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Course Hero

This post is part of our series on our favorite homeschool resources.

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Shakespeare led me to Course Hero.

Course Hero is an online learning platform where you can access over 30 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of students and educators. You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying — from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to psychology, and everything in between. We help you quickly find what you need so you can learn deeply.

This is a robust description, and I have not yet had an opportunity to fully explore all the resources available on the site. I have the free basic membership. This gives me access to their Literature Study Guides which I use for Shakespeare.

How I use these guides

I will use Richard II, our current play, to walk you through how I use these guides. [Read more…] about Course Hero

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National Geographic Mapmaker 1-Page Maps

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This post is part of our series on our favorite homeschool resources.

National Geographic Mapmaker 1-Page Maps is my favorite map resource. I predominantly use it for geography and history, but I occasionally print out maps for other subjects as geography plays a natural role in almost all areas.

Mapmaker allows you to create customized world, continent, and country maps. For the US, Mexico, and Canada, you can also make state and province maps. [Read more…] about National Geographic Mapmaker 1-Page Maps

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Freegal

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This post is part of our series on our favorite homeschool resources.

Do you know about Freegal?

Freegal® is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number and possibly a PIN if your library utilizes them. Freegal offers access to about 15 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists, and over 40,000 music videos. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 40,000 labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing libraries. (FAQ)

Our library allows us to download 5 songs per library card per week, and the downloads are ours to keep. What do we use Freegal for in our homeschooling? [Read more…] about Freegal