My Homeschool Includes Electives In Our Core Curriculum
When you use our Year 9 and 10 programs, you can have confidence that you will meet the basic requirements of the Australian Curriculum for the following electives:
· Geography,
· History,
· Civics and Citizenship,
· Economics and Business, and
· Personal Development, Health and Physical Education.
Knowing the basic curriculum elective requirements are met in our core program means you can explore additional extension materials and subjects as desired.
Bonus Subject Guides
We understand that many teenagers have a particular area of interest or a skill that they would like more time to pursue and excel at. This is one of the marvellous aspects of home education!
However, parents often don’t know where to start when it comes to looking for extension resources, so we created Subject Guides to help you design a tailor-made program.
Each of the categorised Subject Guides includes:
· the Australian Curriculum and NESA Syllabus requirements;
· curated Living Book lists;
· further resources to help your high schooler master skills; and
· various project ideas and concepts you can choose to complete to help your teenager reach their full potential in their chosen field.
Picking Extension Electives
Time is allocated each week in your weekly planner for two elective extension choices.
All you and your student need to do is work out the general category you wish to pursue and then use our Subject Guides to select the additional resources. Because our core curriculum already meets so many aspects of the Australian Curriculum you have a lot of freedom when choosing.
Our Year 9 and 10 Subject Guides include the following categories:
- Science and Nature Study – Does your teen want to pursue a career in science or medicine at university level? This Guide will give ideas to support them do just that.
- Commerce and Economics – Is your teen a budding entrepreneur or interested in a career in business? Then use this Subject Guide to profile entrepreneurs, teach them basic business skills, and read more books on this topic.
- Geography – Does your teen love their core geography lessons? Do they see themselves having a career as a geographer, town planner or environmental scientist? Does learning about other cultures and countries excite them? This Guide details exactly what you need to cover to study Geography as an elective, including project ideas that are actually achievable in a homeschool setting.
- History – Is your teen a history buff? Do they want to learn even more about history? Perhaps they are hungry for historical fiction, biographies or wish to pursue this at university? Our History Subject Guide offers a curated booklist for modern history titles, including Australian modern history.
- Technology and Design – Does your teen want to learn about textiles, food, agriculture, or information technology? Our Technologies Subject Guide will give ideas to help with that, complete with a guide for how to set out a program of work and how to select hands-on projects to help them finesse their skills.
- Creative Arts – Does your teen want to develop their artistic skills? Are they a talented musician or artist? Then use our Creative Arts Subject Guide to help support their skills and gifts.
- Personal Development, Health and Physical Education – Does your teen like psychology, health and lifestyle books, and sport? This Subject Guide will show you how to foster their skills and abilities in this area.
- Foreign Languages – Is your teen interested in pursuing another language? Perhaps they want to extend the progress they’ve already made in learning a second language? Learn how to best support your teen when learning languages with this Subject Guide.
These Subject Guides are based on the Charlotte Mason method and make it so easy to hand pick resources that offer your teen a broad feast of ideas in their area of interest. We’ve taken all the stress out of creating a program, and helped you avoid having to use a boring schoolish program that doesn’t suit your thriving teenager.
You simply use our curated collection to choose what suits you best and get started. This gives you freedom and flexibility to extend your child in the areas that interest them, all within a simple framework that allows you to easily choose the best resources.
Our team are across all the planned updates within the Australian Curriculum and NSW Syllabus, including for electives, so you can feel confident knowing that we’ve done all the hard work for you, making it easy to create a high-quality tailor-made program for your teenager.