Here are some curriculum based resources that families have found helpful for developing their home school program. You may find some useful, and other not – depending on your child’s needs and learning style
Canadian Home School Resources is a wonderful website and they have a physical location in Calgary that you can go in and look at curriculums that you are interested in. They are very helpful and can assist you in finding the curriculum that is best for your child.
https://www.canadianhomeeducation.com/
The Natural Learning Centre has grade based ready to use units for social studies, science and health. These units are easy to use and cover all the topics in the Alberta Program of Studies
http://www.thenaturallearningcentre.org/curriculum-topics.html
The Florida Centre for Reading Research has an excellent early literacy program. It is research based, and best of all it is free. There are many resources on this website and is worth a look at if you have primary school aged children
https://fcrr.org
Crash Course is a You Tube based program that teaches science and history based lessons. They are short lessons that kids enjoy. The lessons can be used to supplement the curriculum you are teaching, or some kids just enjoy exploring and learning (letting their interests guide them). There is also Crash Course for Kids.
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
https://thecrashcourse.com/
Jump Math is strong basic math program. It is structured and sequential. It also follows the curriculum closely. It is best to use the two workbooks for each grade (ex 7.1 / 7.2) rather than the at home homework guides. Often these books can be found online or at Chapters.
https://jumpmath.org/jump/en/homeschoolers
Alberta Education has a list of approved novels for grades 4-12. Here is the link if you would like to view the novel selections and their summaries
https://open.alberta.ca/publications/0778537994
K5 Learning has a variety of grade level worksheet arranged by topic that are free and can be printed off to provide extra practice for your child. There are math, literacy, vocabulary, and science worksheets that can be printed off.
https://www.k5learning.com/free-worksheets-for-kids
Prodigy Math is a good supplemental resource if your child enjoys game-based learning. It does an initial screening to determine level of difficulty and then helps the student develop skills. Many students enjoy this – it is a free program. You can pay for an upgrade – but most find there is enough content without this.
https://www.prodigygame.com/
Scratch is an excellent program for students who are interested in learning about coding and it helps to build logic and problem-solving skills. This is a free program.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
Khan Academy is an excellent program for primary through post-secondary levels. It provides video based lessons and then practice questions. Topics are broken down by grade, and within each topic there are various levels of difficulty. This is a free program
https://www.khanacademy.org/math
The Good and the Beautiful is an integrated program. This is a faith-based program that can be purchased or downloaded for free.
https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/
There are a few online learning platforms that parents like to use to provide curriculum to their children. Some use the programs for one course – others for an entire program. Here are they are in no particular order (these are programs that our families have found useful)
