Tag: middle school
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World War 2 unit
One of my favorite authors sent out an email reminding us that this week is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I was lucky enough to be in France during the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and in honor of that, I’d like to share with you all of our World War 2 unit which is an…
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Animal Cell Model
A few years ago, we studied anatomy for our homeschool science, and we made a wonderfully complicated edible cell model. We are reviewing biology this year with the kids, and we reviewed all about animal cells. To help get it into their heads, we made an animal cell cookie model. (This post contains affiliate links)…
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Homeschool Halloween
Halloween is a contentious subject among homeschoolers, but my kids love to dress up and pretend, so it’s a big hit in our family and because of that, we’ve had a lot of Homeschool Halloween lessons. Of course, our lessons have become less common as the kids have grown older. There were quite a lot…
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Artist Studies
I love artist studies. We usually keep them short, one to two days, and attempt to recreate the artwork of the artist or their style. This often means we create truly unique art, but it’s so much fun. I thought it would be helpful for all of you to collect all of our Artist Studies…
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South America Unit
Before we started learning about South America for our geography. I knew a couple of things. I knew about the Amazon River and the rain forest. You can’t have grown up in the 90s and not heard about the rain forest, and how we were going to DESTROY IT NOW! Fern Gully, evil bulldozers are…