In fact, by teaching isolated subjects, the child is more easily distracted from real learning. Unified themes excite the child and maximize teaching efforts. Because our goal is to shape our children in godly character, we have designed the curriculum around character traits we want to develop. All of the resources and activities were chosen to reinforce each of these traits. Each theme is reinforced by activities using different subjects.
Students learn the general placement of people in history.
Moving from the general, students are later ready to concentrate and specialize. When Jason Hulcy was nine years old he was placing all of the explorers on the Timeline and noticed they all had telescopes. As he placed the settlers on the Timeline, he noticed they all had hatchets. Likewise, the Revolutionary War figures all had three-pointed hats, and the founding fathers all had white wigs. Oh, I see.