Growing WarriorsJust your typical family…

I started this list a long time ago, and have carried it around with me from blog to social networking sites that I have been involved with. I think its time to have it on my own site for a while – I know I need to format this to make it pretty..and I will. Eventually. For now I just wanted to get it up here.

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Comprehensive curriculums (just add math, etc.):
- http://lunablog.net/mosaic-myths-maps-and-marvels/ – “A year-long day-by-day schedule coordinating many popular history, literature, and activity books and websites.” – this looks really really good and may be one that we implement….or at least try cause I suck so bad. Includes a version with evolution, one without, a version using SOTW and a version using A Little History of the World instead – also has a timeline component (separate download to supplement) – only has one level up now, would work with multiple grades, should have the next level up by Sept.
- http://www.amblesideonline.org/ – charlotte mason inspired – much of the readings are available free online. Not secular, but relatively easy to secularize. I’ve used this in the past, and we liked it a lot – literature based, classic texts, etc. Pretty complete – history, nature study (science) and literature, etc. – will just need to add math, reading, perhaps grammar and a foreign language, if you are that ambitious.
- http://www.tanglewoodeducation.com/aboutus.htm – also Charlotte Mason inspired, but appears a bit more modern with regards to the readings, etc. Also easier to secularize. I really like this one too. It was at the top of my list during my CM phase. Pretty complete, history, nature study and literature – will just need to add math, reading, perhaps grammar and a foreign language, if you are that ambitious.
- Preschool curriculum – I was looking for this last night, but for some reason spaced on the whole “letter of the week” thing and couldn’t find it. Anyway – the site says it has curriculum guides up to the age of 8 or so – I haven’t looked at them, but I do remember the preschool one for the letter of the week http://www.letteroftheweek.com/index.html I had looked at it when Allison was 3 or so but didn’t use it so I have no reviews to offer. Just that it is what it is
- http://more.ppld.org:8080/kids/GrownUps/EarlyLiteracy.asp
- http://www.lessonpathways.com/Home – Can be used as a complete curriculum for grades K-5
Free math curriculums:
- http://www.themathpage.com/index.html – Includes a complete course in arithmetic and in algebra – haven’t really looked at it though…definitely does not look like a early elementary level course though
-Money curriculum – for middle schoolers: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/mar/marmmath.pdf
- for K-6th grade – http://ceure.buffalostate.edu/~csmp/ – this seems like a very comprehensive and large PDF with daily lessons, etc. I didn’t review it too closely because I’m pretty set on math.
- http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/MEP/default.htm – a friend tried out one lesson and found it to be [snore] a bit dry.
- http://www.multiplication.com/teach.htm – teaching the multiplication tables
- http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/math/ – grades K-Algebra I – They sell curriculum packages, but there is a lot available on their site for free
-http://ceure.buffalostate.edu/~csmp/CSMPProgram/index.html – K-6th grade. I haven’t looked at it because the PDF wouldn’t load. I’ve heard good things about it, and when my computer is happier, I’ll try to look at it.
www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/tools/tools_moneymath.htm – complete money math curriculum for grades 7-9
Science:
- http://www.eequalsmcq.com/homeschoolers.htm – Elementary Life Science program – 36 week, 3x a week – this looks promising and complete.
- How to Teach Science – http://www.howtoteachscience.com/workshop.html She would like for you to make a donation though, so its free-ish – I looked at this years ago when it really was free, and it looked interesting. I think she’s changed it some, because it says something about daily lessons, which was not a part of the program when I first reviewed it. If someone gets this, let us know what you think, ok?
- Free science curriculum K-6 I believe – I haven’t really looked at it, except it was just mentioned on the Mosaic email list, so I had to add it to my list – http://msnucleus.org/curriculum/curriculum.html

http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/science/otters_science/science_human_body.html

middle school chemistry curriculum – http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/lessonplans/

Spelling:
- http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/spelling/index.htm – appropriate for middle school – typical spelling program, pretest- activities-test format

High School/College Courses:
- http://www.hippocampus.org/ – “Hippocampus is free, public website for high school and college students that offers NROC multimedia correlated to most major textbooks.
- Open Courseware is an increasingly popular movement to make college courses available to independent learners. The most popular one is MIT Open Courseware but schools all over are joining the movement. You can find a comprehensive listing at the Open Courseware Consortium.
- http://www.ucopenaccess.org/ – free college prep courses (including some virtual labs and video lessons)