Idaho Homeschooling

If you are looking for answers and information about homeschooling in Idaho, you've come to the right place. Browse around to find a wealth of information, tips, ideas, and activities to make homeschooling fun and successful.

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Curriculum Cottage
2210 N. Meridian Rd. Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: 208-887-9292 Curriculum Cottage offers prepackaged curriculum sets and materials to supplement your current form of education.
Tautphaus Park Zoo
The Tautphaus Park Zoo is located in Idaho Falls. Watch the flock of threatened African Penguins as they swim in their pool, experience a wallaby mob on the move, or surround yourself with sights and sounds of South American birds in the walk-through aviary. Stop by the Children's Zoo and pat a donkey, feed a lamb or just relax on a bench and enjoy the beautifully landscaped grounds.
City Of Rocks National Reserve
Beginning in 1843, City of Rocks was a landmark for emigrants on the California Trail and Salt Lake Alternate Trail and later on freight routes and the Kelton, Utah to Boise, Idaho stage route. The area's historical and geological values, scenery, and opportunities for recreation led to its designation as City of Rocks National Reserve in 1988. The reserve is located 45 miles south of Burley, Idaho.
Northwest Charlotte Mason Group
Discussion for parents and/or educators in the Pacific Northwest (and points beyond) interested in the educational methods and philosophies of Charlotte Mason, a British educator from the late 1800's. Most of the list members are in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia, but there are others from across the USA, Canada and around the globe.
homeschoolidaho
This is a group for people who homeschool or are thinking of homeschooling in Idaho. Exchange ideas, support each other, give links for school stuff and field trips, or just talk.
Oregon National Historic Trail
As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries and others. Beginning in 1841 and continuing for more than 20 years, an estimated 300,000 emigrants followed this route from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon on a trip that took five months to complete. The 2,170 mile long trail passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.
SkyStar Aircraft Corporation
Located in Caldwell, Idaho, the SkyStar Aircraft Corporation is the home of the Kitfox model airplane kit. Visitors are welcome to their facilities. Call for information.
Child Led Learning
Child Led Learning is a group of parents around the Treasure Valley (Idaho) area who are beginning a local support group for homeschooling with an emphasis on child-led learning (some are unschoolers and some incorporate child-led learning into their days in other ways).
Spokane Homeschoolers—Homeschoolers of the Inland Empire
Spokane Homeschoolers is an inclusive group of the parents of homeschooling families in the Eastern Washington/North Idaho area surrounding Spokane.
Southeast Idaho Homeschool Association (SEIHA)
Southeast Idaho Homeschool Association (SEIHA) is a group of parents in Southeast Idaho who are brought together by their interest in homeschool excellence. They offer a newsletter, parent's meetings, field trips, skate parties, and other educational activities including an annual spelling bee, geography bee, and science fair. Most of their activities are held in Pocatello.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Hagerman Fossil Beds NM contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna. The fossil beds are located one and one half hour from Boise and thi...
Homeschool Gems
Open discussion group for homeschoolers in the state of Idaho, the "Gem State."
Zoo Boise
Zoo Boise offers animal exhibits and educational programs for all ages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Provided by the Idaho State Department of Education, this list of questions and answers addresses some of the basics of legally homeschooling in Idaho.
Idaho Department of Education
The Idaho Department of Education maintains this website.
Upcoming Events
Not Back to School Camp - Oregon
August 11-25, 2021
Camp Myrtlewood, Bridge, Oregon
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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