Home School Creative Commons Resources
Homeschool Commons was created to serve as a central juncture for finding free resources to use in personal and commercial ventures.
There are other amazing websites that are directed towards homeschoolers which organize and/or provide free resources for use in educating your children. This site is not trying to reproduce the efforts of others.
Instead, this site attempts to provide a clear distinction between material that is free for personal use, and that which is truly liberated. Therefore, much of what is found here will be content in the public domain or copyrighted under a flexible creative commons license.
This means that much of the material can be used to create new works and share with others.
All the material you will find in this category, unless otherwise noted, is free.
I have homeschooled my children since 2004 and have used tons of free use or public domain content in our studies. I love to make printables and other resources from public domain sources.
If you are looking for more information try one of these pages:
- Want to know how to navigate this site?
- Have questions about the use of content?
- List of free homeschool curriculum other than Homeschool Commons.
- Find out ways you can use public domain material to create your own homeschool projects.
- View a list of reviewed homeschool curriculum.
If you have questions or would like to submit content to this site, please use the contact form.
How to Use The Commons Category
This category is meant to serve as a hub for free educational material found on the web that is suitable for use in homeschooling, unschooling, and other alternative educational ventures.
There are three main categories. The information in this category is organized in three ways: by grade level, subject, and copyright license.
You can also find what you are looking for by typing in the search button located at the top-right of every page. Try keywords rather than specific phrases to get the most results from your search.
Baby’s Own Aesop
Posted in Kindergarten, Mythology, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on August 4, 2013
When I was little, I had large books filled with colorful illustrations and the tales of Mother Goose and Aesop. Now, when you look in bookstores it is hard to find any books for children about those tales. This picture book has beautiful illustrations, but the text might be hard to read since it has Read More »
The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Posted in Geology, Lower Elementary, Public Domain on August 4, 2013
What a fun introduction to geology and the Earth sciences! 30+ tales of famous volcanoes and earthquakes! Including: Krakatoa Stromboli Vesuvius San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 The fable of Atlantis Chapters are also included that describe different forms and events having to do with earthquakes and volcanoes. Learn about lava, seaquakes, mud volcanoes, and more. Read More »
A Day With John Milton
Posted in Elementary, History, Literature, Middle School, Public Domain on July 28, 2013
Such was the man who now, neatly dressed in black, was led into his study, upon the same floor as his bedroom,—a small chamber hung with rusty green,—and there, seated in a large old elbow-chair, received the morning salutations of his three daughters. Another addition to the Days With The Poets series; this time it Read More »
Beautiful Illustrations of Japan
Posted in Public Domain on July 23, 2013
These illustrations come from a German book “Japanische Märchen” at gutenberg.org. From the information there, it appears that this was a book of Japanese folklore and/or fairy tales translated into German. Since the book is in the public domain, all of these images may be downloaded and used freely.
Dream Blocks (Poetry Picture Book)
Posted in Kindergarten, Public Domain on July 23, 2013
This is an amazing full-color book, beautifully scanned into digital format, and full of short little poems to share with your children. The information on archive.org about the book says that it was printed in 1908, placing it in the public domain. You can use the images and the text in your projects! To download Read More »
