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.
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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.
Woodland Tales
Posted in Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 4, 2012
These Mother Carey Tales were written for children of all ages, who have not outgrown the delight of a fairy tale. It might almost be said that they were written chiefly for myself, for I not only have had the pleasure of telling them to the little ones, and enjoying their quick response, but have also Read More »
The Biography Of A Grizzly
Posted in Animals, Public Domain on October 1, 2012
Written during a time when the magnificent grizzly bear was facing extinction, this book describes the life and habitat of the grand creature. 165+ pages full of living text, black and white sketches, plus beautiful greyscale drawings depicting bears in all kinds of scenes. Download The Biography Of A Grizzly from gutenberg.org.
Free Meadow Animals Images
Posted in Public Domain on September 26, 2012
I have another blog over at Blogger where I have been sharing some of the great images that I find while searching public domain books. It has been a pet project of mine – extracting the images and touching them up to make them usable for projects. The site doesn’t get much traffic, and since Read More »
A Day With Walt Whitman
Posted in Art, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on September 26, 2012
Dressing with the same large, leisurely gestures as characterized him in everything, Walt Whitman was presently attired in his invariable suit of grey: and by the time the clock touched half-past seven, he was seated in the verandah, comfortably inhaling the sweet, fresh morning air, and quite ready for his simple breakfast. Read about the Read More »
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
Posted in Ancient History, Culture, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Mythology, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on September 23, 2012
This book is fun, and full of illustrations that are large and would make excellent coloring pages! There is a wealth of delightful imagination in the legends and folk-lore of the Jews of a later period which is almost entirely unknown to children. Some of the stories in this book are from the Scriptures. Some Read More »
