Now that you have an idea of what topic you want to teach, You might be wondering how to spread that out into weekly lessons. First, you should decide if you would like to teach for the full semester (12 weeks) or if a 6 week class would fit better with your schedule. You can also co-teach with another parent if you want!

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Once you've got that figured out, decide the main lessons of your subject that you want to cover. It helps to make a syllabus for your class with key topics for each week. Here's an example:

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All About the Body

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Week 1: Germs and Other Gross Stuff Skin keeps germs out, treating wounds, snot keeps germs out of your nose, make "snot slime" craft and do a bacteria experiment.

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Week 2: What Keeps a body Healthy? Nutrition, water, sleep, and hygiene. Magic School bus experiment and video.

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Week 3: Why do we Need Healthy Food? Digestive system puzzle, nutrients and food groups, "stomach acid" experiment, body chalk tracing and draw organs

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Week 4: How do my Lungs work?  How long can you hold your breathe? Math problem, Working lung model with cigarette to show effects of smoking

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Week 5: Blood Mobile! "Blood Mobile" song by TMBG, building a model circulatory system, Paper heart craft, importance of donating blood, why do we get scabs? experiment

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Week 6: Messing with your Brain  central nervous system model, hand-eye coordination experiment, "How your brain gets the message" video

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Planning Your Lessons

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When you know what you plan on teaching each week, it makes it easier to create a lesson that will cover those important topics in a fun and memorable way. You can have "book-led" lessons where the teacher starts off my reading from a book, followed by activities to expand on the reading material. Another approach is having different activity stations set up so that kids can explore a subject in a variety of ways. You can set up your class area and activities in any way that you want!

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