Look Inside: Fascinating Florida | A Study of Florida’s People, Places & Past

Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldock Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a look inside our brand new Fascinating Florida Unit Study. This is going to be a study of Florida's past, people, and places. So inside we have an introduction page and this is going to kind of go over what is in every lesson and what you're going to find. Then we have a unit study resources page. There's a supplemental book list. These are all living books that are either about or take place in Florida. A supplemental game list and a YouTube playlist. It's clickable and there's a QR code you can scan. And then the really great thing about Fascinating Florida is while there are extra things that you could have that are suggested, nothing is required. So all of your reading is going to be within this. So this is a reading passage about Florida's geography and climate. And then all of the reading passages have discussion questions that you can either ask your child after they've read it or you can discuss with them after you guys have read it together. And then there are extension activities. So for every lesson there are writing prompts, hands-on activities, and field trips. There are three different writing prompts. So you can either just choose one or have your child do all of them if they're really really big writers, if it's something they really love. There are five different hands-on activity suggestions. You obviously don't have to do all of them. If hands-on activities are your jam then you can do them all. And then there are five different field trip ideas. Now Florida is only so big but I did manage to make sure that each field trip idea is only mentioned once and it is mentioned in the lesson that it would tie in the best with. But obviously that doesn't mean that you can't go visit Everglades National Park when you do like the landmark section which it mentions it in that section as well. There is a custom coloring page that goes along with each of the lessons. And then there are true and false comprehension. So this is just 10 true and false statements and your child will write a T if it's true and F if it's false just to kind of see if they're comprehending what they've read. The next lesson is Florida's flora and fauna. Same thing we have that reading passage, the discussion questions, writing prompts, hands-on activities, field trip ideas, a coloring page, and then true or false. So basically every lesson is very similar to that. I'm going to flip through so you can see the different lessons. So we have Florida's first people. This one is the longest reading because there were so many different tribes that we wanted to discuss. So it is multiple pages. Then we have Florida explorers. Same thing, a couple different pages because there was multiple explorers we wanted to make sure we covered. And if you're doing this one and you're looking to extend it there is also a who was Ponce de Leon. You can add to this. That's something we will be doing personally. Then we have Spanish Florida. Control of Florida. Purchasing Florida. The Florida Territory. Florida's statehood. Civil War and Reconstruction. Florida's government. And then Florida's landmark and attractions. Then there are some extra pages in the back that you can have your child do at any time. There is a Florida fact. So the state nickname, capital, biggest city, population, abbreviation, the state flag. And then they can draw a picture of the state flower and bird. A famous Floridian biography. Now you can have them choose their favorite famous Floridian or you could have them do one of these for, you know, you could print multiple of them and have them do one for every Floridian you learn about. Same thing with the animal research. You can either have them do their favorite Floridian animal or they could do multiples for every Florida animal that you learn about. There is a Florida field trip log. This goes great especially if you're extending Fascinating Florida by going on one of those field trips each lesson or even if you only take a few. This is a great log for them to fill out for their Florida field trip. Then there is a timeline of Florida history. And an answer key for all of those comprehension questions so you don't have to worry about knowing the answer off the top of your head. And of course no unit study from the Wallach Way is complete without games. So we have a couple here. The first one we have is journey through Florida's first people. So you would roll the dice and you would move your piece that many places. Then whatever color you land on you would ask one of those trivia questions. So in this case we'll just pretend we landed on red. And the question is what is a chickie house and which tribe built them. Then whoever finishes first wins. We also have Florida animal and description cards. In the unit study I've listed three different ways you can play this game or play with these cards. There are 12 different Floridian animals and a description of each. You can play guess in 10. You can play match. You can play a speed variation. So multiple different ways you can play. Same thing with the Florida's history timeline cards. There is 20 different cards that list historic moments in Florida history. And I've listed three different ways that you can use these in the unit study as well. One would be a memory game. Other ways you can use them is like a life-size timeline or a speed variation. And then we have fascinating Florida jeopardy. So technically the answers. You have the answers. Then you have the questions which are actually be the answers. And the answer keys that you would give to each person. That way they can write their answer down. And then you would see who had the highest score at the end.