Homeschooling Resources

Extracurricular & Personal Development

Encourage personal growth and the development of unique interests through a variety of extracurricular activities, including sports, arts, and clubs that foster creativity and teamwork.

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Makerspace Unit Study Volunteer

Makerspace

a place in which people with shared interests, especially in computing or technology, can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge.

Aberystwyth University Makerspace Ankeny Makerspace Bergen Makerspace Billings MT MakerSpace Bloominglabs Makerspace Bowdoin College MakerSpace Bridging The Horizon MakerSpace Cal Poly Humboldt Library Makerspace Canton Library Makerspace Citrus MakerSpace Claremont MakerSpace Clinton Public Library Makerspace Co-Laboratory Oklahoma Makerspace Colabratory and Makerspace Creativity Lab Colchester Makerspace Columbia's Makerspace ColumbusMakesIT FabLab Cortez Makerspace Creative MakerSpace Cruces Creatives Makerspace Delta Innovation Workspace Discovery Center - Makerspace Eckstein MakerSpace Edinburgh Open Workshop Fab Lab at Lake Michigan College FabLab Devon at Exeter Library Fairfield MakerSpace Farset Labs Ferris State University Makerspace Fishers Maker Playground Flux Rotherham Makerspace Gould Academy's Maker Space: Marlon Family IDEAS Center Grand Island Public Library - Makerspace Great Falls Public Library MakerSpace HackLE11 Makerspace Hesperia Art Center Hughes Road Makerspace IDEA Center Makerspace Innovation Center at Glenview Public Library inventHQ Makerspace Jeffersonville Makerspace at Jeffersonville Library Jersey City Fab Lab Lancaster Makerspace Let's Make Makerspaces in Warwickshire Limpopo Fablab Local Makerspace at Your Shop Luton Makerspace Made in Johnstown Makerspace Make Lehigh Valley Makerspace Make-It Springfield MakerLabs Vancouver Makerspace at Art Centre Makerspace at Thornapple Kellogg Schools Makerspace Creativity Lab MidPointe Library West Chester - Innovation Pointe Milton Keynes MakerSpace Milwaukee Makerspace Mississippi Homeschool Life MiY Zones (Make it Yourself) at Irving Public Library New York Mills Regional Cultural Center Oakmont Carnegie Library Makerspace Ocean State Maker Mill Open Bench Project Open Workshops Makerspace Painted Pineapple Maker Space RCC Makerspace River City Labs Makerspace Scugog Library Makerspace Sea Goat Farmstand & Folk School Sierra College MakerSpace Snoqualmie Valley Center for Creativity Staffordshire University Maker Space Student Maker Studio (SMS) at Moraine Valley Community College Talent Maker City

Unit Study

Comprehensive educational units that integrate multiple subjects around a central theme or topic.

Alaska Botanical Garden Educational Programs American Village Citizenship Trust Center Theatre Group Student Matinee Program Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Emerson Point Preserve Environmental Nature Center FireStarter FABLab Florida Botanical Gardens For-Mar Nature Preserve & Arboretum Fort Donelson National Battlefield Educational Programs Fresno County Public Library - Literacy Program Great Smoky Mountains National Park Education Programs Hog Island Audubon Camp Lancaster Conservancy Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park McFarland Ranch Nature Explorium at Middle Country Public Library Nickel Plate Express One Living Sanctuary Palmetto Historical Park Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek Roots Farm Cafe & Education Center Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach SPARK Science Center at Abilene Heritage Square STEAMS School Blenheim STEM Workshops - Kansas Children's Discovery Center Summit Lake Nature Center The Banker's House The Maker Lab at Herndon Fortnightly Library Tinkergarten Outdoor Learning and Play-Based Education White Memorial Conservation Center Wild at Heart Wildlife Rehabilitation Wild In M.E. Homeschool Program Wildheart Nature School

Volunteer

freely offer to do something

Hidden Bee Animal Rescue Journey Home Animal Rescue Monroe County Friends of Animals (MCFA) NextGenServe Oakland History Center at Pine Grove Raising Radishes - Tulsa Urban Farm School Rescue Oasis Foundation Rock Springs Conservation Area Rockwall Makerspace Sandy Spring Farm STEAM at the Shore West Monroe Community Center