physical anthropology correspondence course. Aimed at older learners, this site is chock-full of good info.
Math And Reading Help For Kids - is a content-rich directory of hundreds of original articles, tips and resources centered on the topic of children's learning.
Noggin - NOGGIN is a website for a new TV channel that includes the old goodies from Sesame Street, Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact and other great kids' television programming. The site has games and activities from the shows. For children from toddler age to about 5th or 6th grade.
Learn in Freedom - Karl M. Bunday's priceless and extensive web site on all you ever needed to know about homeschooling!
Oklahoma Homeschool - provides free unit studies and timelines and a wealth of other information for homeschoolers.
Support Technologies Corp. - Click on STC & MindLeaders to have access to e-learning 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. These reasonably priced courses can be taken for an entire year, and include computers, programming languages, math skills, grammar skills, and many more!
Teach-At-Home - A comprehensive internet resource center for the home school community, including homeschooling news, feature articles, quick study guides, student contests with prizes and a categorized, fully searchable links index.
The Well-Trained Mind - This site offers articles, resources, and links for classical home schooling, plus an active set of message boards for parents using classical methods.
World to Discover Children's Radio - Internet radio featuring music adults can enjoy with subject matter appropriate for children. Live Saturdays 9:30am PST and rebroadcast Mondays 9am PST. Members get weekly email playlist along with activities and comprehension questions to use during the radio show. Website also has radio show archives and activities, providing extensive exploration of subjects like Chinese culture, Insects-- "What's Bugging You?", or nutrition-- "The Picky Eater".
CIA World Factbook 1998 - thorough, complete and up-to-date set of pages--one for every country in the world, including maps, natural resources, environmental issues, life expectancy, religions, languages, literacy, even number of radios and televisions. Although this excellent site by the CIA is on the "dry" side, we have found it incredibly helpful.
Countries of the World - profiles each nation and province in the world. Contains thousands of pages with information on world history, weather, governments, maps, flags, economies, people and currencies. Even listen to national anthems!
This Nation - excellent site for government information for high schoolers.
Hyperhistory Online - 3000 years of people, history, events, and maps in a handy interactive timeline that lets you see what was happening in science, culture, religion, literature and politics.
Travel Oklahoma: Our Heritage - Travel Oklahoma's website has been redesigned, so we can't link directly with the history part; take the link above and then click "Our Heritage." Neat information on Oklahoma history. In addition to the information about Native Americans, it also includes the fascinating but less widely known role of African Americans in state history.
Student's Guide to Oklahoma - a brief history, famous cowboys, Indians, fast facts, and emblems (did you know the state musical instrument is the fiddle?).
Oklahoma State History - includes beginnings, African Americans, Oklahoma Heritage, Native People, the Cowboys, the Outlaws, Wild West Shows, Rodeos, the State Song (may be taken from the Oklahoma Department of Tourism guide above).
Archiving Early America - Learn American history from the horse's mouth, not through a textbook committee's choice of material. Archiving Early America is a primary source for material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago. Includes games, crossword puzzles and trivia.
Historical Fiction Review - Several reviews of historical fiction for young (and not so young) readers; also listed by time period.
Dositey Educational Site - Dositey.com offers a wide range of free, interactive, and fun online lessons, exercises, step-by-step exercises and games, as well as a large choice of printable worksheets, activities, open-ended questions, challenging math problems and more.
Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas - This interactive web site uses a variety of techniques to introduce geometry to the user. Mathematics, music, visual displays, quizzes, puzzles, science, history, and geography are integrated in this web site. A very visual and engaging site which brings geometry to life.
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.
Interactive
Mathematics - This site uses LiveMath, Flash and Scientific
Notebook interactives to enhance mathematics lessons. Aimed at Grade 8 to
early college level, this site is good for homeschoolers to investigate the
meanings behind mathematics. As the site says, "Learn mathematics while
playing with it!"
Magical Balloon
Math - A home school curriculum designed for home school educators to
help develop problem solving skills, mathematics and eye-hand coordination.
Math Goodies - a free educational
web site featuring interactive math lessons. The innovative lessons
use a problem-solving approach and actively engage students in the learning
process. There is Homework Help, Chat Boards, Calculators, Puzzles, a Math
Image Library, Educational Links, and much more!
Math in A Box
- free advice and placement testing for homeschool and college
students that need to take algebra. Math tutoring and online classes
by the web site owner/developer are also offered. Elementary
school age children or their parents will also benefit from the comments and
worksheets offered. This growing web
site
offers to meet the math (especially algebra) needs
of those at home (students and adults) or of those restricted by a full
schedule or by finances.
Natural Math - a gentle approach to
math--very respectful of children. Highlights include an alternative
to memorizing multiplication facts, math jokes, games for even the youngest
mathematicians, and a bad teaching practices Hall of Shame!
River Arts Academy - River Arts Academy offers music classes, including beginning and instrumental band. Courses contain Oklahoma PASS competencies for fine arts. Art classes will be added during the '02-'03 school year.
