Welcome to The Educating Parent Beverley Paine's archive of articles about homeschooling and unschooling written over a period of 30 plus years

Free download a quick guide to getting started with homeschooling and unschooling by Beverley Paine The Educating Parent in this excellent Resource Directory
Introduction to
Home Education

 

Free directory of Australian homeschooling and unschooling support groups organised by national, state and territories National and State
Support Groups

 

Plan, record and report all in the one document! Always Learning Books planners available in each year level to suit your homeschooling needs, includes curriculum checklists
Yearly Planner, Diary & Report

Let Beverley and friends help you design and write your own curriculum to suit your child's individual learning needs, learn how to prepare lessons, unit studies and more, record and evaluate your children's learning in this series of 3 parent workbooks developed on Beverley's popular homeschool manual Getting Started with Home School Practical Considerations

Homeschool Course for Parents

this Always Learning Year 7 Plan is everything you need to get started a comprehensive collection of curriculum aligned resources and links to activities, lesson plans and unit studies for your year 7 homeschooling student
Homeschool Learning Plans
go back to The Educating Parent home page click here to learn more about what The Educating Parent offers to help you start and continue your awesome homeschooling or unschooling adventure click here to subscribe to Beverley's substack blog with new entries added every other day click here to join the largest Australian online homeschool community The Educating Parents Homeschooling and Unschooling Facebook group

Browse our comprehensive library of articles!

Science Educational YouTube Channels

First published on Unschool Australia FB group. Thanks to Freya for the suggestion, and to Kylie and Paquita for most of the links.

Space Time explores what is beyond, the outer reaches of space
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Nature of PBS brings the wonder of nature to you
https://www.youtube.com/user/NaturePBS

The Royal Institute - videos to make you think more deeply about science
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution

The Backyard Scientist loves to explore and experiment all things scientific!
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBackyardScientist

Crash Course covers a range of different subjects
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

Sci Show Kids explores curious topics that make kids ask "why?"
https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids

Smarter Every Day explores the world using science.
https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2

Slo Mo Guys take on the world in Slow Motion!
https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys

Verastasium includes videos about science and education.
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

The Brain Scoop shares soem of the amazing things in The Field Museum in Chicago https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrainscoop

Minute Physics - cool physics and other science simply put.
https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics/

Minute Earth includes science and stories about our planet
https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

Mindfield intriguing ideas about the mind, brain, psychology, etc
https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce

Vihart explores maths and other interesting things
https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart

Domain of Science youtubes about mind-blowing science, especially physics
https://www.youtube.com/user/dominicwalliman

Deep Look is a science video series that explores big science by going very, very small!
https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDDeepLook/

It's Okay to Be Smart uses curiosity to explore the universe
https://www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart

Great Big Story discovers the untold, the over-looked and the flat-out amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCajXeitgFL-rb5-gXI-aG8Q

Animal Wonders Montana is all about amazing animals in their zoo
https://www.youtube.com/user/Anmlwndrs

Blue World explores the underwater world
https://www.youtube.com/user/BlueWorldTV

Primitive Technology shows you have to build things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/

Animalogic examines the nature of the beast
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwg6_F2hDHYrqbNSGjmar4w

Nature League explore life on Earth and ask questions that inspires us to marvel at all things wild
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwg6_F2hDHYrqbNSGjmar4w

Science Insider videos on what you need to know about science https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9uD-W5zQHQuAVT2GdcLCvg/

True Food reveals the untold stories of our food, one crop at a time
https://www.youtube.com/user/howgrowvideo

The Action Lab, dedicated to performing and explaining exciting science experiments
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1VLQPn9cYSqx8plbk9RxxQ

The King of Random explores life through all kinds of life-hacks, experiments and random weekend projects
https://www.youtube.com/user/01032010814/

Ted Ed - ideas worth spreading
https://ed.ted.com/

Brave Wilderness one stop connection to a wild world of adventure and amazing close up animal encounters
https://www.youtube.com/user/BreakingTrail/

The Kids Should See This smart videos for curious minds of all ages
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/

