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Beautiful Feet Books provides study guides and literature packs for learning history through literature. They also offer unit studies on a variety of topics outside of history. Most resources are guides for purchase, but a few topics include printable curriculum.
BookShark offers students from Pre-K to Age 16 the chance to learn all the required educational subjects through the engaging lens of books. BookShark’s curriculum is designed to develop creative and academically successful minds in children by teaching them to view the world and historical events not through rote memorization but through unforgettable stories that Continue reading »
Build Your Library is a secular Charlotte Mason inspired homeschool curriculum created by Emily Cook that takes a literature approach to educating children in art, history, literature, science, and language arts. Full-year general homeschooling grade level products are available for Kindergarten through grade 12. Build Your Library also offers multi-age unit studies using well-chosen popular Continue reading »
Campfire Curriculums is a Christian extracurricular done from home for homeschoolers or non-homeschoolers that combines a Charlotte Mason ideology with job shadowing/apprenticeship. Emphasis is placed on experiential and hands-on activities with contributions from experts or professionals in each field. Continue reading »
Draw Write Now is an eight-book series with step-by-step drawing instruction and short sentences for writing practice. Each Draw Write Now book is a unit study with 21 directed drawing lessons presented on two pages showing a colorful drawing, four sentences, and step-by-step drawing instructions. The units explore history, geography, natural science, and social studies. Continue reading »
Five in a Row is a literature-based unit study curriculum for younger elementary students. Available in both softcover volumes and as digital files (the files include some features not available in the books), many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. For more... Continue reading »
How Wee Learn unit studies are designed to ignite curiosity with an interesting fact and discussion question at the start of each of ten sub-topics. Afterward, you can enjoy a recommended book and YouTube video together. After that gentle introduction to the sub-topic, it's time for engaging hands-on activities and other enrichment in the deep-dive Continue reading »
Konos is a Christian unit study curriculum help that is based on character traits. Many families use it for all but the three Rs, and others use it simply as a curriculum supplement. For more information on Konos... Continue reading »
"Magic Forest Academy is an engaging nature based educational program that is both secular and affordable." Appropriate for both full curriculum or as a supplement, the individual nature-themed unit studies are filled with reading, math, science, art and craft, games, recipes and more. As of this writing, only Stage Two for ages 7-12 is available, Continue reading »
My Father's World is a full package curriculum (math & language arts are from other vendors) with a Christian perspective that, like Sonlight but less intense, has history as its backbone, and relates the rest of the curriculum to it. It was originally created for missionaries.
Sonlight Curriculum provides quality, literature-rich K-12 Christian homeschool curriculum and related educational products, resources, and programs. Sonlight is a Christian company specializing in literature-based homeschool curriculum programs which selects engaging books and readers that cover topics such as Bible, history, language arts, handwriting, math, science, and more. They provide complete homeschool curriculum packages and individual Continue reading »
Tapestry of Grace is a unit study style, classical, core curriculum for History, LA, Geography, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Bible/Church History, Government. It has both printed or digital options and covers material on a four-year cycle with four classical levels.
The Weaver Curriculum is a unit-based, Bible-centered homeschool curriculum for grades PreK-12th. The curriculum uses the same daily Bible theme as a foundation and then creates lessons for each student. Students are then studying the same main subject at the same time with individual lesson assignment geared to each student's grade level. For example if Continue reading »
Working from the idea that literature communicates powerfully to young minds, WinterPromise developed a curriculum that is strongly literature-based. This offers parents the opportunity to do less teaching and more "learning together" with their children. This "Learning Together" method has the additional benefit of requiring almost no preparation for the parent, preserving as many moments Continue reading »
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