VA Homeschooling: A One-Stop Shop for Your Homeschooling Needs

Goochland
J Sargeant Reynolds
Home school students may be permitted to enroll in college level courses prior to completion of home school.
Age: 13 and up

Hanover County
Hanover County Parks and Recreation
The county parks offer a variety of classes to expand growing minds.
Grades: K-12

Mechanicsville
Arete Christian Academy Curriculum
It is the purpose of Aretè Christian Academy to provide middle and high school level classes to supplement the parent-directed education of home-schooled children. As we seek to glorify God through the instruction of God-centered classes, we will provide classes in a nurturing environment that encourages parental involvement, strives for academic excellence, and promotes the development of Godly character in students.
Grades: 7-12

Richmond
Educator's Exchange
Educator's Exchange has been providing home educators with quality "used" curriculum and educational materials. Educator's Exchange provides internet and mail order sales to home educators as well as walk-in service at our store location.
Grades: Pre-Kindergarten - 12

J Sargeant Reynolds
Home school students may be permitted to enroll in college level courses prior to completion of home school.
Age: 13 and up

Richmond Enrichment Studio
The center offers classes in subjects such as art, foreign languages, geography, language arts, logic, math, music, and science.
Grades: Preschool - 12

TAPS
A store for teachers and parents for students of all ages.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Toys That Teach
A store for teachers and parents for students of all ages. Offers a 10% discount with a homeschool card.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Springfield
Harvester Teaching Services
Learn fine arts as well as the core subjects of math, history, science, grammar, and more.
Grades: K-12

Book Publishers
Alpha Omega Publications
AOP offers several cross-disciplinary curriculums: LIFEPAC (a K-12 Christian curriculum designed to teach five core subjects plus an array of electives), Horizons (a K-6 workbooks-based curriculum that gives students a solid grounding in the fundamentals of math and langiage arts), The Weaver Curriculum (a K-12 Biblically integrated curriculum), and Power-Glide (a foreign language series that offers age-relevant courses via books and CDs).
Grades: K-12

CurrClick
Features a variety of books, ebooks, and workbooks for history, language arts, math, and more.
Grades: K-12

Dover Publications
Dover Publications offers books and other resources for math, science, literature, language, and music.
Grades: Pre-Kindergarten - 12

FUN Books
Books, games, and audio recordings in a variety of subjects.
Grades: Prekindergarten - 12

Harcourt School Publishers
The Learning Site offers activities, lessons, and movies in subjects such as reading, language arts, spelling, math, social studies, science, health, and art.
Grades: K-6

Home School, Inc.
Features a variety of books, ebooks, workbooks, and software for art, Bible, character development, critical thinking, foreign languages, language arts, literature, math, music, practical skills, religion, science, social studies, study skills, and more.
Grades: K-12

Kinetic Books
Offers downloadable textbooks for Algerbra 1 and physics.
Grades: 8-9

Love to Learn
Resources for art, Bible, cooking, foreign languages, geography, health, history, language arts, math, music, and science.
Grades: K-12

Moving Beyond the Page
A comprehensive, year-long, interdisciplinary homeschool curriculum that covers math, writing, social studies, language arts, spelling, and science. This curriculum includes everything you need, from parent resource books, to textbooks and activity books.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Rainbow Resource Center
The center offers over 35,000 products, such as books and activity workbooks, in subjects such as art, Bible, foreign languages, history, geography, language arts, logic, music, and science.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Saxon Publishers
Saxon programs teach the foundational skills of math and reading--the building blocks of continued learning. Saxon programs include distributed, mixed practice every day, meaningful conversations that engage all students, and an integrated curriculum, which includes books and CDs.
Grades: K-12

Score! Mountain Challenge Workbook Series
Using a dynamic online companion to capture students' attention, the workbooks series provides students with practice in math and reading, and teaches them how to set and achieve academic goals. This combination produces steady academic progress and makes a positive impact on students' lifelong approach to learning.
Grades: K-6

Online Curriculum
The American Education Curriculum
A leading provider of research-based core curriculum instructional software, which is used in over 11,000 public and private schools, charter schools, colleges, correctional institutions, centers of adult literacy, military education programs, and after-school learning centers.
Grades: K-12

Connect the Thoughts
Connect The Thoughts is a proven home school curriculum unlike any other, one that home school students are excited to do and which truly educate a student. This curriculum is designed to make your home school student truly win at education.
Grades: 3-12

Discovery Education Streaming
This flagship school service is the only digital video-based learning resource scientifically proven to increase academic achievement. Featuring more than 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 50,000 content-specific video segments, unitedstreaming allows teachers to seamlessly integrate its content into their curriculum.
Grades: 6-12

free-ed.net
Nearly 85% of Free-Ed.Net learners are preparing for some form of higher education, from local career schools, to 2-year community colleges, to 4-year colleges and universities. It is never too early to begin your academic preparations and narrow down your choices of schools. You are looking for a good school? When you are properly prepared, a lot of good schools come looking for you. Here is the connection.
Grades: 6-12

iknowthat.com
Activities are offered in the major subject areas of the elementary level: math, language arts, science, social studies, and the arts.
Grades: Pre-Kindergarten - 6

Kitchen Sink Learning Solutions
Kitchen Sink Learning Solutions is a home-based, SAHM-run organization designed to help homeschool parents meet their child's educational needs without inconveniencing themselves with travel and high gas prices or spending a fortune through the use of an innovative online learning experience.
Grades: 3-12

Northstar Homeschool
Participants in NorthStar HomeSchool will access all of their lesson resources via our online resource center. Parents will need to purchase the class materials, such as textbooks, listed for each of their respectively chosen NorthStar HomeSchool classes from a retail bookstore.
Grades: 7-12

The Sycamore Tree
Choose curriculum that fits your child's own individual learning style. For example, visual children have a great sense of accomplishment upon finishing a workbook page while others dislike even writing their name at the top of the page and learn better through auditory and kinesthetic modes.
Grades: K-12

The Teaching Company
The vast majority of our courses are college level. However, The Teaching Company publishes several courses taught by outstanding teachers on subjects traditionally covered in high school.
Grades: 11 - College

Online Resources
ABC Teach
Tools and resources for creating learning activities.
Grades: K-6

Apples4theTeacher
A variety of resources to help educate through interactive lessons, grabbing the students' attention.
Grades: K-6

Arcademic Skill Builders
Our educational video games offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills by incorporating features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will motivate, intrigue, and teach your students.
Grades: K-6

A to Z Home's Cool
A to Z Home's Cool community website will help you homeschool your kids from preschool, kindergarten, through homeschooling high school with free online education, home-friendly lesson ideas, educational websites, helpful articles, top homeschool programs, books, and materials.
Grades: Preschool - 12

A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Backyard Nature
A resource for learning about nature, geology, plants, animals, fungi, ecology, gardening, and tools.
Grades: K-12

Black Dog
BlackDog is a large, content-rich, family-friendly site containing several thousand web pages. BlackDog features educational games and activities, including worksheets, coloring pages, interactive e-books, a large variety of holiday activities, musical postcards, screensavers, web graphics, and more.
Grades: K-8

The Book Samaritan
We provide books and curriculum to families who have financial needs. If you have budgetary constraints that are hindering your ability to provide your children with the best possible curriculum choices, please let us help. We recognize that for those homeschoolers who are more financially secure, our services are not necessary. If this applies to you, we thank you for not requesting materials. Instead, we humbly ask that you consider a donation of your used curriculum.
Grades: K-12

CLEP Prep Lesson Plans
This site was designed to assist home educators who want to use the College Level Examination Program to help their teens earn college credits. In effect, the authors explain how to use CLEP for “virtual dual enrollment.” There are fully accredited colleges that will accept CLEP credits for the entire four-year degree! Colleges that have enrollment requirements, such as SAT scores and basic skills tests, often waive them when a student has already accumulated some college credits.
Grades: 9 - College

ClickSchooling
ClickSchooling is a free e-newsletter that provides a daily review of an educational website that parents and teachers can use to help children and students learn every subject imaginable.
Grades: K-12

CliffsNotes
Study guides for literature, writing, foreign languages, math, science, and more.
Grades: 6-12

Core Knowledge Foundation
For the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, elementary and middle schools need a solid, specific, shared core curriculum in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge, grade by grade. Textbooks, teacher handbooks, and other resources can also be purchased.
Grades: K-8

Cosmeo
Cosmeo is the online homework help tool for report research, learning games, and more. Powered by Discovery Channel, Cosmeo is based on the most widely used educational video streaming service in U.S. schools.
Grades: K-12

Discovery Education
View the list of brand-new lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students. Lesson plans correspond to Assignment Discovery and TLC Elementary School programming.
Grades: K-12

Education World
Offers lesson plans on a variety of subjects, such as math, geography, phonics, and calendars.
Grades: Pre-Kindergarten - 3

EducationalLearningGames.com
We offer over 4,000 enriching educational games from all over the world for people of all ages!
Grades: Baby - 12

Educator's Reference Desk
This collection contains more than 2,000 lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources.
Grades: Pre-Kindergarten - 12

EduHound
A highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students, and parents. EduHound seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool.
Grades: K-12

Energy Hog Games
Games, interactive features, and cross-curricular lesson plans for learning about common sense energy conservation in the home.
Grades: 3-8

Family Education
Enjoy some fun activities with your children.
Grades: K-12

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Obtain free educational resources for history, language arts, math, and science.
Grades: K-12

Free-Ed.net
These are clusters of courses that support your preparation for today's fastest-growing careers and critical academic disciplines.
Grades: 9-12

