Educational Freebies

Clip art from Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Hicks, illustrator.

Times are tight and free is fabulous right? Here is a list of free educational resources to take advantage of. I hope you find something that tickles your fancy. :D

Visit CriticalThinking.com and find free printables and software demos by subject and grade/ability.

Visit Sharetheworld.org to order a Free K-5 Lesson Plan on the humane treatment of animals. From the site:
Share the World is a free humane education lesson plan for K-5 teachers that’s designed to help your students better understand and appreciate the animals with whom we share our world. In the reproducible activities that form the heart of this humane education program, your students will use their thinking and writing skills to imagine the feelings and consider the incredible abilities of other animals, examine how our relationships with them have changed through history, discover alternatives to their use, and respond to situations in which their well-being is threatened.

Order a Free copy of The Constitution from The Heritage Foundation. And here's a Free Constitution Lapbook Lesson.

Order Free Diplomatic History Videos and Curriculum from the U.S. Department of the State (several to choose from).

Find Free Nutritional Information pdf's from the USDA here.

Order a Free Teacher's Kit for K-5 from the Georgia Peanut Commission:
Teacher's kits for grades K-2 and 3-5 are available from the Georgia Peanut Commission's Education Services Department at 110 E. 4th Street, P.O. Box 967,Tifton, GA 31793. These kits are free of charge and contain information about the history of peanuts, nutrition information, ideas for teaching, recipes, activities and songs.
By the way, did you know the first U.S. peanuts were grown in VA? (Sorry GA, just thought I'd throw that bit of trivia in there, being a VA native and all.)

Order a Free Planet Protectors Kids Activity Kit from the EPA.

Order a Free Freedom’s Song: 100 years of African-American struggle and triumph DVD and Lesson Plan from The Association for the Study of African American Life and History & Farmer's Insurance.

Order Free science related DVD's from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. You'll need to register on the site, but all items in the catalog are Free of charge. There may be a small shipping charge.

Get Free Farm to Family Dairy Farming curriculum resources from the Wisconsin Dairy website.

Find Free Sample Lesson of Homeschooling Curriculum here.

Free Elementary Ed Lessons from America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty

Order your Free copy of Homeschooling and Loving It! while supplies last! Pay only shipping charges - still a $15 savings!

**A great big thank you to The Freebie Blogger for many of these tips!