Lili
Since homeschooling often involves using just one income
AND buying or borrowing resource
materials I've collected a list of Completely Free and/or
Pay Shipping Only Sites. Hope they help you in your efforts to properly
educate your children! IF you need specific information on starting homeschooling check out my other site:
HOMESCHOOL RESOURCES
http://www.geocities.com/reed_butterfly_farm/homeschool_resources.html
Best to You!
Lili
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Birthday Club Sites and Addresses:
Sears Birthday Club
http://www.sears-portrait.com/cgi-bin/bday_club.cgi
Kmart Birthday Club
www.birthdayplace.com
Coleman Birthday Club
www.colemanforkids.com
Mrs. Fields Birthday Cookie Club
http://www.mrsfields.com/birthdayclub/
Pook's Corner Birthday Club
http://www.pooks.com/misc/bdaynew.html
Suite101.com Kids Site:
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/kids
About.com Kiddie Freebies (including several birthday clubs and more)
http://freebies.about.com/shopping/freebies/msub19.htm
About.com birthday stuff:
http://kidexchange.about.com/kids/kidexchange/msub112.htm
Mattell Hot Wheel's Birthday Club (Mail In Birthday club:)
Dept.2
PO BOX 337
Sun Valley, CA
91353-0337
Send to above address:
Parent/guardian Name
Address:
Child Name:
child's Birthday
gender: Boy or girl
additional children can be listed on same letter.
They'll send a card and a Hotwheel's car on child's birthday.
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EScore
This site has a strong focus on testing and information for younger kids. They have several free tests available online for you help evaluate your child to pick the right curriculum. They also carry copies of the state tests required by some states in order to homeschool.
ESCORE.COM
SmarterKids.com
This is a huge site which has many resources for parents including a very fine Learning Styles evaluator and a free skills test for children.
SMARTERKIDS.com
They offer the Sylvan Learning tests for Pre- and Primary Grades. Type *test* in the search box, or use:
Grades K-3
GRADES K-3 EVALUTION
Grades 4-6
GRADE 4-6 Evalution
4Tests.com
Here is a nice online site for your testing needs for older children and adult learners.
http://www.4tests.com/exams/examcats.asp
Standardized Testing Links
Here is a site with a series of links to various free standardized tests including the TASS.
http://members.aol.com/homehwy/tests.html
Write FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency,
P.O. Box 70274, Washington, D.C. 20024)
for the following materials:
*Safety Tips for Winter Storms
*Winter Survival Coloring Book
Free Worksheets.com
offers 2000+ educational worksheets to print or download. Subjects
include: math, phonics, science, social studies, reading, language arts,
thinking skills, kindness to animals, and much more. Currently the site
is for ages 3-10.
The Anthropology Outreach Office has a free teaching packet titled "North
American Indians" (for grades 1-12), which includes bibliographies,
leaflets, lists of teaching materials available from the Smithsonian, photographs,
suggestions for classroom activities, and even information on Native American
pen-pals.
For your copy, contact:
Anthropology Outreach and Public Information Office,
National Museum of Natural History,
Room 363, MRC 112,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC 20560
Free Vowel Sounds Worksheet:
free
Vowel Worksheets
Phonics worksheets covering the long and short vowel sounds.
Save the Manatees:
Save the Manatee student education pack. (Specify your grade level).
Send LSASE with 55 cents stamp affixed.
Write to:
Save the Manatee Club,
500 N Maitland Ave,
Maitland, FL 32751
Save the Sea Turtles:
Nice work book.
http://www.cccturtle.org
Solar Now Free Solar Learning
wonderful education activities
including solar oven plans
http://www.fsec.ucf.edu
Tons of Wonderful Peanut
Education Materials:
or write:
American Peanut Education Service
PO BOX 845
Nashville, NC
27856
fax: 252-459-7396
Two free learning games:
One for math and one for spelling and word recognition, from Apogee of all places!!! Yes, the makers of all those awful death and blood games my hubby loves, have produced two very pastel, nice, sensible learning games. My son loves them! (No I am not an affiliate!) Shareware!
