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Talk to other home schooling families about home school issues, ideas, and questions.

Students Community
Here you'll find special sections with helpful resources on Advice, Clubs, College & Career Stuff, Contests, Edutainment, and Study Skills & Homework Help.

Parents Community Homework Help
You'll find access to homework help sites, articles on helping your children with homework and study guides.

Parents Community Home Activities Section
Find exercises, activities, educational websites, and advice for working with your children at home.

Lesson Planning
Here you'll find all of Education World's Lesson Planning articles. Check the archives for a listing of the lesson plans by topic.

Teacher Submitted Lesson Plans
This section is devoted to lesson plans submitted by our users. Check the archives here to for a listing of the lesson plans by topic.

Education World's Subject Centers
Check out EW's Subject Centeers to find help and resources to explore specific subjects in greater detail.

Arts Center Foriegn Language Center History Center Language & Lit Center Math Center

P.E. & Health Center Science Center Social Studies Center Technology Center

BiblioCat Web Site Full of Resources, Feline Fun
The BiblioCat Web Page provides teachers, librarians, and parents with educational resources as well as tidbits about library cats. Site owner Sheryl Skufca says she wanted to start a Web page that offered practical, easy-to-find information. INCLUDED: Teachers comment about the site’s usefulness.

Virtual High Schools: Part 2 New Programs Meet New Needs
Education World writer Mary Daniels Brown looks at several new and distinctive virtual high schools and examines the concerns of some of those programs' critics. Included: A close-up look at six new virtual schools!

Virtual High Schools: Part 1 The Voices of Experience
Online education, particularly at the high school level, is a fast-growing trend in the United States. Education World examines four well-established virtual high school programs and offers guidelines for educators who are developing new programs.

Creating Rubrics: Tools You Can Use
"But I worked all night on that report! How could you give me a D?" Rubrics provide teachers with an objective method for evaluating skills that don't lend themselves to objective assessment methods and they help answer the age-old question, "What did I do to deserve *this* grade?" Learn how rubrics can guide your students and support your assessments. Included: Three online tools for creating rubrics.

MathStories.com: The Solution to Finding Creative Math Word Problems
Ashok Bansal discovered that when math problems aren’t phrased as computation exercises, children struggle. He decided to create a resource that would provide an abundance of challenging mathematical word problems. Bansal’s Web site, MathStories.com, has grown to include more than 3,000 problems for students at all grade levels. MathStories.com is a terrific curriculum resource for teachers too! Included: Comments from teachers and parents who use MathStories.com to build their students’ and children’s problem-solving skills.

**Site Reviews Archive**
Here you will find over 1000 ORIGINAL Reviews of sites selected by the staff at Education World as some of the best on the World Wide Web and archived by topic! A brief selection of those most relevant to home schooling families are listed below.

English Grammar 101
This site provides interactive tutorial instruction in English grammar for language arts, home-school, or ESL students. (Grades: 6-12)

Math Mastery
Math Mastery provides online interactive math activities to help students in grades four through eight learn and practice essential math skills. The math course, available for free preview, is available by subscription, but the site also offers plenty of free fun and educational activities. (Grades: 3-8)

Math World
Math World, created by Eric Weisstein, is a comprehensive Web encyclopedia of everything to do with the discipline of mathematics. (Grades: 6-12+)

ABC Teach
ABC Teach is a collection of resources for teachers, parents, and students to supplement classroom curricula or help parents who want to work with their children at home. (Grades: K-6)

The Internet Learning Network
The Internet Learning Network presents free, online interactive quizzes and activities to sharpen math and science skills. Elementary and middle school sections are available, and a high school section is under development. (Grades: K-12)

Connecting Students
Teacher David Leahy of Greenway Elementary School, in Portland, Oregon, created this site as a resource tool for locating educational sites and lesson plans. Many of the resources are Leahy's original work. (Grades: K-6)

Life Science Safari
Seventh-grade life science teacher Jennifer Vilenski, from Roger Ludlowe Middle School, in Fairfield, Connecticut, has put together this interactive lesson that explores cell structure and the classification of living things. (Grades: 6-8)

Arithmetics
This site contains more than 200 pages of online lessons in basic arithmetic skills. (Grades: K-8)

Cool Math
Cool Math is "designed for the pure enjoyment of mathematics." This interactive site features games, puzzles, calculators, and lesson plans.

