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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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.
Hawk Eye
Posted in American History, Culture, Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 5, 2012
Interested in Native American history? This is a beautifully illustrated book that tells the story of Hawk Eye, a young Indian boy. The text is probably geared towards elementary aged children as it reads like a small chapter book. This book is in the public domain! Download Hawk Eye from gutenberg.org
The World Of Fashion Images
Posted in Public Domain, Western Civilization on October 30, 2012
If you love historical dress and fashion, I have some great images to share with you! These beauties come from the public domain book The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons. I have no idea what that last term even means but it sure sounds fancy! There are some great images in this book – all Read More »
The Book of Joyous Children
Posted in Kindergarten, Literature, Lower Elementary, Public Domain on October 30, 2012
In their blithe companionship Taste again, these pages through, The hot honey on your lip Of the sun-smit wild strawberry, Or the chill tart of the cherry; Kneel, all glowing, to The cool spring, and with it sip The Book of Joyous Children. Published in 1902, this is a simple poetry book for children. However, Read More »
Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers
Posted in American History, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 22, 2012
In these days when even our skies are shadowed by wars and rumors of wars, it is fitting to remember what men and women and children of our blood have done in the past. Daring tales from the Civil War! You have to love a book where the first story is about“a few naked, shoeless Read More »
Shells and Sea Life
Posted in Animals, Nature Studies, Public Domain on October 22, 2012
It is the author’s hope that this little volume may give to many children a better knowledge of the life of mollusks than they would be apt to obtain otherwise, and that even dead and dry shells may awaken trains of thought, and restore, as it were, the life of the creatures which once inhabited Read More »