Fun Brain
Many math and reading games.
Grades: K-8

Home Education Resources
Resources and activities for learning math, English, Spanish, reading, writing, science, and social studies.
Grades: K-6

Homegrown Hearts
Printable worksheets for practice on geography, reading, science, math, and more.
Grades: K-3

Homeschool Buyers Co-op
Features a variety of curriculum and other educational resources for animals, art, architecture, geography, health, history, math, reading, and science.
Grades: K-12

Homeschooling for Free
This web page offers links to free homeschooling resources.
Grades: K-12

Homeschool Share
At Homeschool Share, we carefully read each book and lesson plan, and for each we have assigned a unit level that we believe fits most students. That said, your child is unique and you know him best--you may find other units outside the expected ages for which we think the unit is best suited. Do not feel that you must stay within these levels! While we strive to have quality units from the very best books, we realize that each family has their own beliefs, morals, and values as well as their own definitions of "twaddle" and "living books." As such, we urge you to pre-read the books and units, to ensure that it suits your family or that you can adjust the unit to your needs.
Grades: K-12

Home Sweet Homeschool
My purpose for having this website is to help homeschoolers and prospective homeschoolers by offering links to resources that I have found useful or informative, through the Forums, and their articles, related links, and message board, through the FAQ page and in any other way the L-rd shows me.
Grades: K-12

Kids Zone
Features explanations, fun facts, and printable activity pages on topics such as animals, geography, language arts, math, and science.
Grades: K-5

LearnersTV
This is a comprehensive site providing FREE Video lectures, Animations, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine etc... This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world.
Grades: 8-12

Lesson PlanZ
LessonPlanz is searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Librarian Chick
This a list of free resources for students and educators... and anyone else who's hip to learning.
Grades: Preschool - 12

Los Banos Homeschool
Resources and printables for American history, language arts, and math.
Grades: 2-4

Lyndsey's Mania
Resources and games for geography and math.
Grades: 1-6

Maggie's Earth Adventures
Obtain weekly lessons, activities, and activity packets for environmental education that brings in math, science, language arts, and more!
Grades: K-8

Mastery Club
The mastery club is an activity for students who are interested in achieving above and beyond the normal curriculum expectations. All the student has to do is learn all about the topic and then be able to tell their teacher the answers. They can become a 1 star member, all the way up to an 84 star member!
Grades: 3-5

Microsoft Education
Find new ways to enhance student learning through technology
Grades: Preschool - 12

MIT Open Courseware
An amazing number of free online courses offered through MIT!
Grades: 9- College

Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School
A great resource for those needed activities for a variety of subjects.
Grades: K-8

National Education Association
Review a variety of lesson plans.
Grades: Preschool - 12

New York Time Learning Network
Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. Students can also submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question, or submit a science question and search through the Science Q&A archive. They can also expand their vocabularies and practice their verbal test-taking skills, and even take a Web Exploration on a variety of topics.
Grades: 3-12

NIEHS Kids' Pages
The NIEHS Kids' Pages is a government educational website. It is designed to teach children about the connections between their health and the environment; encourage children to pursue careers in health, science, and the environment; explain the mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and assist children in learning to read and master challenging mathematics and science.
Grades: Preschool - 6

Reading Rainbow
Explore reading and the fun activities that come along with it.
Grades: Preschool - 3

Really Good Stuff
This resource offers a variety of curriculums, as well as other school necessities.
Grades: Preschool - 8

School Express
Free worksheets sorted by subject.
Grades: K-12

Smithsonian Education
Hundreds of lesson plans available from the world renowned Smithsonian Institute. From Eskimos and Native Americans to the Wright Brothers and Songbirds (and everything in between!).
Grades: K-12

TeacherPlanet
TeacherPlanet features over 250 theme based resource pages.
Grades: K-12

The Teacher's Corner
A resource for worksheets, lesson plans, thematic units, and holiday activities.
Grades: K-8

Teachnology
TeAch-nology represents a vision of teaching in a world driven by technology. Our mission to provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning. Our goal is two-fold: to provide a reservoir of online resources for educators to access at any time and to provide effective tools for designing instruction that are time and energy saving.
Grades: K-12

TEAMS Electronic Classroom
Free online classes in math, science, social studies, and language arts.
Grades: K-8

ThinkQuest
Over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition.
Grades: K-8

Woodlands Junior School
Developing the whole child is important to us and that aim is reflected in all we do and throughout our website. We have 11,000 pages with interactive learning activities, games and easy to read and understand information to support learners of all ages.
Grades: 1-6

Universal Preschool
You may be deeply concerned, as we are, by the current push to institutionalize young children in government funded preschools. There is an over emphasis on intense early academic instruction particularly in the areas of reading, writing, and math. It is fueled by misguided politicians who have succumbed to pressure by teachers unions and corporate interests that stand to profit from public preschools.
Grades: Preschool

University of Washington
Offers a variety of free online courses.
Grades: 9-12

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