Since our slow, leisurely take on Winter Promise’s American Story 1 – with a month-long divergence in the study of the Constitution and another 3 weeks studying the current Presidential election – is going to leave us with about six weeks at the end of the year with nothing to do, I decided it would be a good time for us to do a unit study on the state of Florida in which we live. Typically kids in the public schools do state history in fourth or fifth grade, so the time is right.

We’ll do another lap-n-note unit (lapbook plus concurrent notebook), take some field trips, do a week of studying the Seminoles, etc. I’ve printed out nearly 50 pages.

It turns out About.com has whole sections dedicated to enabling homeschooling parents to do a state unit study with their kids.

Here’s Florida’s: http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjgeog/a/susfl.htm

It’s an amazing resource, complete with printables, notebooking pages, coloring, lesson plans, web sites, book suggestions and more. All you have to do to get it for your state is to change the last two letters of the URL to your state’s abbreviation. For example, if you live in California, yours would be http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjgeog/a/susca.htm instead of susfl.htm.

Perfect! Now to organize it all…