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.
Every Boy His Own Mechanic
Posted in Applied Math, College Prep, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Life Skills, Middle School, Public Domain, Technology, Upper Elementary on January 30, 2012
Do you have boys at home that love to work with wood, tools, and mechanical parts? Every Boy His Own Mechanic is a book just for them! The book covers woodworking, painting, mixing cement, fixing bicycles, and tons more. With 400+ pages of instructions and illustrations, your boys AND girls will be busy for a Read More »
Geometry for Elementary School
Posted in Creative Commons, Lower Elementary, Math, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on January 28, 2012
Geometry is one of the most elegant fields in mathematics. It deals with visual shapes that we know from everyday life. Parents and students that are looking for a more modern text that they can use in math studies now have a free option in WikiBooks. From the creators of Wikimedia, WikiBooks attempts to combine Read More »
The Lincoln Story Calendar
Posted in American History, College Prep, High School, Literature, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on January 26, 2012
For the history buff! This calendar has a story about Abraham Lincoln for every week of the year. The stories are collected from the words of Lincoln himself as well as primary documents and testimonies from those closest to the man. Published in 1909, at the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, it was published again in 1911. Read More »
Children’s Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories
Posted in Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on January 23, 2012
This collection of classic stories, edited by Watty Piper, contains mostly familiar tales. Little Red Riding Hood The Goose-Girl Babes in the Wood The Sleeping Beauty Snowdrop and the Seven Little Dwarves (Snow White) What stood out to me about this book was the illustrations. The color pictures are beautiful. Along with them are black Read More »
Sparkie Comic Books
Posted in Hobbies and Crafts, Kindergarten, Literature, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on January 23, 2012
If you have never listened to the old radio show Big Jon & Sparkie then you have missed out on a fun adventure! My middle daughter loves that series. And to her delight, I found these old Sparkie comic books! The first is volume 2 from the series. Sparkie meets King Midas. In volume 4- Read More »
