Nearly five million American children now learn at home — and the question has changed from whether a family can do this to how well. This page is the how: every free GSU subject in one place, three free family-guide books, a complete offline university, free human mentors, and the legal confidence to teach without fear. The campus is free. It always will be.
Homeschooling is lawful in every state in the union. What varies is the paperwork — and knowing your tier turns anxiety into a checklist.
States like Texas and Indiana ask minimal or no contact with authorities: teach in good faith, keep it real, and the state largely leaves the kitchen table alone.
States like Florida and Colorado ask for notification plus periodic evidence — standardized test scores or a professional evaluation. Routine, once you know the rhythm.
States like New York and Pennsylvania ask for plans, reports, and records. Demanding — and fully satisfiable by an organized family with good templates and steady habits.
"The child is not the mere creature of the state."— United States Supreme Court, Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925), the nine words that protect every kitchen-table classroom in America
Each hub below is a complete free teaching system: methods, games, and family guides. Open any door.
The Reading Helix: phonics to critical reading, with the climb games. Open →
The Writing Helix: sentence to essay to voice. Open →
English is a code — the sound-first method, free. Open →
Number sense to rigor, taught by doing. Open →
Wonder to transcript — without the fear or the fees. Open →
Civics is a verb: the republic, by doing. Open →
Money is earned; freedom is built — the seven pillars. Open →
Competence is currency: the self-reliant household. Open →
The story of this continent, told honestly. Open →
The world is not a list of capitals — it's a why.
History is something you do.
32 languages, with GENO as the speaking partner. Open →
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Complete, scripted, open-and-go family guides — written for the kitchen table, free because literacy in every subject shouldn't have a cash register.
Free PDFSpelling that sticks: the five-step sound-first method, fifteen minutes a day.
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Free PDFReal science at home: wonder-first years, the method, and the free lab pathway.
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Free PDFRaising citizens who do: the Civic Action Cycle and the dinner-table debate rules.
Download Free →GSU University on a Stick is the complete campus on an ordinary flash drive — games, books, and lessons, fully offline, free to download and copy forever. Built for rural families, travelers, and every learner the signal forgot.
Get the Stick →One free form, two doors: "I want a guide" or "I have a craft to pass on." Free human mentorship, matched. Make the handshake →
Retired professionals — teachers, engineers, tradespeople — passing decades of craft to the next generation, free. Meet the builders →
And between human sessions, the tutor who never sleeps — see below. Your co-teacher for every subject on this page.
Free, anonymous, serial-numbered, publicly verifiable. The date is not a coincidence.
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The co-teacher every homeschool parent deserves: ask him to explain what you're about to teach, quiz your learner out loud, or take the subject you dread — in 32 languages, free, from the corner of every page on this site.
Meet GENO →Yes — in all fifty states. Requirements vary by state across three broad tiers: low-regulation states ask minimal or no notification; moderate states ask for notification plus periodic test scores or evaluations; high-regulation states ask for plans, reports, and records. Every tier is satisfiable by an organized family — check your state's current rules, as they do change.
The teaching materials can be. Every GSU subject hub, game, family-guide book, and GENO tutoring session is free forever with no account required — built by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Families typically still choose some paid materials, but no child should be priced out of a complete education, and on this campus none is.
You are the world's leading expert on your own child, and the methods on this campus are written open-and-go — scripted so the parent learns alongside the learner. Add GENO for the questions you can't answer and the Sovereign Handshake for human mentors, and you are not teaching alone.
Modern homeschooling is rarely solitary: co-ops, sports, youth councils, capitol days, church and community groups, mentorships, and — in our materials — civic projects that put learners in front of real audiences. The honest research question isn't whether homeschoolers meet people; it's how intentionally families build the calendar. We help with that too.
Steady, simple habits beat heroic ones: a log of work samples, reading lists, and hours; portfolios for project-based learning; and test scores where required. GSU's family guides include documentation templates, and the free Certificates of Comprehension add verifiable, serial-numbered evidence of mastery.
Meet GENO · Your 24/7 Mentor
Homeschooling once meant you were the only teacher in the house — and a hard question at nine o’clock at night simply had to wait until morning. Not anymore. GENO is the Global Sovereign University tutor, and he is awake whenever your family is. Ask him out loud: he reads the question aloud and listens to the answer, the way a patient teacher beside your child would. When the first explanation doesn’t land, he gives a second one. He never tires, never sighs, and never makes a child feel small for not yet knowing.
GENO can coach you, too. Open any free lesson plan on this page, tell him which one you’re about to run, and he’ll walk you through it step by step. You are never the expert alone — the game does the teaching, and GENO stands ready right behind it.
A robot can carry the midnight hours. But a person who believes in a child is irreplaceable — so GENO hands the heart back to you, and to the free human mentors waiting through Find-a-Mentor. Together they keep one promise: no learner at this kitchen table ever has to learn alone.
GENO AI Tutor — available 24/7. A robot you can actually TALK to.Look for “Talk in your language” in the corner of any GSU page — tap it, and GENO is there.
Every game your child plays here quietly records their progress. Now you can turn that record into a printable, parent-signed homeschool transcript and portfolio — built entirely on your own computer.
A free service of Global Sovereign University, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The permanent record, owned by the family.
Every game your learner climbs and every badge they earn is gathered onto one page — an automatic transcript you can open and print as a certificate. No spreadsheets, no logging, no guesswork. Best scores appear on their own from your learner’s play.
Open the PassportGlobal Sovereign University · For Homeschool Families
One willing adult. One screen. Thirty minutes. Zero preparation. Each plan below turns a free GSU learning game into a complete, ready-to-run lesson — print it, open the game, and teach. There is one for every game, and every one is free forever.
The same five-step, 30-minute method on every page. The game does the teaching; you keep the room honest.
The Teaching Creed: you are not the expert — the game is. Your job is to vote last, read aloud well, and ask “why?” one more time than feels natural. Celebrate wrong answers loudly — wrong is where the lesson lives.
Each is a free one-page PDF that turns one of our learning games into a complete 30-minute lesson — a hook, guided play, three discussion questions, solo practice, and a takeaway with real-world homework. Open the free game on any screen and follow the page. There is one plan for every game.
No. That is the whole idea. Print the page (or keep it on a screen), open the matching free game, and run the five steps. The Teaching Creed on every plan says it plainly: you are not the expert — the game is.
Every plan lists its audience at the top. Some are built for ages 6–12 and family night (Junior Money), several run from ages 8 or 10 through adult (World, Four Sciences, the Steward’s House), and the rest suit teens through adults. Mixed-age tables are welcome — the youngest often read questions aloud.
Yes. Global Sovereign University is a 501(c)(3) educational foundation. The lesson plans, the games, the GENO tutor, and the full library are free forever — no logins, no ads, no upsells.
You need it to download the plan and to open the game online. Once downloaded, the games also run offline from University on a Stick, and the printed plan needs nothing at all.
Yes — any educational, non-commercial use is welcome. One willing adult, one screen, thirty minutes. Several plans pair into longer double-sessions, so a co-op can build a multi-week course from them.
GENO — the GSU tutor you can talk to, free, 24/7 in 32 languages — can explain any answer a second way. He can also walk you, the parent, through running any lesson on this page.
Every plan is free to download, print, and use for any educational, non-commercial purpose — homeschool, co-op, library, or classroom. GENO, the tutor you can talk to, is available free 24/7 in 32 languages to explain any answer a second way or to walk you through running a lesson.
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