Homeschool Resources and Homeschool Curriculum

Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'm Liesl.  I have been homeschooling my three kids right from the start.  We still get a lot of traffic here to our old website and I thought it was time to put a fresh new post at the top of the page.  Of course, the real action and the latest content is at homeschoolden.com!!

Over the past few years, I have shared dozens and dozens of new resources for homeschoolers - both for those who are new to this journey and those who have been at it for a while.  We have dozens of unit studies, hands-on activity ideas, lapbook and interactive notebook materials available too!

Let's start with some of our free resources. I kept getting lots of emails that basically said that they loved all of the resources we have on our website, but they were overwhelmed.  So, I put together some free homeschool resource guides.

This is a free Science Unit Checklist for Elementary and Middle School. This a free printable that shares some of the units I wanted to cover with my kids from Kindergarten to Grade 8.

Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: These FREE 35+ page resource guides  help answer some basic questions:

• What subjects should I teach my 1st or 4th or 7th grader? 
• Where do I start? 
• How do I know what to teach my kids? 

These are some of the units and topics our family covered in these years. It might provide a starting point for those of you just starting your homeschool journey and may give you an idea or two if you've been at this homeschool thing for a while! We also have free resource guides for K-1, 2-3, 6-8 I hope they are helpful!!

• Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: Kindergarten – Grade 1

•  Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum: Grades 2-3, Resource Guide

•   Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum Grade 4-5 — Free Resource Guide

• Creating a Homeschool Curriculum for Grades 6-8 – Free Resource Guide

We also have two FREE homeschool planners.  

• Homeschool Planning Guide - For planning out your homeschool year

• Free Homeschool Planner and Discovery Journal - for daily and weekly planning.
  This unique homeschool planning packet is currently FREE to download! It is nearly 100 pages! Not only does this packet include daily and weekly planning pages, checklists and record keeping pages, but it also includes various homeschool journaling pages… think gratitude journal meets homeschool goal setting! 

Homeschool Teaching Strategies: If you are interested in a huge list of hands-on activities and homeschool teaching strategies, be sure to grab this free printable!

We have lots of different unit studies. Among our most popular these days are our Earth Science and Biology Units

• Earth Science
• Layers of the Atmosphere
• Biosphere -- ie. Biomes, Ecosystems, Habitats, Food Chain, Symbiosis and more!
• Ocean Unit
• The Botany Unit has also been popular this spring for learning the parts of a seed, parts of a flower. My daughter loved the Carnivorous Plants portion of that unit (included in the Botany Unit). 

 

We ♥LOVE♥ hands-on activities (Did you see this post with TONS of hands-on activities pics?), so most of our units include photos of the hands-on activities we did. For example, the Earth Science Unit has more than a dozen activities from convection currents and plate tectonics to creating a gelatin volcano and more!

and our Human Body Bundle

Again, each of these units include hands-on activity ideas that we did to help make the units come alive for the kids! Skeletal System, Digestive System, Circulatory System, etc.

 

Our Cell Unit is also really popular (It is included in the Human Body Bundle, but it also gets a lot of purchases on its own!!) This unit is now over 100 pages!

We have three new environmental studies packets coming out this spring. I just released the Water Cycle Unit! It includes worksheets and notebook pages, a booklet and interactive notebook pages. It also includes water cycle posters as well as an activity for kids to determine how much water their family uses each day. This packet covers all the basic terms about the water cycle. I wanted to be sure the kids knew not only the common words like evaporation, condensation and precipitation, but also the trickier words like sublimation, transpiration and knew the difference between infiltration and percolation. This water cycle packet also covers groundwater, aquifers and wells.

 We have lots of different history units too... from

• Oregon Trail & Donner Party

• Causes of the American Revolution

• Slavery and the Civil War

• Renaissance & Reformation

• World War I 

• Civics and Government Unit

•  and many others!

We have quite a number of freebies. Our grammar worksheets get lots and lots hits 

• their/they're/there and it's/its practice worksheets are popular!
• Comma Rules and Practice Sheets - These are pretty popular too!
• But we have *tons* of other language arts materials on the blog.

Don't miss these units. They are currently free!

• Natural Disasters Packet 

• Solar System Unit

I'm always creating new content, so be sure to check by frequently. For example, I'll be sharing several new Environmental Studies packets soon... on the 1) Water Cycle, 2) Trash & Recycling and 3) Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy.  My daughter was working on the Trash & Recycling Booklet last week, but I'm not quite ready to share that (though depending on when you read this, it might already be in Our Store!)

See you again soon at our main webiste: homeschoolden.com or over at our Homeschool Den Facebook Page! Don’t forget to Subscribe to our Homeschool Den Newsletter. You might also want to check out some of our resources pages above (such as our Science, Language Arts, or History Units Resource Pages) which have links to dozens of posts.  You might want to join our free Homeschool Den Chat Facebook group.  Don’t forget to check out Our Store as well.

Again, if you are interested in joining our Homeschool Den Newsletter, feel free to subscribe here:

Happy Homeschooling!
~Liesl