Your Guide to Free Homeschool Resources (+ Free Kids’ Planner Pages 🦊 🍄)

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If you’re homeschooling or ever considered it you know it can be an incredibly rewarding journey. Depending on how you go about it, it also requires careful planning and lots of helpful and engaging material.

Where can you find free homeschool resources?

Luckily, you will find plenty of free homeschool resources online to help you provide a comprehensive and engaging education for your kids. In this blog post, I have rounded up all the FREE ones for you! They’re all listed below in 2 categories, secular and with Christian influence, so this guide has got you covered no matter what. (Pin this list for later!)

Free Homeschool Material

And if your littles love pretty paper like mine do, feel free to grab these Weekly & Daily planner pages. Nothing like cute stationery to get you in back-to-(home)school mood.

    Secular Free Homeschool Resources

    1. Khan Academy

    Khan Academy offers a wide range of free online courses for K-12 students, covering subjects such as maths, science, history, and more. The lessons are self-paced and include instructional videos, practice exercises, and assessments.

    2. BBC Bitesize

    BBC Bitesize provides free educational resources for students aged 5 to 16+ across a wide range of subjects, including maths, science, English, history, and geography. The platform includes videos, interactive lessons, and quizzes tailored to the UK curriculum but would be useful anywhere you are in the world.

    3. CK-12 Foundation

    CK-12 offers a free online curriculum that includes interactive textbooks, simulations, and practice activities in subjects like math, science, and social studies. The platform is customisable and can be tailored to individual learning needs.

    4. Smithsonian Learning Lab

    The Smithsonian Learning Lab provides access to millions of digital resources, including images, texts, videos, and lesson plans, allowing parents to create customised learning experiences across various subjects.

    5. NASA for Students

    NASA offers a wide range of free educational materials for students of all ages, including videos, lesson plans, interactive activities, and virtual field trips related to space exploration and science.

    6. Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg provides access to over 60,000 free eBooks, including many classic works of literature that are often part of homeschool reading lists. These can be downloaded in various formats.

    7. National Geographic Kids

    National Geographic Kids offers free educational games, videos, and articles on animals, geography, science, and history, making learning fun and engaging for younger children.

    8. ReadWriteThink

    ReadWriteThink provides free educational resources focusing on reading and writing skills, including lesson plans, interactive tools, and student activities.

    9. Twinkl

    Twinkl offers a huge variety of free printable resources, including worksheets, activity sheets, and lesson plans for all subjects and grade levels. They do have a premium membership but they also provide a selection of free resources.

    10. Education.com

    Education.com provides free printable worksheets, lesson plans, and educational games across various subjects for preschool through 5th grade. They also offer a limited number of free downloads each month.

    11. Teachers Pay Teachers (Free Section)

    Teachers Pay Teachers is a marketplace for educational resources, but they also have a large collection of free printable worksheets, lesson plans, and activities created by teachers for all grade levels.

    12. Scholastic Learn at Home

    Scholastic offers a variety of free resources, including daily learning activities, printable worksheets, and reading materials for children from pre-K through grade 9.

    13. Super Teacher Worksheets

    Super Teacher Worksheets provides a wide range of free printable worksheets and activities for K-5 students, covering subjects such as maths, reading, grammar, and science.

    14. 15 Worksheets

    15Worksheets.com offers free printable worksheets for maths, reading, writing and more, perfect for homeschoolers. Easily download and print activities for all grade levels.

    15. IXL (Free Skills Practice)

    IXL offers free daily practice for a limited number of maths, language arts, science, and social studies skills across various grade levels.


    Non-Secular Free Homeschool Resources

    1. The Good and the Beautiful

    This site offers free downloadable language arts and maths curricula for various grade levels, with a Christian worldview. The materials include comprehensive lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments.

    2. Ambleside Online

    Ambleside Online is a free curriculum that follows the Charlotte Mason method, with a Christian perspective. It includes a wide range of subjects such as literature, history, geography, and more, with a focus on reading high-quality books.

    3. Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool

    This is a complete, free Christian homeschool curriculum that covers preschool through high school. It provides daily lesson plans across various subjects and is designed to be easy for parents to implement.

    4. Confessions of a Homeschooler

    This site offers a wide range of free Christian-themed printable resources, including worksheets, unit studies, and lesson plans. It covers various subjects and is particularly strong in early education.

    5. Homeschool Share

    Homeschool Share offers free unit studies, and printable resources with a Christian perspective. The materials cover a variety of subjects and age groups.

    6. Worksheet Works

    Worksheet Works allows you to create customized printable worksheets for a variety of subjects, including math, language arts, geography, and more. While not explicitly Christian, many homeschool families use it to supplement their curriculum.

    7. Notebooking Pages

    This site offers free printable notebooking pages for various subjects and topics, with a focus on encouraging children to engage with the material creatively. There is a strong Christian influence in many of the resources.


    Conclusion

    Homeschooling is a journey filled with both challenges and rewards, but with the right resources you can create a learning environment that’s perfect for your family.

    I hope this roundup helps lighten your load a little and sparks new ideas for this academic year!

    And if you’re looking for a cool system to help you keep track of lessons, schedules, and your kids’ progress, feel free to check out my printable homeschool planner. Carefully put together to bring a little more order to your homeschool day!

    Happy homeschooling!

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