ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
EPIC AdventureTM!
By Karen Culotta Kindrick Cox and Cynthia Culotta Black
ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, is a year-long EPIC Adventure tying together various theme areas from Disneyland around the unifying theme of the Mississippi River.
ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI has been used in home schools, public and private schools, and families.
ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI is suitable for young students to teenagers.
Click below to enroll in The EPIC Adventure Academy with
ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
EPIC Adventure
ORGANIZATION OF THE ADVENTURE
Each Component and Topic includes:
- Key Points
- Inquiries
- Mind Maps
- Resources
- Math Statistics
- Math Questions
- Comments from Our Children
- Comments from the Parents
- Inquiry Charts for each Topic showing what subjects and skills will be addressed
In addition, there are how-to pages on the following topics:
Getting started:
- Overview of the concept of the EPIC AdventureTM
- Application of the brain research
Embarking: Questions and Answers about:
- What your children should learn
- Resources
- Scheduling
- Record Keeping
- Agendas and Procedures
- Teaching
- Preparation
- Time Management
- Integrating the Basic Skills
- Research Projects
- Definitions
- Key to Reading the Inquiry Charts
- Scheduling
- Record Keeping
- Agendas and Procedures
COMPONENT 1 - Life on the Mississippi
- TOPIC 1 - Exploratory Expeditions
- TOPIC 2 - Old Man Rive
- TOPIC 3 - Steamboat Stowaway
- TOPIC 4 - Embark on Adventure
COMPONENT 2 - Tom Sawyer's Island
- TOPIC 1 - Mark Twain
- TOPIC 2 - Tom Sawyer's Island
- TOPIC 3 - Injun' Joe's Cave
- TOPIC 4 - Survival Strategies
COMPONENT 3 - Main Street U.S.A
- TOPIC 1 - Meet Me In St. Louis
- TOPIC 2 - Country Cousins
- TOPIC 3 - Lewis & Clark
- TOPIC 4 - St. Louis: Gateway to the West
COMPONENT 4 - Swiss Family Tree House
- TOPIC 1 - Trees
- TOPIC 2 - Shelters
- TOPIC 3 - Tree House Blueprint
- TOPIC 4 - Building a Treehouse
COMPONENT 5 - New Orleans Square
- TOPIC 1 - Mississippi Delta
- TOPIC 2 - Black Culture
- TOPIC 3 - Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
- TOPIC 4 - Culture Jambalaya
- TOPIC 5 - Celebrate the South
INCLUDES
Color and black and white Adventure Mindmaps to use in binders and enlarge for a wall display poster.
71 Color photos in a Photo Scrapbook. See room decor, wall displays, various "being-there experiences," and Inquiries from the year we lived ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
Each EPIC AdventureTM has its own character and personality. Each time we approach a new Adventure, we allow it to dictate its organization and character. We add and subtract different aspects with each unique year. You will see that if you live more than one Adventure in the Academy.
In addition, with each new Adventure, we learned even more about how to teach in a magical, brain-firing way. As you teach your children, you will add and subtract the things that work best for you and your children.
KEY POINTS
The Key Points for all Topics are the key information from the knowledge base that we researched and organized to present to the students.
INQUIRIES
A set of Inquiry projects accompanies each set of Key Points.
Inquiries are projects that build and expand upon the Key Point information and allow students to work with the Key Point information in a meaningful way that enhances understanding and memory and provides an opportunity to learn needed skills in the context of mearningful work.
Inquiries include work in all the subject areas:
- Language Arts
- History
- Science
- Math
- Art
- Music
- Movement
You will choose which Inquiries you will do together and which and how many the students will choose from. Students may come up with their own Inquiry project ideas, which of course, is great!
RESEARCH PROJECTS
At the beginning of every EPIC AdventureTM, once you have explained the Adventure ahead and what they will learn about throughout the year, students may take a week to ponder which Topic they would like to pursue in a year-long Research Project (explained at the Academy).
At the end of the Adventure, when they complete their Research Projects, they may submit a description, photo samples, etc. to the Academy for a Research Project Expert Certificate and a place in the Researcher's Hall of Heroes.
Click below to enroll in The EPIC Adventure Academy with
ADVENTURE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
EPIC Adventure
ENROLL HERE
