Electives

Art:

Art Lessons: ($299 – complete set of the Artists and Their Art: Sharing Visual Stories. Includes Grades 1-8 (80 lessons total))
1st-8th Grade curriculum.  Artists and Their Art: Sharing Visual Stories, a tool to promote visual literacy through artwork. A bit pricey, but a good. Includes complete lessons (80 total), for grades 1-8.
https://www.debhermanart.com/complete-set-grades-1-8/complete-set

Art Notebooking Pages: (Free)
Curriculum for a year if you study one artist per month for a school year. This homeschool mom created created these wonderful notebooking pages (2 sets that are slightly different) to go along with the Art lessons above.

http://www.tinasdynamichomeschoolplus.com/art-units/

Arts and humanities (Free)
Are all about human creative expression, from designing jewelry to performing opera. It is a grand mixture of abstract academia and the mastery of creative hands-on skills. There are no boundaries on time, place, and subject matter — the only limitations are the knowledge, skill, and imagination of the human race. We challenge you to become one of those who opens new doors to human expression and the opportunity for others to enjoy it. Contents: Visual Arts & Design, Humanities, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Writing, Editing, and Publishing, Radio and Television Production.
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Resources/Topics/01ArtsHuman.asp

HODGEpodge Chalk Lessons (Free)
https://www.hodgepodge.me/category/hmscl/pttl/

Home Art Studio (Free to $)
Free art lessons available. This program is designed to increase students’ love and appreciation of the visual arts while enhancing a child’s ability to problem solve, think creatively, and truly see the world around them. Each grade is packed with lessons, art history, field trips and more! I encourage you to browse through each grade level, watch the FREE lessons, and choose what’s right for your child. Home Art Studio also has a growing online social community, where you can post your child’s artwork for a chance to be featured in our online gallery and meet other families enjoying the program! It is so important to include visual arts in a well-rounded education. The goal of this program is to teach every child how to express themselves creatively while also learning about art concepts and principles. So let’s get started – I can’t wait to be your child’s personal art teacher!
https://www.officialhomeartstudio.com/

Water Color Misfit ($)
Hi there! My name is Carrie and I’m a Watercolor Misfit! What’s a Watercolor Misfit? Well, anyone who is willing to try new things and not afraid to get their hands covered in paint! So what do you say, are you a Misfit-ian? Online Workshops and classes from beginner to advanced. Great for all ages. Work at your own pace. These workshops target key skills that you have to know in order to succeed at watercolor.
https://watercolormisfit.com/

Free colouring pages for adults

FREE Printable Coloring Pages for Big Kids and Grown-Ups

Business, Marketing, and Economics:

Business, Marketing, and Economics (Free)
For self-directed lifelong learners. It is certainly an exciting place for anyone contemplating or living out a habit of lifelong learning in business. Whether you are interested in office administration, accounting or bookkeeping, marketing and sales, economics, or business start-up and management, these lifelong learning resources offer fresh insights and opportunities. 
Business, Economics, Marketing, Advertising, and Sales, Accounting and Bookkeeping, Office Skills and Administrated.
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Navigation/Level01/Level02/02_02%20BusMarketEcon/Level_03/03_0200.asp

Foundation For Economic Education (FEE): (Free)
FREE Online Courses and In-Person Workshop Materials for Economics and Entrepreneurship

http://courses.fee.org/

My Own Business Institute (Free)
The world’s leading provider of FREE online education for entrepreneurs.

Our popular, FREE online courses teach new entrepreneurs how to start a business and experienced entrepreneurs how to grow a business. Through video, audio, and text, our online students learn how to pick a business, how to finance it, how to build clientele, and how to create a successful team. MOBI students come from all over the world and represent every kind of business imaginable.
https://www.scu.edu/mobi/business-courses/

SBA Learning Center (Free)
The SBA offers a variety of online courses to help you start and run your business.
https://www.sba.gov/learning-center

Computer Science & IT:

Codecademy (Free-$)
Codecademy is an education company. But not one in the way you might think. We’re committed to building the best learning experience inside and out, making Codecademy the best place for our team to learn, teach, and create the online learning experience of the future. From building websites to analyzing data, the choice is yours. Not sure where to start? We’ll point you in the right direction. No matter your experience level, you’ll be writing real, working code in minutes. 
https://www.codecademy.com/

Computer Science & IT Learning Library (Free)
“The Holy Grail of computer science is to capture the messy complexity of the natural world and express it algorithmically.” — Teresa Marrin Nakra. “Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information.” — Wikipedia. There is a mix of links and learning material on this page. Be sure to explore it all … you might come across a gem of an idea that changes your thinking. Software Technology, Computer Programming, Operating Systems, Database Operations, Information and Communications Technology, Web Scripting and Design, Computer Networking, Digital Communications, Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Human-Computer Interface, Game Design and Animation, Virtual Reality.
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Navigation/Level01/Level02/02_04%20CompSciInfoTech/Level03/03_0400.asp

