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A to Z Home's Cool
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com
Homeschooling is Cool! A to Z Home's Cool community website will help you homeschool your kids from preschool, kindergarten, through homeschooling high school with free online education, home-friendly lesson ideas, educational websites, helpful articles, top homeschool programs, books, materials, curriculum... and best of all... Homeschool Friends!

Family Unschoolers Network
http://www.unschooling.org
The Family Unschoolers Network provides support for unschooling, homeschooling, and self-directed learning. If you are an unschooler, homeschooler, self-directed learner, or just learning in general, then this is the site for you! You will find newsletter articles, reviews, resources, web sites, books and lots of other information to help your homeschooling or unschooling efforts.

Growing Without Schooling
http://www.holtgws.com
Continuing the legacy of John Holt and Growing Without Schooling magazine.

Heather Madrone's Homeschooling Page
http://www.madrone.com/home-ed.htm
In our lives as homeschoolers, the home-ed mailing list has been a constant source of inspiration and support. I've been active on the home-ed list since early 1993. I've collected some of my favorite posts to the home-ed list here. These posts cover a lot of territory - from anecdotes about our homeschooling experiences to basic educational philosophy to approaches to individual topics of study. I've tried to categorize the posts, but, like learning itself, some of them fall neatly into categories and others don't.

Homeschool Hangout Zone
http://homeschoolhangoutzone.blogspot.com/
The Homeschool Hangout Zone is a place you can come for interesting, fun, and sometimes unusual (um, excuse me, but trees evolved?) news feeds!

Homeschool Social Register
http://www.homeschoolmedia.net/register
Get in touch with other homeschoolers in your area, anywhere in the world. Browse hundreds of links to homeschool support groups and other resources and recommend your favorite links.

Learn In Freedom
http://learninfreedom.org
This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning. It shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you.

Local Homeschool Support Group Database
http://localhs.com
A searchable index of homeschool support groups for your local area, listed geographically by county and state. Select your state from the map (below), or type your location into the database search engine below.

Natural Child Project, The
http://www.naturalchild.org
Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

Not Back To School Camp
http://www.nbtsc.org
Not Back to School Camp aspires to create a sanctuary · that affirms, inspires, and mentors unschoolers…· where campers and staff transform spiritually, emotionally, physically, creatively, intellectually…· where profound friendships begin and grow…· and where adventure, mystery, music, wild spontaneous fun, and magic prevail.

Radical Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
This is the "office" of Sandra Dodd, unschooling mother of Kirby, Marty and Holly, who never went to school.

The Five Finger Paragraph
http://www.thefivefingerparagraph.com
The Five Finger Paragraph© method is designed to teach students (and adults) to write paragraphs and Five Paragraph Essays. I wrote and illustrated this series to help students write essays more easily because I, as an adult, had trouble identifying the basic building blocks in essays. Now that I've "cracked the code" and have taught thousands of others to write essays more easily, I can help you teach students to understand the process without the battles! The method is simple to learn and easy to remember.

TheHomeSchoolMom.com
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/
TheHomeSchoolMom is home to thousands of quality, hand-picked resources including homeschooling lesson plans, unit studies, software, webquests, websites and more.

Unschooling.com
http://www.unschooling.com
Come explore unschooling.com, where parents and children have learned to trust themselves and each other!

Unschooling - Delight Driven Learning
http://home-educate.com/unschooling
Links, books, and articles as well as a message board to answers questions on unschooling and to encourage those who have chosen a more relaxed, child-led learning style.

Animal Planet
http://animal.discovery.com
Animal Planet online lets you explore cat breeds, dog breeds, wild animals and pets. Plus exclusive animal news, videos and info about your favorite TV shows.

Bill Nye The Science Guy
http://www.billnye.com
Here you’ll find all that you would want to know about my latest television projects like Stuff Happens and my latest web work, Solving for X. It’s about algebra. What could be more fun? The Science Guy Show material is still here along with all manner of other musings, including my blog, Twitter, and Facebook postings.

