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Homeschool Resources

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Online Classes and Resources (most are free)
Resources available through North Country Library System - all you need is a library card
Kanopy
Libby (from OverDrive) provides downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. You can read and listen right in your browser or download the Libby app to get started!
Mango Language
Universal Class Over 500 continuing education classes are online and available for FREE to patrons of North Country libraries. The classes meet online, at your convenience, with a real instructor.

Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We've also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
Explii- What Would You Like to Learn Today?
Discover multiple voices for each topic so that you can learn in your own style. Are we missing your favorite? You can even add your own.Jump into Explii for a guided journey through the precise problems that will take you to your aha moment in any subject.
PBS Kids

Coding for Kids
CK-12
Wide Open School -
Wide Open School helps families and educators find trusted resources to enrich and support distance learning.
HomeSchool Mom - For almost two decades, TheHomeSchoolMom has been a guide to the best homeschool resources available online.
Julia Brave Writer
Math4Children
Outschool - Live Online Classes and Clubs
Explore any interest over live video chat! Discover fun, social, and safe learning experiences for kids ages 3-18 led by passionate teachers. Classes from $10.
Prodigy
Typing 
Scholastic
Art Classes - list of free online classes
EdX | Online courses from the world's best universities
Access more than 1900 online courses from 100+ leading institutions including Harvard, MIT, Microsoft, and more.
Udacity- online courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Built with industry leaders.
Udemy-Udemy over 100000 courses and 24 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more.

Ecosystem for Kids - Interactive science diagrams for kids
Living Environment Labs - Youtube
Living Environment Labs - Teacher Pay Teachers

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Video
Crash Course(Youtube)
- Amazing short videos courses on everything from Artificial Intelligence to World History
YouTube Crash Course Video Channel -Free, high-quality educational videos used by teachers and learners of all kinds.
These are the series you can currently find on our channel: Chemistry, World History, Biology, Ecology, US History, Psychology, Big History, Literature, Anatomy and Physiology, Astronomy, Intellectual Property, U.S. Government & Politics, Economics, Philosophy, Physics, Games, World Mythology, Sociology, Computer Science, Film Studies, Statistics, Theater, Media Literacy, Study Skills, History of Science, and Engineering.
Schoolhouse Rock

Storyline
YouTube is an amazing resource. Your child can find anything they want to learn about.
Don’t forget - traditional books are always a great resource for pleasure or research.

Virtual Tours
Collection of Museum Tours

Frida Kahlo Museum
Virtual Field Trips
Mount Vernon
The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Zoo Tours

Film
Documentaries

Indigenous Films
Netflix
Global Oneness Project
Films for Justice
Critical Media Project

Global Oneness Stories and Videos - a collection of uplifting stories and short movies
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Apps
Audible - audio books

NY Public Library - Reading app
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Google searches are also a valid way to explore ideas or seek out specific information.
Deep Root Center Digital Homeschool Guide
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Deep Root Center Presentation
Homeschool Guides
NYSED Homeschool Q+A 

