The Core Connections Companion is where all of your other school subjects are covered. For example, if the unit topic itself is history heavy (think: History’s Mysteries), then the Core Connections Companion will include your daily science, language arts, etc. This way, all of your core school subjects (except math) are covered in an interdisciplinary and cross-curricular fashion, as is done in highly respected universities. HERE is our Science approach, and HERE is our history approach. HERE is our language arts approach.
Some of our older units have “adjustable” Core Connections. Adjustable Core Connections have a different teaching style and are sometimes not as rigorous or detailed (unit dependent). Our curriculum has shifted focus over the years from purely extracurricular to all-in-one with extracurricular included. During the transition, “adjustable Core Connections” were included. These can still fully be utilized for an all-in-one curriculum, though it will look slightly different.
If you would like to see the differences between then and now (with our more rigorous Core Connections Companions), download our FREE samples from our products page.
*The new Geography series intentionally does not have a separate Core Connections Companion; however, there is intentionally enough content included in the learning extensions of the main guidebook that parents can easily turn it into an all-in-one, if desired.