From New Zealand
Winz and Home schooling and the DPB
http://hef.org.nz/2009/home-schooling-and-winz-dpb-in-new-zealand/
Help in filling out an exemption:
http://hef.org.nz/category/applying-for-exemption/
Around the World
Click on the headings.www.khanacademy.org The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
We have 800+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Free on-line writing school
http://www.mes-english.com/ Printables – great helps for homeschooling: free flashcards, worksheets and handouts to match, free phonics cards, free ESL games, an international project exchange library, printable certificates, printable stickers and activities all ready for printing
http://www.urthemom.com/ Homeschool Planner and help with self teaching and mastery learning. She runs a Yahoo group called Raising Self-Learners 4 Life! (US based but open to New Zealanders) and a blog
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/educational.php Astronomy. An excellent, free download open source program runs in planetariums… it is called Celestia. If your computer is not too old and your graphics card is more than 256K then this should work very well on your computer. This page will take you to the Educational version download, which has had activities programmed and documented for it. And, yes, those activities and worksheets are downloadable too. It pays to print out the overview to give you a starting point, and this will help you learn to navigate without too much overload. There is also an updated full version, and extra models and objects that can be uploaded – including spacecrafts from real life, and fiction ie. Star Wars, Star Trek.
http://www.livingjoyfully.ca Unschooling
Handbook of Nature Study available free online version http://www.archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp
There is also a great blog with challenges/activities etc based on the book http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com
Sites to feed a hungry mind: list of sites that can be visited daily for students
