Week Four of the Virtual Curriculum Fair which is hosted by Susan. This week is all about exploring the world, history, geography, and science.This year we are making a focus of using Canada to study
geography, art and history.
We have a spine that we are using for the history portion, and around it we are doing art, watching videos, reading books, and learning geographic terms for the various sites we see along the way. Science in learning about animals, rocks, minerals etc (like the beaver we'll be studying this coming Tuesday).
I still have a goal of traveling across Canada with him, going east one year and then west the next. But until we can do that... we'll visit our fine country through books, video and study.
How about you? What do you want to see with your children?
To that end I have found some excellent resources for broadening our study on Canada.
Mrs. Nelson's Study on Canada. Make a tour guide and vacation your way through Canada. :)
About Education will walk you through how to do a unit study on Canada.
ABC Teach has a variety of free and pay worksheets for learning about Canada.
The Eric Institute of Education Services is a government site that is searchable for documents related to a wide variety of information. I found a ton of documents on First Nations people.
EdHelper.com has small unit studies on six of the Canadian Provinces.
I am looking forward to showing him the beauty of Canada's National Parks.
If you haven't discovered it yet, the Canadian Geographic Resource Centre is a really great resource.
I'll be using these Interesting Courses from SchoolhouseTeachers as well.
You might find some help here about understanding the Canadian Electoral System.
If you come to visit you might see some of the amazing animals that call Canada home.
And if you want to see more of Ontario, Check out the field trips we have gone on. HERE and HERE. It's good to learn about Canada in a variety of ways you know? :)
Please visit my fellow homeschool bloggers who are talking about Exploring Our World this week:
Note: all links will be LIVE by Monday 1/23 at noon EST.Notebooking Our Way through History by Susan @ Homeschooling Hearts & Minds
Studying the Where and How by Michele@Family, Faith and Fridays
The History of Our Mysterious Struggle With History by Laura @ Four Little Penguins
Social Science, Science and Exploring our World - Our Path by Joelle @ Homeschooling for His Glory
Learning History Through Fiction by Kristen @ Sunrise to Sunset
History in Our Homeschool by Amanda H @ Hopkins Homeschool
Exploring Our World Through History And Science by Laura @ Day by Day in Our World
Bringing History to Life! by Yvie @ Gypsy Road
History, Living Books and the Imagination by Sarah @ Delivering Grace
Exploring our world comes in many different forms. by Kim @ Good Sweet Love
Bible, History and Geography by Lizzy @ Peaches At Home
Beyond the Books - Social Studies and Science by Shecki @ Greatly Blessed
Exploring the World with Living Books by Brittney @ Mom's Heart
High School History & Science without Textbooks by Christy @ Unexpected Homeschool
Exploring the World Starting with Canada by Annette @ A Net in Time
Visit The World Through Video by Lori H @ At Home: where life happens
Nature Study is Our Favorite Way to Do Science by HillaryM @ Walking Fruitfully
What A Wonderful World by Kym @ Homeschool Coffee Break
The Time we got Lost in the Woods by Dana Hanley @ Roscommon Acres
We've been doing more local trips. Well, except the big trip all the way to Virginia in September (that's halfway across the country for us!). But we explore through books and video, too.
ReplyDeleteexploring is good is it not? :)
DeleteWhat a great listing of opportunities to explore your country. I love how deeply you ponder and consider and plan, even when things are not yet within achievable sight (such as the cross-country trip). This study will be wonderful for the lad. - Lori
ReplyDeleteThis is a great collection of resources---I suspect the lad is really enjoying the study of his home. Thank you for sharing. :)
ReplyDeletehe certainly seems to be at this point. :)
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