Links
Here you will find a wide variety of links we use for resources, building unit studies, lesson planning, and of course worksheets.
Please check back often, as it is an ever growing and changing list.
If you find any broken links, please let us know via the Contact page
About Homeschooling In Australia
NSW Board of Studies
Education Act, NSW
Home Education Association
Homeschool Australia - Publications and information
Australian Home Education - Information, support, legal issues
Australian Homeschool Yahoo group, discussing everything and anything Homeschooling in Australia
Homeschool Free Stuff Homeschooling curriculum, unit studies and internet resources...ALL FREE
Family Education Network Valuable tips and resources
Homeschool Australia Newsletter Bi-Monthly Nesletter put out by Beverley Paine
Crayola.com Monthly newsletter with loads of craft ideas, subscribe to get member specials
Creative Kids At Home Choose either Craft (ages 4-10) or Science (ages 8-12)
Homeschooling Library Choose from Astronomy, Lesson Plans or Colouring Pages
Homeschooling Downunder
Muslim Kids Club - Islamic stories, printables, poetry and more
Truths For Kids - games, downloadable books and links
Teacher Planet - Ramadan links page - too many to mention
Religious Education - with virtual Hajj trip
99 Names
Hajj - Beautiful site with loads of images and accompanying text
Fitra Islamic Home Education
- Nice site by a Muslim homeschooling family
Secondhand Resource Board - for Australian Homeschoolers to swap or sell curriculum- new or second hand or to share resources, online links, homeschool businesses or retailers.
Australian Software Clearance - Bargain Software
Subject Chart - Year by year guide (US)
Richland One - Units/Lesson Plans for K -12
Enchanted Learning - Over 15 000 pages, but not all free
Lesson Plans Page - 2500+ Lesson plans
Teaching Treasures - Interactive site for K - 12
Social Studies Online - New Zealand based lesson plans
Learning Page - Lesson plans and worksheets for Gr 1 - 3
Resources 4 Teachers - Subscribe to receive weekly updates
How Stuff Works - Find out how things work
Educational Press - Print out free flashcards, bingo games and more
Michael Blues Lesson Plans
Lotsa Lesson Plans
Author Jan Brett's Home Page - Over 2900 pages of activities
Scholastic Online - Teaching ideas for Pre K - 12
ABC's & 123's
Alphabet Themes
Starfall - interactive books and phonics games
Preschool Classroom
Alphabet Station - Alphabet activities
Fun & Games
Oddball - Online game to practice grouping things
Kindersite Project - Graded educational games and stories
Let's Discover - Games to encourage ABC's, counting, sentence formation and more.
Lil' Fingers - Educational games, stories and activities
Phonics
First School - Aplhabet activities, crafts and themes
Words & Pictures
Beginning Reading - Free worksheets
Kids Zone - Printable consonant worksheets
Reading Pains - Resources for teaching phonics
Printables
Enchanted Learning - Picture dictionary
Kinder Printables - New printable each day, including flash cards, games, and email reminders to your inbox every day
Colouring Castle - Free colouring pages
Custom Tracers - This one is great... enter any words you like, click the button and print
Kids Page Archive - Fine motor skills, numbers, handwriting and heaps more
Mings Colouring Pages
Shapes & Colours
DLTK's Colour Buddies
Preschool Resources
Thematic Units
Perpetual Preschool
Early Childhood Thematic Units
Gayle's Preschool Rainbow
Letter of the Week
First School
Preschool Zone
Fact Monster - Grammer and spelling
Personal Educational Press - free worksheets, flashcards and games
Primary Resources - worksheets, teaching ideas, creative writing and LOTS more
Teach-nology
Ed Helper
Improving Education
Bust Teachers Cafe
Dositey.com
School Express
Mrs Dingmans Language Arts Links
Teaching Ideas
Language Arts Lesson Plans
Fun Lesson Plans
Teachits - Resources for English Teachers
Reading A-Z - 30 free books to download and print
Jan Bretts Homepage A great place for ideas
Daily Life in Ancient Civilisations Ancient Egypt,
Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome Ancient India, Ancient China, NW Pacific Coastal Indians, Lesson Plans
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies for Kids Communities:
Long Ago and Today, United States History: Early Years and Civil War to Today, World Cultures and Geography, Western Hemisphere and Europe
Medievil Islam History (with timeline), Environment (with maps), Religion, Clothing, Economy, Games, Literature, Science (medicine), Food People, Art
Architecture
Books about Islam
Crafts and Projects on Islam
Teacher's Guides for Islam
Gifts about Islam
National Centre for History Education A guide for the teaching and learning of history in Australian schools
Primary History Links, information and resources for primary school
Primary Resources General Resources, Britain since the 1930s / World War II, Ancient Rome / Ancient Greece / Celts, Ancient Egypt, Vikings / Saxons, The Victorians, The Tudors, Online Activities & Presentations
Thinking Things from Snaith Primary Aztecs, Time lines, Ancient Greece, Vikings, Castles, Dominica, Myths and Legends.
A Shared History Aboriginal perspectives in HSIE
Convict Trail Project A monument to one of 19th century Australia's greatest engineering feats - the Great North Road.
Denise's Australian Units Early Explorers, Settlement, Convicts, Bushrangers, Gold! Gold! Gold!, Inland Explorers, Australia, Famous Australians, Australian Rainforests
Elizabeth Macarthur
Blairmount Public School HSIE page: Aborigines, Ancient Egypt,
Antarctica, Asia, Atlases and maps, Australia - History, Community Helpers, Explorers, Famous Australians, First Fleet, Flags, Geography,
Gold, Government, Transport and Travel
Curriculum Support for NSW Australia's experience at war: A unit for Stage 3 in HSIE
Stage 3 HSIE Web Activities: Gold!, Rainforests,
State and Federal Governments, Antarctica, Australian Democracy, Study of A Cultural Group, Identity and Values.
