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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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.
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“Wild Bill” Hickok Resources
Posted in American History, High School, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Preschool, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on May 1, 2012
“Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.” – General George Custer, writing about Wild Bill Hickok. Famous Scouts – an ebook with stories Read More »
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Posted in Applied Math, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 26, 2012
Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908). This is not an ebook- but rather a website that has short biographies of mathematicians from the 17th and 18th centuries. They Read More »
The Adopted Son: The Story of Moses
Posted in Bible, Culture, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 25, 2012
At this time a child was born among the Israelites whose life was to be one of the most remarkable that history has recorded for us. This is the story of Moses, paraphrased for children from the original scripture text. There are black and white illustrations depicting most of the major scenes in Moses’ life. Read More »
Children’s Classics In Dramatic Form
Posted in Literature, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 23, 2012
Children are dramatic by nature. They are for the time the kings, the fairies, and the heroes that they picture in their imaginations. Familiar stories from Aesop’s fables, Arabian nights, Grimm, Anderson, and more are made alive through dramatization. This book contains skits that children can perform in order to learn expressive voice, oral reading, and bodily Read More »
Little Flower Folks: Living Botany Books
Posted in Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 20, 2012
Everyone loves flowers. They are the beauty of nature. These two books explore the delicate makeup of flowers, as well as the plants that produce them. There are plenty of great illustrations to visualize the living botany lessons in these volumes. They would make great additions to a notebook or lapbook project. Download the Read More »
