Homeschooling Resources

Virtual Learning & Exploration

Access a wide array of virtual learning opportunities, from online classes to virtual tours of world-renowned museums, enhancing education from anywhere.

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Makerspace Museum Outdoor/ Nature Activity Private School Technology 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.

Castlemakers Makerspace Creative MakerSpace The Wolfson Makerspace

Museum

A building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.

Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium SeaQuest Stonecrest Seymour Art Gallery Sheldon Museum of Art Sloan Museum of Discovery Smithsonian Museums Smithsonian National Museum of African Art South Waddy Interactive Space Exploration Stearns History Museum Stepping Stones Museum for Children Stranahan House Museum TCOE Planetarium & Science Center Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities Temperance Building The Bo Bartlett Center The Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure The Cannonball House The Field Museum The Gallery at the Visual & Performing Arts Center, WestConn University The Getty Center The Henry Ford Museum The History Center The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Rosenbach Museum & Library The Schiele Museum of Natural History The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center The Walters Art Museum Homeschool Resource The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology Thurrock Museum Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life Touchstones Rochdale Tri-County Museum & Historical Society Tulane Museum of Natural History Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site University of Michigan Museum of Natural History University of Tennessee Arboretum Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum Vancouver Art Gallery Vero Beach Museum of Art Verulamium Museum Washington Township Museum of Local History Weber Art Gallery West Bay Common School Children's Museum West Virginia State Museum Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas Wyckoff House Museum Wylie House Museum Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Outdoor/ Nature Activity

Abilene State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Acadia National Park Argoed Lwyd Outdoor Education Centre Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve CapeNature Kids Cassiobury Park Explorers Devon Wildlife Trust: Wilder Learning EF Educational Tours Belize Environmental Education Centre of New Zealand Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory - Homeschool Programs Frelinghuysen Arboretum Glacier Creek Preserve Great Smoky Mountains National Park Educational Programs Innisfree Garden Jefferson County Conservation - Homeschool Adventures King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) Leicester Botanic Garden and Attenborough Arboretum Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden Nature Vision New Germany State Park Newton Arboretum & Botanical Gardens Nezinscot North Farm - Through the Trees Nurture My Nature Our Farm - Charlotte Country Day School’s Outdoor Learning Lab Snipes Farm and Education Center South Shore YMCA Natural Science Center Veterans Oasis Park & Chandler Nature Center Wellwood Orchards William B. Umstead State Park Yanahli Park

Private School

A school supported by a private organization or private individuals rather than by the government.

Enlightium Academy Mother of Divine Grace School The Academy of Rome and Cartersville

Technology

Technology opens up new ways of learning and inspires creativity and curiosity in homeschool lessons. Homeschoolers can explore subjects through online platforms, educational apps, and video games that offer unique ways of engaging with the material.

7th Street Studio & Makerspace at Bucknell University Baebler Educational Farm Campbell County Makerspace edclub Fab Lab El Paso Jackson Makerspace - Innovation Center Long Beach Public Library Studios Makerspace - Mississippi State University Libraries North Branch Nature Center - ECO Homeschool Program Robotics4U Center

Unit Study

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

Nickel Plate Express STEM Workshops - Kansas Children's Discovery Center

Volunteer

freely offer to do something

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard