Links
Helpful Organizations
Home School Legal Defense Association
The Home School Legal Defense Association is a non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed. For organization information click the above link. TO JOIN, PLEASE CLICK THE "Why Join HSLDA?" TAB IN THE PCHS MEMBER'S WEBSITE MENU OPTIONS .
CHAP
Help getting started, Statewide convention, Workshops, Forms
Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Accreditation Agency (formerly pahomeschoolers.com)
An excellent resource for information on the homeschool law, for finding evaluators, and for getting a recognized and accredited homeschool diploma.
Homeschooling In PA
PA Homeschool Law
This is and will always be the current list of laws applying to homeschooling in PA.
Ask Pauline
Pennsylvania Homeschooling Law Excerpts and Advice - this is no longer kept up to date. While much of the information still holds true, some things have changed in recent years that are not reflected at this site.
Buy and Sell Used Books
Homeschool Used Book
A great selection of used curriculum and other homeschool resources at great prices. Sell your used curriculum also.
Second Harvest Curriculum
Our mission at Second Harvest Curriculum is to offer for sale at money saving prices, quality, used homeschool books & curriculum to Homeschool Families & Christian Schools. We also provide a convenient place for Homeschool Families & Christian Schools to sell used homeschool books & curriculum at a fair price!
PACE - PA Curriculum Exchange
The Pennsylvania Curriculum Exchange, or PACE, is a homeschool bookstore located in York County, PA with over 38,000 books and educational manipulatives. We carry new and consigned items. Most books are discounted with used items at least 40% off of retail.
Curriculum and Classes
Write Bonnie Rose
Sharing His Story through the Stories of Yesterday and Today. Science and History Resources.
Enrichment Studies
Fine arts and more for homeschool families! Daily Art and Sound Bites Programs delivered straight to your inbox.
Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop-This lady makes science FUN and EASY to understand
Welcome to my world of
EDUCATIONAL INVENTIONS!
This site really is like putting my basement online. One by one, I am working my way through the stacks of things sitting on my shelves, digitizing them, and posting them for anyone who might find them useful. Individual items are posted as FREE DOWNLOADS. I’ve also written some full-length curricula (during my years teaching science to classes of homeschooled kids ages 8-14) and they are available in the STORE. You can also snoop around and find out some others things I’ve done or am currently working on. Happy browsing!
Learn French Online-Free Online French Lessons
Learning to speak French? Check out our free online French lessons and our children's stories in French. We've also got French course reviews when you're ready to take the next step. Enjoy!
ASL University
Full access to ASL 1 and 2 lessons. Includes videos, printable resources, online quizzes, and review tests.
Northwest Treasures
HOMESCHOOL GEOLOGY CURRICULA, AND ROCK, MINERAL, & FOSSIL KITS FOR GRADES PREK- 12. Christian, young earth perspective.
Streamable Learning
Streamable Learning is a monthly subscription service that is redefining access to Virtual Field Trips. Scheduled over the course of the academic year and across multiple disciplines, our platform includes hundreds of live and interactive programs from some of your favorite museums, zoos and aquariums.
We offer over 600 live & interactive programs, an ever-growing library of over 350 recorded programs
supplemental resources, programs mapped to your state standards
As a special offer to homeschools, subscribe today for a 30 DAY FREE TRIAL. Then, continue your subscription at $4.99 per month, cancelable anytime.
Christianbook.com
Find homeschool curriculum (including Christian homeschool curriculum), workbooks, living books, and resources for all styles and methods of homeschooling. Discover the homeschooling curriculum that will best fit with your child and family to meet your educational goals for the year.
PA State History
State History Resources from a Christian Perspective
Supplies
Home Science Tools
From Homeschool to hobbyists and more, our focus is summed up in two simple words: Inspired Learning
At Home Science Tools, our purpose is to ignite a joy for learning science. We accomplish this by following a mission where we inspire learning through hands-on science discovery at home. And we lead with a vision that every family can experience the wonder and joy of discovering the world through science, resulting in a richer human experience for generations.
For over 25+ years, Home Science Tools (HST) has enabled homeschool families to experience the wonder and joy of discovering the world through science. We provide tools and resources for hands-on experiences that inspire parents to nurture a love for learning with their children.
