Ultimate List of the BEST Secular Homeschool Curriculum
I know finding a secular homeschool curriculum can be hard. however, even in the three years, we have been living in America homeschooling is growing at a huge rate.
I have put together our favorite non religious homeschool curriculum, for each subject, including history and science. Which are definitely the harder secular subjects to find in the homeschool community.
This page is regularly updated as secular homeschool has become more and more popular.
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Secular Homeschool Curriculum
These 8 are our absolute favorite secular homeschool curriculum. To find more keep scrolling down.
- Mr D Math (for math, economics, and ASL)
- Real Science Odyssey
- Generation Genius for math and science
- History Odyssey – Grades 6-12
- Moneytime
- Adventure Academy
- Schoolio – grades K-3
- Institute for Excellence in Writing is an excellent language arts curriculum for grades k-12.
Secular Homeschool History Curriculum
I’m starting the list with history, not because it is the most important subject. But because it is one of the hardest to find secular resources for!
- History Quest Grades 1-6
- History Odyssey – Grades 6-12 (read our history odyssey review here)
- Curiosity Chronicles or you can just get the book here.
- Horrible Histories – you can watch them on youtube too, they are very funny and have catchy songs.
- US History with Blossom and Root
- Everything You Need to Ace World History (we love these notebooks, and have ALL of them!!)
- Everything You Need to Ace US History
- Crash Course (Youtube) World History
- Khan Academy
- Curiosity Stream (check out what we watch) for documentaries on history, download Curiosity Stream today for less than $20 per year.
- Outschool Classes – are our favorites for live online classes and they have lots of history classes to choose from too.
Secular Science Homeschool Curriculum
I was not particularly surprised about history, but it is also super hard to find a secular science curriculum. Here is a list of all the ones we have found.
- Real Science Odyssey
- Everything You Need to Ace Science
- Mel Science (subscription) – check out our Mel Science review here.
- KiwiCo Tinker Crate is a great STEM monthly subscription box
- Generation Genius check out our Generation Genius review
- Crash Course
- Outschool Science Classes – with live online classes in every subject, they also have lots of science classes too.
- Allschool Science Classes check out our detailed review of these live online classes for kids.
- Adventure Academy is a supplementary product for kids aged 8-13. It is an amazing “game” covering science, math, and English language arts, and the kids will be begging to “play” it! Check out our review of Adventure Academy.
- Stemwerkz is a great “gaming” digital stem resource for upper elementary-aged kids.
For even more ideas check out my huge list of homeschool science curriculum post, these are all secular.
Secular Math Curriculum
I will only add a few here, as most homeschool math curriculums are secular, not all, but most. But these are our absolute favorites, and we have either reviewed them or are currently using them.
- Mr D Math is not just a math curriculum, they also have economics, American sign language and so much more.
- IXL – including 20% off
- Beast Academy – this is what we are currently using for math, but only use it if your child likes math. If they struggle, this is not the math curriculum for you. Check out Beast Academy playground for some free math games.
- Math Notebook
- Schoolio is a full K-3 homeschool curriculum that is secular, check out our review.
- Rounded Schoolhouse grades 3-8 read our detailed review here it is an all in one curriculum for all core subjects.
- Smartick
- CTC Math
Secular Language Arts Curriculum
- Institute for Excellence in Writing is an excellent language arts curriculum for grades k-12.
- Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts
- Schoolio is a full K-3 homeschool curriculum that is secular, check out our review.
- Write Shop – check out our detailed review of this homeschool writing curriculum.
- Night Zookeeper (Check it out for yourself here (or if you are in the UK here) where you will get a 7 day free trial plus an exclusive 50% off.)- we are currently using this and loving it, check out our Night Zookeeper review.
- Homeschool Spelling Curriculum check out our favorite resources
- ABC Mouse – for ages 2-8, check out our detailed ABCmouse review here. if you are looking for a similar program for older children check out Adventure Academy
- Michael Clay Thompson
- Brave Writer
- If you want to introduce Shakespeare into your homeschool check out my top online courses, books, and games that will make it so much fun.
Secular Art & Music Curriculum
- The Best Online Art Classes For Homeschoolers
- The ultimate list of music curriculum for homeschool
Secular Foreign Language Curriculum
Check out 19 of the best foreign language curriculum blog post
- Rosetta Stone – (45% link to lifetime access!!) learn a foreign language, trusted by Lego, BMW, and many other huge organizations.
- Lingopie – watch tv shows and cartoons to learn your favorite language, with clickable links and flash cards. Check out our Lingopie review.
Free Secular Homeschooling Curriculum
Over 100 Free Curriculum for Homeschool resources – all are secular.
Why Secular Homeschooling?
As we are not religious, finding a secular homeschooling curriculum was absolutely vital. But other reasons people are looking for a secular curriculum are for the following:
- Not religious
- The kids may return to public school or plan to go to University (not that you can’t if you follow a religious curriculum)
- Focus on academics, a number of the Christian curriculums are outdated, and all focus on the Biblical perspective
- Believe in the Big Bang, and not that the World was created by God
- Are religious but are not Christian, so don’t want to have conflicting views in their homeschool curriculum
I hope you have found this useful, please let me know in the comments if you use any other secular homeschooling curriculum so I can add it.
Last Updated on 13 April 2022 by homeschoolof1
Thank you for sharing this! It is so hard to find real science and history. I want my kids to understand world history and both Lifepac and Christian light are so religiously driven I feel like I am just teaching them from a Bible. I don’t mind giving my kids good christian morals but there is more to life and history than what is in the bible. I think I drew the line on their ideas of ‘science’ when they called it a ‘food tube’. Seriously? And this is geared for 3rd grade? How good is an education when you can’t even use correct terminology that is age appropriate? Anyways, thank you a ton! I will be using this for our 4th grade.
I came here to find ideas for secular science ideas for next year. I just wanted to mention another reason for looking for secular options is that someone may be a part of a charter homeschool (that’s our main reason, though we aren’t religious either).