Florida Homeschool Resource
Build a strong Florida homeschool week with verified no-cost and low-cost courses, curriculum, library tools, STEM, history, literature, outdoor learning, local programs, and a practical resource-selection plan.
Parent-curated source desk
Start with Florida-owned services, then fill subject and enrichment needs with established nonprofit and public sources. Each entry explains what it is useful for, what access may require, and what to verify before building it into your plan.
Find courses, standards-connected tutorials, research databases, librarians, parks, libraries, and county Extension programs.
Open the Florida source desk →Compare no-cost practice, textbooks, educational media, and classic literature without buying a full curriculum first.
Browse core-subject tools →Use primary sources, museum objects, science missions, and document activities to turn interests into deeper study.
Explore discovery resources →See one simple way to combine these sources into a balanced week without opening twenty unrelated tabs.
Use the sample plan →Florida-owned and Florida-connected
These sources connect directly to Florida courses, standards, libraries, parks, research services, and local education programs. Access conditions differ, so check the source before promising a course, credential, database, or event to a student.
Explore K–12 online courses with certified teachers and year-round flexible enrollment. Registered home-education students remain responsible for district registration, records, and annual evaluation. Scholarship recipients follow a different registration and payment path, so read the current instructions before enrolling.
Review the official homeschool path →Search Florida-connected interactive tutorials in math, science, language arts, social studies, civics, financial literacy, and more. CPALMS is Florida's official standards and course-description source, but public, school, and subscription access are not identical; confirm the resource opens before assigning it.
Browse original student tutorials →Use current online reference information, homework-help materials, health and career research, and reference e-books. The state says access is available with a public-library card or qualifying Florida school or higher-education affiliation; follow the access instructions for your household.
Open the official FEL page →Chat with a Florida librarian during the service's posted hours or use its participating-library pathways for research help. Bring a focused question, the student's grade range, and what has already been searched; librarians guide research rather than complete an assignment.
See live-chat hours →Use printable activities, self-guided park learning, scheduled programs, or the Virtual Junior Ranger option to study Florida's natural and cultural resources. Program participation has no extra charge, but normal park entrance or event fees may apply.
Explore Junior Ranger options →Find the official public-library system serving your county, then check its calendar and digital-resource page for story times, teen programs, makerspaces, language tools, research databases, e-books, museum passes, and classes. Cards, eligibility, holds, and fees vary locally.
Find the official local library →Locate county programs in agriculture, gardening, food science, environmental education, healthy living, leadership, and youth development. Clubs, projects, enrollment windows, ages, materials, and fees are set locally and change during the year.
Find the county Extension office →Core subjects without a full-program purchase
Choose one primary resource for a defined goal, sample it with the learner, and record the work produced. Optional tutoring, print books, assessment platforms, or premium tools can cost extra even when the underlying lessons or texts are free.
Use free practice, videos, and learning dashboards across math, science, reading, computing, history, economics, financial literacy, test preparation, and more. Treat it as a targeted skill or course resource and separately decide what records, writing, labs, books, or discussion the learner needs.
Browse the free learning platform →Read and download peer-reviewed high-school and introductory-college textbooks without an account or expiration. Core digital texts are free and openly licensed; low-cost print, Assignable practice, and some implementation options are separate.
Browse free K–12 textbooks →Search classroom-ready videos, interactives, lesson materials, and public-media collections across PreK–12 subjects. A free account may unlock planning and assignment tools; confirm any account, age, classroom, and media-use terms before sharing with students.
Explore Florida PBS LearningMedia →Read or download tens of thousands of free e-books, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired. Check edition quality, reading level, historical context, and whether a modern translation or annotation would better serve the learner.
Search the free e-book library →Projects, inquiry, and primary sources
These public institutions make it possible to study science missions, museum objects, historical records, art, and culture from home. Pair a source with a question, notebook entry, discussion, experiment, timeline, presentation, or portfolio sample.
Use grade-banded games, missions, engineering challenges, activities, videos, and educator resources from NASA's Launch Services Program. Start with the learner's grade band and turn one mission or design challenge into a documented STEM project.
Open K–12 NASA resources →Discover millions of digital museum images, recordings, texts, videos, and educator-built collections across history, art, culture, and science. Public exploration is free; creating or sharing personalized collections may involve an account and its terms.
Explore Smithsonian learning collections →Use primary-source sets, lesson plans, analysis tools, teacher guides, and digitized collections to strengthen historical thinking. Ask students to observe, source, contextualize, compare, question, and cite—not merely copy information from an artifact.
Open the teacher and primary-source hub →Find primary-source documents and teacher-created activities or build a document-based investigation. Preview reading level, historical language, context, and sensitive content before assigning a collection to a child.
Explore DocsTeach →A practical starter rhythm
This is a planning model, not a required schedule. Select fewer resources for younger learners, add appropriate reading and writing, and adjust time, accessibility, independence, and output to the learner.
Monday
Choose one Khan Academy skill or accessible CPALMS tutorial. End with three problems, a narration, or a notebook summary that shows what the learner can now do.
Tuesday
Use a NASA or Smithsonian resource to pose a question. Add a model, diagram, experiment, observation log, or explanation in the learner's own words.
Wednesday
Use the Florida Electronic Library or Ask a Librarian to answer a focused question. Save sources and create a citation list, comparison chart, or short research paragraph.
Thursday
Analyze one Library of Congress or National Archives primary source. Record observations, context, questions, perspective, and a claim supported by evidence.
Friday
Complete a Junior Ranger activity, visit a library program, work on a 4-H project, or take a nature walk. Add a photo, sketch, field note, map, or reflection to the portfolio.
Five-minute fit check
Do this quick review before creating a student account, assigning a course, or replacing a working resource. Recheck terms and access when a school year, scholarship, or provider policy changes.
Important: Florida Homeschool Resource is an independent parent-built directory and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the organizations listed. Free access, course eligibility, residency rules, accounts, grade coverage, optional charges, privacy terms, accessibility, schedules, and content can change. Review the current source page and terms before enrolling, creating a child account, assigning content, relying on credit, or paying. Inclusion is not an endorsement or a statement that a resource satisfies a family's legal, scholarship, accessibility, or academic needs. Sources checked October 2, 2026.
