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Teaching High School Nutrition: 13 Ideas

To instill life-long healthy eating habits, take a hands-on approach
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26 Fun Middle School Writing Prompts

Unstick your child’s creativity, stretch their thinking, and improve their writing skills with topics that tap into their passions.
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Media Literacy for Kids: The Ultimate Guide

Media literacy is touted as one of the most important “21st century skills” for kids to master, in line with creativity, communication, and grit. Thinking through the amount of time most of us spend interacting with some form of media each day makes a good case for this.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Homeschool Unit Study Examples & Free Planning Template

Unit studies blend multiple subjects together to create real-world, interest-driven learning experiences. Steal the approach our curriculum experts use to create themes with a free downloadable unit study planner.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Emotional Intelligence for Middle and High Schoolers

One of the reasons our team wanted to develop a new kind of school was because we felt traditional schooling doesn’t put enough emphasis on developing emotionally intelligent kids. But what is emotional intelligence and how do you develop it?

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Teach Your Child About Investing: 12 Fun Ideas

By introducing these concepts at home, you're setting your child up to be more financially responsible and savvy, giving them the tools to navigate an increasingly complex financial world.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Homeschool Writing Curriculum: 17 Actually Engaging Options

The specifics of a writing curriculum will vary, but a comprehensive curriculum should cover a progression of skills, increasing in complexity and sophistication from elementary to high school. Here's which homeschool writing programs best prepare kids to be great writers.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Service Learning Projects for Kids

How do you make sure the projects you design for your learners or homeschoolers are more than just volunteering, but meaningful learning opportunities?

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Goal Setting for Kids: The Ultimate Guide

Review some of the most popular goal-setting frameworks for kids, from S.M.A.R.T. Goals to WOOP Goals, and get strategies and printable resources for implementing them with your kids.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Entrepreneurship Homeschool Curriculum Guide

When it comes to developing real world life skills, integrating with tons of academic subjects at once, and simply being fun, we don’t think many topics deliver the bang-for-your-buck entrepreneurship does.

Emily Veno Skolnick

Head of Learning Innovation

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Prisma is an accredited, global, project-based, online school for grades 4-12

Prisma is the world’s most engaging virtual school

We are your accredited, global, project-based, online school for grades 4-12. We instill a love of learning and creative problem solving through project-based themes that mirror the real-world.