The Environment Parent Manual offers a literature-based homeschool curriculum, spanning nine weeks of comprehensive studies. Each unit combines science, social studies, and language arts to explore the Environment. Students will create mini-habitats, become junior meteorologists, and design ideal communities, blending critical thinking with creativity. 

Key Features:

• Creativity and Expression: In the Habitats and Homes unit, students express their understanding by constructing shoebox mini-habitats and crafting an animal book.
• Critical Thinking: The Weather unit challenges students to become junior meteorologists, predicting the weather and conducting experiments, such as creating rain and a tornado in a bottle.
• Hands-on Learning: Students engage in a Community Scavenger Hunt and a Community Improvement Project. 
• Interdisciplinary Connections: : Explore ecology while building creative mini-habitats, connecting biology with art. Tie civics and environmental responsibility together by designing model neighborhoods and engaging in real-world community improvement projects.

This comprehensive curriculum builds a strong foundation in environmental education while fostering essential life skills. The Environment Parent Manual helps students understand the connections between weather patterns, animal habitats, and community structures, and their impact on environmental wellness. This unit is commonly used for first-grade homeschooling.

This parent manual will take nine weeks to complete. It includes the following units:

• Unit 1. Habitats and Homes (3 weeks)
• Unit 2. Weather (3 weeks)
• Unit 3. Community (3 weeks)

Note: This Parent Manual cannot be used without the accompanying Student Activity Book and all required literature.

This item includes free online access to Beyond the Page Online for 18 months. This includes Learning Gates, Portfolio and any curriculum or student activity pages that you have purchased.