National Geographic
Videos
Videos offer real world experiences to your children without putting them in harm’s way. While there are a few hundred sites offering educational videos online, not all of them allow you to access their content for free. As a homeschooling parent with a budget you should be aware that it is possible to get quality videos for your children to learn from for free on these websites.
Once you hit the main site of National Geographic click on the second tab named videos and get free access to a multitude of interesting videos from old National Geographic programs. In the sub menu click on the tab named Kids and you will have a number of interesting educational videos to share with your homeschool students.
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PBS Nova
Use this website to gain access to videos on topics based on innovations in everything from military espionage to ancient civilizations. Based on the popular television science series, you can catch long and short videos on the website. There is fresh content added each week and you will never be short of interesting things to explore.
Open Education Database or OEDB
On this website you have access to courses, books, videos and more. Their archives are full of college course materials and you may have to do some serious searching to find what you can use in your homeschool classroom. However one thing you can rest assured of is that you will find something about whatever topic you are hunting for here.
Edutopia
Run by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, this website offers project based learning. They offer grade level learning in material as well videos to supplement that learning. A number of schools coordinate their teaching efforts with the website to the betterment of their teaching program. They are focused on the K-12 grades.
Now you can do the same by learning the three basic core principles that the website hopes to teach its visitors. First is to find information online easily. Second is to assess if the information is credible and of a good quality. Third is to actually make use of the information that you uncover.
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