The Matter and Movement Parent Manual is a comprehensive nine-week, literature-based homeschool curriculum that blends physical science, Earth's elements, and the physics of balance and motion with social studies and language arts. Students engage in hands-on activities, creative projects, and critical thinking exercises that make learning an engaging and seamless experience.

Key Features:

• Interdisciplinary Learning: For example, students combine science with art by categorizing matter through collages. This activity teaches physical states and reinforces vocabulary and reading skills.
• Critical Thinking: Children engage in the Oil and Water Experiment, illustrating the detrimental effects of oil spills on aquatic life, promoting environmental stewardship through problem-solving.
• Creativity and Expression: Students will make a skit to demonstrate physical concepts like gravity and friction. 
• Hands-on Learning: Activities like making Oobleck and constructing tracks for a marble provide students with an opportunity for experiential learning as they witness scientific principles in real-time.

With engaging experiments, environmental stewardship, and artistic expression, this curriculum meets core educational standards while inspiring curiosity and respect for the natural world. Matter and Movement Parent Manual equips homeschool parents to deliver a rich educational experience that prepares children academically and nurtures essential life skills. This unit is commonly used for second-grade homeschooling.

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

• Unit 1. States of Matter (3 weeks)
• Unit 2. Earth (3 weeks)
• Unit 3. Balance and Motion (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.