Focal Point: External Age Group: 5th-6th What’s included: 20+ lesson plans, plus workbook and resources Suitable for: Homeschool families  

Topics: This month, we enter a new mandala, asking, “How are we connected?” We look at the ways human behavior has affected and continues to affect the health of planet Earth. We explore what climate change is and what it is doing to our land, our water, and our air. Climate change is a difficult topic and a reality that we all must face, so we provide strategies for learning and discussion with our young people. Hope is sometimes a radical concept, but an essential tool for taking action with environmental issues. Hope wraps our Earth and ourselves in love and purpose. As we expand our hope, we learn about the universe we live in, and the solar system and planets all around us. We learn about historical conservationists and inspiring youth climate activists from around the world. We learn what we can do to take action to protect and save our beautiful, connected world. And we learn how important our everyday choices, thoughts, and patterns are toward building a brighter, more hope-filled future for us all.

CURRICULUM INCLUDED:

• Opening

• Outdoor Movement: An Intergenerational Conversation

• Outdoor Movement: Water Consciousness

• Reading: Biographies and Autobiographies

• Reading: Reading and Discussing Difficult Texts and Topics

• Writing: Write a Biography and an Autobiography

• Writing: Letters and Email

• Art: Nature Photography

• Nutrition: Food Journey Mapping and Farm-To-Table Eating

• Science: The Solar System

• Science: The Earth

• Mathematics: 

  • The Coordinate Plane (5-6)

• Mathematics: 

  • Shapes on the Coordinate Plane (5-6)

• Monthly Project: Mining and the Environment

• Mindfulness: Preserving Natural Resources

• Closing