Home Schooling

A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling – Indiana Homeschooling

BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT (EPL subscribes to this) [ View Description ]This comprehensive online biographical reference database offers information on famous people in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers. This database contains the content of many of Gale’s print products, including Contemporary Authors.

Books4Homeschool

Christ-Centered Homeschool Webring

Colleges that Admit Homeschoolers

Elkhart Area Christian Home Educators

GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA (EPL subscribes to this) [ View Description ]This database boasts over 40,000 quick-reference articles, news stories, timelines, and over 7,500 photographs and illustrations. It is aimed at the Middle School and High School user. This database can also be accessed remotely (from home or work) using an Elkhart Public Library Card.

Home Schooling Info at Crosswalk.com (Christian centered)

Homeschool Organizations

Homeschool World

IHEN.org – Helping Hoosiers Homeschool (Indiana Home Educators’ Network)

Indiana Association of Home Educators

Indiana Department of Education – Home Schooling Information

Indiana Foundation for Home Schooling

Indiana Home School Help Sheet

Jon s Homeschool Resource Page

Learn in Freedom

Learning to Give – lesson plans & resources [ View Description ]For parents, students, teachers, youth workers, faith groups, and independent schools. Offers lesson plans and resources to teach giving and volunteerism, civic engagement, and character through service learning.

LITFINDER (EPL subscribes to this) [ View Description ]International in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

MANGO LANGUAGES (EPL subscribes to this) [ View Description ]Want to learn a foreign language? Mango may be the answer! This database offers two types of learning experiences: Mango Basic and Mango Complete. Not all languages are offered in both formats. Mango now offers 22 foreign languages including Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, and Hindi. They also offer ESL courses for speakers of 14 different languages. These include: Spanish (Latin American) Portuguese (Brazil), French, Russian, Chinese (for both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers), Dutch, and Greek. More languages may be found on the website.

NOVELIST (EPL subscribes to this) [ View Description ]With well over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, lists of award-winning books, book discussion guides, BookTalks, recommended reading lists and more; NoveList Plus is a complete readers’ resource. It contains materials for kids, teens and adults. This database is accessible from the Main Library, all Branch locations and can also be accessed remotely using an Elkhart Public Library Card.

Read Write Think – Classroom Resources

Starfall: Learn to Read with phonics

TeacherTube – online instructional videos [ View Description ]Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.