I have decided to dedicate one blog a week to free homeschool curriculum and resources this is the first edition.
I help run a page on Facebook with the same name as in the title. A friend came up with the idea and asked me to help run it because us like many families that home school or want to home school don't have thousands of dollars to spend on curriculum and are lucky if we have even a few hundred dollars to spend on curriculum so what we did was scour the internet and tried to gather all the free resources in one place.
We have been running the page now for since 2012 and till this summer was fairly small with about 125 members then something happened in our area, the school system in the neighboring district was taken over by the state for mismanagement of funds and parents started pulling their kids out in droves and word got out about our page and it has exploded. And as word got out people from other places have found our page. Which is really cool, we now how over 1500 members. I am thinking about introducing our members to steemit.
But when and if I do I will be making the post about if you join how to properly use Steemit as we know we need quality content not spam. But then I got to thinking that I should share here what I have learned about free curriculum and resources for homeschoolers. So here is that post. You don't have to have money to home school there is a ton of free resources you can use.
photo taken from the Free Homeschool Curriculum and Resources facebook page
Some other resources for free curriculum that isn't listed in the photo is
https://www.khanacademy.org/
http://discoveryk12.com/dk12/
The Public Library
Another cool resource is Pizza Hut's Book it Program available for students in K-6 grades
note this may not be available in all countries
http://www.bookitprogram.com/teachers/enrollment.asp
Another free resource homeschoolers can take advantage of here in the United States is the Smithsonian Museum Day Live where you can get in free you do have to go to this website first to get your free tickets the next free day is coming up soon.
Saturday September 23, 2017 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-day-live-2017/
I hope you enjoy edition 1 of Free Homeschool Curriculum and Resources, check back in next week for edition 2 of this series.
