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.
History of Julius Caesar
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on March 22, 2012
There were three great European nations in ancient days, each of which furnished history with a hero: the Greeks, the Carthaginians, and the Romans. Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. The Carthaginian hero was Hannibal. The Roman hero was Caesar. And so begins Jacob Abbott’s story of Julius Caesar. His account is thorough, covering Read More »
Birds of Gay Plumage
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 18, 2012
I had never heard of a sunbird until I found this living nature book written by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. From the “Sunbird page“: Sunbirds are tiny jewels of the Old World tropics. Most are forest birds, but some occur in patches of vegetation in the desert. Many species possess glittering iridescent colors. In this feature, Read More »
Bird Guide - Public Domain
Posted in Animals, Nature Studies, Public Domain on March 18, 2012
From the preface: The native birds are one of our nation’s most val- uable assets. Destroy them, and in a comparatively few years the insects will have multiplied to such an extent that trees will be denuded of their foliage, plants will cease to thrive and crops cannot be raised. This book has a color Read More »
Even More Bird Books!
Posted in Animals, College Prep, High School, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Preschool, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 18, 2012
There are just too many good public domain bird books! I have been finding more and more great books about birds to share and so I decided to share all the gutenberg.org resources in one post. These gorgeous color illustrations I am using come from a periodical called Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography. You can Read More »
The First Book of Birds
Posted in Animals, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Preschool, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 16, 2012
Have I got a treat for you! If you haven’t noticed yet, I have been on a quest to find resources for bird enthusiasts. The public domain is filled with great books about fowl. And this resource is supreme! Every single page in this book has an amazing illustration on it. And the best part Read More »
