Unit Studies
Unit studies are a creative and dynamic way to integrate core subjects into topical learning. They can excite interest in your child and can help you cover a number of subjects in a shorter amount of time. Learn more about unit studies and how to incorporate them into your own homeschooling methods.
Homeschooling Using Unit Studies
In the Hands of a Child
Provider of Lapbook® style project packs and research packs. Each of the completed projects fits neatly into a file folder; storage is simple and the projects become wonderful keepsakes with an educational value. Children retain more when what they learn belongs to them. Project Packs and Research Packs fulfill that need for ownership of knowledge.
Funschooling Unit Study Archives
Lots of free unit studies written by Karen Caroe. You'll find literature- and science-based unit studies, studies on holidays and more.
Five in a Row
Five in a Row provides a step-by-step, instructional guide using outstanding children's literature for children ages 4-8. Unit studies are built around each chosen book. There is a series for preschoolers called "Before Five in a Row," along with other volumes for older children.
Amanda Bennett's Unit Studies
Available for purchase, Amanda's topical unit studies offer weekly learning objectives and much more. The daily lesson plans and assignments are included in the book, ready for immediate use. These unit study guides include daily lesson plans, with reading and writing assignments, spelling and vocabulary words, biography and geography studies, projects, reading lists, and Internet sites of interest. Designed for use by all ages, each day's lesson plan is divided into lower and upper levels. For younger children, use only the parts of the plan that fit the needs of your child, and apply the same principle for older students.
Lesson Tutor
The Lesson Tutor website offers reproducible free lesson plans, print ready worksheets for all levels, all abilities and all subjects from Pre-school to High School, and cross curriculum unit studies. These learning tools are all free for you to print and use for personal or educatinal purposes.
Easy Fun School
As opposed to many other sites offer online resources and lesson plans, Easy Fun School is designed with the homeschooling parent and child in mind. Through the subject index, you will find lesson plans and ideas for teaching art, holidays, reading, science, writing, unit studies, state studies, and much more.
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Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave You to Teach
This book offers helpful and practical strategies about the different ways that kids acquire information and learn, and then use that knowledge. Kids' behavior is often tied to a particular learning style and understanding that fact will help parents respond to their child in ways that decrease frustration and increase success, especially in a homeschooling environment.
Writing Strands & Reading Strands
This program is based on research which shows that there is no useable relationship between the study of grammar as an abstracted skill and the ability to communicate. Writing Strands provides quality reading, writing and speech materials for homeschoolers with children ages 3 through 18. The guided exercises in Writing Strands progress incrementally and allow students to work independently, yet provide the guidance students need to sharpen their ability to inform, persuade and entertain in writ...
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
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