Harmony Art Mom has put together a summer music/art appreciation course. It’s mostly free! 🙂
Unit Study
Steward Ship
Friday Freebies at The Old Schoolhouse, pointed me in the direction of Steward Ship.
These folks produce Unit Studies and other such things to help homeschoolers teach their children.
With the unit study method, we choose one topic and combine different subjects to revolve around and tie into that topic. First of all, the unit study approach is different from the traditional textbook approach (which is to read a portion of text, usually full of facts and not very interesting and then answer some questions at the end).
Unit studies are conducted in a more relaxed fashion and are interactive in nature.
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A unit study can be anything you want it to be. It can be short or long, filled with lots of activities or just a few, it can be something you do alongside your other studies or a full blown unit study that takes several weeks. But the key is, YOU get to decide.
There are three avenues to consider when deciding how you will do a unit study:
— Purchase a complete unit study
— Use a prepared topical guide
— Create your own from scratch
If you want to know more, check out their website. For a brief unit study, check this out.
Sail to the New World
Okay, this Friday Freebie sent in the newsletter from The Old Schoolhouse, sounds VERY familiar to me, but I can’t see where I might have posted on it before so here goes.
Sail to the New World. Put out by Tapestry of Grace
Sail to the New World takes you through the first three week-plans in Unit 3 of Tapestry of Grace Year 2: Between Ancient and Modern. Tapestry is designed as a rotational program, and many families discover Tapestry after they have already studied world history with other programs. Tapestry plans are available by the unit, so you can take up your Tapestry studies wherever you left off with your other program. This Colonial America unit is one of the most popular places to begin Tapestry mid-year. Do you have a break coming up in your regular school year? Try printing out these weeks out and using them to do a three-week mini-unit on early Colonial America as you approach Thanksgiving.
Korea
For a unit study on Korea, go here. Better yet, join Knowledge Quest and get a newsletter sent to you with interesting stuff in it. 🙂
For more on Korea you could check out the following:
Wikipedia.
You could go to google earth and explore it via satellite.
You could check out South Korea’s tourism site.
Or you could see what the CIA has on South Korea and North Korea.
I learned that just doing a search on Korea will draw up more resources for south korea than for north. I found that interesting and am not sure why that it is. Perhaps later today I will have a chance to discover the reasoning behind that.
There are a lot more resources on-line, just go check them out. 🙂
Unit Studies
Corresponding with this post over at Fisher of Disciples, Here are some places to find unit studies that are already made. Need to be purchased for the most part.
Amanda Bennett’s Unit Studies.
Heart of Wisdom Publishers has unit studies.
homeschooling at Sassafras Grove has some unit studies. Took a quick breeze through the site and wow! Using this will save me time and energy. 😉
Family Classroom. net has unit studies, free, already made up for use. Might make good base for developing unit studies of my own.
From Homeschool in the woods comes this unit study on Christmas.
Home School Learning Network lists units of study I would not have thought of on my own. They give actual studies too! This site also have unit studies that you can purchase, and a whole whack available through a subscription program.
Zone Unit Studies has some fairly basic studies as far as I can tell. Might be a source of inspiration. 🙂
Home Sweet homeschool lists a fair number of resources. Worth checking it sometime.
Autumn
The Old Schoolhouse has once again, sent out a treasure of freebies. 🙂
This focus of this one is Autumn stuff, goes to figure since well….summer is technically over. 🙂
First up… I really like this, It comes from treasure house press. A PDF file of the science of autumn.
It’s called “The Science of Autumn” (and trees!) and looks like loads of fun! There are activity pages, informational write-ups, notebooking pages, web resources and more!
Next up is a page loaded with Fall craft ideas for children. Bookmarks, place mats, ponytail holders. Fun for children. More can be found here and here.
Home School in the Woods
offers unit studies, timelines, downloads etc.
Looks also to be a good resource.
One of the Things I like about them, is that they offer samplers of their materials, such as this lesson from their colonial study. Lesson 9. Or Lesson one from their New world explorers unit.