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Current Curriculum Used @ LCHA
Homeschooling In Florida
Florida Department of Education - Home Education
District Contact List
Who is Who in your District for homeschooling.
Hernando County Homeschool Dept.
Hillsborough County Homeschooling
Hillsborough County Homeschool education website
Pasco County School Homeschooling
Important link for homeschooling in Fl. including homeschool evaluators, support groups, and Pasco County Home Education Office.
Letter of Intent to Home Educate in Florida
Required to submit intent of home schooling in Pasco County, Fl.
Florida Bright Futures
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program establishes lottery-funded scholarships to reward Florida high school graduates for high academic achievement. Home school High School students qualify via volunteer hrs (starting summer before and through HS years) and ACT/SAT scores.
Homeschool Related Support Groups
Florida Parent-Educator Association
An association of families in the state of Florida who educate our own children. This is a site dedicated to assisting our members to ensure the highest quality of education and to provide help and information to other families who are considering homeschooling.
Homeschool Legal Defense Association
Legal advocates for homeschooling. A non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct education of their children and to protect family freedoms.
SALT of Trinity
The main purpose of SALT is to provide support for homeschooling parents and aid them in their effort to fulfill their vocation as parent educators. We will provide support, service, and social opportunities to our member families.
Cap It!
Graduation & Events for 11th & 12th graders
Pinellas County Florida Homeschoolers
A helpful website created for parents and students new to homeschooling (some interviewed at portfolio review meetings) who needed an easy one-stop website with useful website links and printable documents to help create or improve homeschool portfolios quickly and easily
Florida Homeschool Evaluation & Testing
Kimberlee's number one goal is to deliver quality annual evaluations throughout the state of Florida with a variety of choices in a professional yet non-threatening manner.
Kimberlee is a homeschooling mother and former public/private school teacher with over 25 years of experience in the field of education. What began as assisting a small group of clients in central Florida has grown to serving hundreds upon hundreds of families in all counties throughout the state.
Helpful Links to Curriculum Information
Cathy Duffy Reviews
Cathy Duffy has been reviewing curriculum for the homeschooling community since 1984. She also reviews other resources she believes are important for those interested in homeschooling, education, the origins debate, and related political and spiritual topics. While we stretch beyond homeschooling, our primary goal always remains the same:
To help families successfully educate their own children!
Local Fun Places to Go
Clearwater Marine Aquarium
A non profit organization, Clearwater Marine Aquarium is an internationally respected center for animal care, public education and marine research. Yet, in spite of tremendous growth and a global presence, they also remain a “neighborhood” aquarium, a place where children and adults alike can visit anytime to wonder at the unending diversity, grace and beauty of the creatures of the sea.
Florida Aquarium
A wonderful family destination with plenty of fun activities like Swim with the Fishes, Penguins, Backstage Pass and a Wild Dolphin Ecotour. Don't miss Explore A Shore, our outdoor water fun zone for the children!
The Aquarium offers monthly Homeschool science classes. Each class uses inquiry based learning and hands-on experiments and activities to discover science.
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is located in the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College. The Museum's 20th century collection is made up of art from Abraham Rattner's estate donated by Allen and Isabelle Leepa and a large donation made by the Tampa Museum of Art in 1997. The Museum is filled with Rattner's retrospective works: lithographs, tapestries, sculptures, paintings and stained glass. It is sure to be the largest assemblage of Rattner's work in the world as efforts continue to be made to reclaim Rattner works from other venues.
The 6,000-piece collection also contains works by Esther Gentle, Rattner's second wife, who was a printmaker, sculptor and painter and Allen Leepa, himself, an artist, educator and author. Works by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Auguste Herbin, Georges Rouault, Hans Hofmann and Max Ernst are part of the collection. Rattner considered many of them, from the Paris days of the 1920s and 1930s, to be his friends as well as contemporaries. A group of first-run posters from 20th century Paris exhibitions and Rattner's archival materials -- personal items including poetry, diaries and letters -- are also part of the collection. Of particular interest is Rattner's correspondence with noted author Henry Miller.
ZooTampa
Rated #1 all over again! Rated the Best Zoo in the US by Parents Magazine. The region's only dedicated zoological garden, Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo was designed to enhance quality of life in greater Tampa Bay as an affordable leisure destination and center for education and endangered species conservation.
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo offers animal attractions with animal habitats, interactions, rides, shows and talks water play areas, zoo map and video, rental space for corporate gatherings, zoo caterings, education, field trips, B-Day parties and sleep overs. camps and classes, scouts programs and adult programs.
MOSI
MOSI is a non-profit, community-based institution and educational resource that is dedicated to advancing public interest, knowledge and understanding of science, industry and technology. MOSI's core ideology is to make a difference in people's lives by making science real for people of all ages and backgrounds.
MOTE Marine Laboratory
From its humble beginnings in tiny shed in a small Florida town, Mote Marine Laboratory has expanded to include a 10.5-acre campus in Sarasota, Fla., with field stations and public exhibits in Key West and field stations in Summerland Key and Charlotte Harbor. Florida's extensive coastline and marine and estuarine environments have enabled Mote scientists to build a platform of marine research conducted in the nearshore environment.
From the original focus on sharks, Mote research has expanded to include seven major areas of concentration, organized into seven research centers. While each center focuses on its own specialty, Mote scientists are able to partner with others within the lab to integrate efforts across a number of fields. This approach has led to discoveries that establish Mote as a global leader in many areas of marine science.
Mote recognizes the importance of advancing the understanding of sea science to the general public. To that end, Mote conducts extensive public outreach and operates a public aquarium that serves nearly 400,000 visitors a year. Mote is one of the few organizations in the world that combines marine research with public outreach through a full-fledged aquarium.
Mote Marine Laboratory is also one of the world’s few remaining private marine research laboratories and, as a nonprofit organization, is funded through federal, state and local grants and through the generosity of individual donors and foundations. Over the last five decades, the world has learned many things about its oceans. One lesson has remained constant: There is still much to discover...
Ringling Museum of art
Located on a 66 acre state on Sarasota Bay, the John and Marble Ringling Museum was established in 1927. It is built to house John Ringling's personal collection of masterpieces, today features paintings and sculptures by the great Old Masters including Rubens, van Dyck, Velázquez, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, El Greco, Gainsborough and more. The European, American and Asian masterworks available here make the Museum of Art an awe-inspiring retreat. It is a palace for treasures emulating the footprint of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, echoing its grace and grandeur.