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Unit studies are popular with homeschooling families because they provide a hands-on, in-depth approach to learning about any topic of choice. This is a great way to provide individualized instruction for your students, allowing them explore the 'topic-du-jour,' and instills a love of learning!
Why incorporate diversity?
- Bring current events to life. Seeing news stories can be jarring for children, especially if they have no frame of reference for that region or culture. Reading a book can help them develop empathy and better understanding, and it can spark age-appropriate conversations.
- See the similarities. Not every multicultural book spotlights diversity as a different experience. Sometimes it's about demonstrating a human truth - that we're not as different we think.
- Explore your roots. Every family has a unique set of ancestry and heritage, particularly American families, which tend to have many different sets of roots. Taking the time to further explore those origins can put a personalized spin on learning about other cultures.
- Travel the world. You don't need a passport to explore faraway regions and lands...all you need are the pages of a book. Good books will have characters that feel so life-like, you can relate to them and learn from their experiences.
Snag the Read Around the World booklist while you're here (freebie)!
Two of our favorite diversity-themed unit bundles to pick up are the Jewish Holidays & Diversity Novel Studies sets. Each incorporates multiple books that each focus on a different culture and/or historic event. Jewish Holidays features a full-year of holiday stories infused with culture, religion, and activities, and it is best utilized over the course of the year, in line with the holiday seasons. Diveristy Novel Studies features eight different stories from cultures around the world. Both include fantastic reads that teach world religions, culture, and history in a wonderfully-engaging manner!
Bring modern history to life with living literature that represents several different groups! Includes eight unit studies covering cultural stories from around the world. Each unit addresses a historic era from a new perspective, and these are told in living history format. Each unit has introductory text, which will give the student basic background information about the topic at hand.
Product sample: The Button Box
Each of the ten unit studies in this year-long bundle centers around a book for middle school level and includes videos, cooking projects, hands-on activities, writing assignments, and more. There are also resources for younger children in eight of the ten units (not in *).Product samples – Purim unit & Introductory unit
Each of the ten unit studies in this year-long bundle centers around a book for middle school level and includes videos, cooking projects, hands-on activities, writing assignments, and more. There are also resources for younger children in eight of the ten units (not in *).
Product samples – Purim unit & Introductory unit
