Welcome to Our How to Do Research Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

Getting Started with Our How to Do Research Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

These How to Do Research homeschool language arts lessons guide students through the entire research process to create a unique research project. Students will learn about planning their research, conducting their research, evaluating their sources, compiling and organizing their data, reviewing their work, and presenting their information. Topics such as plagiarism, keywords, using both paper and electronic sources, primary and secondary resources, and more are also explored in this language arts course for upper elementary through middle school homeschool students.

Overview

• 6 weeks
• Includes lesson content from World Book Online, as well as a detailed lesson plan
• Grades 4-8

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research; ability to login and use World Book resources (available free of charge with SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership); notecards or paper for notes

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan. Start with the Day 1 assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

More About Our How to Do Research Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

The three goals of this How to Do Research homeschool language arts curriculum are:

• to teach students about the different resources that can help them with their research;
• to help them make sense of all the information that is available; and
• to guide their research process from start to finish.

Course Outline for Our How to Do Research Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

How to Do Research walks upper elementary to middle school students through completing a research project from planning to presentation.