Minimum Class Size: 10

Maximum Class Size: 20

Midterm Enrollment:  Yes

Class Time: 3rd hour (10:40-11:35)

Prerequisite: None

Estimated homework hours: 1-2

Required Materials or Books:

• We will be using Discover Texas-Adventures in Texas History, a curriculum on CD-ROM designed to teach Texas history, geography, and government to students between 4th and 9th grades.  This curriculum was developed by former homeschooling mom Lynn Dean. Siblings in the class can share the disk. Other supplies will be needed for projects. The supply fee covers the cost of the CD.

Class Description:  The following is taken from the Discover Texas online website: Discover Texas the way it was meant to be discovered...one adventure after another!  Ten volumes discover ten historical eras: Geography and Indian cultures, Early Explorers, Missions and Colonies, Texas as a Nation, Texas in the Civil War, Statehood and Constitution, Cavalry and Indians, Ranches, Cotton and Oil, Texas Today/Famous Texans, and My Place in History. Unit study activities, real books, carefully selected websites and even a field trip at the end of the year will help students experience the "greatest state in the main forty-eight"


Teacher Information:  Candi Stryker has homeschooled her children for 11 years and has been involved in co-op during that time. She has a BS from UMHB and also completed coursework in elementary education at Baylor University. Before teaching her own children she taught in an elementary school for 8 years.