Internet Sites

The Internet is full of great sites on every topic. Here are a few of our favourite websites:

• Canada Info
  500 pages of information about Canada. Includes government, history, geography, etc.
  www.craigmarlatt.com/​canada
  
  
• Cathy Duffy Reviews
  They have reviews of a large number home schooling curriculum, books, kits, etc.
  cathyduffyreviews.com
  
  
• Duolingo
  Learn a language for free.
  www.duolingo.com
  
  
• Homeschool.com
  A major home schooling site.
  www.homeschool.com
  
  
• Homeschool-guide.com
  Lots of teaching tips and articles.
  www.homeschool-guide.com
  
  
• Project Gutenberg - Free Books
  Over 20,000 free books, with complete text. These great books are out of copyright, and are free for you to download and read. Titles include books like Tom Sawyer (and other Mark Twain books), the works of Plato, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne, Adventures Of Pinocchio, and many more.
  www.gutenberg.org
  
  
• Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids
  This site has detailed instructions to build simple electric motors, steam boats, vacuum pump, spectroscope, kaleidocycle, and more.
  www.scitoys.com
  
  
• Stellarium - Planatarium Program
  Get this free planetarium program for your computer. It's great for studying astronomy.
  www.stellarium.org
  
  
• Temperatures in Calgary - What Is the Usual Temperature in Calgary?
  A graph of the average high and low temperature, and the maximum high's and low's ever recorded, for each month.
  www.calgaryhomeschool.com/​temperature.shtml
  
  
• The Alberta Home Education Association (AHEA)
  AHEA is a Christian home schooling group for all of Alberta, that focuses exclusively on traditional home schooling (they don't support major traditional home schooling providers, if they also provide any other types of home schooling support, such as blended or aligned). They have a conference each year in Red Deer, that has lots of vendors that provide exclusively traditional home schooling materials. They also lobby the Alberta Government on matters that affect traditional home schooling.
  www.aheaonline.com
  
  
• Worksheet Works.com
  If you want worksheets for your child, check this site out.
  www.worksheetworks.com
  

Because there are so many great home schooling websites, and more coming online all the time, make sure you search Google or other search engines, for any topic you can think of from worksheets, to snowflakes, to dyslexia. There are so many sites on every topic I can imagine.