Science Max - experiments on a the large scale!
? https //www.youtube.com/watchv=iekjlf2stvi

SciFri, brain fun for curious people: science, technology and other cool stuff
https://www.youtube.com/user/SciFri/

Periodic Videos - ultimate channel for all things chemistry
https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos

BBC Earth the official channel of Sir David Attenborough, dramatic, rare and wild nature!
https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCEarth/

Big Think is expert-driven, actionable, educational content exploring big ideas and core skills
https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink

Today I Found Out - something new and interesting every day
https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut/

The Good Stuff mini-documentaries intertwining education, entertainment and curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGoodStuff/

Museum of London tells the story of London, it's people, from prehistoric times to the present day
https://www.youtube.com/user/museumoflondon

Google Arts and Culture explores inspirational moments, iconic people and artistic wonders
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleArtProject/

Brightside attempts to answer some of life's biggest questions!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4rlAVgAK0SGk-yTfe48Qpw

Ted - EDKIDS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Natural History Museum in London - explore behind the scenes in this famous museum
https://www.youtube.com/user/naturalhistorymuseum

Life Noggin a web show designed to teach about life and the brain
https://www.youtube.com/user/lifenoggin

Science Museum weekly uploads of stories of human ingenuity, renowned collections, exhibitions and behind the scenes footage of the museum
https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencemuseum

Tom Scott explores the weird and interesting
https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay/videos

 

Browse our comprehensive library of articles!

keep up to date with new posts to this website daily by clicking here to subscribe

Support Groups: National SA VICWANSW QLD TAS ACT NT
Registration Guides: VIC NSW QLD SA WA TAS ACT
NT

Looking for support, reassurance and information? Join Beverley's
The Educating Parents Homeschooling and Unschooling Facebook

Need a ready made homeschool learning plan in a hurry for your homeschool registration? Try one of ours!

Need a ready made homeschool learning plan in a hurry for your homeschool registration? Try one of our Always Learning Books homeschool year level learning plans, packed with links to FREE lesson plans, unit studies and activities for each curriculum subject area, hundreds of suggestions, use what you want, only $18

Want to learn how to write your own education plans to suit your unique children's individual learning needs?

itap into Beverley's four decades of home educating experience and learn how to write your own homeschool curriculum and learning plans to suit your child's and your family's individual needs, a complete how to homeschool course for parents in 3 self paced workbooks each focusing on a different aspect of home educating, planning, recording, evaluating and creating lesson plans image shows 3 workbooks, plus samples of pages, and 3 children walking in bushland

The Educating Parent acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present.

click here to become a Fearless Homeschool member giving you access to all past summit workshops as well as exciting new content and webinars, online discussion platform, and more

say goodbye to home education registration stress with this ultimate rego bundle from Fearless Homeschool

Twinkl downloadable Home education resources helping you teach confidently at home

go back to The Educating Parent home page click here to learn more about what The Educating Parent offers to help you start and continue your awesome homeschooling or unschooling adventure click here to subscribe to Beverley's substack blog with new entries added every other day click here to join the largest Australian online homeschool community The Educating Parents Homeschooling and Unschooling Facebook group

The information on this website is of a general nature only and is not intended as personal or professional advice. This site merges and incorporates 'Homeschool Australia' and 'Unschool Australia'.

The opinions and articles included on this website are not necessarily those of Beverley Paine, The Educating Parent and April Jermey Always Learning Books, nor do they endorse or recommend products listed in contributed articles, pages, or advertisements on pages within this website.

Without revenue from advertising by educational suppliers and Google Ads we could not continue to provide information to home educators. Please support us by letting our advertisers know that you found them on The Educating Parent. Thanks!

Affiliate links are used on this site that take you to products or services outside of this site. Beverley Paine The Educating Parent and April Jermey Always Learning Books assume no responsibility for those purchases or returns of products or services as a result of using these affiliate links. Please review products and services completely prior to purchasing through these links. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question before purchasing or signing up.

Text and images on this site © All Rights Reserved 1999-2025