Math Rescue
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/apogee/1math.zip
Word Rescue
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/apogee/1rescue.zip
Information on Bob Ballard's Black Sea Exploration of Noah's World:
Great Flood Exploration by
Bob Ballard (the guy that found the Titanic)
http://www.ngnews.com/
and
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html
For Earth Day -- a little late!
World Wild Life Org - free Action Kit http://www.worldwildlife.org/actions/actioncenter.cfm?sectionid=142&newspaperid=4
Environmental Defense Fund - free calendar
http://www.edf.org
Special Offers:
Great FREE Safety Training videos, coloring books, etc. HOWEVER THEY ARE SLOW. If you need safety training materials for this school year --Order NOW!! Start here to get Safety Education Materials
Free #877 answer number and fax service. Looks nice for home businesses. http://www.ureach.com
Some nice gifts when you join ClubMOM.com http://www.clubmom.com
Free copy of The
Emmanuel Coloring Book
Nice free children's book with moral message (non-denominational) http://mall.gtw.net/lhm/pcorderpage.asp
DISCOUNT Coupon $10 first purchase plus free gift at Drugstore.com
$10
off First Purchase plus free gift at Drugstore.com
Free Family Video for first Purchase at:
Free Video at FamilyWonder.com
MANY DISCOUNTS OFF FIRST PURCHASE at:
<ECOUPONS.com
$25 Free Postage from the US Post Office and free Postal Scale!!
Free
Trial-- $25 FREE POSTAGE plus free postal scale at Stamps.Com
Groceries:
Free Grocery Coupons, online discount coupons, rebates at Cool Savings.com:
Cool
Savings.com
Auto Needs:
Mobil Gas Card. Join MYPOINTS.com and use your points earned surfing
the NET for a Mobile Gas Card:
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CDROMS:
Pay shipping Only for Nice Cdroms. Many educational titles:
Free CDROM.com
Shipping Only. Many Nice Educational titles like Reader Rabbit plus
popular software:
ARCAMAX.COM
Special Free Shipping Only Offers. They Change monthly.
SMARTER KIDS.com
VIDEOS:
Also:
I subscribed to a video placement service which puts you on a list
to
receive free educational videos from manufacturers. Today we got
one on pork...several weeks ago we got one on how to make Jelly Beans...
Their address is:
Video Placement Worldwide
25 Second Street- North #120
St. Petersburg, FL
33701
0r fax: 727-823-2955
http://www.vpw.com
BOOKS and other Education Resources:
A Great Deal! First Time Customers at Amazon Books can choose
2 selected books for 1˘ each!
Suite101.com has many very well written articles on a huge number of
subjects. A fine educational resource.
Visit Suite101.com
$10 off first Purchase at VarsityBooks.com
$10 Discount at Varsitybooks.com
Free Fire safety training kit and video from ALLSTATE Insurance. Just call your local Allstate agent. Its a great video with many name performers singing about fire safety. You also get a certificate and coloring book.
USA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has many free resources. Check out their
site:
DEPT EDUCATION RESOURCES
suggestions for young readers are the Keisha Ann Kit and the Lavender
Kit. Nice childrens readers.
For older kids the Changing Channels anti-drug video is nice.
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Call E.P.A. and ask for:
Also CORRECTION: to EMAIL EPA for their kids stuff ---- use this NEW Email: [email protected] resources:
multiple copies available for organizations. Just ask.
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Freebies for Disaster Action Kids You can get posters, videos
and other fun things for free if you are a Disaster Action Kid. Here is
the information on the freebies and how to order them!
You can order these items FREE from FEMA by writing to:
Educational Products available from The National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC):
1. Into the Arctic: Information and Educational Activities for Studying
Climate from the Arctic
System Science Data Coordination Center. This CD-ROM contains classroom
activities focusing
on climate studies and includes information and data from the Greenland
Ice Sheet Project 2
(GISP2). Designed to offer instructional materials and activities for
teachers and students, the
unique feature of Into the Arctic is access to actual data collected and
used by research scientists.
