Education Hub
Find HWN lessons, worksheets, academic resources, and learning pathways organized around real learners and real family needs.
Explore Education Hub →Resources & Projects
A growing collection of learning tools, trusted outside resources, and hands-on projects—organized so families can find something useful without digging through a giant pile of links.
How to use this library: Start with a subject or goal, choose a resource, then turn it into something active when possible—investigate, build, measure, write, create, teach someone else, or connect it to real life.
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The Lab
Connect science, engineering, homesteading, off-grid skills, investigations, and practical economics to hands-on learning.
Enter The Lab →Missouri Homestead Academic Framework
A project-centered framework for connecting academic learning with practical homestead and real-world skills.
View Framework →Martin Luther King Jr. — 2nd Grade
An existing HWN lesson combining social studies, vocabulary, reading, discussion, and a student worksheet.
Open Lesson →Homeschool Organizations & Support
Find HSLDA, Missouri's statewide homeschool organizations, official Missouri legal references, research organizations, and local community support—organized by purpose and philosophy.
Explore Organizations →Homestead & Practical Learning Resources
These resources are especially useful when a family wants to connect gardening, animal care, food systems, land stewardship, farming, entrepreneurship, and practical skills to academic learning. External programs and information can change, so review each resource before use.
Use these with the HWN approach: Don't just collect links. Turn a resource into an investigation, notebook entry, measurement activity, research question, project, budget, experiment, field study, or written reflection. That creates a stronger learning trail.
MU Extension — Horticulture & Gardening
University of Missouri Extension's gardening resources cover vegetables, fruit, landscaping, trees and shrubs, plant problems, soil, and more. Great for biology, earth science, observation, measurement, and environmental studies.
Explore MU Gardening →MU Extension — Garden ’n Grow
A youth gardening program with educational subjects, hands-on garden work, lesson plans, notebooks, and horticulture resources. A natural fit for science notebooks and project-based learning.
Explore Garden ’n Grow →MU Extension — Little Roots, Big Harvest
A hands-on program connecting homesteading with gardening, backyard livestock, food preservation, self-sustaining systems, safety, and practical learning.
Explore Little Roots →MU Extension — Animal Health & Production
Science-based Missouri resources covering livestock management, nutrition, disease prevention, animal welfare, pasture topics, and production systems.
Explore Animal Resources →MU Extension — Beginning Farmers & Ranchers
Useful for older students exploring farming, land stewardship, farm economics, agricultural planning, and rural entrepreneurship.
Explore Beginning Farmer Resources →USDA — Beginning Farmers & Ranchers
Federal agriculture information and programs for beginning farmers and ranchers. Useful as a real-world research source for agriculture, economics, entrepreneurship, and civics projects.
Explore USDA Resources →Missouri Home-School Statute — RSMo §167.012
Use the official Missouri Revisor of Statutes as the primary source for the current home-school record and instruction requirements discussed in HWN materials.
Read Current Statute →Missouri Attendance & Credit Statute — RSMo §167.031
The current statute addresses compulsory attendance and defines a completed home-school or FPE high-school credit as 100 hours or more of instruction in a course for the purposes described in the section.
Read Current Statute →Trusted Learning Tools
These are external resources selected for their usefulness to homeschool families. Availability, age ranges, terms, and content can change, so families should review each resource before use.
Khan Academy
Free lessons, videos, practice, and mastery tools across math, science, ELA, history, computing, economics, and more. Useful for review, remediation, enrichment, or working ahead.
Visit Khan Academy →Smithsonian Learning Lab
Explore Smithsonian digital images, texts, recordings, videos, and collections. Families can also create and adapt collections for learning.
Explore Smithsonian →NASA Learning Resources
Hands-on activities, interactive resources, videos, STEM challenges, career connections, and mission-based learning for students and educators.
Explore NASA STEM →National Park Service Education
Lesson plans, primary sources, science labs, classroom materials, virtual field trips, and place-based learning connected to America's public lands.
Visit NPS Education →Library of Congress Teachers
Classroom materials and professional learning built around primary sources, including tools for analyzing and citing original historical materials.
Explore the Library of Congress →Project Ideas
🌱 Garden Math
Measure beds, calculate spacing, track germination, graph growth, and compare harvest totals.
🔬 Investigation Notebook
Choose a question, make a prediction, record observations, collect evidence, and explain what changed.
🏠 Homestead Systems Map
Map water, food, energy, waste, shelter, and transportation systems and look for connections between them.
💰 Real-World Economics
Compare prices, plan a small project budget, track costs, calculate savings, and evaluate trade-offs.
📚 Primary Source Detective
Study an original photograph, document, map, object, or recording and separate observation from interpretation.
🛠️ Build & Improve
Design a useful object or system, test it, record what failed, revise the design, and explain the improvement.