Homeschooling Curriculum – Customize, Mix & Match

 

Notes:

  • These are primarily secular, do it yourself curriculum publishers or online providers. There are also many faith-based options elsewhere if that is your choice.
  • This is just the tip of the iceberg! For more research, Facebook homeschooling groups are the best place to get up to date ideas, and personal reviews.  Also there are many homeschooling parent blogs with reviews and ways to customize.

 

Science

  • Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding K-2
  • Real Science Odyssey
  • Moving Beyond The Page
  • Mr. Q Science
  • Mystery Science (subscription)
  • Singapore Science
  • Time4Science
  • Oak Meadow Physical Science
  • Big Fat Notebook of Science
  • HHMI free resources (used with lessons plans)
  • Prentice-Hall Science Explorer Series
  • Next Level Homeschool
  • MiddleSchoolChemistry.com
  • CK-12.org
  • Oak Meadow
  • Galore Park
  • Holt Homeschool Packages
  • Bozeman Science

 

History

  • A History of US (Joy Hakim)
  • A Young People’s History of the US (Howard Zinn)
  • Build Your Library (note: uses Story of the World as a spine which isn’t secular)
  • History Odyssey by Pandia Press
  • Horrible History book series (also has a great TV series from BBC)
  • Moving Beyond The Page – social studies
  • Story of the World (this is not a secular resource, but I am making this one exception because there is little else in this area that covers world history for the younger grades)
  • The Story Of Science by Joy Hakim (also has workbooks/teacher guide to make it more complete, these were created by Johns-Hopkins)
  • Big Fat Notebook of American History
  • Big Fat Notebook of World History
  • Big History Project
  • Khan Academy
  • Global Village School
  • Oak Meadow
  • Human Odyssey
  • Big History Project
  • Khan Academy
  • Crash Course History
  • Galore Park
  • History OdysseyQui
  • Thinkwell

 

Language Arts 

  • All About Reading
  • All About Spelling
  • Brave Writer
  • Michael Clay Thompson
  • Barton Reading and Spelling (for dyslexia)
  • Logic of English Foundations
  • Logic of English Essentials
  • Moving Beyond The Page
  • Galore Park
  • Time4Language Arts
  • Big Fat Notebook of Language Arts
  • Write Shop Junior (note: not all Write Shop products are secular but this level is)
  • Winning With Writing
  • Soaring With Spelling
  • Sequential Spelling
  • Nessy Reading and Spelling
  • Explode the Code
  • Essentials In Writing
  • Easy Grammar
  • Fix It Grammar
  • Junior Analytical Grammar
  • Quill.org
  • Winston Grammar
  • Editor In Chief Workbooks
  • Growing with Grammar
  • IXL
  • Brave Writer
  • Essentials in Literature
  • Essentials in Writing
  • Oak Meadow
  • Lively Art of Writing

 

Math

  • Math Mammoth
  • Teaching Textbooks
  • Beast Academy
  • Art of Problem Solving
  • Redbird Mathematics
  • Right Start Mathematics
  • Khan Academy
  • Time4Math
  • Houghton-Mifflin Math
  • Miquon
  • Galore Park
  • Singapore Math
  • Saxon Math
  • Prodigy Math
  • Art of Problem Solving
  • Galore Park
  • Math U See – their skip counting dvd and Stewardship course are NOT secular, but their main math curriculum is secular
  • Khan Academy

 

Philosophy

  • Philosophy For Kids
  • Children’s Book of Philosophy
  • Sophie’s World

 

Foreign Language

  • Rosetta Stone
  • Duolingo
  • Big Book of Lively Latin
  • Homeschool Spanish Academy
  • Cambridge Latin
  • Galore Park
  • Wheelock’s Latin
  • Spanish Now
  • French Now

 

Arts

  • Raising Da Vinci Filmmaking For Kids
  • Raising Da Vinci Ukelele Course
  • Artistic Pursuits
  • Home Art Studio
  • Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory
  • Vincent’s Starry Night
  • How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

 

Coding / Computer Skills

  • Scratch
  • SimplyCoding
  • TechRocket
  • Compuscholar
  • Khan Academy
  • Gamestar Mechanic
  • Kodu Game lab
  • RPG Maker
  • Code Combat
  • Tynker
  • Bloxels

 

Complete Curriculum (All In One)

  • Oak Meadow
  • Build Your Library (note: in some grades she uses SOTW as a spine but leaves out problematic areas)
  • Calvert
  • Global Village School
  • Moving Beyond The Page

Source:  Ultimate guide to secular homeschool curriculum, April 2017, http://upabovetherowantree.com/