The Best Homeschool Resources And Lessons!

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This is a collection of some top notch homeschooling resources, lesson ideas, info, and units!

Homeschooling! There are so many ways to go about it. Some homeschoolers use mostly textbooks. Others use library books and focus their lessons on units revolving around a particular topic. Many homeschooling families follow a particular philosophy, such as Charlotte Mason, Classical, unschooling, and others.

On this page, I intend to show you some of the best homeschooling pages on Squidoo! Please note that I am just beginning this homeschooling resource, and will be adding more to it every week. I hope you'll bookmark this page and visit often!

The Types of Homeschooling Resources You'll Find Here

You might want to check both the grade level, as well as the subject, you're interested in. Sites are not duplicated in both categories.

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Homeschooling Squid Angel here!

My job is to watch over all the homeschooling pages here on Squidoo!

Below you'll find the homeschooling Squidoo pages
I've found to be particularly useful and worthy!





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Preschool and Elementary

Five In A Row: A Literature Based Curriculum

Tandemonimom's Five in a Row Curriculum page is about a literature based curriculum for young children. Tandemonimom describes how the program works, as well as providing a few examples of the program in action. In essence, you read the same picture book to your child 5 days in a row, and do various related learning activities along with it. My son and I used Five in a Row when he was in elementary school, and we both thoroughly loved it! We still cherish some of those Five In A Row books we read over 7 years ago! I highly recommend Five in A Row for young children!
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Summer Lapbooks

Eclectriceducation's's Summer Lapbooks page includes a short video on how to make a lapbook, as well as tips on making lapbooks about bees, plants, weather, space, trees, and oceans.
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Developing Gross Motor Skills

There's more to homeschool than just reading, writing, and arithmetic! TeacherRenee provides some tips on strengthening your child's gross motor skills in her article Helping Children Develop Gross Motor Skills.
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More Homeschooling Resources for Preschooler and Elementary Aged Children

(Also check various subject level categories farther down the page.)

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Upper Elementary School or Middle School

Resources for Upper Elementary Schoolers and Middle Schoolers

(Additional resources can be found in the subject level, and unit level, categories.)

Painted Lady Butterflies and Tadpoles To Frogs are detailed sites about how to raise and care for animals from caterpillars to butterflies, and frog eggs to frogs! They both include many photographs illustrating the various stages of the life cycles of these animals. Both include a variety of tips as well! These are excellent as part of a hands-on science curriculum! What a fabulous way to learn science!



Raising Painted Lady Butterflies
This page provides valuable information on raising Painted Lady Butterflies, as well as the Butterfly Life Cycle, the difference between moths and butterflies, butterfly eye spots, butterfly proboscis, etc. Did you know that butterflies need the sun in order to fly?
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Middle School or High School

Homeschooling Resources For the Middle School & High School Level

Looking for ideas for teaching Biology, World Geography, Photography, Critical Thinking or Philosophy?

Are you looking for curriculum ideas for Biology, World Geography, Photography, Critical Thinking, or Philosophy on a middle school or high school level? You'll find some at Homeschool Curriculum for Middle School and High School Co-op Classes or Individuals.
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High School Resources For Homeschoolers

Eclecticeducation''s Homeschool Curriculum- High School is mostly a list of links to various places where you can find homeschooling resources. For example, if you click on the Animal Farm link, you are taken to a thorough study guide on that novel.
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Charlotte Mason - for High School Students

Every time I visit HarmonyArtMom's pages on Squidoo, I know I'm in for a treat! On her Charlotte Mason High School page, she explains to her readers how her family does school. She discusses narration, nature study, literature, art and music appreciation, and more!
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A Videography Class for High Schoolers

Do your teens enjoy taking photographs or movies as much as my homeschooled son does? If so, perhaps they'd really enjoy a class in videography! In Videography for High School, HarmonyArtMom explains how her boys are learning about making videos as part of their homeschooling experience.
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Language Arts:

Reading, Spelling, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing

Resources For Language Arts

Homeschooling Resources for Reading, Spelling, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar

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Math

Resources For Teaching/Learning Math

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Nature Studies and Art

Resources for Exploring Nature, and Creating Art

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Science

Resources for Science

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History

(Additional history sites are located in the Unit Studies section.)

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Geography

Geography

Food From Around The World

Are you studying world geography? Why not try out some of the international recipes on Donnette's article Food From Around The World?
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Geography Unit Study

LilliputStation's Geography Unit Study includes information about a variety of ways of making the learning of geography be hands on and fun! My favorite of her ideas are called "Continent Boxes." Continent Boxes are decorated and labeled boxes where you child keeps all their hands-on geography projects!
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Making 3D Maps Out of Salt Dough

On her Salt Dough Maps site, Jimmie and her homeschooled daughter give us step by step directions on how to make a salt dough map! This sounds like an excellent idea for a geography course!
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More geography resources for homeschoolers

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Unit Studies

Homeschooling Unit Studies

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Other Homeschooling Resources

Additional Homeschooling Resources

Are you familiar with lapbooking and notebooking? In her site, Lapbooking Versus Notebooking, Jimmie provides us with information, as well as examples of both. If you are a homeschooler and you're not yet familiar with lapbooking and notebooking, her page is definitely worth checking out!
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Homeschool Blogs

Laughing, Loving, and Learning is my homeschool blog. Lately, I've been posting about our homeschooling nature experiences. They're a lot of fun, and you can participate in them too, if you'd like!

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Page last updated 2/23/12.

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