Today we worked on our review for Passport UK – we did the Scout version which is for children in K-6. This study is produced by unit studies by amanda bennett.
We chose to do Scotland today as we’ve studied some of the other countries in this series before. The other days include: An Overview of the United Kingdom, and then individual days England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
when I told the lad we were going to learn about puffins I got a huge YEAH!!!!
We did some copywork of Psalm 147:8. We used this site to generate a copywork sheet.
He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures. (new living translation)
We learned about puffins, the loch ness monster, geographic points of interest and much much more. It was a very interesting study, just not as hands on as six year old prefer.
We thoroughly enjoyed watching the videos. There is such an abundance of links that it is fascinating to see all these different things.
Each day is jammed packed with scripture, maps, interesting points of interest, very important people, culture, science, a creature feature, and family fun projects. I really wish I could have copy and pasted from the study to my word program. It makes things easier for being able to minimize paper printing and to be able to formulate writing and drawing papers for my lad.
I have to admit, I’ve never done one of the passport studies before. I was expecting something along the lines of the DownloadN’Go Studies as that’s what I’ve come to expect from Amanda Bennett unit studies. And I was initially disappointed to not have the similarity, but as I got into it we saw that it was quite indepth and varied, and it spawned conversation and interest. I do wish it was a bit more user friendly. I was expecting graphics and things to cut and paste and circle and more of a unit study approach, so I was disappointed by that. I did like the lapbooking materials that can be found at the end of the e-book. My lad enjoyed putting together the small booklet on the puffin. 🙂 BUT he NEVER likes colouring in maps. he just doesn’t so we normally just look for it on the large map and then just outline it. 🙂 We then add points of interest to it.
I was impressed with the amount of information provided. You can take a peak inside of it by going here. 🙂
It’s a good study, just wasn’t quite what I was expecting. 🙂 I would encourage you to go out and get one. Seriously… it contains a good deal of solid information that is varied enough to promote conversation between teacher and student. It has a few lapbooking elements in it which makes it a bit more hands on for a younger child.
It was overall an excellent study. 🙂 we had some fun figuring out how much 17.5 oz is (the weight of a puffin). 14 hot wheels, three bananas, and so on. good study.
Having done Scotland today we decided to do a scottish meal for supper. We’ll have scottish oatcakes, fish, and I choosing to doing something not particularly scottish because I have a six year old somewhat skeptical lad.. PEAS! (he’ll eat those for sure). 🙂
Guess what! I got this message from Amanda Bennett Unit Studies!
We are happy to offer ALL your readers a gift – a unique code just from your blog, for 50% off this study for 7 days after we activate the code. We really want to reward ALL your readers, and not just one lucky winner.
The code is this: GetUK12. So here or go directly here and give them the code and you’ll get 50% off just for reading my review! Pretty cool eh? 🙂 At least that’s what I think!
disclaimer: i got a copy of this study for my free and honest evaluation of it. it did not influence my opinion of the study in any way. 🙂
