How To Create A UNIT STUDY | Free Homeschool Lesson Plan 

Im soooooo happy to have discovered unit studies!!! My only regret is not trying it sooner. Hope everyone enjoys their homeschooling journey!!

This makes soooo much more sense, and makes learning so much easier. Thanks for posting!

Thank you~ I am a Korean doing homeschool in S. Korea. I am so thankful that I can be with my kids and I take this as a huge privilege!! Your cheerful explanation gives me an encouragement to try it. Sadly it is very hard to find homeschoolers around me. So I appriciate your sharing your own expriences.

This is going to make my son much happier. I can't wait to try doing a unit study based on something he wants to learn about.

Thankyou, this video was so helpful, printable is download and printed already!

Thanks for this video! I loved your honesty about the printable!

I wish I could watch all of your videos at the same time, RIGHT NOW. THAT IS HOW EXCITED I AM!

Thank you! I can relate😜

I am from Oregon currently, but I grew up in SE Washington! Last year for the first half of the year we used Five in a Row which felt similar to a unit study. I love your printable! My daughter is very interested in animals. So I think I will start there. 👍🏻

Thank you so much for your video and for all of your videos! I watched this one because I was interested in trying to pursue more unit studies in our homeschool but I’m watching this realized that I already do all year long! We use a history curriculum that allows us to learn biblical history alongside the geopolitical history that was happening at the time. It also ties in geography. And for science and art I follow curriculums that tie in with the time period we are learning about. Science in the Ancient World by Berean Builders has been great to do this with. For science and history I have them narrate on paper what they learned. So I suppose our homeschool is one giant unit study which I never realized! It really is a great way to learn since you can delve so deep into a time period or topic. Thanks again for sharing!

We switched to unit studies last September. It made such a difference in our homeschool and my son has learned so much.

Yay! Fellow Washingtonian here and I seriously thank you for this video. I just wrote a huge list of possible U.S. My brain was just coming up with tons of ideas with questions to be asked and researched and my daughter loved like 90% of them and I got excited but then I realized... I now have to make a whole plan around each subject. And that's when the panic started!

I am so excited to have found you!!!!! God bless you, thanks so much for sharing your beautiful homeschooling approaches. The joy of The Lord is just shining from you

This was so helpful. Thank you

I hope this will help us in our 1st year in homeschool!

Thank you!! My son has been begging to learn all about the Titanic and this really helped!

Great video!! Pinterest has great cut outs to use...we started late but if we would’ve started at an earlier grade lapbooks,unit studies would’ve been awesome!!!! One of our regrets..so mamas if you’re on the fence,pray about it, talk with someone...and go for it

We are (eclectic) Charlotte Mason homeschoolers, but I’ve been drawn to unit studies lately. I love the idea of bringing the two ideas together if you have any ideas on that. Also wondering, do you worry at all about going in chronological order with history or trying to cover world and American histories? That’s probably been my biggest hesitation with unit studies.

Thank you for this! We have been doing a curriculum we really like but want to break it up by adding unit studies. My children want a Halloween/Día de los Muertos first then possibly Ireland

Soo helpful and just the kick in the pants I needed. We are moving cross country to a state we have literally spent 5 days in total ha! I don’t have history and science curriculum for the rest of this year so I was considering a unit on our new state.... I think I’m going to go for it!!

This sounds very interesting, I am totally going to try this. We are going on a long trip soon and what an opportunity to mix history, geography, language, etc. together

Love to learn more. 8 grade 10th grade.

Hi there! Thank you for the great unit lesson ideas! You got a new subscriber! I'm also a homeschool momma from WA, and I was wondering with that 6 week on, 1 week off schedule, do you guys end up getting any time for a summer break left over? Or do you do school all summer long? We are starting on the 15th, (getting qualified on the 14th) and I am trying to decide what would be the best schedule for us. Also, do you still take the usual 2 weeks off for Christmas break? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!! -Amanda

Maybe you said this in the video and I missed it but do you plan all of your unit studies for the year before the school year starts, or do you at least know all of the topics? In our state we have to submit our curriculum plan in the summer prior to school starting and then send quarterly updates on work covered, so I feel like I would have to know the resources and subjects covered for everything well in advance. But I do love the idea and I am proud to say I did my very first little mini unit on maple trees and maple syrup as that is the time of year here, and the boys are remembering it! We’re going to even see someone tapping trees next week! I had to do this in addition to all of our other subjects because it was kind of a last minute thing but it’s been really fun to put together!

I would love to see you do a review on teacheve.com unit studies I can’t find much on them and would love to see/hear your thoughts!!

Thank you! This might be a silly question, but is a “unit study” and a “study unit” the same thing?

What kind of subjects do you recommend in a unit study style of homeschooling for younger children?

My only problem? That darn MATH. It just never seems to fit in when everything else is just added in so easily and nicely. I love the six weeks school, one week off idea. Much better than taking off all summer, a little time around holidays and having these long stretches of no breaks plus that endless summer. Especially when summer is so perfect for a survival unit. We need to do that as my son started getting interested in Bear Grills. When we spend a "lazy day" at the library followed by reading, educational games and Netflix I totally call it "a day school". I mean, they were learning.

We tried a ocean unit and I am just lost. I feel overwhelmed lol. My child doesn’t seem to really ask questions so I never know where to go or how to talk about things. It seems chaotic where it’s more relaxed and unplanned and I need the plans but unsure of how to go about them to not bore her. We also have a math and reading curriculum so that’s hard to add unit studies too.

How do you know what to have each child do that is the right “level” of work?

Are you the one who did simply piano add?

What curriculum do u use for math?

Soooo, I have an 11 yr old son. I'm thinking the book "Oh, Yuck! The encyclopedia of everything nasty" by Joy Masoff will be my first attempt.

I asked my kid what he wanted to learn and he said summer stuff and SQUIRRELS. Yes SQUIRRELS. I got nothing