 

Digital Photography:

Course by Stanford Professor Mark Levoy (Free)
An introduction to the scientific, artistic, and computing aspects of digital photography. Topics include lenses and optics, light and sensors, optical effects in nature, perspective and depth of field, sampling and noise, the camera as a computing platform, image processing and editing, and computational photography. We will also survey the history of photography, look at the work of famous photographers, and talk about composing strong photographs.
Free photography course

Foreign Language:

ASLU American Sign Language University (Free)
ASL is a visual gestural language. That means it is a language that is expressed through the hands and face and is perceived through the eyes. It isn’t just waving your hands in the air. If you furrow your eyebrows, tilt your head, glance in a certain direction, lean your body a certain way, puff your cheek, or any number of other “inflections” –you are adding or changing meaning in ASL. A “visual gestural” language carries just as much information as any spoken language. There is much more to learning American Sign Language than just memorizing signs. ASL has its own grammar, culture, history, terminology and other unique characteristics. It takes time and effort to become a “skilled signer.” But you have to start somewhere if you are going to get anywhere–so dive in and enjoy.
https://www.lifeprint.com

Duolingo (Free)
Lessons adapt to your learning style. Exercises are tailored to help you learn and review vocabulary effectively. Duolingo works. A study has shown that 34 hours of Duolingo are equal to 1 university semester of language courses.
https://www.duolingo.com/

Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids® ($)
Spanish. Many of the foreign language programs on the market were for adults, and are now packaged and sold to the homeschool community. Foreign Languages for Kids is different. Our program was created to give parents like you a fun and easy way for their children to learn Spanish. Have you been frustrated by the other programs you’ve tried, or while looking for a program that is fun and engaging? That’s how our founder Kit Strauss found when she was looking for quality foreign language products for her children. So, she created her own! Our video series incorporates a teaching style that Kit developed over a decade with her own children.  This means our program offers hands-on games, learning activities, colorful workbooks with easy to implement teaching ideas, and much more.  Painful memorization is not useful or fun and is NOT a part of our program.

https://www.foreignlanguagesforkids.com/homeschools-and-individuals/

Learning the Days of the Week in Spanish (Free)
In this pack, you’ll find flashcards for the days of the week in both English and Spanish, as well as a blank set for quizzes and a pronunciation key to help your kids learn how to say the words correctly. If you like, you might want to print two sets of cards so that you can have your kids match them up, play concentration, or quiz each other!
https://www.yearroundhomeschooling.com/learning-days-week-spanish/

Spanish for You ($)
Spanish Curriculum for Elementary School, Middle School, and Homeschool Grades 3-8. Spanish for You! is a Spanish curriculum that provides a way for anyone to implement an effective elementary or middle school Spanish program in the home, classroom, or homeschool co-op easily and affordably. This Spanish curriculum allows teachers and parents to teach the same material to students of multiple ages and experience. Unlike most Spanish programs that build on previous levels, each one of our school-year long themed packages can be used independently and does not require the student to have previous Spanish experience. Spanish for You! is a fun approach to learning Spanish that is simple, effective, and affordable!
https://spanish-for-you.net/

 

Health:

Boys and Puberty (Free)

Girls and Puberty (Free)

Health for Kids (Free)

Online First Aid, CPR and AED Courses (Free)

 

Home Economics:

Cheat Sheets for the Kitchen (Free)
A collection of handy & helpful cheat sheets for the kitchen
https://princesspinkygirl.com/kitchen-cheat-sheet/2/

Home Economics Kitchen Skills (Free)
Christian Author, may have some Biblical principles. This course is designed to help you with the basics of the kitchen and lessons in simple cooking. It is designed with 16 units and over 60 hours of instruction both online and in lab work. It can be counted towards a half credit hour in home economics. You can move along at your own speed, completing lessons in sequential order at your convenience. If necessary you can receive a final grading and evaluation for your records upon completion.
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/home-economics-kitchen-skills-intro-test-page/
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/kitchen-skills-main-page/

Home Economics Course for GUYS: Life Skills for Young Men (Free)
Christian Author, may have some Biblical principles. We all want to see our boys do more than just sit and play video games right?? This course goes through and teaches them some real life skills that they will need to know to further themselves in life from the basic to the complex. It covers a lot of ground from personal grooming all the way to survival skills.
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/new-home-economics-course-for-guys/

Household and Personal Management Skills Course intro (Free)
Christian Author, may have some Biblical principles. This course is designed to help you with the basics of personal and household skills. It is designed with 18 units and over 60 hours of instruction both online and in lab work. It can be counted towards a half credit hour in home economics. You can move along at your own speed, completing lessons in sequential order at your convenience. If necessary, you can receive a final grading and evaluation for your records upon completion.
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/household-and-personal-management-skills-course-intro/
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/home-economics-household-and-personal-skills/

