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.
A Hundred Things A Girl Could Make
Posted in Art, College Prep, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Home Economics, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on December 13, 2011
For the girls who loves to craft and sew, this book has 100 fun projects. Each ‘thing’ to make has directions, pattern, and/or illustrations. Sew a bib for baby sister or make a pincushion tree. Some of the projects would make practical gifts and some are just plain fun! This would make a great 1-year book for Read More »
Denslow’s Night Before Christmas
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Humanities, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on December 12, 2011
This book was released to email subscribers last week- you are behind! Subscribe to Homeschool Commons on the right (just enter your email and hit ‘enter’) and be included in the exclusive deals and pre-releases! You won’t find this book on Google, Internet Archive, or Project Gutenberg. I personally collected these images and put them Read More »
Drawing Made Easy
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on December 9, 2011
This drawing book from 1921 does much of what popular drawing books today do- illustrate how to go from a simple series of shapes into a complex object. However, the content of this book is unique, especially for children. The examples in the book cover a wide range of topics, from trees to camp fires. Read More »
The Boyhood of Great Inventors
Posted in Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Science, Technology, Upper Elementary on December 6, 2011
Do you know who Josiah Wedgwood was? Not only was he the grandfather of Charles Darwin, he is famous in his own right. He was responsible for the industrialization of the pottery business. But his fame to many is reserved for his marketing techniques. He invented modern marketing such as buy one get one free, Read More »
Vintage Christmas Cartoons
Posted in Bible, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Music, Preschool, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on December 5, 2011
If you are old enough to remember these cartoons then you will appreciate just how vintage they are! ;0) These short animated films are from the 1930′s and 40′s and are amazingly in the public domain. That means you can use these cartoons in your projects without restraint. Santa’s Surprise- Five children from around the Read More »