Resources

This is a partial list of contacts and groups in Arizona and nationwide. If you would like your group added here, please email the information you would like included to: webmaster@hena.us 

County Superintendent Office
To homeschool in the State of Arizona, you must submit the Home School Affidavit of Intent Form to your local county superintendent's office when your child is 6 years of age. Failure to do so is a misdemeanor.

Guidelines for Home Schools in Maricopa County: 
http://www.maricopa.gov/schools/homeschool/hsresources.aspx

Links to other county offices in Arizona:
http://www.ade.state.az.us/counties.asp

Fun Activities

Arizona State Fair - http://www.azstatefair.com/

Arizona Science and Engineering Fair -
http://azsef.asu.edu/

Field Trips to Phoenix Metro Events -
http://www.theparsonsfamily.com/fieldtrips.htm

Tandy Leather Factory - fun activities - local stores in Tucson and Phoenix areas
http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/

American Heritage Festival at Schnepf Farms, Queen Creek, AZ -
http://www.americanheritagefestival.com/

Halloween Festival, Pick your own and other great activities at Schnepf Farms, Queen Creek, AZ

http://cals.arizona.edu/arizonawet/about.html

Arizona Game and Fish Educational Activities

There are many  great things to do in the Phoenix Metro Area. http://www.visitphoenix.com/

There are great things throughout Arizona as well. Please send your suggestions to webmaster@hena.us  Thanks!

On-line Homeschooling Resources

There is a wealth of homeschooling and learning resources online. Some of the links in the support groups are online and some have an online and in person component. Local groups are listed on that page. National groups are listed here.

National Home Education Network www.nhen.org

National Home Education Legal Defense - www.nheld.com

AHA Information Page
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/info.html 

Home Educators Resource Directory - A fabulous, user friendly site filled with worldwide comprehensive resources for the home educator.

Free Classical Curriculum - www.theexaminedlife.org

Unschooling Site - http://www.unschooling.com/library/faq/index.shtml -explains unschooling.

John Holt - http://www.holtgws.com/index.html, author of "Growing without Schooling"

John Taylor Gatto - http://johntaylorgatto.com, author of "Dumbing Us Down" NY teacher talks about his 20 years of teaching public schools.

Home Education Magazine Online: www.home-ed-magazine.com

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/methods/Unschooling.htm by Ann Zeise

Discussion Groups About Education Reform and Home-Schooling
by Karl Bunday. learninfreedom.org/discussiongroups.html

Homeschool Central www.homeschoolcentral.com

Nurturing Our Spirited Children
http://www.nurturingourfamilies.com/spirited/index.html

Unschooling Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling 

Unschooling.com http://www.unschooling.com
(See "Library" & "Message Boards")

Life Learning Magazine's seven year legacy of inspiring articles about unschooling continues online. By popular demand, we are now offering the magazine online in PDF six times a year. Subscriptions include access to the complete archive of back issues. Subscription details are here: http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/subscribe/index.html 

Car Talk Guys:
Education: The Learning of Skills We Will Never Need?
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/
The Education Forum
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/
The New Theory of Learning
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/r-rlast15.html
The Education Forum II
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/index2.html 

Autodidactic Press - http://www.autodidactic.com 

Libertarian Unschooling - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6529/index1.html 

Unschooling Undefined -
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UnschoolingUndefined.html 

Home's Cool A to Z -
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/methods/Unschooling.htm

Sandra Dodd - http://sandradodd.com/unschooling.html 

Joyce Fetteroll - www.joyfullyrejoycing.com 

Child-led Natural Learning - http://www.alternative-learning.org 

Delight-Driven Learning - http://home-educate.com/unschooling/index.shtml 

Family Unschoolers Network - http://www.fun-books.com 

The Natural Child Project -
http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/earl_stevens.html 

Alfie Kohn - http://www.alfiekohn.org

Books available at www.amazon.com

Life Media offers a number of unschooling books: http://www.NaturalLifeBooks.com

Variety of groups on  http://groups.yahoo.com/

Games/Art & Crafts:

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/index.htm

http://www.dltk-kids.com/

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html

http://www.crayola.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://funschool.kaboose.com/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/

http://www.primarygames.com/

Theme/Unit Based/General Studies:

http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home.html

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonalmonths/

http://www.learningplanet.com/

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/

http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexUnitStudies.html

http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/unitstudies.html (excellent resources)

http://cals.arizona.edu/arizonawet/about.html - Arizona Water Education

Preschool/Kindergarten:

http://www.kindergarten.com/login.php

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp1.htm

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/
butterfly/filefolderbutterfly.shtml

http://www.jc-schools.net/curr/CR35730.HTM (multiple grades)

http://www.eyepleezers.com/aaamath/ (multiple grades)

http://www.mothergoosecaboose.com/indexfr.html

http://storynory.com/

http://www.letteroftheweek.com/index.html

http://www.muddlepuddle.co.uk/index.htm

http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/readysetlearn/readysetlearn.html