The Music Education Launch Site
The creators of the Music Education Launch Site developed the site to serve as a starting point on the Web for anyone interested in music.

Mrs. ABC
This free, interactive site features lessons in beginning spelling, phonics, and vocabulary skills. This resource was created by veteran teacher Judi Gettel.

The Learning Page
The Learning Page provides free, printable work sheets and lesson plans for elementary teachers or home-schooling teachers.

Cobblestone Publishing
The mission of Cobblestone Publishing, publisher of educational magazines, is to provide “exceptional educational materials for young people, and for the teachers, librarians, and parents who guide them.”

Creatures of the Night and You
This award winning ThinkQuest Site was produced by two home school students from the Southwest. (Grades: 3-8)

The WebQuest Page
The WebQuest Page is a one-stop site for anyone interested in these innovative Internet teaching tools. Here you'll find a well-organized list of WebQuests and WebQuest collections, as well as some helpful tips on how to design your own. (Grades: K-12)

Home School Help
Home School Help is a great place for planning and organizing a personalized curriculum for the home schooled student. The site includes curriculum planning materials, free printable worksheets, and research and reference links. (Grades: 5-9)

ThinkQuest
This Web Development competion for young people represents an incredible opportunity for home schoolers to stretch themselves, learn, and participate in an inspiring event. (Grades: 5-12 )

Home School Zone
This Web site has a massive amount of information and resources for individuals home schooling their children. (Grades: K-12)

Education Place
Resources for parents, teachers and students. (Grades: K-8)

Helping Your Child Learn Math
An excellent resource for parents and teachers with hundreds of quick lesson ideas. (Grades: K-6)

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
This site is a must-see for all people involved with homeschooling, or parents interested in their children's education. (Grades: K-12)

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  • Homeschoolers Online

National Homeschool Association (NHA)
The NHA exists to advocate individual choice and freedom in education, to serve those families who choose to homeschool, and to inform the general public about home education. For those with an interest, the NHA publishes a quarterly newsletter, The NHA Forum, holds a yearly conference, and offers networking and referral help to connect homeschoolers.

The Home School Webring List
Here you'll find a list and brief description of all the sites that belong to the Homeschool Webring.

All-In-One Home School Resource Center
Provides a repository of resources for home schooling.

Oak Meadow
Oak Meadow offers homeschool courses and online programs developed by experienced homeschooling teachers. In addition to providing a firm foundation for academic excellence, Oak Meadow courses show parents how to cooperate with individual learning styles and natural unfoldment processes to maximize children's potential for imaginative activity and creative thought.

Homeschooling in the USA - State Information
State by State legal information, organizations and support groups.

Kentucky Migrant Technology Project
Migrant.org is behind a huge effort to post full courses in the entire Grade 6-12 curriculum on the Internet, for free use by any interested students or teachers.

Aphelion
An Online School for the gifted and talented.

MONTESSORI FOR THE EARTH
Information about Montessori for homeschoolers and classrooms, includes a free newsletter.

Homeschooling Information and Homeschool Resource Pages
Homeschooling news & information, support & encouragement, helpful resources for homeschoolers.

Homeschooling
Resources from the Mining Company.

Homeschooler's Curriculum Swap
swap curriculum materials, buy & sell used books, and lots more!

Homeschooling Information and Homeschooling Resource Pages
"On this website you'll find homeschooling news and information, support and encouragement, thoughtful writings and helpful resources for your family's homeschooling adventure!"

Home School Legal Defense Association
Find out about homeschooling laws in your state.

Live Education!
produces homeschooling supplies for families inspired by a Waldorf perspective.

National Parent Information Network (NPIN)
NPIN is part of the ERIC Network and offers full-text articles about child development and education.

NATHHAN News
This quarterly magazine from the National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network, a nonprofit Christian organization, provides encouragement and information to families with special needs children who are homeschooling.

A Beka
Quality homeschooling resources with a Christian perspective.

The Mining Co's Guide to Home Schooling
Check out the daily activity calendar!

Support Groups Listing
List of homeschool associations by state as well as homeschoolers associations and groups

Yahoo's Guide to Homeschooling
An index to resources on homeschooling.