Simple Homeschool
Unschooling Mom2Mom
Apps for Special Needs
​https://www.educatorstechnology.com/.../a-handy-chart…
Dyslexia
  • Lexico: A Dyslexia Reading Aid: A distraction-free reading app designed to support readers with dyslexia and learning challenge
  • Dyslexia Test: A quick screening tool to identify reading difficulties and suggest personalized learning plans.
  • ABC Magic Phonics 5: A fun phonics app that helps kids connect letter sounds to words.
  • Reading for All Learners: A phonics-based reading app with decodable books for beginning and struggling readers.
  • Learning Ally Audiobooks: A human-read audiobook app designed for students with reading difficulties like dyslexia.
  • Word Wizard for Kids: A talking spelling and phonics app that helps kids build words, read, and spell independently.
  • Play ABC Alfie Atkins: A playful app that helps kids learn letters, sounds, and spelling through creative activities.
  • Dyslexia Screening Test App: A quick and detailed screening tool to identify signs of dyslexia in kids and adults.
  • DocLexi: Learn to Read and Spell: A fun, game-based app that helps kids improve reading, spelling, and early literacy skills.
ASD
  • Speech Blubs: Language Therapy: A speech therapy app using video modeling and fun activities to boost kids’ language skills.
  • Miogym: Speech Therapy: A fun speech and language app with interactive exercises, puzzles, and games for young kids.
  • LAMP Words For Life : A powerful AAC app that helps nonverbal users communicate using motor-based learning.
  • Proloquo2Go AAC: A customizable AAC app that helps nonverbal users communicate using symbols, text, and voice.
  • Kids Autism Games – AutiSpark: A learning app with games and activities designed to support kids with autism in building essential skills.
  • Wonster Words Learning Games: A fun phonics and spelling game that helps kids build reading skills through puzzles and play.
  • Leeloo AAC – Autism Speech App: A simple communication app designed to help nonverbal kids express their needs using visual cards and voice output.
  • Keiki Learning games for Kids: An early learning app with interactive games, puzzles, and activities designed to teach toddlers letters, numbers, shapes, and more through play.
  • Otsimo | Special Education AAC: An award-winning app offering personalized learning games and social stories designed for children with autism and special needs.
  • Card Talk: A simple and free communication app using visual cards to support nonverbal children and language learners in expressing their needs and emotions.
  • Avaz AAC: A powerful and customizable communication app designed to help nonverbal individuals express themselves using pictures, text, and voice output.
Visually Impaired
  • TapTapSee: A simple camera app designed for blind and visually impaired users to identify objects by taking a photo and hearing the description read aloud.
  • BlindSquare: A navigation app designed for blind and visually impaired users, helping them explore and navigate both outdoor and indoor spaces independently using spoken information.
  • Be My Eyes: A free app that connects blind and low-vision users with volunteers or AI assistants for visual help through live video or image description.
  • Seeing AI: A free talking camera app from Microsoft that helps blind and low-vision users read text, recognize people, identify objects, and explore their surroundings using AI.
  • myopia.app: A free eye protection app designed by scientists and optometrists to prevent myopia. Tracks screen time, viewing distance, and light exposure for you and your family.
  • Sullivan+: It reads text, describes scenes, recognizes faces, detects colors, checks light brightness, and works as a magnifier.
  • Envision AI: An app for blind and low vision users. It reads text, describes scenes, detects objects, recognizes faces, and scans barcodes using your phone’s camera.
  • Braille Academy: Play & Learn: Helps users learn and practice Braille through interactive games, quizzes, and challenges. It covers letters, numbers, symbols, and contractions. The app works offline and offers certificates for progress.
Misc.
Lego Building Prompts
How Drawing Helps You Think - TedX - Talk
Science Experiments
Nature Journal
Indigenous Acknowledgment
Native land App



SDE Resources

There are multiple organizations and resources available for folks who are interested in learning more about self-directed learning or unschooling.  We will be continually adding to this list of links and books as we find them.
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Links:
Liberated Learner Network
The Alliance for Self-Directed Learning

Naomi Fisher - Teen Burnout YouTube
From the Alliance for Self-Directed Learning -  A TedX  by Zakiyya Ismail
Fairtest
AERO   
Sir Ken Robinson - Ted Talk
Sugata Mitra - Ted Talk
North Star Blog

Princeton Learning Cooperative Blog

Class Dismissed- Film Documentary
Self-Taught - Film Documentary

Khan Academy - free class resource 
Logan LaPlante - Ted Talk
Peter Gray Blog
Peter Gray - Play Makes Us Human SubStack - subscribe
Dr. Naomi Fisher
Kerry McDonald - podcast
Going Natural in Education - Lora Smothers - Ted Talk
Books:
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom by Kerry McDonald
College Without Highschool by Blake Boles
The Art of Self-Directed Learning by Blake Boles
Free to Learn by Peter Grey
Wounded by School by Kirsten Olson
Learning is Natural. School is Optional. by Ken Danford (Co-founder of North Star)
Teacher Liberation Handbok by Joel Hammon
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

Making it up as We Go Along by Chris Mercagliano 
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton Warner
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Summerhill by AS Neil
Feel Bad Education by Alfie Kohn
​How Children Learn and Teach your Own by John Holt


*These books are available in most bookstores.  Deep Root Center does not endorse Amazon.  These are simply the links available for you to view the books.

*We also have several of these on our shelves if you are interested in borrowing any of them.

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