1st/2nd Grade:

http://www.spellingtime.com

http://www.iknowthat.com/com

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm

Older Kids:

http://www.multiplication.com/

History:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/

http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/getting_started.htm

http://guardians.net/egypt/ (written in two languages-English is 2nd)

http://www.akhet.co.uk/clikmumm.htm

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/

Math:

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/

http://www.moneyinstructor.com/

http://themathworksheetsite.com/

http://www.themathlesson.com/

http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Math/Arithmetic/

http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/

Science:

http://library.thinkquest.org/10348/

http://www.vims.edu/bridge/six.html

http://kidshealth.org/kid/index.jsp

http://www.mos.org/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.chem4kids.com/

http://www.weather.com/

http://www.rigb.org/./registrationControl?action=home

Lesson Plans & Organization:

http://www.chartjungle.com/

http://www.donnayoung.org/

http://www.funlessonplans.com/free/printables.htm

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/gettingorganized/planner.php

Curriculum:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

http://www.montessorimaterials.org/

http://www.onlineworksheets.org/index.html

http://www.syvum.com/

http://www.usd261.com/ruth_clark/Ruth_Clark_Computer_%20Lab/Second_Third.htm

Worksheets:

http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx

http://www.schoolhousetech.com/basicfacts/default.aspx

http://www.tlsbooks.com/index.html

Resources:

http://www.homeschooldiner.com/

http://guest.portaportal.com/jocelynalmytesta

http://www.freewebs.com/myhomeschoolstuff/freehomeschoollinks.htm

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/home.htm

Homeschool Periodicals

Growing Without Schooling, 2380 Massachusetts Ave Suite 104, Cambridge, MA 02140-1226, (617) 864-3100, www.holtgws.com (Founded by John Holt, unschooling)

Connections E-zine - connections.organiclearning.org 

Live Free, Learn Free - http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/ 

Home Education Magazine, PO Box 1083, Tonasket, WA 98855, (509) 486-1351, www.home-ed-magazine.com, E-mail HEM@home-ed-magazine.com

Life Learning Magazine - www.lifelearningmagazine.com  - unschooling

Jewish Homeschoolers' Newsletter, J.H.E.N. c/o Lisa Hodge Kander, 2122 Houser, Holly NJ 48442

Al-Madrasayh Al-Ula, c/o MHSNR, PO Box 803, Attleboro MA 02703, E-mail MHSNR@aol.com (Muslim)

The Moore Report, Box 1, Camus, WA 98607 (Delayed academics, Christian)

Eclectic Homeschool, PO Box 736, Bellevue NE 68005-0736, E-mail Clayvessel@aol.com (Christian eclectic)

Family Learning Exchange, PO Box 5629, Lacey WA 98509; E-mail FmlyLrngEx@aol.com

Practical Homeschooling, PO Box 1250, Fenton MO 63026-1850; (800) 346-6322. E-mail PHSCustSvc@aol.com (strictly Christian)

The Teaching Home, Box 20219, Portland OR 97294, (503) 253-9633.

BOOKS

The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761501924 

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's
Classroom by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761512764 

Learning All the Time by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201550911 

How Children Learn by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484048 

How Children Fail by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484021 

Teach Your Own by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0738206946 

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525134379 

Moving a Puddle and Other Essays by Sandra Dodd
http://sandradodd.com/puddlebook 

Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child
Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy by
Naomi Aldort
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1887542329 

The Relaxed Home School: A Family Production by Mary Hood
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0963974009 

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life
& Education by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959170 

Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go To School by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959138 

The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self
by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677140 

The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 101 Most Important Questions
Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices
by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761535705 

Homeschooling Our Children; Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0965780627 

Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865713421 

Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life by Rue Kream
http://www.freechild.info/ 

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865714487 

A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
by Susanna Sheffer
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0867094052 

In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple
Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1585420514 

Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple
Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0452281377 

You're Smarter Than You Think: A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences
by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1575421135 

For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer MacAulay
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/089107290X 

Learning At Home: A Mother's Guide To Homeschooling by Marty Layne
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0968293824 

Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love
by David H. Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567513700 

Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567512321 

Better Late Than Early by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0883490498 

School Can Wait by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0842513140 

Coloring Outside the Lines by Roger Schank
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060930772

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As,
Praise & Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0618001816 

The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0972941606 

Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement
by John Holt, Susannah Sheffer
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677108 

The Day I Became an Autodidact by Kendall Hailey
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0440550130 

The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/080773750X 

Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0943914051 

Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/091367706X 

And the Children Played by Patricia Joudry
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0912766166 

With Consent: Parenting for All to Win by Jan Fortune-Wood
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1900219247 

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0714508799

Life Media offers a number of unschooling books: http://www.NaturalLifeBooks.com