Other Homeschooling and Education Websites

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General Homeschooling Websites and Organizations

• A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
• American Homeschool Association
• Books4HomeSchool. Lots of resources.
• EducationalFreedom.com
• Family Unschoolders Network
• Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• Google Directory: Homeschooling
  • Google Directory: New York
• Home Educators Resource Directory
• Home School World
• Home Sweet Homeschool
• Homeschool Central
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• Homeschool Education Magazine's Resources
• Homeschool Freedom
• HomeSchool Help at Sassafrass Grove
• Homeschool Legal Defense Assoc. (HSLDA), with the latest homeschooling news, including a list of internships for teens .
• Homeschool Talk and Swap from VegSource.
• The Homeschool Zone
• Homeschooling from About.com
• Homeschooling, A Light at the End of the Tunnel. Links to religious curricula and foreign orgs.
• Jewish Home Educators Network (JHEN)
• John Holt and Growing Without Schooling
• Jon's Homeschool Resources
• Learn in Freedom!
• Liberty Lyceum Gifted Homeschooling, Jennifer Dees's homeschooling blog.
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• National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATTHAN). See also Resources for Kids with Disabilities below.
• National Black Home Educators (NBHE)
• Parents Educating at Home (PEAH)
• Parents Educating Children
• Unschooling

General Education Websites

Although not all these sites are specifically aimed at homeschoolers, they host some useful information.

• Amazing Kids. A a non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping kids realize their amazing potential.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO).
• Awesome Library
• BBC Learning Homepage
• Bob's Place of Educational Links
• Busy Teachers' Website
• California Achievement Test (see also FAQ: What about Testing?)
• Center for Talented Youth (opportunities for gifted kids)
• Channel Thirteen. Education resources and lesson plans.
• Creating Learning Communities.
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• Davison Institute for Talent Development, a national non-profit serving gifted children.
  • Read their Mentoring - A Guidebook (pdf format)
• Discovery School includes Kathy Schrock's Educators Guide and lesson plans related to cable TV shows aired on the Discovery channel and the Learning Channel
• Dr Thomas Armstrong's work in special ed. and the use of multiple intelligences is fascinating. His website lists the eight multiple intelligences that we all have (to one degree or another) and also has several interesting articles. Click on the Myth of ADD to find a list of 50 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion.
• EDSITEment, humanities resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Education by Design
• Education for Gifted Youth (Stamford Univ.)
• Education Place from publisher Houghton Mifflin.
• The Education Revolution from the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO).
• Education World, helping educators integrate the Internet into their teaching. Lesson plans, articles, resource links.
• Educator's Reference Desk offers lesson plans and more.
• Enchanted Learning. Lessons for young ones.
• Family Education. Parenting advice and child development.
• Family Education Network
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• FunBrain. Educational games for kids
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), a mega-database of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
• John Taylor Gatto was a NYC and NYS Best Teacher of the Year, and also the author of Dumbing Down Our Schools and The Underground History of American Education. Go to his website to read a recent essay and click on The Makers of Modern Schooling to get an eye-opener into the actual background of our educational system.
• HomeSchoolZone's Educational Resources
• Interactive Sites for Elementary Students. A good general list of interactive educational sites for all ages and subjects.
• International Education and Resource Network
• Kids and Teens Directory
• Kid's Page Archive. Free printable worksheets for pre-K through 5th grade. English, math, science, history, word finds and more. New worksheets added weekly.
• Links for All Teachers
• Learning Styles and Strategiesfrom Professor Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University.
• Megasite for teachers
• Chris Mercogliano is co-director of The Albany Free School, a democratic school in Albany, New York.
See his website for information on him and a free selection of his essays. Author of Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed.
• Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School. K-5 and middle school links .
• Mrs. Rollman's Second Grade
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Number 2. Free test preparation.
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• Pro Teacher. Resources & lesson plans.
• RHL School. Free worksheets.
• Scholastic's page for Teachers
• SchoolExpress. Free lesson plans and worksheets.
• Sites for Teachers
• Songs for Teaching -- all about using music to teach a variety of subjects.
• TeacherNet
• U.S. Department of Education
• Yahoo's Kids' Directory

Free Lesson Plans

Resources for Kids with Disabilities

See the Foreign Languages page for Braille and American Sign Language.

• ADD at Sassafrass Grove
• Another Path, homeschooling your deaf or hard of hearing child.
• Education by Design (with special needs materials)
• Home School Education from the Resource Room, multisensory learning for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties
• Homeschooling Children with Disabilities from Family Village School.
• Homeschooling with Special Challenges.
• L D Online, for people with learning disabilities. Read the article Homeschooling LD/ADD Children: Great Idea or Big Mistake?
• Learning Abled Kids, with information about reading disabilities, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, curriculum, and tools for learning.
• Learning Disabilities Association of New York City
• Maaja's List of resources for kids with special needs.
• Megasite for teachers (with special needs materials)
• National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATTHAN)
• National Deaf Education Center
  • KidsWorld Deaf Net
• Non-Verbal Learning Disorder.
• Parent Pal's resources for homeschooling special needs children.
• Parents Instructing Challenged Children
• Resources for Children with Special Needs (RCSN), not-for-profit organization that provides information and referral, case management and support, individual and systemic advocacy, parent and professional training, library and information services to New York City parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and special needs and to the professionals who work with them.
• Special Child, online magazine for parents of children with disabilities.