Cool Science for Curious Kids
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience
At Cool Science, you can find a resource developed by the University of Washington to teach the scientific method to elementary and middle school students. Or you can let Swarthmore College help you teach students how to design clear and concise scientific posters. Or you can browse through Ask a Scientist's links to pages with science fair ideas.

Discovery Kids
http://kids.discovery.com
Official website of Discovery Kids.

Disney Online
http://www.disney.com
The official online resource to all things Disney: theme parks, resorts, movies, Disney Channel programs, characters, games, videos, music, shopping, and more!

Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu
The Exploratorium: a hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. Our site provides interactive online exhibits and exhibitions, activities, Webcasts, and more.

Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com
Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.

Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com
FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spelling, history)

HistoryChannel.com
http://www.historychannel.com
The History Channel is a cable television station offering programming related to historical events and people.

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.

Kaboose
http://www.kaboose.com/
Kaboose is the premier family and parenting destination with kids' crafts, holiday fun and activities, healthy food recipes, free online games, expert health and parenting information, community message boards, parenting blogs, photos, videos, shopping, interactive quizzes and tools, and much more.

Kids Gardening!
http://www.kidsgardening.com
Kids gardening explores gardening resources for family, teachers and beginner or experienced gardeners.

Kids Love A Mystery
http://www.kidsloveamystery.com
Kids Love A Mystery.com: The Official Website of Kids Love A Mystery - Kids Mysteries, Activities, Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents.

Litrix Reading Room
http://www.litrix.com
A quiet place for lovers of good writing.

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov
The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

Lissa Explains It All - HTML Help & Tutorial for Kids
http://www.lissaexplains.com
Hello, and welcome to Lissa Explains it All, the first and original HTML Help JUST for Kids. We've been online now for over 10 years!!!!! Lissa Explains it All is a colorful and fun approach to learning HTML for Kids and the young at heart. With this tutorial, kids and beginners learn step by step how to make their own Web page and publish it on the WWW. For the more advanced, .htaccess files, installing perl scripts and much more is covered.

Mystery Net's Kids Mysteries
http://kids.mysterynet.com
Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks.

NASA Kids
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic provides free maps, photos, videos and daily news stories, as well as articles and features about animals, the environment, cultures, history, world music, and travel.

Nick.com
http://www.nick.com
Play kids games, watch video from popular kids shows, play free online games for kids, and more at Nick.com, Nickelodeon's online place for Kids!

Party Game Central
http://www.partygamecentral.com
Party Game Central is the largest party game idea web site on the internet. Need some creative party games? We've got hundreds of great party game ideas for kids and adults. Hosting a birthday party? This is the place for hundreds of birthday game ideas. If it can be played at a party, we have it here! And use our one of a kind party game selector to build your own customized game list based on many criteria including amount of space, number of players, game ratings and more!

Peeps Experiment 2005
http://unschoolers.com/peeps2005.html
A unique Peeps experiment with pictures and results.

PlayMusic.org
http://www.playmusic.org
Playmusic.org is a fun engaging site introducing kids aged 7-11 to the instruments of the orchestra using games, animations, audio and more.

Quigley's Games
http://www.quigleysgames.com
Quigley's Games sell traditional family party games which are downloaded and printed on your home computer. Our party games are suitable for indoor and outdoor parties. Quigley's games have party games for all occasions including children party games, birthday party games, kid's party games, Christmas party games, New Year party games, holiday party games, Halloween party games and other party games.

The Online Books Room
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.

The Paul Revere House
http://www.paulreverehouse.org
On the night of April 18, 1775, silversmith Paul Revere left his small wooden home in Boston's North End and set out on a journey that would make him into a legend. Today that home is still standing at 19 North Square and has become a national historic landmark. It is downtown Boston's oldest building and one of the few remaining from an early era in the history of colonial America.

Xpeditions @ National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards, and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.