Online Classes
Homeschool Science + Math (Classes and Virtual Labs)
Giving Your Children the Science and Math Advantage for School & Life!
- Christ-Centered Live & Self-Paced Online Classes
- Two Day Lab Intensives & Interactive Virtual Labs
- For 3rd - 12th Grade Homeschooled Students
- See & Hear Teacher
- "Life Prep" & "College Prep" Options
- Veteran Science Teacher
- Community with Other Students
Contests
Math Olympiads
Build Better Math Students Through Contests!
Freebies - Offers, downloads, coloring pages, info, etc.
Homeschool Giveaways
Free homeschool printables, curriculum for homeschooling, product reviews, and more.
HomeschoolFreebie.com
A great rotating assortment of free downloadable audiobooks, pdf's, ebooks, etc.
Printing Services
The Homeschool Printing Company
Making Printing Affordable! It’s pretty simple – we are a no-frills operation, and if it's a PDF, we can print it! We can do homeschool materials, eBooks, worksheets, etc. We can do all of these in color, B&W, single- or double-sided! As long as it is click-and-print ready, we can do it!
Fun!
Toy Theater
A free, fun and educational site for PreK - Grade 5.
Birds Sounds and Bird Calls
602 species from the USA and Canada
Start Imagining Birds, Sharing the Joy of Birds with Others
Chirps of Joy combines the elegance and beauty of a 6” x 9” bird photo with the simplicity of a
postcard. Descriptions and facts on the back detail the bird while providing enjoyable learning
and reading opportunities!
Libraries
Marriage & Parenting Help
Focus on the Family
Tons of resources, on-line articles, items for purchase, podcasts of radio program
Love and Logic
Provides simple and practical techniques to help parents have less stress and more fun while raising responsible kids. Love and Logic offers many useful techniques that parents can begin experimenting with immediately
American Family Association
The American Family Association exists to motivate and equip citizens to change the culture to reflect Biblical truth and traditional family values.
No Greater Joy
Books, articles and resources on child training and marriage. Free magazine, podcasts for download and audios.
National Center for Biblical Parenting
Committed to providing you with parenting tools created from a biblical perspective. Resources include books, children's curriculum, videos, audio tapes, and CDs.
Helpful Resources
Home EDucators Resource Directory
Contains local and worldwide resources which include Field Trips/Museums, College Planning, Curriculum and supplies, Support Groups plus much more.
Homeschool By Design
Tons of resources from getting started to curriculum choices, getting organized and field trips.
Resurrection Resources
Resurrection Resources is committed to providing results-oriented, understandable, and affordable learning materials. They also offer a free e-newsletter service filled with valuable information and encouragement for different school types
Beyond Speech Therapy Learning
Developer of online speech therapy. They provide speech language pathologists with a tool for success.
Beginning homeschooling book/other books
After evaluating in the state of PA for over 20 years, I wrote an inexpensive helps book for beginning homeschoolers that is easy and quick to get through. It contains ALL the information needed to provide a legal and fun homeschooling year for the children. Please visit my website at www.marshahubler.com and click on the "BOOKS" link to check out YOU'VE DECIDED TO HOMESCHOOL, NOW WHAT?
Please let your first-year homeschooling families about my book. I guarantee they'll homeschool successfully using my book as a guide.
Thanks for your time.
Marsha Hubler
Kid's Money
This organization has been helping kids and parents build smart money habits since 1995. The site
helps kids build smart money habits and equips parents and teachers with the knowledge and tools to help them educate their families and students.
College Resources
The Christian Connector
Resources about Christian colleges. Watch for their Scholarship Resource page on their website in August.
College Board
Prepare and register for the SATs. Help planning, finding, applying and paying for college. Scholarship information.
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Website resources
Service Life.com
Easy affordable websites (like ours!!) Tools to manage and build your site for Neighborhood Associations, Volunteer Organizations, Ministries, Academies, Churches, Medical Clinics, Real Estate Agencies, Homeschool Associations and Annual Conferences, Homeschool businesses, Piano Studios....