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Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond | 
| Authors: Lauramaery Gold, Joan M. Zielinski
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 69986
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 504
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0761525130
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.042
UPC: 086874525139
EAN: 9780761525134
ASIN: 0761525130
Publication Date: August 3, 2000
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Product Description
For Families Who Want to Splurge on Education but Scrimp on Spending
Are you considering homeschooling your child, but don't know where to go for the best educational resources? The Internet is an open door to the biggest library/laboratory the world has ever seen—and it's all at your fingertips for free! This never-ending source of information, adventure, and educational experiences for the entire family is now compiled in a complete curriculum for any age in Homeschool Your Child for Free.
This invaluable guide to all the best in free educational material—from reading-readiness activities for preschoolers to science projects for teens—categorizes, reviews, and rates more than 1,200 of the most useful educational resources on the Internet and beyond. You'll discover:
Legal guidelines and compliance requirements for home educators
Complete curriculum plans for a comprehensive education, for preschool through high school
Online lesson plans arranged by subject, from American history to zoology
Teaching tips and motivators from successful homeschoolers
And much, much more!
"Wow! Everything I have been trying to organize—all in one book! This is going to be part of my resource library for the support group I lead. Thanks, ladies."—Kimberly Eckles, HIS Support Group Leader, Home Instructors
I'm impressed! There are more sites and links than I knew existed. A great resource for homeschoolers."—Maureen McCaffrey, publisher Homeschooling Today
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Waste of time and money December 31, 2008
I would just like to echo everyone else who said this book was a waste of time and money. I was also very excited to find this book, but found out very quickly what a joke it was! Almost none of the websites existed anymore, and the ones that do now require a paid membership. You would be better off just researching curricula and paying for those. I partly blame myself for wasting my time on this book. I should have looked at the copyright date, which is 2000. Anyone that knows the Web would know this is EXTREMELY outdated. I would have saved myself a lot of time had I just looked at that first. Thankfully, I was at least able to recoup what it cost by returning the book.
 Need New Edition September 19, 2008
The book is very beneficial for those who do not have much money to spend. It is very informative for the parents who are beginning to home school. The only problem I have with the book is that some of the links are outdated, and some the books recommended for free in the book by the US Department of Education are not in publication no more. To remedy both you can go to Internet Archive for some of the sites and for the books you can ask the US Department of Education for their website. Below is a link to the book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761525130/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title
 So-so as a homeschooling resource September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Good parents homeschool their children." So reads the first sentence of this book. I was a bit put off by that, knowing many good parents who send their children to public and private school. However, once I got past the blatantly erroneous educational view of the author, I found quite a few helpful hints and websites. Yes, I would say that I have found that 30-40% of the websites are no longer available, but the ones that are still working have some great information.
In addition to copious website listings, there are also suggestions gleaned from other homeschooling parents on ways to promote social interaction, civic-mindedness, appreciation of the arts, and physical activity.
The book would be better if all, or at least most, of the websites were current, but I have found the book to be somewhat helpful.
Outdated June 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This might have been a very helpful book at the time it was published, but it is outdated now and most of the web-sites no longer exist. It is just an exercise in futility, so please, don't waste your time or money.
 Out-of-date & cumbersome December 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book shortly after publication and even then a decent amount of websites were already outdated. Seven years later I picked up the book again to find almsot everything I was interested in was out-of-date as well. Seven years ago the book had a place but with the power of today's internet search engines this book is not needed. It's cumbersome to use as well, it's not always easy to copy the super huge URLs from the book to the computer.
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