Alaska Homeschooling
Are you ready to explore the world of homeschooling in Alaska? You've come to the right place! We've gathered the best and most helpful resources, along with support and ideas to help you, whether you are just beginning to homeschool or you've been homeschooling for years. Kick off your visit by exploring these great starting points:
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Katmai National Park & Preserve
Katmai is famous for volcanoes, brown bears, fish, and rugged wilderness and is also the site of the Brooks River National Historic Landmark with North America's highest concentration of prehistoric human dwellings (about 900). Katmai National Monument was created to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty square mile, 100 to 700 foot deep, pyroclastic ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano. There are at least fourteen volcanoes in Katmai considered "active", none ...
Kenai Fjords National Park
Sweeping from rocky coastline to glacier-crowned peaks, Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses 607,805 acres of unspoiled wilderness on the southeast coast of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. The park is capped by the Harding Icefield, a relic from past ice-ages and the largest icefield entirely within U.S. borders. Visitors witness a landscape continuously shaped by glaciers, earthquakes, and storms. Orcas, otters, puffins, bear, moose and mountain goats are just a few of the numerous animals that mak...
Musk Ox Farm
The Musk Ox Farm, located just outside of Palmer, Alaska, a 50-minute drive from downtown Anchorage, is home to a unique domestication project which began in 1954. The Musk Ox Farm is an ideal place to observe and photograph these animals at close range. On the tour you'll learn about the history of the musk ox, a prehistoric remnant of the last great Ice Age, and how it has been domesticated on the farm. You'll see cows, powerful bulls, and tame yearlings. The Musk Ox Project promotes the use o...
Alaska Private and Home Educators Association (APHEA)
The Alaska Private and Home Educators Association is a membership based coalition of parents and others who have banded together for the furtherance of educational excellence through alternatives to the government-operated public schools. Offers publications, seminars, political activities, and bulletins concerning pertinent legislation and Department of Education activities.
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Amidst majestic scenery, Glacier Bay offers us now, and for all time, a connection to a powerful and wild landscape. The park has snow-capped mountain ranges rising to over 15,000 feet, coastal beaches with protected coves, deep fjords, tidewater glaciers, coastal and estuarine waters, and freshwater lakes. These diverse land and seascapes host a mosaic of plant communities ranging from pioneer species in areas recently exposed by receding glaciers, to climax communities in older coastal and alp...
Noatak National Preserve
As one of North America's largest mountain-ringed river basins with an intact ecosystem, the Noatak River environs features some of the Artic's finest arrays of plants and animals. The river is classified as a national wild and scenic river, and offers surperlative wilderness float-trip opportunities - from deep in the Brooks Range to the tidewater of the Chukchi Sea.
Anchorage Museum of History & Art
The Anchorage Museum of History and Art at the Rasmuson Center is a cultural center for the community and state. Exhibits showcase the art, culture, and history of Alaska and the circumpolar North. The permanent collection numbers 17,500 objects plus an education collection of roughly 2,000 artifacts, with more than 350,000 historical photographs.
Last Frontier Christian Books
700 E. Benson Blvd., Suite 1
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Phone: 907-258-8774
At Last Frontier Christian Books, you'll find Christian books and more, along with a selection of materials and books helpful to the homeschooling family.
Alaska Home School Laws
The Home School Legal Defense Association provides a brief summary of the homeschooling laws in Alaska. Includes a link to a legal analysis of laws relating to homeschooling in Alaska.
Alaska Mint
Tour the northern-most mint in the United States located in downtown Anchorage. The Mint is open to the public for self-guided tours. Watch the minting process in progress along with giant gold nuggets, a 10’ gold scale, authentic assay furnace, and running sluice box.
Theobroma Chocolate Factory Tour
Take a tour of this delightful little chocolate factory in Sitka and you may be offered a free sample of their deliciously decadent chocolate truffles.
Alaska Homeschool Network
The Alaska Homeschool Network is a statewide networking and communications tool for Alaskan homeschoolers, and for anyone interested in homeschooling in Alaska. The Alaska Homeschool Network provides free information about local and regional homeschooling support groups in Alaska and other states, and maintains a networking email list for anyone interested in homeschooling.
Alaska State Museum
As the official repository of the state's history, the Alaska State Museum is charged with collecting and interpreting a wealth of ethnographic and historical material. From an Aleut thimble basket to the life-sized eagle tree, the Alaska State Museum offers visitors a chance to "see" all the state within four walls.
Kobuk Valley National Park
Kobuk Valley National Park is encircled by the Baird and Waring mountain ranges. The park povides protection for several important geographic features, including the central portion of the Kobuk River, the 25-sqaure-mile Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, and the Little Kobuk and Hunt River dunes. Sand created by the grinding action of ancient glaciers has been carried to the Kobuk Valley by both wind and water. Dunes now cover much of the southern portion of the Kobuk Valley, where they are naturally stab...
AlaskaHS
AlaskaHS is a list for Alaskans (or those interested in living in AK) that homeschool.
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Not Back to School Camp - Oregon
August 11-25, 2021
Camp Myrtlewood, Bridge, Oregon
Not Back to School Camp
Not Back to School Camp is a non-denominational, non-religious homeschool camp. The camp offers workshops, spontaneous events, and special evening gatherings, bringing together campers who are excited about life and willing to be themselves and to reach out and connect with the others.
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They're Your Kids: An Inspirational Journey from Self-Doubter to Home School Advocate
For many people, their schooling was uncomfortable, tedious, and sometimes a waste of time and energy. This book offers the idea that the public school system is tragically flawed and that we are able to do better for our own children. Sam Sorbo, mom...
Pass Your California DMV Test Guaranteed! 50 Real Test Questions! California DMV Handbook
This book contains the 50 most common questions and answers to the California DMV Written Test. Written by a former DMV classroom instructor and test creator, this straight forward book tells you the most likely questions and answers that will appear...
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
The classic work on teaching children at home, updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and a new generation of homeschooling parents. Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expand...
Serving Homeschooled Teens and Their Parents (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides for Young Adult Librarians Series)
This guide for librarians addresses the needs of homeschooled teens and how a library can meet those needs. Includes ideas like developing a homeschool resource and book collection to creating special homeschool programs. While this book was written ...
First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind
Includes scripted lessons and lovely illustrations to offer encouragement and understanding to children in grammar, copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical technique. These lessons will help develop the student's language ability and ...
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats