Make Money Selling Homeschool Lesson Plans Online
Selling Homeschool Lesson Plans - Planning
Homeschool lesson plans must be about a topic that a child will be interested in. Science, history, social studies, and literature lesson plans and unit studies are popular for homeschoolers. Begin by choosing a topic that is both interesting and grade specific. For example, you can create a homeschool lesson plan about frogs for first or second grade.
The next thing to do when creating a homeschool lesson plan to sell is to decide what you need to put in it. There are many free lesson plans on the internet, so, if you want to make money with yours, you will have to include something special.
Using the frog example, some possible inclusions in the homeschool lesson plan may include: reading comprehension stories with multiple-choice questions, writing prompts and assignments, book lists, non-fiction information, diagrams and charts, vocabulary words, math problems about the subject, and hands-on projects to complete.
Selling Homeschool Lesson Plan - Creating
The first step in actually creating your homeschool lesson plan is writing all the content. Use a basic word processing program to write the stories, non-fiction reports, questions, vocabulary words, and every other part of the homeschool lesson plan. You must pay close attention to facts, grammar, spelling, and all other educational items. Lesson plans with mistakes in them are not acceptable.
Include only graphics that are completely free to use. Do not use anything that is copyrighted to another person or plagiarize any content.
After writing everything, it is time to decide how you will deliver the homeschool lesson plan to the buyer. One good method is creating text, Microsoft word, or pdf files that can be sent through the email to the buyer or offer it as a direct downloadable product.
Selling Homeschool Lesson Plans - Marketing
With the hundreds of homeschool websites on the internet, you will find many places to advertise your homeschool lesson plans. Start by creating a basic website with your lesson plans for sale listed. You could also sell them on eBay or homeschooling classified sites. Offering one free lesson plan for potential customers to examine is a great idea. It will let the homeschooling parents know that your lesson plans are worth the money.
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12 Comments
Post a CommentThis is a very helpful article. My aunt teaches Special Eduction classes for a loca high school. She is always looking for something that will bring in some extra dollars over the summer. I will definitely tell her to have a look at this article.
Awesome idea!
Great idea. I was little disappointed not to find some resources for selling those plans.
Being an old time teacher, this sounds intriguing. At one time I made individual lesson plans for each subject for each child. Those were the days we had them divided by capability. I wouldn't buy a lesson plan on line if I were teaching today, but, just so you don't think I'm a saint...Every Friday afternoon, I hauled out the projector and we watched an hour of movies. I would have gone for a cigarette if I thought I could have gotten away with it.
In response to Carol, the US education system is such a mess that most homeschool curriculums are better than anything a child is going to get in school. Consistently, homeschooled kids get higher acceptances to university and higher grades on exams. Teachers all over the world buy lesson plans on the internet, so why should homeschoolers be any different? Good article!
Great article! I might do this in addition to the books I'm creating. Thanks for the idea. :-)
I highly doubt that states would approve a curriculum made like this. Many, many homeschoolers do not use a packaged curriculum and are not required to get approved by the state. Many parents write their own curriculum.
Very interesting. I'm surprised that people would buy from someone who had no educational degree in a field related to curriculum planning and I'm also surprised that states would approve a curriculum created by a non-degreed homeschooling parent no matter how good it was- not a judgment about the quality at all, just an observation about the politics.
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Wow, a great idea!