Homeschoolers, try a new approach to learning: teach with film for homeschooling. If you are looking for ways to spice up your homeschool curriculum and boost engagement for your learners, film-based lessons are a great option. Whether you’re looking for film guides, free homeschooling lesson plans, or fun learning activities, we’ve got you covered.
Film can abe a powerful tool for learning about life. Students explore and understand other cultures, and feel empathy for people whose lives are different from their own. Film can also help kids see the real-life applications of what they’re learning. All around it’s a great way to broaden your students’ perspectives.
Journeys in Film has created a series of film-based lesson plans that follow the national Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards system and Common Core Standards.
Subject areas covered in the Journeys in Film guides include:
Language Arts
Math
Media Literacy
Social Studies
Science
Visual Arts
Our resources are also designed to help teach Critical Thinking, Cross-Cultural Understanding, and Social-Emotional Learning. These resources helps make learning fun and allows your children to explore other cultures — without even leaving home.
A growing number of our film guides also include suggestions for film-book pairings. These literary connections turn teaching with film into a cross-media experience and can be a great way to get reluctant readers excited about books.
The most important part of teaching with film is the follow-up analysis and discussion. Journeys in Film curriculum guides can help you delve deeply into the films to discover all of the ways in which information is being conveyed and how your students can use this information to expand their knowledge and engage their creative and intellectual abilities.
We are a non-profit organization that makes our educational resources available for free to educators of all kinds, including homeschoolers. There’s no cost to you involved at all.
Our resources include lesson plans and discussion guides for box office hits like Disney’s Hidden Figures, Academy Award-winning films like Summer of Soul, and internationally acclaimed films like Like Stars on Earth. We also offer free teaching resources for short films like Golden Age Karate, documentary series like Genius about Albert Einstein, animated films like Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, and educational games like Walden, A Game. We hope that in all this vibrant, creative variety, you can find the perfect tools to teach with film for homeschooling, whatever your needs may be.
If you are looking for ways to add variety to your homeschool curriculum, check out our lesson plans and discussion guides today to teach with film for homeschooling. You can sort our free educational resource library by age, grade, subject, theme, and also recommended audience age, media type, and film running time. If you’re new to teaching with film, our Teacher Toolbox is a great place to start. If you have any questions about our materials, please contact us.
Have fun exploring our Resource Library and happy homeschooling.
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