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.
Rhymes and Stories
Posted in Kindergarten, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on July 2, 2012
This week at Homeschool Commons I want to share the books of Marion Florence Lansing. Then one day the little girl, who was Marion Lansing, went with her mother into Boston to see Mr. Ginn, who was publishing these Stickney Readers. He took her on his knee and said to her, “Will you make books Read More »
Stories of Inventors
Posted in American History, High School, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Technology, Upper Elementary on June 27, 2012
There are many thrilling incidents—all the more attractive because of their truth—in the study, the trials, the disappointments, the obstacles overcome, and the final triumph of the successful inventor. Every great invention, afterward marvelled at, was first derided. Each great inventor, after solving problems in mechanics or chemistry, had to face the jeers of the Read More »
Stories of Great Inventors
Posted in American History, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Science, Technology on June 25, 2012
Written at about a 2nd grade level, this book tells the story of 5 great inventors: Robert Fulton Eli Whitney Samuel Morse Peter Cooper Thomas Edison From the Young Folk’s Library of Choice Literature series. Download Stories of Great Inventors at gutenberg.org.
Little Bo-Peep
Posted in Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on June 22, 2012
This wonderful picture book contains numerous nursery rhymes with illustrations. There are lots of black and white drawings that would make great coloring and notebooking pages to do while you studied the different rhymes. Download Little Bo-Peep from gutenberg.org.
Construction Notebooking Pages
Posted in American History, Free Use, High School, Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Technology, Upper Elementary on June 15, 2012
My kids love the book Mike Mulligan. Construction vehicles are big and fun to watch, even for older kids. I created these notebooking packs using public domain photos of construction vehicles. They could be used in a unit study about construction, for a book like Mike Mulligan, or even in history lessons about the early Read More »
