Web Sites Recommended by Members of Veritas Homeschoolers

These links are for information only and do not necessarily reflect the views of Veritas Homeschoolers.

Homeschooling

Crosswalk – Provides articles, curriculum reviews, purchasing, chat, humor, forums, and daily encouragement

Christian Homeschool Fellowship – Articles, messages and a mall

Homefires-The Journal of Homeschooling Online – Articles include educational philosophy, learning differences and styles. ClickSchooling is a free e-list service that provides one educational web site recommendation a day.

The Arizona Home School Heart Beat Newsletter – Newsletter from the Covenant Home School Resource Center

VegSource – Homeschool talk and swap

Home School World – The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine and The Big Book of Home Learning

HomeSchool Transcripts – Transcripts

Homeschool Blogger – Free blogs for homeschoolers from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

Homeschool on a Shoestring – Ways of cutting costs while homeschooling

Education

Sites for Teachers – Numerous links to educational Web sites

Donna Young – Organize your homeschooling, do lesson plans, and get help with different curricular materials, including Apologia and Institute for Excellence in Writing

edHelper.com – Math, reading comprehension, themes, lesson plans, and worksheets

Learn to Read – Teaching comprehension and phonics

Learn to Read Beginning Readers – Beginning readers download center

Love To Learn Place, Book Reports – Book report forms

Chart Jungle – Free charts

All the Write News – Purchase fonts for cursive and handwriting practice

Annenberg/CPB Learner – Explore educational resources and activities for teaching and learning

Discovery Channel School – Educational resources for students and teachers, including educational games

Discovery Channel Puzzlemaker – Puzzle generation tool

The Well-Trained Mind – Find out more about the book, investigate the newest titles

J. B. Cheaney – Links and study guides to Cheaney’s Shakespeare-related novels, ideas for teaching Shakespeare, a movie list, an approach to creative writing, and a “writing tip of the month”

Ancient Greece – Links and information on Ancient Greece: history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, people, geography, etc.

Maps – Maps and guides for travelers

Science

Home Science Tools - Provides science fair projects and information, microscopes, curriculum, and related resources

NASA – Lots of NASA photos and short movie clips

Photo Gallery, National Space Science Data Center – A collection of popular and frequently requested imagery from NASA’s data archive (planets, nebulas, etc.)

National Earthquake Information Center – Earthquake activity in the last seven days

How Stuff Works – Explanations about form and function in science and technology

Reference

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus – Dictionary has audible pronunciations

Abebooks – Search the inventory of thousands of independent booksellers located around the world

Alibris – Used, hard-to-find and new books

Project Gutenberg – Project Gutenberg is the Internet’s oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). Many classic books for e-readers are available on this site and Many Books.

Many Books – There are more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they’re all free! Many of these books are from The Gutenberg Project, but they are available in more formats.

Online Books – Over 10,000 online books free to the public

Urban Legends References Pages – Computer & email scams, urban legends, & hoaxes

Bible Reference

LifeWay – Online Bible library

BibleGateway – A free service for reading and researching Scripture online in the translation of your choice. There are advanced tools to search the Bible by keywords or verse.

Fun and Games

Games Kids Play – Descriptions and rules for dozens of traditional children’s games, including indoor and outdoor activities

Recipes, Produce, Coupons

All Recipes – Thousands of recipes submitted by home cooks, searchable database and menu ideas

Top Secret Recipes – Make brand-name products at home with common ingredients. New recipes every month.

Recipe Goldmine – Over 21,000 recipes including ethnic cuisine, copycat recipes, kitchen charts, household hints, gardening

The Frugal Shopper – Offline and online coupons, contests, warehouses, sales, free stuff

News

My LifeLine – Headlines from world news and Christian news, links to movie reviews, the stock market, Christian devotionals, and travel deals

World Magazine – News

Media

Movieguide – Movie reviews

The Dove Foundation – Movie reviews

Teens

HSLDA Homeschooling Thru High School

TeenPact – TeenPact equips teens to become leaders in politics and society

Getting into College

Collegeboard
ACT®
Arizona State University Freshman Requirements
Arizona State University Competency Requirements
These sites have information on all standardized college entrance exams, exams for college credit, general entrance and competency requirements for Arizona universities, and preparing for and applying to college.
(SAT® I, SAT® II, PSAT/NMSQT®, AP®, CLEP®, ACT®)

These links are for information only and do not necessarily reflect the views of Veritas Homeschoolers.