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Advantage of unit studies

Who knows what your young child may grow up to be? I bet you don't even know, although you may think you have a good idea. Will your child be interested in airport jobs? Maybe she will want to be an animal doctor or a language or sign interpreter.

Well, since you don't really know yet, this is the time to be introducing them to a variety of career choices by offering subjects in those areas. Your child's interest may be piqued along one path or another, and she will begin to dig more deeply into those courses of study.

Keeping it all well-balanced is important, of course, so you don't want to leave out the basic studies. But using unit studies might fulfill both purposes.

For instance, you might want to incorporate lessons about the airport with subjects such as language arts, math, and even science or history. When it's all rolled together under one topic - Airports - you child might be more engaged in the study and stand more chance of success in accomplishing the unit study tasks.

Labels: Unit Studies

posted by Ann crum @ 2:35 PM