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.
If you have questions or would like to submit content to this site, please use the contact form.
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.
Vintage Christmas Clip Art
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain on November 19, 2011
Here is another huge collection of public domain clip art! These vintage images would be great as little decoupaged ornaments, additions to your Christmas letter, or as website graphics. Most of them depict family or nature scenes. There are 130+ images that you can use to your heart’s delight! I have compiled them into an easy zip file for Read More »
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
Posted in College Prep, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain, Science on November 18, 2011
I found this gem while browsing for cool mechanical clip-art. This book is chock-full of awesome illustrations of everything used in hydraulics, steam engines, pneumatics, and all kinds of other machines. Each numbered illustration is accompanied by descriptive text on the opposite page. Even the motions of the machines are shown! This would be a great Read More »
What to Draw and How to Draw It
Posted in Art, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 18, 2011
This is one of my favorite drawing books to use with the kids. The drawings are simple and yet they teach complex lessons about the basic shapes of objects. Each page has instructions for one or more objects, whether that be animals or buildings or something else. The instructions are well-done and simple to follow. Read More »
Christmas Graphics
Posted in Art, Hobbies and Crafts, Public Domain on November 16, 2011
Just in time for all your Christmas and holiday projects- may I present a collection of simple graphics: This public domain collection is perfect for cutting, tracing, and using in your crafts and cards this year. The images can easily be turned to black and white and used for stencils or templates. Include them in Read More »
Physics For Free
Posted in College Prep, Creative Commons, High School, Science on November 16, 2011
The website Physics for Free is a very plain looking place. It contains three free books written by Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics at Yale. The great thing about these pdf downloads is that they are expressly copyright-free. The three books build off one another and are perfect for advanced high schoolers and Read More »
