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Final Week of Nate Saint unit studyThis is what we did our third and final week:Bible - God Chooses a Family by Rod and Staff Publishers: Lesson 12 Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - province, peak, active volcano, lava, equator Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 10-16) Personal Reading - Volcanoes by Claire Llewellyn History -Paste picture of Nate Saint in Book of Centuries Geography - Draw diagram of a volcano and label it; Draw the equator on our map of South America and Ecuador; Mark the capital of Ecuador--Quito (key-toe); Make a Ecuador Fact Sheet with population, official name, type of government; Mark the 3 land regions of Ecuador Music - listen to Ecuadorian music--folk, tradition, modern, and christian Art - Draw picture of Piper Pacer using Planes and How to Draw Them by Amy Hogeboom Watch parent selected scenes of Beyond the Gates of Splendor--a documentary on the five Palm Beach martyers. See book reviews for a review on the book we used for this unit study and a review of this documentary. Helpful sites we used for this study: http://www.hcjb.org/ - Radio Broadcast that you can actually listen to. This also has a the memorial service for the five missionaries and also a 50th anniversary memorial where some of the tribal people are getting baptized. http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/ecuador/ecuadorgeography.htm -A geography site that was helpful. The lady has one of her feet in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere. http://www.gagme.com/greg/vacation/2004/galapagos/equator.php - Another geography site. A poster shows you how to shrink a head. http://www.goecuador.com/magazine/mp3-folk.html - Music of Ecuador, very different but very neat. Academic music will take you to a gospel chior, that was nice singing. http://www.hcjb.org/docs/saint/index.htm - Nate Saint Memorial School http://www.junglepilot.org/ - The work goes on. http://www.ecuador365.com/quito1.html - I used this site for pictures. I really, really enjoyed this unit study, probably more than my boys did. Angelamichelle And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. ~ Mr 16:15 Week 2 in unit study of Nate SaintThis is what we did our second week: Bible - We just did our own devotional time this week. Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - minimize, duplicates, blueprints, prospectors, adobe, export, cultivate Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 5-9) Personal Reading - Jungles and Rainforests by John A Burton just the jungle part History - Look up information about Betty Greene; paste picture in notebook http://www.maf.org/about/history.html has a good picture of Betty and her Waco biplane Science - Jaundice and its causes Geography - Find and mark Tuxtla Gtz on the map http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Images/mexicomap.jpg has a good picture of Tuxtla on the map down at the bottom of Mexico On poster board draw out South America and label its countries. On the backside draw out Ecuador. Week 1 in a unit study of Nate SaintNew Unit Study!! For the last 3 weeks, we have been doing a unit study on Nate Saint, one of the five missionaries that was speared to death in Ecuador in 1956. There is a lot of information about him right now due to the movie End of the Spear. But before you go see this movie, please read http://www.sharperiron.org/showthread.php?t=2244.This is what we did our first week: Bible - Memorize I Peter 4 10-11 Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - acre, biplane, diminish, jungle, minimize, transformation Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 1-4) Personal Reading - The Wright Brothers by Margaret Hudson History - Add Nate Saint's picture of his birth date and the Wright Brothers' birth and death date also with their picture to our Book of Centuries Timeline (we got this idea from Cindy Rushton). Science - Read about the discovery of penicillin and write a short essay on findings. http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/penicillin/readmore.html - There is a little game on this site. Geography - On a map of the States color and label then connect (in order) all the states where Nate Saint was stationed while in WW2 All of this went into our History Journal. We also added pictures of these planes the Challenger, C-47, and the 1933 Stinson. I am very excited about this unit study. Here is another site I found very helpful. http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/page.asp?page_id=545 - This site actually shows a 2-3 minute clip of the missionaries. You can also listen to the original memorial servie for them. |
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