Unit studies are an integrated thematic approach to learning several subjects/concepts through a main topic. Topics or themes can be chosen by the child’s interests, experiences in family life, books, events in the news, etc. This method can be used with different grades at one time to incorporate all the children of a family.
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3/14 (Saturday) is Pi Day 3.14 and Einstein’s birthday. It is called Einstein’s Big Idea
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
http://www.piday.org/
http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Pi-Day
http://www.pidayinternational.org/
http://charlottemasonhomeschooling.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/celebrate-pi-day/
http://search.enchantedlearning.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/search?key=pi
http://www.homefires.com/clickschool/archive.asp?d=2009/03/09
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/index.html
It includes articles, history, information, biography challenges and obstacles as well as achievements–called “Einstein the Nobody” before his discovery in 1905).
Also has a section with several physicists speaking of Einstein, E = mc2 etc. Visuals, of course, in all sections and [...]