Bring your kids together, and simplify your school day.
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Schoolhouse Discoveries themed unit study kits are designed to provide an immersive multi-subject learning experience.
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Engaging lessons, exciting projects, good books, and meaningful memories all neatly packed and shipped to your doorstep.
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Each kit includes themed lessons and activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, art, sensory play, cooking, movement, and more!
EE Deep Blue Sea
$47.95
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER--ESTIMATED SHIPPING DATE EARLY MAY
Get ready to explore the wonders of the deep with our Deep Blue Sea unit study kit! This hands-on kit takes kids on an underwater journey to discover the incredible creatures that call the ocean home, from the sunlit surface to the mysterious depths.
Perfect for homeschooling families, this kit brings marine science to life through interactive lessons, creative projects, and hands-on exploration. With engaging activities and exciting discoveries, your kids will dive deep into ocean learning!
Topics include:
- Exploring the world's oceans and where they are located
- Learning about ocean zones and the creatures that live in each one
- Discovering tidepools, the seashore, and beach ecosystems
- Investigating the work of marine biologists and how they study ocean life
- Building an ocean small world for immersive, hands-on play
This kit sparks curiosity and wonder, helping kids develop a deeper understanding of the ocean and its incredible biodiversity. Through exploration, creativity, and hands-on learning, they’ll gain a new appreciation for the vast world beneath the waves.
Designed for grades K-4 but engaging enough for 5th-6th+ who love hands-on learning! Older siblings can join in and help lead the fun for an amazing family learning experience.
Get ready to make waves in your homeschool—because learning should be an adventure!
EE Prehistoric Animals
$47.95
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER--ESTIMATED SHIPPING DATE MID-APRIL
Travel back in time and explore the incredible creatures of the past with this hands-on unit study! Centered around the book, Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins, this kit brings prehistoric animals to life with engaging activities that spark curiosity and creativity.
Perfect for homeschooling families, this kit covers science, social studies, math, language arts, and art while making learning fun for all ages. With 20+ lessons and activities, your child will become a prehistoric expert through hands-on exploration!
Activities include:
- Learning what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur and comparing them to other prehistoric animals
- Examining dinosaur characteristics and sorting them by traits
- Completing a color-by-number dinosaur egg activity
- Measuring dinosaurs and comparing their actual sizes
- Crafting a dinosaur model to bring these creatures to life
- Understanding herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores through interactive sorting
- Digging into a dinosaur excavation site like a real paleontologist
- Creating an air-dry clay skeleton of a prehistoric creature
- Designing a dinosaur small world play scene for imaginative storytelling
- And so much more!
Designed to complement the fascinating facts in the included book, this kit immerses your child in the world of dinosaurs and prehistoric life through multi-sensory learning.
Get ready for an unforgettable adventure into the past!
Dig in and start exploring today!
EE Wonders of Weather
$47.95
THIS KIT WILL SHIP IN EARLY APRIL
Explore the Power of Extreme Weather!
Get ready for a hands-on adventure into the world of storms with our Extreme Weather unit study kit! Centered around Usborne Beginners: Weather, this kit helps kids discover the science behind storms, the water cycle, and the important work of meteorologists.
Perfect for homeschooling families, this kit transforms weather learning into an interactive experience. With 20+ engaging activities, exciting experiments, and creative projects, your kids will explore the forces that shape our world!
This kit covers science, social studies, math, language arts, and art while making learning fun for all ages.
Activities include:
- Exploring the layers of the atmosphere through a fun, interactive activity
- Investigating the water cycle with a hands-on experiment
- Creating a cloud in a jar to see how clouds form
- Making thunder and lightning process art for a creative storm experience
- Spinning up a tornado in a bottle to understand vortexes
- Simulating a hailstorm with a cool experiment
- Designing and testing storm-proof buildings in an engineering challenge
- Becoming a meteorologist and creating your own weather report
- And so much more!
This kit makes learning fun while helping kids build confidence and understanding about extreme weather. They'll experiment, create, and discover how science and technology help predict and prepare for storms.
