Posts for category ‘Using Lesson Pathways’

This week, we’re proud to feature this unit study all about Helen Keller!  Your student will have fun and gain a deeper understanding of living with a disability through hands-on activities such as reading braille and walking through the dark.  Worksheets, tests and online games provide additional reinforcement.

This week, your child will learn about Helen Keller. You will be learning about her struggles, her accomplishments, and her desire to learn. Activities in this unit will teach your child basic sign language, including the sign language alphabet. You will also explore the Braille reading system. Other highlights of this unit include activities that teach about relating to people who may be different from you and experiencing what it is like to be unable to hear and see. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach history

Have you been hit by the winter cold yet?  Now is a great time to explore what life is like in Arctic habitats and it just so happens we’ve got a fantastic line-up of resources for you to build your unit study.

This unit teaches children about the arctic habitat. They’ll learn about the climate differences and how animals and plants live within these environments. Learn about polar bears, create an Arctic scene and try an experiment to discover how it might feel to be an animal living in the Arctic. This unit also include printable worksheets, games and videos to complete your study.  This unit is designed to last about one week, depending on how often you teach science.

There’s just something about this story that appeals to readers of all ages.  Take some time out from the holiday hustle and bustle to enjoy the unit study on the Little House on the Prairie.  This is the first of 5 Pathways dedicated to Little House on the Prairie.

In this unit, you will begin reading the story of the Ingalls family in “Little House on the Prairie.” The first five chapters describe their covered wagon journey and some of the perils they encounter along the way. Your child will discover the types of food they ate on their journey and some of the wild animals encountered along the way. Your child will write about what character he/she identifies most with and how he/she thinks it would feel to camp out in the wilderness. Your child will also learn about double negatives, which are common grammatical errors. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach language arts.

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December 8th is Eli Whitney’s birthday.

Add this FREE history unit study to your homeschool or classroom planner!  We all know he’s famous for inventing the cotton gin, but do you know about his other inventions too?

In this unit, you will learn about an inventor, Eli Whitney. You will learn about one of his inventions, the cotton mill, and how it changed slavery. Eli also helped out with the production of firearms for the military during his day. You will also use critical thinking skills to make your own inventions and consider why inventions are important. This unit contains reading lessons, worksheets, an online game and a video give you an in-depth look at Eli Whitney. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach history.

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We talked about incorporating math into everyday life before. It’s important for your child to take the concepts he has learned and apply them to real-life situations.  Thanksgiving presents the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Take a look at this free unit on Estimating, including fun games and hands-on activities.  Later, have your child use what she has learned to help determine how much food to prepare for Thanksgiving.

In this unit, your child will use estimation to solve basic math problems and compare objects and quantities. Hands-on activities include using many different types of manipulatives and playing games. Interactive online activities and worksheets are also included to reinforce the concepts. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach math.

With our American Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s fitting we feature this beloved Pathway on Settlers & Native Americans.

In addition to lessons, worksheets and a video, there are also SIX hands-on activities – all  sure to spice up your homeschool or classroom lesson plans. Learn about life in the Plymouth Village, try your hand a making stewed pompion and craft a Native American Story stick!

In this unit, your child will learn what life was like for the settlers in the new world. The unit will cover the Mayflower journey and what life was like while traveling across the ocean. Your child will discover what the pilgrim’s life was like in Plymouth Village and their interactions with the Native Americans as well as the first Thanksgiving. This unit also includes worksheets, hands-on activities, recipes, games, and coloring pages. This unit is designed to last for one week, depending on how often you teach history.

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November is National Aviation Month.

We have so many great resources about flight, it was hard to pick just one! This week, we’re featuring this amazing history unit about Amelia Earhart.  It’s full of cross-curriculuar activities!

If your student wants to learn more about flight and famous aviators, just use the search box at LessonPathways.com to find more great lessons, activities, videos and more!

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Get ready to explore the exciting life of Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix (woman aviator). Learn about Amelia’s early years growing up in Atchison, Kansas. She was once home schooled just like you. Tag along as she learns to fly and earns her pilot’s license. Like Amelia, you can practice flying planes, the paper kind that is. Pretend you are Amelia as you write in your journal the night before your last flight. You will also have the opportunity to map her last flight, watch videos, and listen to her give a speech. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach history.

On this day in 1929, the stock market crashed, starting the Great Depression. Today’s Featured Pathway, is a Language Arts unit based on the children’s classic, “Bud, Not Buddy.” Set during the Great Depression, this is a great launching-off point for a theme unit incorporating History and Language Arts.

Family, survival, and hope are the themes in “Bud, Not Buddy” by Christopher Paul Curtis. Set out on a journey with Bud Caldwell as he searches for his father and learns life lessons along the way. You will read the first five chapters of the book and answer thought-provoking questions. Be prepared to begin a journal for Bud, answering the way he would. You will construct a suitcase like Bud’s, research the 1930’s, write a list of rules for a “funner” life and much more. The writing process is the focus for Language Arts. You will learn all the steps for creating a thorough essay. The typing lesson this week will teach you the letter T and how to type a period(.). Quizzes, printables, writing resources and a video compliment the lessons. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach language arts.

Isn’t it a great feeling when you can help out a friend? It makes us feel great to be able to provide you with such a wonderful, high-quality resource like LessonPathways. We are so excited about the number of users that visit the site and use our free educational resources. It makes us happy to know that your children are benefiting from the efforts of dedicated Lesson Pathways volunteers and team members.

We know that it also feels great to be able give back – and many of you have asked how you can do that. Of course, we can always use your input, feedback, and help creating Pathways. If you’d like to try your hand at creating a Pathway, send us an email at ContactUs(at)LessonPathways.com and we will help you get started.

Another way you can help out is by doing something that you’re probably already doing: shopping! Lesson Pathways has a Shopping Mall page – all you need to do is click on the link to the online store you want to shop at and Lesson Pathways will get a percentage of your purchase. And here’s the best part: It doesn’t cost you any more than you were going to spend anyway!

Based on user feedback, we’ve added a few new stores and updated some links. There is now even a link to shop at Amazon.com! (Because who doesn’t shop at Amazon?) We’ve even made the page easier to find by adding a button to the Shopping Mall onto our home page. We hope that you’ll take a second to visit our Mall to help us keep Lesson Pathways free for everyone!

Shel Silverstein is one of the most celebrated children’s authors of all time. It’s with good cause too!  His poems and illustrations are delightful, imaginative and just plain fun!  If you haven’t introduced your children to the works of Shel Silverstein, or even if you just want to revisit his books, take a look at this week’s Feature Pathway: Where the Sidewalk Ends.

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Explore the wacky world of Shel Silverstein and read “Where the Sidewalk Ends” with your child. By choosing a photo that represents where the sidewalk ends, writing a poem, creating a 3-D picture, and making a collage, your child will understand the story and have fun. You will also talk about authors and illustrators and relate the concept to Shel Silverstein, author/illustrator of “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” Plus, your child will learn the sight words “fall, far, and full.” This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach language arts.