While there are many offerings for free homeschooling curriculums online, it is also important to remember that free is not always the best. It doesn’t mean that some of the free products available are not of a high standard but you would have to inspect free offers carefully to make sure it is what you need.
Finding the best for free or cheap will take some effort and research.
Homeschooling Parents and Support Groups
If you know other homeschooling parents with children older than yours, they might be prepared to pass their used curriculums on to you or let you use it for the time you need it. Alternatively they might sell it to you at a reduced price.
Support groups normally have message boards where parents can request or offer products and programs for free or for sale.
Design Own Homeschooling Curriculum
There are many parents who use the library as their main source of curriculum. It is not impossible to do it, but you need to be careful to make sure the curriculum is of a high standard and complies with the laws of your state.
Online Curriculum
There are numerous online curriculum offers. Again you will have to work through these to make sure they are of real value. Some sites will give the curriculum for free but it will be designed around their products and if you don’t buy their books and CD’s the curriculum won’t be of that much use.
A valuable website to visit is curriki.com. The goal of this site is to get quality education to everyone that wants to learn. It is an open-source product and available to anybody. The contributors are teachers and educational specialist from all over the world. It is not done for compensation so there is no reason for them to submit work of inferior quality. It is a growing site so what you can’t find today might be available tomorrow.
It will take some time to research the site. For certain subjects there are full curriculums available and for others just resource material and worksheets.
