The results of the unit study approach to education is the love of learning – mission accomplished. Here are just a few examples of the advantages of choosing unit studies for your child’s learning.
The Advantages Of Unit Studies
After writing unit studies for more than 20 years, I have been blessed to be able to see some of the advantages offered with this curriculum choice, firsthand. Our three children are either in or through college. One has a doctorate in veterinary medicine, another has a degree in business, and the youngest is graduating with honors in computer science.
Unit study is the name given to a type of curriculum tool where one topic is taken and looked at, or studied from many different aspects. They are called “cross-curricular” in approach, looking at the given topic across many areas of. learning including science, history, geography, literature, and others. A unit study can be called a thorough look at a single topic, as if you could pick up the topic in your hand and spin it like a globe, looking at the various components in all three dimensions.
This approach to education helped them learn to love learning – mission accomplished.
What Are The Results of The Unit Study Approach to Homeschool Education?
Unit studies can help your student develop into a self-motivated learner, eager to see what the world has to offer. Unit studies are flexible, and can be adjusted to fit the child, instead of trying to fit the child to a curriculum.
With the unit study approach, the child learns to think and reason and understand the deeper connections that God created in this world and how so much of His creation fits together according to His plan. Instead of learning about clouds and water vapor and the water cycle separately from the study of the rivers and lakes and streams and oceans of the world, they learn about these things just as they were created – as one part of an amazing world!
More Homeschool Helps
Learn more about the unit study approach to homeschooling:
- What is a Unit Study?
- How Does this Method Compare to Others?
- Take the Tour: Learn About Unit Studies
Enjoy the journey,
