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Free curriculum and teaching resources.

Free curriculum and teaching resources by Eric Gonzalez-Payne. Used by teachers, homeschoolers and travelling families.

403 worksheets, activities, and lesson materials. Written for real classrooms, real kitchens and real roadsides, by someone who has taught in all three. Every resource is free to view and print, with no sign up and no email required.

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What do you need right now

I have ten minutes and no plan

No prep activities you can run right now.

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I am covering a class today

Emergency sub plans that need nothing but outside.

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We are travelling right now

Resources for families learning on the road.

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It is raining

Wet weather activities that still get you outdoors.

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I teach more than one age at once

Mixed age teaching that actually works.

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I am starting a school garden

Start with no budget and four containers.

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My child is three

Preschool activities for the garden and beyond.

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I want a real project

Project based learning with a real audience.

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Garden and Nature Worksheets

Over two hundred printable worksheets built around a tropical garden, from babies through to grade eight. Every one was written for real classrooms in real heat.

224 resources

Tropical Plant Field Guide

Thirty six plants of Southeast Asia, one page each. How to recognise it, what it is used for, what is genuinely unsafe, and two things to do with children.

36 resources

Teaching Guides

Twenty five guides for the adults. Starting a garden with no budget, teaching through the rainy season, running mixed ages, keeping it alive over the holidays, and the things that actually go wrong.

25 resources

Learning Around the World

Twenty countries, three real places in each, and what a child actually gets from standing there. Every page ends with a ready made AI prompt you can paste anywhere.

20 resources

Scavenger Hunts and Quick Activities

Twenty no prep activities you can run in the next ten minutes, including five emergency sub plans for the day you were handed a class with no warning.

20 resources

Seasonal and Calendar

Earth Day, rainy days, the first week back, the last week of term and the season when nothing grows. Eight pages for the times of year that come round every year.

8 resources

Project Based Learning

Ten worked projects with a real question, a real audience and something built at the end. Plus a plain explanation of what separates this from a poster.

10 resources

Understanding Outdoor Learning

What forest school actually is, what worldschooling means, whether outdoor learning covers the curriculum, and what the research does and does not support.

8 resources

Nature Math

Nine levels of maths, from before counting starts to grade seven, taught with seeds, sticks, distances and real quantities. Plus a family guide, a teacher quick start and a print pack.

12 resources

Family and Homeschool Starter Pages

Fourteen ready to print pages for families, pods and co-ops. Nature walks, measuring, mixed age teaching, and small projects children can finish.

14 resources

Worldschooling

Twenty guides for families learning on the move. Maths on the road, reading without a classroom, keeping records, re entry, and what it actually costs you.

20 resources

Start Here

Six hub pages that put everything else in order. Start here if you are new, if you are looking for maths, if you are a teacher, if you are worldschooling, if you want the plants, or if you have mixed ages.

6 resources

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