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.
How Plants Travel Notebooking Pack
Posted in Free Use, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Upper Elementary on November 14, 2011
As a companion resource to the wonderful living book Little Wanderers, I have created a notebooking pack that includes individual pages for each of the main plants in the book. This pack is enormous, a whopping 57 pages! Study the way that seeds travel and have fun recording your progress. Along with the notebooking pages Read More »
Dot and Tot of Merryland
Posted in Kindergarten, Literature, Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on November 11, 2011
Freshly uploaded onto Gutenberg.org for your reading pleasure, Dot and Tot of Merryland is another fantastical story by L. Frank Baum. Illustrating for this public domain book in a similar fashion as the Wizard of Oz books, W. W. Denslow brings little Dot and Tot to life in oranges and yellows. The story is about Read More »
Machines At Work
Posted in Hobbies and Crafts, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Preschool, Public Domain, Science on November 10, 2011
Boys love machines and anything that goes “vroom”. Girls love big machines too. There is just something about the immense power and ability behind a big piece of machinery that makes it fascinating. Machines At Work is a great living book. Full of color illustrations and flavorful text, it would be perfect for notebooking or Read More »
Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Posted in American History, College Prep, High School, Home Economics, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on November 6, 2011
Any history or cooking enthusiast will enjoy this fun cookbook highlighting traditional Pennsylvania Dutch foods. From the preface of the book: In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn’s Colony seeking a land of peace and plenty. They were a mixed people; Moravians from Bohemia and Moravia, Mennonites from Switzerland and Holland, Read More »
The Star People
Posted in Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Science, Upper Elementary on November 6, 2011
“Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead and which I don’t half know to this day?” —Thomas Carlyle. Children that show an interest in the stars and night sky will enjoy this book about the “star people”. The book is all Read More »
