You asked.
We listened.
Now it's back, updated, and ready for the new school year!
 Unit Studies 101
is a tell-all book! Amanda Bennett offers her world
of knowledge on the basics of unit studies, how to research and create your own
unit studies, how to use unit studies effectively, and much more!
After more
than 18 years of homeschooling, authoring more than 90 books and speaking to
thousands of parents and teachers across the country, Amanda has assembled a
very useful and helpful tool for understanding, creating and using unit studies.
This comprehensive resource includes the basics of
using unit studies, as well as many helpful resources for creating your own studies.
You will find a wealth of organization and research tips, as well as clickable
links that can save you hours of your precious time.
There are
helpful forms for developing and using unit studies, printable from
your computer. Amanda has also included a treasure trove of research methods and
Internet resources.
Take a look at the Table of Contents . . .
Chapter 1: First Things First--What is an education? Why are creativity and imagination important? What was your own education like? What do you want your child's education to be like?
Chapter 2: What is Your Goal?--Developing short and long term educational goals for each child
Chapter 3: How We Learn--The ways that we learn: Bloom's Taxonomy, Learning Styles and Unit Studies
Chapter 4: What is a Unit Study?--Basics of unit studies, comparison of textbooks and unit studies
Chapter 5: Roadmap to Success--Amanda's nitty gritty details of making unit studies work with multiple ages, practical tips for books and reading, field trips, and planning for successful unit studies
Chapter 6: Unit Study Topics--Children's interests and moving from the known to the unknown
Chapter 7: Creating Your Own Unit Studies--Amanda's tried and true tips for using unit studies and creating your own unit studies
Chapter 8: Building the Study--Amanda's "Research How-to's for unit studies"
Chapter 9: Gearing Up and Launching Your Study--Moving from research to a daily plan
Chapter 10: Unit Study Forms--Interests of Our Children: great to help identify and pursue their interests; How to Combine the Interests of Multiple Children; Biography Suggestion Form; Geography of a Topic; Brainstorming Basics Form
Keywords for Your Research Form
Chapter 11: Wrap It Up and Take Off!--Finishing Your Unit Study - fun wrap-ups
Chapter 12: Ten Unit Study Starters
Appendix
Topic Ideas--SEVEN pages from Amanda's unit study ideas list!
Unit Study Wheel Concepts--To help you create your own unit studies
Dewey Decimal Classification System (Idea Generator!)
Timeline Page Master
Food for Thought--Some of Amanda's favorite quotes about education and kids.
Take a peek inside this guide.
PLUS . . .
 This great combo package also includes the Unit Study Journal, a value-rich, 107-page recordkeeping tool, filled with interactive forms to make your unit study adventures painless and stress-free.
The Unit Study Journal includes forms that you can fill out and save on your computer or print and fill out by hand. Amanda takes you by the hand and walks you through recordkeeping for unit studies. From the Starting Point forms, which you use to find out what each child wants to learn about, to the Books That We Used forms, which help you track all your library books, Amanda’s included plenty of helpful things to give you an edge with your unit study explorations.
Some of the forms in the Unit Study Journal include those to help keep track of:
- Independent Reading
- Family Read-Alouds
- Internet Resources
- Movie and Videos
- Our Unit Study Projects
- Our Field Trips
- Unit Study Plan Calendar
- Unit Study Assignments
- Daily Unit Study Diary
- And more!
A helpful tool for unit study users that like to or need to track their progress, the Unit Study Journal is reusable for years to come!
Here's what homeschooling parents are saying about Unit Studies 101 and the Unit Study Journal:
"If you ever want to write your own unit study you need to look no further than Amanda Bennett’s Unit Studies 101. This comprehensive guide, however, is much more than a unit study guide. It would be a blessing to any homeschool mom. Unit Studies 101 begins with a primer on what education is and how to set goals for your students. It also covers what unit studies are and how to differentiate for varying learning styles. I enjoy reading Amanda's easy to read style and gleaning from her years of experience as a homeschool mom and unit study author.
Unit Studies 101 is loaded with research links (so many that I didn’t realize existed) and multiple forms to help you plan your own unit studies and keep track of everything. This book takes you step by step from brainstorming, to putting it all together and implementing your own unit study with lots of fun ideas to include as well. The final chapter has ten unit study starters to get you started. I wouldn’t even think of writing a unit study without this book.”
—Karen D. Gouvin, Bradford, RI
"Unit Studies 101 is an excellent resource to help you design a simple, hard, fun, challenging study to encompass what YOU and your child(ren) desire to learn about a particular subject. Amanda Bennett has written not only wonderful unit studies but she has given us the tools to go beyond her studies and help us to design and tailor fit our own studies to complement our curriculum, give us a break from our every day studies, or even to fill in a gap while we're trying to decide where to go next with our schooling. If you are new to unit studies I'd highly recommend trying one out so that you can see the way that someone else has laid it out. But that is not necessary. Amanda talks about everything you need to know to create your own study using every type of resource. There are 12 chapters . . . and so much support that you cannot go wrong! The most important reason for me to homeschool my children is that I want to give them the best education and to make learning fun at every level and stage of their lives.
The Unit Study Journal really goes hand in hand with Unit Studies 101. This has every form that you can think of to use in making a thorough study of any subject. Forms like starting out, unit study objectives, projects, resources, books, a calendar, assignments, diary, etc. The best part of these forms, for me, is that I can type directly on the form and then print it out. . . . this is the most complete information that I have found anywhere to help me make up my own unit study, my own curriculum, on the net. I am thankful for these resources to help me to do what is best for my children.”
—Karilyn Putt, Minot, ND |
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