Here’s a secret that some of our new homeschool families may not know about: the Adventurer, Pathfinder and Adventist Youth award manuals are great resources to use to create your own unit studies, as outlines for creating your own curriculum or to supplement another curriculum. Click on the links below to download these pdf resources.
Adventurer Award Manual – 6.75MB
Pathfinder Award Manual – 5.33MB
Youth Leadership Award Manual – 601.23KB
Let’s start February with some fun links for your homeschool!
The Great Backyard Bird Count takes place February 18-21. Why not use the Adventurer Feathered Friends award and the Pathfinder Birds and Birds-Advanced honors to turn the bird count into a fun unit study?
Do you have the Uncle Arthur Bible Story books? Here’s a great free resource to accompany the series. This two-part curriculum is designed for classroom use, but is a great source of ideas for creative worships and Bible lessons. It is designed to be an 8 year program. DOWNLOAD NOTE: The documents are large, the first set is 293 pages!
This South Pacific Division elementary Bible curriculum was developed by and for Pacific Island Adventist schools. This teacher’s guide includes lesson or story plans to accompany Uncle Arthur’s Bible Story series, Volumes 1-6. Concise, clear, adaptable, utilizing multiple intelligences, this Adventist religious education resource is free of copyright, ready for use or translation. See also the companion Pacific Island Bible Story Plans 7-10
This month brings Fall weather to the Northern Hemisphere and Spring weather to the Southern. On October 1st, there are only 91 days left in 2010!
October is Health Literacy Month- Here are two unit studies using the Adventurer and Pathfinder club curriculum: Adventurer -Health Specialist ; Pathfinder- Nutrition
Is your student learning about the seasons? A fall lapbook is a fun way to teach the seasons. Here’s a Squiddo page full of ideas to fill several lapbooks!
October is National Go-On-A-Field Trip Month. Do a web search on “field trips in *your state* ” to discover lots of ideas for fun educational day trips.
Fall-themed crafts are always fun. Enchanted Learning offers lots of activities. Fall leaf templates are fun to work with too!
The Adventist Home Educator 