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.
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- List of free homeschool curriculum other than Homeschool Commons.
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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.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
Posted in High School, History, Middle School, Public Domain on June 12, 2013
For those that love biographies of famous people, Elbert Hubbard wrote 14 volumes of his series Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. Each volume contains the stories of 10-12 people in a certain category (with exception to the first book): Volume 1 – memorial edition 2 – Famous Women 3 – American Statesmen Read More »
An Introduction to the History of Science
Posted in High School, History, Public Domain, Science on June 2, 2013
The history of science should be given a larger place than at present in general history; for, as Bacon said, the history of the world without a history of learning is like a statue of Polyphemus with the eye out. The history of science studies the past for the sake of the future. It is a Read More »
The Young Craftsman {Popular Mechanics}
Posted in Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain on May 27, 2013
You are sure to love this resource! Over 450 reprinted projects from Popular Mechanics, What to Make, and other publications These are just great. You can get a lot of ideas for projects to make with the kids, or for the kids to make on their own! Every page is an image from a magazine Read More »
Retro People Clipart
Posted in Public Domain on May 27, 2013
I found these great retro images in a very outdated book all about how people needed to stop hogging the road and drive less or else our economy was going to collapse. So while the book was pretty silly to us today, the clip art inside was great! The book had been checked and marked Read More »
Adventure Tales by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Posted in American History, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on May 23, 2013
Edward Sylvester Ellis – Dime Novel Author The son of a famous hunter, Edward was a school teacher, journalist, and prolific author during the last part of the 1800′s. His works are immeasurable because he wrote under various pseudonyms and pen names. Most of his books and articles were adventure stories for boys and historical biographies. He Read More »
