Brainstorm your Home school Unit Study Topic with Questions

So, you've decided on a home school unit study topic, but now you are wondering how to brainstorm your unit study so that there may be 4-5 weeks of work, rather than 20 minutes.

I have developed some questions which will help you brainstorm your Home school Unit Study topic under these headings:

• Historical Based topic
• Science Based Topic
• Literature Based topic
• Biblical Based topic
• Character Trait Study
• Interest based or Delight Directed Topic

Brainstorm Historical Topics to create your home school unit study

• History
  • Where in history is……
  • Investigate the time period:
    • Culture
    • Geography
    • Cities, Towns
    • Major Events
    • People
    • Wars
    • Fashion
  • What is this time period/ person remembered for in history?
  • What happened before?
  • What happened during…?
  • What happened after……?
  • What was happening in other countries at the time?
• Geography
  • Where did this take place?
  • What is the geography of the region like?
  • How did the geography of the area affect the people/ the wars/ the customs/ the clothing/ food/ resources?
• Literature
  • What was written in this time period?
  • Is this person famous for some written work?
  • If possible, read primary sources from the time period.
  • Read historical fiction of the time period or of the character
• Bible
  • Does this time period correlate to a Biblical time?
  • Does the Bible mention these people?
  • Examine the actions of these people or this character by Biblical standards
  • What does the Bible say on their customs/ beliefs/culture?
  • What were the beliefs ofthis group of people? How did their beliefs affect what they did?
• Copybook/ Dictation
  • Choose excellent literature from the time period to copy;
  • Choose excerpts from historical fiction to use for copy or dictation.
  • Copy a poem about this person/ time period;
• Reading
  • Read from the authors of the time period where suitable;
  • Read about the time period using interesting, living books;
  • Read poetry or Drama (Shakespeare's Historical plays) where suitable;
  • Internet sites for research;
• Writing
  • Oral narrations of passages/ books being read;
  • Written narrations;
  • Narration starters:
    • More Narration Starters here.
    • Describe the time period;
    • Draw what it was like- food/clothes/maps/culture/houses;
    • Write a play about the character or event;
    • Describe the historical character using the 5W's &1H - Who,What,When,Why, Where and How?
    • Draw the character or event on a page and spend 10 minutes writing adjectives describing the scene or person.
    • Compare and contrast two characters from a historical fiction book or from other sources;
    • Write passages from the read aloud novel which describe a worthy action;
    • Write what you loved the most about this character/event.
    • Write what made you sad? happy? disappointed?..
• Drama/ Oral Presentation
  • Write a speech about the character/event/time period;
  • Present a short play on one of the events you enjoyed;
  • Take partin a Shakespearian play based on the time period;
  • Recite a poem
  • Write and recite your own poem
  • Dress up in costume of the time-period and people
• Arts and Craft
  • Make a salt dough map of the region and use flags to describe where specific events took place.
  • Make the toys that children played with in that time;
  • Make models of the houses/ inventions and so on;
  • Perform a cultural dance of the native people;
  • Make masks and costumes;
  • View the art of the culture;
  • View the work of the artists- art museum;
  • Learn how to appreciate art and describe works of art in the critiquing process;
• Music
  • Listen to the music of the historical time period;
  • Make musical instruments;
  • Play and move to the music;
  • Watch appropriate videos which show the culture, music and customs of the people;

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