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.
Gutenberg Now Has Easier Searching Tool
Posted in Public Domain on December 6, 2012
Have you been to gutenberg.org to browse around lately? They have done some work to the site, including vamping up their search tool and adding some social media options. Now you can search by keyword, subject, and a variety of other methods. You can also click on the author’s name of a book on the Read More »
Two Audio Versions Of A Christmas Carol – Plus Ebooks!
Posted in College Prep, High School, Literature, Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 29, 2012
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. You’ve seen productions of the tale on TV and in plays. The Read More »
A Day With Richard Wagner
Posted in Culture, High School, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Music, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 29, 2012
Now let your children discover one of the most creative and hardworking composers – Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s musical legacy rests with only thirteen completed stage works. Of these, ten of them have remained in the repertory of all major opera houses around the world, and represent some of the most loved, most often performed, and Read More »
A Day With Charles Dickens
Posted in High School, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on November 27, 2012
This week I will be bringing you even more books in the “A Day With” series. These short ebooks work great for character studies of famous artists and authors. Today we have Charles Dickens – one of the most famous authors of all time. Download A Day With Charles Dickens from archive.org.
A Day With Longfellow
Posted in Literature, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on November 27, 2012
Little snippets from the poet’s life, interwoven with his own prose, make this an excellent study for history or notebooking. The selections could also be used as inspiration for copywork selections. There are beautiful full-color illustrations that can be enlarged in the web version of the gutenberg text. Download A Day With Longfellow from gutenberg.org.
