Free Curricula / Supplements
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Current and upcoming projects (scroll down for current offerings):
- Otter's Physical Science - We are currently using a combo of Exploring Creation with Physical Science and Exploration Education's Physical Science with lots of extras. I'll post the schedule soon.
- Little Kid's Geography (will get to this someday...)
- I have created what I call "Guesthollow's Awesome History Timeline Schedule". It covers history in a very visual and easy to follow, tweakable, CHRONOLOGICAL format that goes from 29 A.D. to today. It covers both world and American history (either of which can be used independently). It can be used with ANY age (even as an adult history reference) although my choices on it "as is" reflect Otter's age as he works his way through it. I LOVE it and we are currently working with it. It schedules in lots of various spines (pick and choose whichever you want), and all the other goodies my other schedules have (books, movies, and so on). It takes into account all that I mentioned in the paragraphs above. It's...well...awesome, lol. You can use it by itself or very easily use it with anything else. Because it follows a chronological format, it's so easy to add in items. The schedule will be available on my website one of these days. If you need it before it's posted, email me!
- Otter's Botany Curriculum- I'm designing a study of botany appropriate for middle and upper grades. I may design a supplement for those of you who have "little ones" who want to participate too!
- Otter's Biology Curriculum- I plan to teach Otter biology starting somewhere around the fall of 2012 or perhaps the fall of 2013 or ?. This is my last year to teach biology and it's one of my favorite subjects, so I'm going to make it a year to really remember chock full of activities, labs and awesomeness. I do not want a run of the mill textbooky year! It's going to be totally tweakable. You will also be able to use it to supplement any other of your favorite biology programs!
- Otter's Forensics - This is something Otter wants to learn in the future. I'm not sure yet when we'll be doing it, but it will be coming down the pipe eventually and posted here!
- Otter's High School Chemistry - Why be confined to a textbook? I'm going to design a high school year of chemistry similar to my lower level chemistry - full of activities, lots of living books and a textbook spine. It's going to be an awesome year. I expect it will be several years before I have a schedule posted. Maybe around 2015?
P.S. Some of the schedules aren't posted because they are being tweaked, worked on or I haven't gotten around to posting them yet. If you need one now, email me and I'll send it to you.
Current Curriculum Offerings:
Otter's Pre-Algebra
I've scheduled in all sorts of goodies for Otter's pre-algebra. Besides a proven text, there are all sorts of videos, games, printables and hands-on activities to help build a fun and firm foundation before moving on to algebra.
Click here to download the .doc format.
Click here to download it in .docx format.
Otter's Physics
In 2009, Otter completed Real Science-4-Kid's Physics book. I couldn't help but add to it though. In case anyone is planning on doing an elementary study of physics, I'm sharing the rough outline I created for an entire unit on physics incorporating the Real Science text, extra books, a few kits, songs, printables and some interactive websites. This outline was never meant to be shared, so it's a bit more rough than some of the other schedules I post, but hopefully it will be a help to someone!
Click to download the Microsoft Word document: Otter's Physics.
Otter's Chemistry - One of our FAVORITE years of science. Otter learned and retained so much for this hands-on, interesting study.
Ancient
History Curriculum
Check out our FREE ancient history! This is a year long literature based history study or homeschool supplement that uses either The Mystery of History or Story of the World as a spine. (We used both.)
American
History
Curriculum
Check out our FREE homeschool history! This is a year long literature based history study for grades
2-6, or as a homeschool supplement for grades K - middle school.
American History
Curriculum 2!
This free American history supplement / curriculum / program was originally written for the target grades of 2-8 (with a few extras for older students as well). It could possibly make an excellent supplement to any other American history curriculum (for a variety of ages) with plenty of "gravy" like worksheets, printables, links, extra reading, crafts, videos, lapbooks, activities and more.
Otter's Science Curriculum: The Human Body
Join us on a FREE 33 week literature based tour through the human body, first aid and survival using "living books"!
Little Otter's Science is for preschoolers through 1st grade. This is a gentle, literature approach to science with simple experiments and activities.
Otter's Elementary Science is designed for 2nd to 6th graders though you could easily use this program for a student up to 8th grade. I've included a variety of engaging books, websites, activities and experiments for a fun filled year of study.
Big Otter's Science is for high schoolers. It can be a supplement to Otter's Elementary Science so you can combine your younger kids with bigger kids and still study the same subjects or it can also be used as a stand alone curriculum with plenty of labs, some great optional DVD's and a unit at the end on survival and first aid.
WinterPromise Sea & Sky Extras and "Gravy"
I've got lots of extras like literature, lapbooks, crafts, websites, videos and more scheduled to help make this study more rich! Download the free schedule and check out the book section. You can also take a look at many of the crafts, activities and experiments we did while doing this Winter Promise history and science program.
World Geography and Cultures We're sorry, but this section of our site is not available because....
I've worked with Winter Promise Publishing to take some of the scheduling from World Geography and Cultures and integrate it into a new older learner's guide to go with their Children Around the World program. You can purchase the guide from WinterPromise. Besides creating the schedule, I also created notebooking pages, student sheets and a "make a menu" project to help your student chronicle all of the great cultural recipes throughout the year.
This guide is not just a help for older learners...there are also lots of great video and resource suggestions to help make your world study richer for all ages.
Here's a little preview of some of the student sheets:
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