I dont know how to make a emergent curriculum? does anyone know how to start it?

Question

i am confused can you give any example that i can start to make up?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you are asking.  Emergent means "beginning".  Are you trying to create a curriculum for your child that is beginning school?  

When I was helping my sister with hers I sent her our state's curriculum as well as her province's curriculum so that she had an idea of what children should know.  She has taken it from there.  That's a good beginning point for you.  All that information is online.  

There are also trainings out there for parents who are beginning to homeschool and they discuss curriculum and you can also purchase one if you care too.  Not necessary but it would give you an idea.  Hope that helps.

Answer 2

An emergent curriculum is basically a technical term for delight-directed studies.  Unit studies are a form of emergent curriculum.  It starts off with something that the student is interested in - plants, for example - and goes from there.  The teacher brainstorms ways to educate the student about plants across the curriculum - reading stories, nonfiction books, growing various plants under different circumstances, science experiments with plants, observing plants and trees in different ecosystems at parks and nature centers, visiting a botanical garden or arboretum, creating a lapbook on plants, writing copywork, stories, or paragraphs about plants and illustrating them, and learning about different artists who drew plants (Rousseau, Monet, etc.).  This goes on at the intensity that the student can handle and for as long as they're interested - they keep on learning throughout the curriculum in different subject areas.

Down the line, the student may develop an interest in ecology, in various plant cell structures, trees, or ways that plants get pollinated (bees, insects, butterflies, birds, animals, wind, etc.).  As the student's interests change, you brainstorm ways to go with that.  It's what's frequently called "following a rabbit trail" on homeschool loops.

I would suggest starting with either a premade unit study or lapbook study.  http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/Defaul... has some great unit studies that have built in visual organizers called lapbooks, research guides, bibliographies and extended resource supplements, activities, and all the graphics.  After you do a couple of these, it's easier to figure out how to do your own.  (They also have a sale going on right now with coupons on the website :-) )  http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ also has some great unit study resources.

Hope that helps!