These data allow users to understand the process scientists follow when
answering research
questions. Inspired by the GISP2 ice coring project, data such as
electrical conductivity
measurements are included on the CD-ROM in addition to data from many
other research
sources. Available free of charge.
2. Glaciers Booklet. A booklet that answers basic questions such as How
is a glacier formed? Why
do they move? Where are they located on Earth? and Why are they
important? Includes some
glacier facts, a glacier bibliography, and images from our glacier photo
collection. Available free of
charge in hard copy or via the World Wide Web at:
Glaciers Booklet
3. Avalanche Awareness Booklet. Understand the how, why, and where of
avalanches. Learn to
recognize the conditions that cause avalanches, and find out how to
avoid them. Avalanche safety,
rescue equipment, survival tips, and further avalanche resources are
included. Available free of
charge in hard copy or via the World Wide Web at:
Avalanche!
4. Have Snow Shovel, Will Travel. A pamphlet that describes the history
of snow removal efforts in
the United States and also discusses some memorable snowstorms,
snowstorm safety, and the
snowiest cities in the country. Available with the World Wide Web at:
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/EDUCATION/
5. EOSDIS Data Sampler. CD-ROM that provides examples of information,
images, and
animations that introduce the Earth science data sets supported by the
NASA Earth Observing
System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). An overview of the EOSDIS
program is provided.
Data are archived and distributed at various Distributed Actie Archive
Centers (DAACs), with each
DAAC representing a specific scientific disclpline such as atmospheric
chemistry, snow and ice,
oceanography, etc. Images include the El Nino phenomenon and the
stratospheric aerosol
concentrations following the Mount Pinatubo eruption. Animations include
the Antarctic ozone hole
season, weekly snow cover and sea ice extent of the Northern Hemisphere,
Pacific winds and
typhoons, and global lightning flash rates. This CD-ROM was designed as
a resource for general
science and education communities, and is supported by PC and Macintosh
platforms. Available
free of charge.
EOSDIS SAMPLER DISK
6. Earth Science Posters covering 7 topics: Global Ice and Sea Level
Change, Cloud Radiative
Effects, Ozone Depletion, Ocean Processes, Impact of Volcanoes,
Vegetation and Hydrology
Changes, and Greenhouse Effects. Any/all posters are available free of
charge.
POSTERS
7. More snow and ice-related educational materials and links are
available from the World Wide
Web at:
SNOW AND ICE EDUCATION MATERIALS
8. NASA's Spacelink site has a wealth of educational services and
instructional materials. Access
Spacelink's home page at:
SPACELINK'S HOMEPAGE
9. Other NASA educational sites include: Learning Technologies Project
Office develops new
applications and pilot programs for using science data and creating new
curriculum products and
tools. http://learn.ivv.nasa.gov/ Quest, the home of NASA's Internet
Initative, provides support to
fully utilize the Internet and its underlying information technologies
as a basic tool for learning. One
of Quest's most unique endeavors is the "Sharing NASA" on-line
interactive projects. Students
and educators are given the opportunity to communicate with NASA
scientists and researchers to
experience the excitement of real science in real time.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov NASA Aerospace
Education Service Program
Education Services
10. A brochure describing all educational products available from the
DAACs is available in hard
copy or can be found via the World Wide Web at:
DAAC INFORMATION PRODUCTS
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TEXT BOOKS AT COST:
textbooksatcost.com
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MORE FREE STUFF FOR EDUCATORS AT:
This site has all sorts of free items most of which are available
to anyone, not just teachers.
Free for
educators
FREE SAMPLES:
I love to get free stuff in the mail. Here is the motherload of
free sample sites:
DAILY FREEBIES
free (no shipping, postage or handling charges) manufacturers' offers.
For a free sample of Excedrin pain reliever, call (800) 580-4455.
Suffer from lactose intolerance? Try Lactaid free by calling (800) HELPKIT.
Get a free sample of Beano by calling (800) 257-8650.
Try Children's Mylanta free by calling (800)9MYLANTA.
Get a free sample of Metamucil by calling (800) 983-4237.
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