How Home school Unit Studies Work

"Hi, I’m Sharon Wilharm on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. And I’d like to talk about unit studies. Now what exactly is a unit study? A unit study is where you tie in your subjects together, a lot of times you’re focused on history or literature and then you tie in as many subjects as you can relate to them. For example, in patchwork primers volume one, everything is based on American history. Now in the unit when you’re studying the explorers, you tie that in that’s your history; your science is tied in because you’re studying astronomy. The explorers used astronomy to find their way and so that’s how you tie that in. For math, you study distance, measuring distance because of course that was important to the explorers and in Bible; you’re studying about different people who explored new lands, for example Moses. Now you can buy a purchased unit study and there are many on the market, or you can make your own and to do so you pick a topic that’s of interest to your students and then you start checking out library books on the subjects, you start finding books that you have and you start reading about it and then you tie it into your other subjects. You can do art projects, you can tie it in with your writing, your writing reports, your copying for your handwriting and just as many subjects as you can you all tie it in together. It’s a very old way of learning and it’s a very successful way of learning and it works really good with young children and it makes home schooling a lot of fun for everyone."