| Now that you have made the decision to | | | | But you need not stop there. The president's |
| homeschool your children, the next major | | | | handling of the economy could be used as a |
| question is which of the many teaching strategies | | | | teaching unit of economics or simple lessons in |
| do you use? This is a critical question because the | | | | financial responsibility and the need for a balance |
| success or failure of your homeschooling will | | | | between spending and saving and credit. You |
| depend in large part on the materials you select | | | | could also build a geography lesson around the |
| for your children's education. One approach to be | | | | president's heritage by tracing his travels from |
| considered is homeschool unit studies. | | | | Hawaii to Indonesia and back to Hawaii and then |
| What are homeschool unit studies? Simply stated, | | | | to Los Angeles and on to Chicago and finally |
| homeschool unit studies allow teachers of | | | | Washington, DC. |
| homeschooling to build lessons around their child's | | | | The president's budget could be the focus of a |
| interests. How exactly does this work? | | | | class in arithmetic, while one of his books could be |
| Suppose your child expresses an interest in | | | | used for reading classes. English classes could be |
| President Obama. You could formulate an arts | | | | designed around some of the president's |
| class by having the student draw pictures of the | | | | speeches, including having the student to watch |
| president, perhaps even making a caricature of | | | | the delivery and listen to the enunciation, tone, |
| the president in which his ears are emphasized. A | | | | and pitch of the president's delivery. |
| government class could then be taught pointing | | | | In addition, a biology class could be structured |
| out the powers of the president and how they | | | | around all the news surrounding the president's |
| represent the concept of checks and balances in | | | | selection of a dog for his girls. As can be gathered |
| our constitutional framework in relation to the | | | | from these examples, the lessons opened up by |
| judiciary and the legislative branches of | | | | homeschool unit studies are endless, limited only |
| government. | | | | by the imagination and creativity of the teacher. |