Designed for grades K-4 but engaging enough for 5th-6th+ who love hands-on learning! Older siblings can join in and help lead the fun for an amazing family learning experience.
Turn your home into a mini weather station—because knowledge is power!
EE Simple Machines
$47.95
Discover the wonders of mechanics with the Simple Machines unit study!
This engaging kit is filled with hands-on activities and essential tools to introduce learners to the six types of simple machines: levers, wheels and axles, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges, and screws.
In this unit study, we will dive into early physics using hands-on, project-based learning. In each lesson, children will engage in building and creating as they explore the six types of simple machines. Each lesson includes a focused project, allowing them to experiment with concepts like levers, pulleys, and inclined planes in real, tangible ways.
Kids will explore how these machines make work easier and see how they’re used in the everyday life. Each activity brings STEM concepts to life in a fun and accessible way, making this the perfect unit for budding engineers and curious thinkers.
This type of project-based learning encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity, helping learners apply what they’ve discovered in meaningful ways. The culmination of this unit is a design challenge asking kids to combine their new knowledge of simple machines to create compound machine of their own.
EE All About Autumn
$47.95
Explore all the things you love about the changing season in this All About Autumn unit study kit. Set in the woodland forest, this fall kit is packed with supplies and fun hands-on learning experiences to introduce kids to animals in the woodland habitat and what these animals do to prepare for winter, deciduous and coniferous trees, parts of a mushroom, why we have seasons, why leaves change color, the tall tale of Johnny Appleseed, the life cycle of an apple tree, pumpkins, fun fall traditions, and more!
This unit study specifically focuses on the autumn season and does not mention Halloween or Thanksgiving.
- If you're looking for Halloween activities, be sure to check out our All About Bats free download.
- If you're looking for Thanksgiving activities, be sure to check out our Early American Settlers unit study kit.
EE African Savanna
$47.95
The African savanna is home to many animals like lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and wildebeests. Each of these animals has special ways to live in this environment. For example, giraffes have long necks to reach the leaves on tall trees, and elephants have big ears that help them stay cool. Every year, millions of wildebeests and zebras travel across the Serengeti in a huge migration, looking for fresh grass to eat. This journey is one of the most incredible events in the natural world and shows how the animals of the savanna depend on the changing seasons to survive.
This kit is packed with supplies and fun, hands-on learning experiences to introduce kids to the African savanna ecosystem and some physical and behavioral adaptations animals use to thrive in the grasslands. They’ll learn where the African savanna is located, some of the animals that live there, what (and whom!) those animals eat, how they work together, and so much more!
EE The Renaissance
$47.95
The Renaissance is packed full of supplies and learning experiences centered around the "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci, and other great artists of the time. Learners will read from two books about Leonardo da Vinci (fictional Monday with a Mad Genius and nonfiction Leonardo da Vinci). They'll explore Italy, experiment with different art mediums, sculpt with clay, decipher backward mirror writing, fly a parachute, and so much more!
Perfect for homeschooling families, this kit brings history to life with hands-on activities that immerse your kids in Roman culture and engineering marvels. And that's just the beginning—with 20+ lessons and activities, there's so much more to discover inside the kit!
Although our kits are generally geared for children in grades K-4, this topic is meaty enough for 5th-6th graders+ who still love hands-on, project-based learning! Bring the big kids in to help teach the littles and foster family learning and shared discovery.
EE Discovering Gold
Schoolhouse Discoveries
$47.95
This kit is packed full of supplies and learning experiences centered around the famous gold rush of 1849, a significant event in the history of the early United States. Learners will read What Was the Gold Rush?, travel to California on ship or covered wagon to meet a gold miner, discuss the causes and effects of mining, and write their own newspaper article announcing the gold strike. They’ll also create their own gold mining boomtown, pan for gold, build a sluice box, and more!
The activities in this kit were designed for K to 4th graders. But we know kids are at all different levels and interests, so feel free to skip or add-to an activity if it isn’t right for your child(ren). That’s what Schoolhouse Discoveries are all about – having fun learning and finding ways that best fit your needs.