Resources for Homeschoolers
Curriculum Guides, Learning Standards, and Testing
General online resources:
Developing Educational Standards
It's back! This comprehensive site hosted by Putnam Valley Schools is a huge compilation of web-published educational standards from all over the United States and Canada. Look for standards by state or province, by subject, by clearinghouse or other organization. This is *the site* to see if you're trying to write objectives or figure out what your fifth grader should be learning this year. We're glad to have found it again!
World Book Encyclopedia Typical Course of Study PreK-12
The Evergreen Curriculum, from Saskatchewan Canada
Mathematically Correct's Scope and Sequence for Math, K - Geometry
Central Kindergarten Center: Curriculum
Resource guides for Classical Christian Homeschooling:
The Veritas Press Curriculum Guide
Calvary Covenant School Curriculum Objectives
Classical Christian Homeschooling Scope and Sequence
Classical Christian Homeschooling: The Grammar Stage
Classical Christian Homeschooling: The Dialectic Stage
Classical Christian Homeschooling: The Rhetoric Stage
The Suggested Course of Study for the Trivium Approach
Print resources:
What Your Child Needs to Know When (new revised edition)
by Robin Scarlata
Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Sixth Grade
by Diane D. Lopez
Design-A-Study Resources for Creating a Custom Curriculum
by Kathryn Stout
What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know, et al (The Core Knowledge Series, K-6)
by E. D. Hirsch (ed.)
Developing Educational Standards: Putnam Valley Schools is a complete annotated listing of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum framework documents from all sources (national, state, local, and other). It includes in its pages standards by state, by subject area, and by state education departments, and has resource listings from the US government, other nations, centers clearinghouses and labs, state-focused groups, other organizations, and newsletters and magazines.
Texas Assessment of Academic Skills
Edutest.com Online Practice Tests for Math and English
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessments for Grades 4, 8, and 10
Michigan's Online Proficiency Test Sample
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments for Grades 3 and 5
Washington Standards and Tests in Math and Reading for grades 4, 7, and 10
Online Scholastic Studyguide Web Ware for the SAT and more
Just for fun:
Self Discovery 13 Minute IQ Test
BrainTainment 5 Minute IQ Test
