Built for Depth
Designed for Sanity
Voted #1 by Teach Them Diligently Families.
A complete K-12 Homeschool Curriculum
— every kid and every age at the same table
Most families feel like they only have two choices for curriculum:
Camp A:
Joyful but shallow
Camp B:
Rigorous but dead
The Third Option:
Campfire
Campfire brings the whole family together, from elementary to college-prep credits. If you thought family style had to mean dry, fluff, or lacking in depth, let us show you something different.
A homeschool day that works:
Every lesson follows the Campfire Method™: Read → Explore → Write → Apply → Experience
Your children may read how the heart works, take guided notes on how blood moves through the body, then work through a real trauma scenario making medical decisions—all in one lesson.
- The note-taking is already built in.
- The different learning styles are incorporated.
- The progression from concept to real-world application is already mapped out.
We believe children are capable of understanding remarkably complex ideas when they’re taught well.
Easier for you, more depth for them. Zero prep required–you don’t even have to print.. No gaps, buying five different programs, or planning lessons at night. Just open and begin.
For the teen prepping for serious college or career and the 8-year-old who loves nature walks.
MULTI-AGE THAT WORKS: “… I wish I had found you sooner. It’s amazing for my 8 and 13 year old sons. They’re actually enjoying sitting down to do their work. This was the missing puzzle piece I’d been searching for.”
PHYSICIAN IN AWE: “..how absolutely phenomenal I found the curriculum. I was a music major in University and then completed my MD, …The Core Concepts which delved into the physics and biology were outstanding…”
HOW IT WORKS FOR MULTIPLE AGES (CLICK TO EXPAND)
ZOOLOGIST UNIT EXAMPLE:
✔︎ The lesson teaches through the eyes of a wildlife biologist, as students are laughing and imitating elephant calls across the room. You are all together, reading the same lesson.
✔︎ Younger students are guided: What’s the signal? Who responds? Why does it matter within the herd?
✔︎ Older students are taught in the same lesson–analyzing biology, stimulus and response, tracing behavior patterns to ecological balance, or writing research papers based on their findings.
✔︎ All ages participate in the same lesson. The same main text is read aloud, blending an interactive teaching voice with narrative. Age-appropriate depth is also included within each guidebook, for full college-prep.
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Whether you lean Charlotte Mason, traditional, or eclectic, Campfire units can fit your style.
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Core Subjects with Real World Skills and Careers
Because it’s built for depth, your child doesn’t only learn the core subjects. They also learn what people actually do with them…
Emergency Medicine
Anatomy. Physiology. Applied Science.
How the heart actually works.
Blood vessels in motion.
Trauma scenarios.
Suturing techniques.
Real-time medical decisions.
Developed with guidance from practicing ER providers.
Baking & Pastry
Chemistry. History. Geography. Bible. Ethics. ELA.
What makes dough rise, why protein coagulates, how heat transfers, and what happens when ratios shift. Adjust variables and test outcomes, writing through processes like working pastry chefs. And that’s just one of the subjects covered…
Unit was written with direct input and guidance from experienced pastry chefs.
Award Winning Curriculum 5 Years in a Row
About
Campfire Curriculums units were created by a homeschool dad (who used to adamantly be against homeschool, crazy enough!), practicing ER provider, and U.S. special operations veteran who saw something missing in his own home.
So, he built what he couldn’t find: curriculum designed well enough that even busy working parents could be a part of their children’s education. He hoped for everyone to turn in toward each other and the Lord, and build on life skills and passions while also doing homeschool.
The name comes from the image of people gathered around a fire together, where wisdom and life skills were passed down from one generation to the next. It actually all began with a simple question from his son about how to fish…
If you want the longer, more personal origin story (as well as our views on college, etc.), you can read it here.
Questions?
Still have questions? These are the things families most often want to understand before getting started.
Is this a Christian curriculum and can secular customers use it?
Yes. The business is owned and operated by Christians with a biblical worldview. The main lesson content itself does not include faith instruction. Instead, each lesson intentionally ends with a guided Faith Talk. These are designed to connect the lesson to Scripture and help families grow in the Lord, applying biblical truth in everyday life. Faith Talks serve as devotionals or contain apologetics content.
Can secular customers use the curriculum?
Yes. The curriculum is used by many families and organizations from a variety of backgrounds. Those who prefer not to engage with anything faith related choose to skip the Faith Talk portions.
Misconceptions about Campfire
Myth-busting: What people get wrong about Campfire Curriculums
Campfire is a full core homeschool curriculum, spanning elementary through high school. But because we’ve grown and changed a lot over the years, some outdated (and just plain wrong) ideas about us keep floating around. Let’s clear them up.
- ❌ “They have no ELA.” No.
- ❌ “They’re purely living literature, so no facts.” No.
- ❌ “They’re not a core curriculum.” No.
- ❌ “They don’t have written work.” No.
- ❌ “They only use note-taking for ELA.” No.
- ❌ “They don’t have structure.” No.
- ❌ “They’re only for older kids.” No.
- ❌ “They’re only for younger kids.” No. (Yes, we’ve heard both.)
- ❌ “They go deep, not wide.” No.
Here’s what’s actually inside:
- Depth AND breadth. We don’t believe you have to choose.
- Designated note-taking AND separate, explicit ELA instruction: grammar, spelling, root words, rhetoric, paragraph writing, essay writing, public speaking, literature analysis, and more.
- Real academics taught through living story, with explicit teaching instruction built in.
- So much structure that it even tells you when to pause, read, write, take a break, or do something crazy (without you having to do any of the planning—you literally open and follow along).
- Elementary through high school, in the same lesson, at the same time. See it in action in our customer testimonials and photos.
- Core school subjects taught without sacrificing the connection to real world skills and careers.
The “buzzwords” for Campfire Curriculums units–Fun, Hands-on… What do they actually mean?
About Those Buzzwords…
Let’s just say it out loud.
Campfire units come with a lot of buzzwords.
You’ve probably heard a few:
- Fun.
- Rigorous.
- Careers and life skills.
- Charlotte Mason.
- Not Charlotte Mason.
- Sequential
- Choose-your-own-path.
If you stack enough of those together, we manage to attract and scare off every homeschool camp at once—traditional, classical, eclectic, Charlotte Mason, and even the “I-don’t-know-who-I-am-yet” crowd.
Campfire units are academically serious, but just not worksheet-driven. So, instead of pretending those words don’t exist, let’s talk about what they actually mean for us.
Two Ways Families Use Campfire Curriculums units
1. As a multiple-subject curriculum
(an all-in-one, minus math). No juggling different programs.
2. As a single-subject study
. Use any unit on its own for only science or only history, extracurricular, or electives.
You choose what you need, and Campfire units meet you there.
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How to Track Time and Award Credits
What else do you have besides the units?
- OG+reading and phonics program designed for any age.
- 50 States Geography series.
- Holiday unit series.
- Novel studies.
- Life Planner.