INTEREST - LED LEARNING
Thematic / Interest driven instruction involves organizing your curriculum and home schooling program around a theme or a rich and engaging topic that crosses all learning domains.
Integrating your home schooling curriculum through theme based learning and focusing on interests enables homeschoolers to meaningfully link different disciplines so that they will develop big and important ideas.
Educational researchers are learning that students learn better when provided opportunities to develop deep knowledge about a few big ideas rather than a superficial knowledge of a broader range of ideas and information.
Themes can vary in nature and scope, however, they should be motivated by the students and relevant to their lives.
For example, A theme might focus on ocean life and students can learn about salt water, waves, the tide, and ocean animals through a range of activities that happen in different contexts.
Thematic instruction can be used for almost any age or discipline and can be catered to the students receiving the instruction.
Thematic units are an inquiry-based kind of teaching that allow children to explore a topic fully, and see the progress that they have made in their learning. They are typically used for covering important topics like diversity, culture and sustainability, because these are huge cross-curriculum subjects that couldn’t simply be covered through one approach to learning.
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