Homeschool curriculum ideas, organized by what your child loves

Turn a dinosaur obsession into a full homeschool curriculum — reading, math, science, history and art built around paleontology, for K-12.

Build a K-12 homeschool curriculum around space — astronomy, rocketry, and the history of exploration woven through reading, math and science.

A homeschool curriculum built around animals — zoology, habitats, and conservation woven through reading, math, science and geography for K-12.

Build a homeschool curriculum around the ocean — marine biology, oceanography and exploration across reading, math, science and geography.

Use Minecraft as a genuine homeschool teaching tool — math, engineering, history builds, creative writing and even economics, for K-12.

A homeschool curriculum with art at the center — technique, art history, and the math and science hiding inside drawing, for K-12 learners.

Turn soccer obsession into homeschool fuel — statistics, physics, geography and writing built around the world's game, for K-12.

A homeschool curriculum built around horses — equine science, history, and the reading, math and biology inside the barn, for K-12.

Build a homeschool curriculum around robots and coding — programming, engineering design, math and the ethics of automation, for K-12.

The kitchen as classroom — fractions, chemistry, world geography and budgeting through a cooking-centered homeschool curriculum, K-12.

A homeschool curriculum built on LEGO — engineering, math, storytelling and design thinking through building, for K-12 learners.

A homeschool curriculum with music at its core — theory as math, sound as physics, history through its soundtrack, for K-12 learners.

Turn a train obsession into a homeschool curriculum — engineering, industrial history, geography and math built around railroads, for K-12.

A homeschool curriculum built around weather — meteorology, data collection, climate and forecasting across science, math and geography.

Build a homeschool curriculum around mythology — Greek, Norse and world myths carrying literature, history, geography and art for K-12.

A homeschool curriculum grown in the garden — botany, ecology, math and patience through growing food and plants, for K-12 learners.

A homeschool curriculum built around Ancient Egypt — archaeology, hieroglyphs, engineering and daily life along the Nile, for K-12.

Build a homeschool curriculum around cars — mechanics, physics, design history and the economics of manufacturing, for K-12 learners.

A homeschool curriculum built around chess — strategy, mathematics, history and the discipline of thinking ahead, for K-12 learners.

A homeschool curriculum built around birds — identification, migration, ecology and citizen science you can do from the window, for K-12.

A homeschool curriculum built around volcanoes and geology — plate tectonics, rocks, deep time and natural hazards, for K-12 learners.

Turn a shark obsession into a homeschool curriculum — marine biology, evolution, data literacy and conservation, for K-12 learners.

A human body homeschool curriculum for K-12 — anatomy, body systems, nutrition and health taught through reading, math, science and art, with a six-week plan.

An insect homeschool curriculum for K-12 — life cycles, entomology, pollination and ecology taught through backyard fieldwork, reading, math and art, with a six-week plan.

An ancient Greece homeschool curriculum for K-12 — Athens and Sparta, democracy, the Olympics, philosophy and myth taught through reading, geography, math and art, with a six-week plan.

An ancient Rome homeschool curriculum for K-12 — the Republic and Empire, roads and aqueducts, Latin, daily life and the fall of Rome through reading, geography, math and art.

An American Revolution homeschool curriculum for K-12 — causes, battles, the Declaration, Loyalists and Patriots, and the Constitution taught through primary sources, maps, math and art.

A pollinator homeschool curriculum for K-12 — bee and butterfly life cycles, the monarch migration, hive society and a pollinator garden taught through science, math, reading and art, with a six-week plan.

A coding homeschool curriculum for K-12 — from unplugged algorithms and block-based programs to real Python, using only free tools, with a six-week plan, CSTA standards and a project portfolio.

A baking homeschool curriculum for K-12 — fractions, ratios and baker's percentages, the chemistry of leavening and gluten, and controlled experiments you can eat, with a six-week plan.

A castles and knights homeschool curriculum for K-12 — medieval Europe through castle engineering, feudal society, chivalry, siege science and primary sources, with a six-week plan and C3 standards.

A solar system homeschool curriculum for K-12 — the eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets, and the robotic missions that explored them, with scale models, real data and a six-week plan.

A K-12 pirate homeschool curriculum: the real Golden Age of Piracy, ships and navigation, pirate articles, shipwrecks and Treasure Island, in a six-week plan.

A K-12 rocks and minerals homeschool curriculum: collecting, streak and hardness tests, the rock cycle, crystals, density and resources, in a six-week plan.

A K-12 farm homeschool curriculum: animals, crops, soil, seeds, food chains, farm math and agricultural history, with a six-week plan for every grade.

A K-12 airplane and flight homeschool curriculum: paper airplanes, the four forces, the Wright brothers, navigation and aviation math, in a six-week plan.

Early Learners (grades K–2)

Short daily lessons, read-alouds, phonics and counting, and an interest-led unit that carries science and social studies. About 1–2 hours of formal work a day.

Elementary (grades 3–5)

Independent reading takes hold, math turns to fractions and data, and unit studies produce real research. About 2½–4 hours of formal work a day.

Middle School (grades 6–8)

Pre-algebra, argument writing, real data and the first primary sources. Students manage more of the day themselves. About 4–5 hours of formal work a day.

High School (grades 9–12)

Credits, a transcript, lab reports and primary sources. Units run at the level of a college introductory course. About 5–6 hours of formal work a day.