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.
First Spelling Book
Posted in Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Reading, Spelling, Upper Elementary on January 4, 2012
This leveled grader is meant to be used for elementary students in grades 1-4. It starts with simplistic words and oral lessons and progresses through more difficult spelling lists. The book has black and white illustrations on most pages until you get to the more advanced lessons. Download First Spelling Book from archive.org. More resources: Read More »
The First Book of Water
Posted in Geology, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on January 4, 2012
From the same publisher that brought us The First Book of Trees and The First Book of Stones comes another exciting book! Discover everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite liquid- water. From its properties and make-up to how its energy is harnessed, this book covers them all in 60 pages of engaging Read More »
Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
Posted in Animals, Literature, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on January 2, 2012
A wild, adventurous “living book” with plenty of illustrations! Most of the stories deal with how things work or curiosities of nature but some of them are pure fiction. From the preface: Come along, boys and girls! We are off on our rambles. But please do not ask me where we are going. It would Read More »
War Inventions and How They Were Invented
Posted in High School, History, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Technology, Upper Elementary on January 1, 2012
Not every parent is keen on their children studying about war and weapons. The understanding of history, however, demands that we at least become familiar with the progression of war. From the preface: Children are always interested to hear how things came about, and so the author has endeavoured to show how the weapons of Read More »
Superman Old Time Radio Show
Posted in American History, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on January 1, 2012
Adventures of Superman is a radio show which aired between 1938 and 1951 on Mutual and ABC with Kelloggs as a sponsor. Superman has perhaps one of the most famous introductions ever: “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!” “Look! Up in the Read More »