NSW BoS Resource Page
Rethinking Recycling Rethinking Recycling contains activities and lesson plans for students in grades K-5.
South Seas Voyages Journals Of Capt. James Cook
Teacher Planet Australia Day Theme Page:
Lessons and Units, Worksheets, Clipart & Images
Teaching Heritage What is Heritage, Australian Heritage Timelines, Reading about Heritage,Teaching the Outcomes, Forming a Nation,
Expressing National Goals, Building Australian Identities, Reshaping cultural values, Gallery of Heritage places
Voyages Of Discovery The Natural History Museum of London
TKI Social Studies Social Studies Online developed for the New Zealand Ministry of Education
First Fleet Fellows The story of the First Fleet, The ships of the First Fleet and List of Provisions and Livestock
Online Math Games
Cool Math - An amusement park of math and more!
Math Arcade on Funbrain - Arcade-style math games including Ball Hogs, Mummy Hunt, Bumble Numbers and more
Mathletics - Inspiring Better Results
Geometry
Geometry Center - The Science U Geometry Center contains fun interactive exhibits, informative articles, and helpful lists of facts and formulas
Tessellation Tutorials - Tutorials and templates, including step-by-step instructions for classroom activities.
Online Tangrams - Developing Geometry understandings and spatial skills through puzzlelike problems with Tangrams.
Worksheets and Worksheet Generators
Free Math Worksheets - free elementary math worksheets, geometry worksheets
Free Printable Math Worksheets - Free printable activity pages for children to learn math and numbers.
Primary Worksheets - Generate millons of maths worksheets. No downloading or PDF reader needed for these free math worksheets.
Printable Free Math Worksheets - basic operations, fractions, decimals, percents, number charts, square roots.
The Math Lesson - Free Math Lesson worksheets.
The Math Worksheet Site.com
Worksheets from Math Goodies -Math worksheets and answer keys you can print for free.
Space
Ancient Observatories : Multimedia centre
Astronomy Tools
Earth & Moon Viewer
NASA - Office of Education
Aurora Galleries
The Space Place
Environments & Weather
Weather Eye - for grades 2-8
Nature Explorers - Environmental Education including plants, ponds, rivers and more
Ducks Unlimited : Conservation lesson plans
FEMA for Kids - Federal Emergency Management Agency
How Volcanoes Work
Hurricanes
Instructional Materials for Weather
KaAMS Coral Reef - Lesson Plans Index
Kids Domain - Earth Day
Ocean Arts Downunder
Earth Day Theme Page - Teacher Planet
Interactive & Experiments
Building Bid - Educators Guide
AE Mysteries - Solve the mysteries through science
Funology - The science of having fun!
Mad Science - Enrichment activities
Maggie's Earth Adventures - Free multimedia program for environmental education
Science Experiments at Home
Science Explorer
Science Projects
EcoKids! - Games activities and printables for kids and educators
Life Science
Causes of Colour - Why are things coloured?
Evidences of Creation - Beautiful site based on the works of Harun Yahya
For Children - Another very nice site, also based on the works of Harun Yahya
Elementary Science
March of the Penguins - Videos, games, colouring pictures, and more
Nature Sound - Featuring the sounds of birds, frogs, mammals, and insects
Plants - Free unit study about plants
San Diego Zoo - Education science projects
The Brain - How the Brain works
Whale Songs - Educational centre about whales and dolphins
Whales Online - the Science of Conservation, FAQ, weekly sitings and more
WWF Education - Everything that you wanted to know about conservation and its role in our lives.
Physics and Chemistry
Electricity and Magnetism
Elementary Science Projects & Experiments - Simple, detailed answers to common science questions. Plus fun, easy science projects & experiments
Experiencing Chemistry
KC3 - Kids Cooking with Calculations and Chemistry
Rocks and Minerals - How rocks are formed
UEET Kids Page - Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology
General
Victorian Dept. of Ed - Sample science programs
Ohio Treasure Chest of Technology - Science courses
Science Netlinks - Lesson Index
Science News For Kids
Science Resources - Lessons for Grades K-9
Science Works - resources for exhibits at the Victorian Science Works Museum
Art History
Virtual Library for the History of Art
Art History Lessons Plans
Art History Theme Page
Pearson Ed, Art History Lesson Plans
Craft
Craft for Kids
Family Fun - Get free coloring pages, puzzles, mazes & more
Origami Diagrams
Making Friends.com - At Making Friends you'll find lots of creative activities for kids ages
2 through 15.
FrugalCrafts.com
Music
Classics for Kids
Composers @ Lessons Planet
Lesson Tutor - Elements of Music and Classical Composer Biography Series, including lesson plans and printable worksheets
Educational Games
Study Dog - Complete guided reading program for Preschool through to Grade 2
Owl and Mouse Educational Software - heaps of free downloads, too many to mention
Hang Word - Hangman type word finder game for vocabulary building
Typing Tutors - selection of games to enhance typing skills
School Express Free Downloads -
130 free software programs available to download.
Software
Stellarium - This would have to be one of the best downloads I have ever come across. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Homeschool Tracker - Handy software for record keeping with printable reports, lesson planning, timetables and more.
Tux Paint - free drawing program for kids aged 3+
The Magic book - electronic colouring book