Lessons are written like a guided story or conversation, the way a great teacher would explain them out loud.
A volcano represents a remarkable geologic formation characterized by an opening, or rupture, within the Earth’s crust.
This breach serves as a conduit for magma, molten rock stored beneath the Earth’s surface, to escape into the atmosphere.
The phenomenon of magma rising and eventually erupting as lava is a complex interplay of temperature, pressure, and the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle and crust.
Maya pressed her face against the cold bus window as the mountain came into view.
Her teacher had called it a “geologic formation” in class: a rupture in the Earth’s crust. From here, it just looked like a mountain, quiet and still.
It wasn’t until she saw the thin curl of smoke rising from the peak that she remembered what lived underneath it.
Deep below that calm surface, rock was melting. Magma, her teacher had called it: molten rock trapped beneath the crust, building pressure the way steam builds in a closed pot.
The crust above it was cracked, she knew, and somewhere in that mountain was a conduit, an opening that ran all the way down to the heat.
She watched the smoke and thought about all that pressure, temperature, and chemical energy churning in the dark, and she wondered what it would take for the mountain to finally stop pretending it was ordinary.
Same facts, but now the student can retain them differently. This is a simplistic example to illustrate the underlying pedagogy.
Campfire units have changed and grown a lot over the years! Price reflects unit length, depth, and format.
Flexible units
Choose from two open-and-go flexible formats:
One purchase covers your whole family
$25 - $32 per unit
Classic units
Classic units are complete, open-and-go Campfire studies from our original catalog, with multi-subject Core Connections support included, in a gentler format.
One purchase covers your whole family
$37 per unit
Signature units
A complete, open-and-go Campfire study with a full Core Connections Companion—our most expanded, organized cross-curricular resource.
One purchase covers your whole family
$47 per unit
~8 units per year = 1 full credit in each core subject:
Each unit with Core Connections provides partial credit in all of the following:
Think of each unit as an extra large chapter within a full-year curriculum. Complete ~8 units, and you will have a full credit in each (US Carnegie Unit: ~120 hours per subject = 1 full credit). Since Campfire teaches multiple subjects in one unit, each one gives you a “chapter” in multiple school subjects.
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