How to Make Money Selling Homeschool Lesson Plans Online

The homeschool community is growing every year. There is always a great demand for quality lesson plans and unit studies. If you are a homeschooling parent, or just a good researcher, you can make money selling homeschool lesson plans online.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Knowledge
• Word Processing Program
• Internet Connection
• Website (optional)

1. 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.

2. Decide what you need to put in it, such as subjects, graphics, worksheets, and writing paper. 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.

3. Write 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.

4. Include graphics that are completely free to use. Do not use anything that is copyrighted to another person or plagerize any content.

5. Create text, Microsoft word, or pdf files that can be sent through the email to the buyer or offer it as a direct downloadable product.

6. Create 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.

Resources

• Homeschool Cheap

[howtoditaskme]

on 7/10/2009 the best place to post and sell lesson plans is at http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com where there are 160,000 registered users and 40,000 listings as of summer 09

[amylaine]

on 10/17/2008 Great ideas, thanks.