Home Upcoming Events Membership About Homeschooling Resources Curriculum Links: Education Members Only Contact Us		Links to Educational Web Sites Web Sites Recommended by Members of Veritas Homeschoolers These links are for information only and do not necessarily reflect the views of Veritas Homeschoolers. Homeschooling Crosswalk - Provides articles, curriculum reviews, purchasing, chat, humor, forums, and daily encouragement Christian Homeschool Fellowship - Articles, messages and a mall Homefires-The Journal of Homeschooling Online - Articles include educational philosophy, learning differences and styles. ClickSchooling is a free e-list service that provides one educational web site recommendation a day. The Arizona Home School Heart Beat Newsletter - Newsletter from the Covenant Home School Resource Center VegSource - Homeschool talk and swap The Old Schoolhouse Swap Board - Several buying/selling/swapping boards Home School World - The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine and The Big Book of Home Learning Education Sites for Teachers - Numerous links to educational Web sites Donna Young - Organize your homeschooling, do lesson plans, and get help with different curricular materials, including Apologia and Institute for Excellence in Writing Love To Learn Place, Book Reports - Book report forms Chart Jungle - Free charts All the Write News - Purchase fonts for cursive and handwriting practice Annenberg/CPB Learner - Explore educational resources and activities for teaching and learning Discovery Channel School - Educational resources for students and teachers, including educational games Discovery Channel Puzzlemaker - Puzzle generation tool The Well-Trained Mind - Find out more about the book, investigate the newest titles J. B. Cheaney - Links and study guides to Cheaney's Shakespeare-related novels, ideas for teaching Shakespeare, a movie list, an approach to creative writing, and a "writing tip of the month" Ancient Greece - Links and information on Ancient Greece: history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, people, geography, etc. Maps - Maps and guides for travellers 24 Game Mathematics Club - Here's an online version of the 24® math game, free for those who register. The games are on various levels and challenging and fun. Science Home Training Tools - Provides science fair projects and information, microscopes, curriculum, and related resources NASA - Lots of NASA photos and short movie clips Photo Gallery, National Space Science Data Center - A collection of popular and frequently requested imagery from NASA's data archive (planets, nebulas, etc.) Froguts - Virtual dissection National Earthquake Information Center - Earthquake activity in the last seven days How Stuff Works - Explanations about form and function in science and technology Reference Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus - Dictionary has audible pronunciations Abebooks - Search the inventory of thousands of independent booksellers located around the world Alibris - Used, hard-to-find and new books Project Gutenberg - The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books Online Books - Over 10,000 online books free to the public Urban Legends References Pages Trend Micro Hoax References Pages Google - A tool for searching for web sites Fun and Games Games Kids Play - Descriptions and rules for dozens of traditional children's games, including indoor and outdoor activities Waterford Press Games - A variety of printouts, activities, games and worksheets. There are instructions for making origami animals, pages where you match tracks or shadows to the animals that make them, mazes, drawing pages to print, connect the dots, word scrambles, coloring pages and a few pages of things to do while studying plants, animals, weather and more. KiddONet - This is a kid-safe site that has lots of games and activities for kids 12 and under. In addition, it also has the Kiddonet browser. It allows kids to go only to the pre-selected sites or the sites that you put into the favorites section. It also lets you set up an e-mail address for them that only lets them receive mail from those you have put in their address book. Recipes, Produce, Coupons All Recipes - Thousands of recipes submitted by home cooks, searchable database and menu ideas Top Secret Recipes - Make brand-name products at home with common ingredients. New recipes every month. Recipe Goldmine - Over 21,000 recipes including ethnic cuisine, copycat recipes, kitchen charts, household hints, gardening U of A Fresh Produce List - Where and when to buy fresh produce The Frugal Shopper - Offline and online coupons, contests, warehouses, sales, free stuff News My LifeLine - Headlines from world news and Christian news, links to movie reviews, the stock market, Christian devotionals, and travel deals World Magazine - News Media Mentura - Rents high quality educational DVDs with valuable Learning Guides and family entertainment DVDs Plugged In - Entertainment reviews Screen It! - Movie reviews Movieguide - Movie reviews The Dove Foundation - Movie reviews Teens TeenPact - TeenPact equips teens to become leaders in politics and society Getting into College Collegeboard ACT® Arizona State University Freshman Requirements Arizona State University Competency Requirements These sites have information on all standardized college entrance exams, exams for college credit, general entrance and competency requirements for Arizona universities, and preparing for and applying to college. (SAT® I, SAT® II, PSAT/NMSQT®, AP®, CLEP®, ACT®) Online College Network (OCN) - Through a new program called Online College Network (OCN), homeschool students can gain the attention of recruiters from colleges and universities all across the country. Students complete a secure online resume and colleges pay to view the accomplishments of students. Available only to HSLDA members at this time. The required password is available through the HSLDA Members Only page. These links are for information only and do not necessarily reflect the views of Veritas Homeschoolers.