Fabulous Field Trips - This site has some fun "virtual" field trips on it, including the Amazon, zoos, the Grand Canyon, the Eiffel Tower, and more.
Please see HERO's Oklahoma Resources and 50+ Things to do in Oklahoma pages for dozens of field trip ideas.
Calvert - Calvert School has been in homeschooling for many years and has a wonderful curriculum and program, as well as helpful forums, chat rooms and more.
Common Sense Press - Offers an online brochure, "Choosing Curriculum that is Right for You." Publishes the Learning Language Arts through Literature series.
Center for Distance and Independent Study at the University of Missouri - offers courses designed for homeschool families for both elementary age students (grades 3-8) , and high school students (grades 9-12, including the MU High School through which students can earn a diploma.)
Eagle Christian School - An online junior high and high school offering a quality Christian education to homeschooled students around the world.
Indiana University High School - offers self-paced distance learning and diplomas. Typical enrollees are homeschooled, homebound, or otherwise not thriving in a conventional high school program. Accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. - homeschool curriculum and supplies resource.
Unitarian Universalist Association - Includes the history of Unitarian Universalists and extensive studies of famous Unitarian Universalists such as Thomas Jefferson and Clara Barton.
BioChemHUB - Biology and chemistry educational resources center.
The Biology Project - An online interactive resource for learning biology. Contains everything you need for an advanced high school or early college-level biology course. Loads of images and info useful for younger learners, too. Extremely well done.
Inner Learning Online - Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses." We really enjoyed this site. It has some great pictures of the different systems in the human body, that were not too graphic for my three year old.
PlaySpots, Inc. - PlaySpots provides high quality hands-on science activities for children. Activity cards packed with "hows and whys" make science a snap for parent and child.
The Solar System in Pictures -Pictures and picture-quizzes of all the planets, optimized to download fast.
Virtual Frog Dissection - If you've ever wanted dissection knowledge without actually touching a dead frog, this is the place to go. Would also be a good preparation or "follow along" resource for those performing hands-on dissections.
HELM Resources Learning Styles and Special Needs Lists Meaty list of email lists and newsletters devoted to homeschooling children with all types of special needs.
NATHHAN (NATional cHallenged Homeschoolers Associated Network) - A non-profit organization of parents working together for support and encouragement in working with disabled children at home.
NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT - Dedicated to helping children reach their full potential no matter what limitations they may have.
Oklahoma Parent eNetwork - Online support and information network of parents with children or adult dependents with disabilities. Homeschooling families and those who have children in public or private schools are welcome.
PRO-Oklahoma (Parents Reaching Out in Oklahoma) - a statewide parent training and information project. Provides services statewide to parents and professionals developing educational programs for disabled children. Can provide specialized information, skills, and training. Serves learning, physical, emotional, or mental disabilities.
College Sports Scholarships - A free resource and information site for students who want to apply for athletic scholarships. A great alternative to expensive recruiting sites.
Junior College Athletic Scholarships - A recruiting and resume service for student/athletes who want to compete at community college level.
NOAH Jaguars - Christian homeschool sports organization. Currently primary involvement is competitive basketball, looking at other areas, as interests are made known.
Piedmont Education Services Direct - Piedmont Education Services Direct provides nationally standardized achievement testing services for homeschoolers including the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement. PES Direct also offers home school books, videos, diplomas, and news articles.
Oklahoma Homeschool is a website resource that offers free homeschool forms, unit studies, and teaching newsletter as well as information on getting started in homeschooling, multi-level teaching, learning styles, unit studies, career training for teens, recordkeeping, and teaching Oklahoma History.
Teach Your Children Well - A non-profit site that provides unit studies, lesson plans, and a place to discuss all things homeschool. Everything is free and no membership is required.
Natural Learning - Essays and personal accounts of all aspects of natural learning, along with a message board, chats, a mailing list, and an expansive list of unschooling books.
Learn In Freedom - Karl M. Bunday's Learn In Freedom pages are the grandpappy of unschooling sites. There are wonderful links and great basic information to be found here. Highly recommended as a starting place for unschoolers' surfing.
Unschooling.Com - This wonderful website explores unschooling in depth--through essays, links, definitions, FAQs and more. New information posted weekly. A "must read" for anyone wanting to know about unschooling.
Educational Accents - Over 6000 used books in stock with secure online ordering. Information on whether a book is the current edition or not, or if it is compatible with the current edition.
Homeschooling Used Curriculum Sites - links to tons of places to buy curriculum, along with descriptions of what you can expect to find at each spot.
Homeschool Classifieds - free for sale and want ads. Shoppers can sometimes find Abeka, Konos, BJU, Math U See, and Alpha Omega. Sorted by publisher or product name for shopping convenience.
Second Harvest Curriculum - This site contains thousands of quality used homeschool curriculum from popular publishers such as Abeka, Bob Jones, Saxon, Sonlight, CLP, Apologia, and more! Save 25-75 percent off retail. Also a great way to sell the textbooks you are no longer using.
Used Homeschool Stuff - over 10,000 items for sale. You can also sell your used homeschooling items to this family-run business for them to resell.
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