Mini Nutrition Unit Study

Here is another study that you can make long or short. All of the coloring and activity books contain different information. So you could pick just one or a few for a short study of nutrition. Or you could take a few weeks and go through all of the books with your children.


Activity Books

• Bright Futures - overall health w/ 1 page on nutrition
• Building Blocks for a Healthy Future - health & fitness
• Fuel Up with Milk
• Look at Me: I am Healthy - overall health w/ 1 page on nutrition
• Power Panther Pals - excellent book for children who work independently

Coloring Books

• Apple Wise Guys - nutritional benefits of apples
• Fresh to You: Improving Eating Habits to Last a Lifetime
• Fun w/ Foodella
• Guida's Milk & SuperCow - dairy
• Having Fun at Your Local Farmer's Market - healthy snacks
• How We Get Our Milk
• J. Slice Saves the Planet from Professor Junk Food
• Milk Matters w/ Buddy Brush

Comic Books

• Adventures of Buddy McNutty - peanuts

Crafts

• DLTK nutrition crafts
• First School health & nutrition activities

Online Games

• Nourish Interactive - parents need to set up free account for child first
• Nutrition Explorations

VideosThis video teaches that it's fun to try new foods and can be applied to the lesson very easily.

Here's one on Nutrition and Nasa.



Websites

• Dairy Council of CA
• Dole Superkids

Animal Unit Study

Our family will take a trip to the zoo soon. So we're going to spend a few days doing an animal unit study. All of the coloring books look great; but, we'll probably only get to a few.

Animal Unit Study Arts and Crafts

• animal masks - bottom of the page
• DLTK's animal activities
• Enchanted Learning animal crafts

Animal Unit Study Coloring and Activity Books

• ABC Animals
• Arkansas Mammals
• Birds
• Endangered Species
• Feeder Birds Activity Book
• Florida Animated Alphabet (wild life)
• Florida Scrub
• Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Activity Packet Gr. 1
• Immunize by Two (zoo theme)
• Indian River Lagoon
• Learn About Texas Birds
• Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
• Lynx: Spirit of the Forest Activity Book
• New Mexico Endangered Species
• Oregon Zoo Birds of Prey Activity Book
• Ranger Ralph's Dartmour Pony
• South Asian Monkey Coloring Book
• Story of the Harness Horse
• Texas Tracks (Animal Tracks)
• Texas Wildlife
• What to do at Brookfield Zoo
• Wild Animals of the Congo
• Wildlife Activity Book (Tennessee)
• Wildlife of New Jersey

Animal Unit Study Lapbooks

• 50+ animal lapbooks at Homeschool Share

Animal Unit Study Reading Book

• Oregon Zoo Presents: Illahee the Salmon & Taima the Bald Eagle

Mini Unit Studies

I am not an expert in using unit studies. I just learned about the idea of studying one topic at a time and trying to incorporate all of the major subjects into the learning. So, that's what we do. The more that I do mini unit studies with the children, the more that I find that the three R's seem to get covered pretty naturally without having to force anything. For example, it's not unusual for activity books to have all three of those elements in them.

I'm convinced that there is enough free educational material online that I don't have to pay for unit studies for homeschooling my little ones. Now, I do use textbooks for middle and high school. But mainly just for science, math, and foreign languages. Everything else I find from searching on Google.

So below you'll find the topics that we have studied so far or will be studying in the near future. Some topics are only a day long. And some take up to a week to cover. It really depends on how many resources I find. I'll add to this list as we do more unit studies.

Mini Unit Studies

• Abraham Lincoln
• Adverbs
• Agriculture 
• Animal Habitats
• Animals
• Beef 
• Birds
• Cotton
• Dental health
• Dogs 
• Eggs 
• Gardening
• Ham radio
• Magnets
• Money
• Nutrition 
• Peanuts
• Solar system
• Telling time
• Texas
• Thanksgiving
  
• Trains
• Water cycle