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.
Open Clip Art
Posted in Creative Commons, Public Domain, Technology on March 27, 2012
Looking for clip-art for a specific project that you can use privately or commercially? Open Clipart states: This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. Almost all of the clipart on Open Clipart is user created. All of it is licensed under a public domain dedication. Read More »
Richard the 3rd
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on March 25, 2012
King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard the Usurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather be said, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever made. Richard III only reigned for two years. But his rise to kingly Read More »
Xerxes
Posted in College Prep, Culture, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 25, 2012
You might recognize the name Xerxes from the Biblical story of Esther. Historians are not certain whether the story refers to Xerxes I or another, later king of the Persian empire. Nevertheless Xerxes plays an important role in the history of the Middle East. The name of Xerxes is associated in the minds of men with Read More »
Genghis Khan
Posted in College Prep, Culture, Eastern Civilization, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 23, 2012
Three thousand years is a period of time long enough to produce great changes, and in the course of that time a great many different nations and congeries of nations were formed in the regions of Central Asia. The term Tartars has been employed generically to denote almost the whole race. The Monguls are a portion Read More »
Peter the Great
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on March 22, 2012
Jacob Abbott was a prolific writer. He wrote several biographies of famous historical figures. My next few posts will be dedicated to some of his better biographies. Each of these books is well suited for upper elementary children and older. We have used them many times with our history lessons and notebooking projects. First we Read More »
