Marz … you have your work cut out for you… bwahahahaha! ;)

Biology

• Rader’s Biology4Kids … a very nice start to cover the basics of Biology. The site has information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics. (Check out the full list of their bio core topics here.)
• High School Biology @ Khan Academy … get started on the prep page and move on to AP Biology too!
• Fuse School … I think it is a work in progress, but it has lots of resources and is very very promising with videos and all sorts of info for everything you learn at school!
• The Biology Corner
• MIT OpenCourseware Biology courses… It’s MIT, yo! Are you suitable impressed? I am ;)
• Wikiversity’s High School Biology … lots more resources here
• Interactive Biology – high school biology lecture videos. There are also Physiology and Anatomy videos.
• Learner’s TV … High School Biology Video Lectures, Video Courses, Science Animations, Lecture Notes, Online Test, Lecture Presentations. Absolutely FREE. More here.
• ALISON – Free online Biology course … ALISON hosts over 750 courses with a wide range of subject categories.

Chemistry

• Rader’s Chemistry4Kids … good introduction to Chemistry… Rader’s has information on matter, atoms, elements, the periodic table, reactions, and biochemistry.
• Khan Academy’s Chemistry Page … Check out the prep page to get started and also move on to AP Chemistry and Organic Chemistry
• Fuse School’s Chemistry… videos and notes, people! Check them out!
• Learners TV Chemistry Video Lectures
• ALISON – free Chemistry course … a wealth of courses – something for everyone!
• MIT’s OpenCourseWare Chemistry Courses

Physics

• Rader’s Physics4Kids … with information on motion, heat and thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism, light, and modern physics topics. If you are interested in Astronomy, check out Cosmos4Kids.
• Khan Academy’s Physics Course … get started here
• Learners TV free Physics video lectures
• MIT’s OpenCourseWare Physics Courses
• ALISON – free Physics course … and with Engineering courses here.

OK… you guys are going to love this…

CK-12 Foundation FlexBooks

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook,” CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

What’s that all mean, you ask? In a word: free books! (Ok, two words!) As CK-12 puts it:

Traditional textbooks are both expensive and rigid. FlexBooks conform to national and state textbook standards. They are free, easy to update and easy to customize. With FlexBooks, you can customize your textbooks to support your innovative work in the classroom. The CK-12 Foundation provides FlexBooks free to anyone who wants to use them.

You can download these FlexBooks (PDF, iPad and Kindle). Create an account at CK-12 and you can create your own FlexBook by dragging and dropping chapters that you want before saving and printing.

Totally awesome and totally free.

OK fans and friends – and there are what… all of 2 of you? :P – here is another homeschooling freebie I dug out of the WWW.

FOSS (Full Option Science System) is a research-based science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley. It is also an ongoing research project dedicated to improving the learning and teaching of science.

The FOSS project began over 20 years ago during a time of growing concern that our nation was not providing young students with an adequate science education. The FOSS program materials are designed to meet the challenge of providing meaningful science education for all students in diverse American classrooms and to prepare them for life in the 21st century. Development of the FOSS program was, and continues to be, guided by advances in the understanding of how youngsters think and learn.

There are interactive activities for kids and teacher resources for grades K-2, grades 3-6 and middle school. There is also a Science Notebook Folio with suggestions for getting started with notebooks plus ideas for deepening student understanding through the use of science notebooks.

I have absolutely no business looking at more home-ed materials, free or otherwise, when I have my books threatening a coup d’etat to expel me out of hearth and home, but I have a tough time trying to determine if you can have enough of a good thing :)

Now, this site is very very cool! A group of scientists from the University of Nottingham are determined to show students that “chemistry is more interesting than you thought”! In their own words, “We perform experiments, tell you amazing stories and go on roadtrips to places which are important in the world of chemistry.”

The Periodic Table of Videos features a series of videos about all the elements on the periodic table, plus others about chemistry. I wish I had that professor with the mad hairdo teaching me Chemistry! You can access the videos on their website by clicking on the elements or head over to their Youtube Channel. You can also follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles, and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation’s premiere “citizen science” project for children. The general public is welcome to participate.

It’s just GORGEOUS! Go read!