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Home Schooling
Internet Resources
Internet Resources
GETTING STARTED
Web Sites
Home Education Information Resources
This non-partisan, non-sectarian site has all of the information needed to begin a home school in the state of Georgia. Laws, state and local contacts, as well as current state and national legislation, are all addressed here.
Black Alliance for Educational Options
Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
Definitive resource with FAQ file.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association
National Home Education Network
Non-sectarian.
National Home Education Research Institute
Faith based but not exclusively so.
CURRICULUM RESOURCES
Web Sites
@rtroom
AskEric
Beautiful Feet
"History through literature" for primary grades through high school.
Book Adventure
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Five in a Row
Literature based unit studies for children aged 4-12 and up.
The Literature Place
Hands on instructional resources for award winning books.
McBeth's Opinion
Literature based high school science resources.
NWREL's Library in the Sky
Teacher resources.
NASA's Educational Resources
PBS TeacherSource
Reading Rainbow
Surfing the Net with Kids
Teachervision.com
TeAch-nology.com
Yahooligans! Teachers' Guide
MAGAZINES
Web Sites
Cobblestone Publishing
Activities and information for using the Cobblestone Publishing magazines available in the Children's and Young Adult sections of the library, with useful links to educational sites.
Home Education Magazine
Online version of the magazine.
Homeschool World Magazine
Practical homeschooling magazine.
SPECIAL NEEDS
Web Sites
Nathhan
Christian families homeschooling for special needs children.
Special Needs Resources for Homeschoolers
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
Web Sites
Cafi Cohen's HomeSchool Teens and College
Colleges that admit Homeschoolers
University of Georgia Admissions Policy for Home Educated Students
Athens Area Contacts
Web Sites
Athens Area Homeschoolers (Mamabruce@yahoobruce.com)
Athens Cooperative Experience (AthensCooperativeExperience@juno.com)
Athens Home School Email Loop (AthensHSinfo@yahoogroups.com)
Fellowship of Christian Home Educators (drallen8@juno.com)
OTHER USEFUL SITES
Web Sites
American School of Correspondence
Apricot Pie
A web site for and by teens who are home educated. Poetic, literary and artistic.
Family Times online newspaper
Home Schooling, New Brunswick, Canada
Has explanations of many styles of home education, including Waldorf, Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Relaxed Home Schooling, Five in a Row, Classical Education, Unschooling and Montessori.
HOMESCHOOL ORIENTATION @ YOUR LIBRARY
The library has many resources to support your homeschool curriculum. Each year at the end of summer, the library hosts an orientation session specifically for parents to make them aware of what the library can offer. The following links are the handouts from this orientation session.Homeschool Orientation Handouts
Galileo for Homeschoolers
A guide to Galileo databases specifically for children and teens.
The Five W's of Web Site Evaluation
Questions to ask to determine if a website contains factual information.
How to Place a Hold in Evergreen
How to request books from PINES libraries outside our region.
Georgia Download Destination Instructions
How to download audiobooks through the library's new service: Georgia Download Destination.
Special Needs Library of Georgia
The Special Needs Library of Northeast Georgia provides free library services for patrons with visual, physical, and reading disabilities. The Library loans books and magazines on cassette tapes or in Braille, as well as the necessary cassette players. Books and players are mailed back and forth at no cost to the patron.
Genealogy for Kids
This handout describes ways to get younger children interested in family history.
List of Genealogy Books for Kids
Finding Georgia's Online Library Catalogs the Easy Way
GALILEO: How To Receive Search Updates or Journal Alerts
With some GALILEO databases you can automatically receive updated search results or alerts about new issues of magazines. The alerts arrive by email or RSS feed.
Student Research Center
This handout is a guide to using Student Research Center, which is a great resource for "current events" assignments. Student Research Center is designed for students in grades 6 through 12. Users can limit results by source and/or format (e.g. Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video).
GALILEO: Search for a Magazine
Use GALILEO to search for a magazine, to browse articles in a magazine, or to better control your searches.