Social Sciences should be shared on Thursday, although as you see it’s Sunday and I am just now getting a chance to share them with you. So like with Homeschool things can and will give moved around and it’s okay to have flexibility in our classes. So come to check out this new Homeschool Resource and let me know what you thought of it and how you would use it inside your classes.
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Age Range: 7-18 (Grades 2-12, with parental supervision)
Discover well-known people homeschooled or who homeschooled their children with this site from Knowledge House and author Teri Ann Berg Nelson.
After reading the introduction and learning the definition of who is considered a “homeschooler,” use the left-hand sidebar menu to explore lists of famous homeschoolers sorted by category:
- Artists – Claude Monet, Grandma Moses, Leonardo da Vinci and more
- Athletes – includes Bethany Hamilton, Timothy Tebow, Michelle Kwan among others
- Authors – on this list are Louisa May Alcott, J.R.R Tolkien, Mark Twain and many others
- Composers – This list has 13 well-known composers such as Bach, Mozart, Irving Berlin, and John Phillip Sousa.
- Educators – George Washington Carver, Charlotte Mason, and Noah Webster included on this list.
- Entertainers – Notable people on this list include Charlie Chaplin, Alan Alda, LeAnn Rimes, and many more.
- Entrepreneurs – Among others, you will find Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Pulitzer, and Dave Thomas on this list.
- Explorers – Daniel Boone, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Lewis and Clark and a few more make this short list.
- Founding Fathers – See which signers of the Declaration and Constitutional Convention delegates homeschooled.
- Inventors – Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and more make up this list.
- Medical Practitioners – includes Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Albert Schweitzer as well as others
- Military Officers – Joan of Arc, Stonewall Jackson, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and more
- Others – This list includes those not in the other categories such as Ansel Adams, Amelia Earhart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Darrell Waltrip, Will Rogers, Annie Oakley and many more
- Presidents – includes most of our first 11 presidents as well as Lincoln, Johnson, Garfield, Cleveland, Wilson, and both Roosevelts
- Religious Leaders – David Livingstone, Dwight L. Moody, John and Charles Wesley, are notables on this list.
- Scientists – There are many scientists on this list including Albert Einstein, Fred Hoyle, Isaac Newton.
- Statesmen – included on this list are Davy Crockett, Patrick Henry, Winston Churchill and more.
- Famous Parents – On this list, you will find people who homeschooled their children such as Garth Brooks, Kirk Cameron, Michael P. Farris, Tim Hawkins, Chuck Norris, Jimmy Wales and many more.
Highlighted and underlined names on the lists are links to mini-biographies of that person. This site could be a high starting point for your students to learn more about the lives of others who homeschooled or homeschool just like them.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