Hospitality and Human Services
Hotel and Resort Management, Travel & Tourism, All Things Culinary, Cosmetology, Funeral Service & Mortuary Science
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Navigation/Level01/Level02/02_10%20HospHumServ/Level03/03_1000.asp

 

Music:

Classics for Kids® (Free)
Helps you learn about classical music and have fun too!
Naomi Lewin brings classical music’s great composers to life through music and stories. Find Classics for Kids on the radiolisten to our podcast or listen to the programs online. Have fun online with classical music games.
In the classroom: Classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.
https://www.classicsforkids.com/

 

Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel (Free)
Jack has made over 45 albums for children with over 1,000 super fun and movement songs for children. Songs for kids and educational videos that will help your children learn counting, numbers, reading and language skills, nursery rhymes, science, physical fitness, dance and movement. Children actively participate in all the learning with lots of movement and fun. These songs for kids have a tremendous diversity of musical styles from pop, Hip-Hop, Latin, country and rock. Jack Hartmann is a 2016 Parents’ Choice Approved Award Winner for the CD, Brain Breaks. These songs for kids are based on curriculum and brain research. 
https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann/featured

 

Piano Wizard Academy™ (Free 30 day trial then $$)
Program combines the genius of our Piano Wizard® software with our tutorial Videos and Sheet Music lessons. Our revolutionary 5-step method can teach anyone to play the piano and read music fast and painlessly. We put training wheels on the piano! Our method “reverses” the process, teaching music the way we naturally learn a language (after all, music IS a language). Now combine our revolutionary software with the power of fun online piano lessons and sheet music and you’ll play REAL MUSIC even if you know NOTHING about music – (even toddlers can). ZERO notation required. And the whole family can play! Expandable with downloadable “MIDI files” making it a music learning system for life.
https://www.pianowizardacademy.com/

 

Skilled Trades:

Automotive Systems (Free)
Often the maintenance needed on an automotive system requires a lot of knowledge and very little physical effort. This is the kind of repair work that separates the good mechanics from the bad ones very quickly. Without the proper knowledge, mechanics may work for hours before they correct a simple problem. Sometimes they may never get an engine running correctly. A good mechanic that understands engines can repair one in a few minutes. This course is written with the intention of starting you on the correct road to becoming a good auto mechanic. In it we describe the different parts of the automotive system and how they operate together to make the system run the way it should.
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Courses/15%20Transportation/AutomotiveSystems.asp

Building & Carpentry Learning Library (Free)
Tools for the Building and Carpentry Trades. This course describes many of the most common tools used by builders and carpenters. Their uses, general characteristics, attachments, and safety and operating features, including maintenance, are outlined. Carpentry Materials and Methods, Rough Carpentry, Finish Carpentry, Finishes, Moisture Protection, Masonry Construction (Basic), Masonry Construction (Advanced), Concrete Construction (Basic), Concrete Construction (Advanced), Properties and Uses of Metal (Advanced), Layout and Fabrication of Structural Steel and Pipe (Advanced), Fabrication and Placement of Reinforcing Steel (Advanced)
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/SkilledTrades/BuildCarp/default.asp

Manufacturing & Industry (Free)
Basic Skills: Manufacturing, Production Processes, Machine Tools, Robotics & Numerical Controls
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Navigation/Level01/Level02/02_16%20MfgIndust/03_1600.asp

Master Catalog of Skilled-Trade Learning Resources (Free)
Core Topics, Automotive, Aviation, Building and Carpentry, Civil Engineering Technology, Electrical, Fluid Power, HVAC-R, Plumbing, Welding
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/SkilledTrades/CatSkillTrades.asp

Nursing and Allied Health (Free)
Core Studies, Nursing and Medical Assisting, Introductory Nursing and Medical Assisting, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Allied Health Technologies, Medical Office: Records and Administration, Health and Human Performance, Health Administration and Management, Medical Law & Ethics
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Navigation/Level01/Level02/02_06%20MedHealth/Level03/03_0600.asp

Welding (Free)
Welding is the most common way of permanently joining metal parts. In this process, heat is applied to metal pieces, melting and fusing them to form a permanent bond. Because of its strength, welding is used in shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing and repair, aerospace applications, and thousands of other manufacturing activities. Welding also is used to join steel beams in the construction of buildings, bridges, and other structures and to join pipes in pipelines, power plants, and refineries.
https://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/courses/05%20building%20and%20contruction/050205%20welding/welding00.asp

Welding Manuals (Free)
Introduction to Types and Identification of Metals, Basic Heat Treatment, Introduction to Welding, Gas Cutting, Gas Welding, Soldering, Brazing, Braze Welding, and Wearfacing, Plasma Arc Cutting, Shielded Metal Arc Welding-SMAW, Gas-Tungsten Arc Welding-GTAW (TIG), Gas-Metal Arc Welding-GMAW, Flux Core Arc Welding-FCAW, Aircraft Welding
https://waybuilder.net/free-ed/SkilledTrades/Welding/default.asp