Category: Unit Studies

Thanksgiving Lapbook

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Thanksgiving is coming, ready or not! Thanksgiving is a very fun time to do a unit study with homeschoolers. Learn about the Pilgrims, about religious liberty, about the northeast Indians, about harvest. There are so many aspects to choose from. Here are a few ideas of books to read and ways to put together a lapbook about Thanksgiving.

Some fun reads for children are Squanto And The Miracle Of Thanksgiving, Stories of the Pilgrims, The Thanksgiving Story, If You Were at the First Thanksgiving. and If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.

If you would like to make a Thanksgiving lapbook, you can get some very nice printable mini books from the books History Pockets, Life in Plymouth Colony and Easy Make and Learn Projects: The Pilgrims, the Mayflower and More. You can also find some things that could be used in a lap book and some fun crafts for Thanksgiving at Danielle’s Place and at Enchanted Learning.

Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving lap books by some of our very own AHE children:


You can see close ups of this lapbook  by clicking here.

You can see closeups of this lapbook by clicking here.

Have preparing for Thanksgiving!

Free SDA Resources to Use in Your Homeschool

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Here is a list of free SDA resources that you can use/adapt to fit the needs of your homeschool program.   This is not a comprehensive list,  so look for a new list with even more resources coming soon!


Bible/Church History/SDA pioneers

God’s Messenger – Lesson plans and mp3s on SDA pioneers.

Youth Bible Reading Plan – A four year Bible reading plan for young people.

The Bible Story lesson plans Volumes 1-6 and Volumes 7-10. – From the South Pacific Division, lesson plans to accompany the “blue books” that so many of us have on our bookshelves. Download Note: the documents are large!

Planning a study of Adventist pioneers ? This gallery of drawings of Adventist pioneers will be helpful to your study. Adventist Pioneer Library has a nice page with brief biographical sketches and pictures as well. If you are also creating a time-line of church history, here’s a sample parallel timeline showing key events in US history, world history and SDA church history. Makes a great model to help your student create their own parallel time-line.

Free study guides for 22 E.G. White books.

History/Geography/Missions/Biographies

Maranatha Volunteers International – Lots of inspiration for hands-on mission work.  Free DVDs available.

Adventist Missions– Lots of ideas and resources.  Be sure to check the past children’s quarterlies for games, puzzles and recipes.

Adventist Frontier Missions– Inspiring first-hand accounts of reaching the unreached.

CIRCLE : Browsing Adventist Missions – A page full of Adventist mission websites and resources.

Visionary for Kids – Online kids magazine issue focusing on Adventist missions.

 

Unit Studies

Adventurer and Pathfinder awards make great outlines for creating fun unit studies.

Adventurer Club Awards- Award requirements

Adventurer Awards Wikibook Helps for completing awards.

Pathfinder Club Honors Honors requirements

Pathfinder Honors Wikibook Helps and answers for honors

 

Fun Links for April

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Many homeschool families like to add missions/missionaries units to their world history or geography lessons.  Here are some great resources to help you create a custom  unit or year-long study of missions/missionaries.  Seventh-day Adventist resources are marked with an *.

Missionary Stories for Kids – A Squidoo page with lots of ideas and links for biographies of missionaries.

Teaching with God’s Heart for the World – A free year-long curriculum that incorporates world missions with other subjects.

Missions and Missionaries Unit Study – Resources and ideas from Eclectic Homeschool Online.

Resources for Parents and Teachers from Wycliffe Bible Translators

*Maranatha Volunteers International – Lots of inspiration for hands-on mission work.  Free DVDs available.

*Adventist Missions– Lots of ideas and resources.  Be sure to check the past children’s quarterlies for games, puzzles and recipes.

*Adventist Frontier Missions– Inspiring first-hand accounts of reaching the unreached.

*CIRCLE : Browsing Adventist Missions – A page full of Adventist mission websites and resources.

*Visionary for Kids – Online kids magazine issue focusing on Adventist missions.

 

Helpful Links for March

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Planning a study  of Adventist pioneers ?  This gallery of drawings of Adventist pioneers will be helpful to your study.  Adventist Pioneer Library has a nice page with brief biographical sketches and pictures as well.   If you are also creating a timeline of church history,  here’s a sample parallel timeline showing key events in US history, world history and SDA church history.  Makes a great model to help your student create their own parallel timeline.

If you are looking for ideas and resources to do a Christian character traits lapbook or unit study, the Character lapbook page at Homeschool Share has some great ideas and printables to get you started.

It’s always handy to have a source for math drill worksheets.   Math-drills.com has thousands of free printable worksheets on many different math topics.

Fun Links for February

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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

The Great Backyard Bird Count is Coming Soon!

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For our US and Canadian homeschool families that may not be familiar with this event, this is a fun way to incorporate nature study into your program and make a contribution to science at the same time!

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event.

Click on the image to head over to the GBBC website where you can learn more about the count, download activity pages and tally sheets and learn more about birds in preparation for the count.

We will be posting more ideas in the coming days on how to get started birdwatching and turn this event into a fun bird unit study and family nature study activity

Do You See What I See? Free Unit Study Printable

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There has been a great discussion on the AHE-List about how to create unit studies.  I was inspired to create a printable of ideas for creating a fun multi-disciplinary unit study based on the Adventurer Club award Spotter.  Print the requirements for the Spotter award first, and then this spotter unit study idea list for additional activities.

Join the AHE-List if you’d like to ask questions and share ideas about homeschooling from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective.