Culturally Inclusive Homeschool Curriculum: Multicultural Resources & Unit Studies
How do you compile a curriculum that includes diverse perspectives and cultures? Use these resources to create a multicultural homeschool curriculum.
Why Culturally Inclusive Education Matters
Why should you seek out a culturally inclusive homeschool program?
Develop Cultural Literacy
We don’t live in a box. In our increasingly globalized society, we interact with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
If we want our children to navigate the world with understanding and perspective, that begins with education.
Appreciate Others
A multicultural homeschool curriculum teaches children that the world is a vast and diverse place, filled with different cultures and perspectives.
Build Empathy
Learning about people and cultures that are different from your own is foundational to developing empathy and avoiding stereotypes.
Honor Your Heritage
A multicultural homeschool curriculum can help children connect with their own identity and ancestry.
You can also learn more about your family and traditions. You can preserve languages and customs that might otherwise fade with time.
Balance History
History is a story, and a story is framed by the one who tells it.
A multicultural homeschool curriculum can offer a balanced perspective on historical events.
Multicultural Homeschool Curriculum
Find your curriculum match with these multicultural homeschool programs.
Torchlight
Torchlight is a secular homeschool curriculum that emphasizes diverse voices and perspectives. It is history-based and globally-minded.
Currently, the program runs through middle school, but they are working on adding more levels.
The program covers everything except grammar and math (although it provides recommendations for both).
Build Your Library
Calling all Charlotte Mason homeschoolers!
Build Your Library is a secular homeschool program that is literature-based, making it an excellent fit for the Charlotte Mason style.
The program uses Charlotte Mason’s methods of memory work, copywork, narration, and dictation to teach subjects in an integrated manner.
The program pivots on history told from various perspectives.
Layers of Learning
The pick-and-choose curriculum allows you to select what you will teach your family (since it emphasizes family-style schooling, meaning you teach all your children at once).
The spine of the curriculum is the library lists, which include global geography and cultural studies.
After reading, the family engages in hands-on activities that allow them to discover and learn simultaneously.
Finally, your children choose a mode of assessment to show what they know. This can vary from taking a quiz to writing a paragraph or creating a game.
Global Village School
Global Village School is a secular online, hybrid school for Kindergarten through high school. It targets self-directed learners and is compatible with Waldorf, Montessori, and unschooling styles.
Global Village School also welcomes learners with differences such as ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia.
The program is globally minded and emphasizes social justice. You can choose the level of teacher support you receive.
Sonlight
Sonlight is a Christian homeschool program that utilizes literature as its foundation.
The program features numerous stories of global missionaries and includes two units on world cultures.
Multicultural Unit Studies
If you already have a homeschool curriculum you enjoy, you can add in some of these diverse unit studies homeschool families love.
Or use some of these resources to build your own unit study.
Heritage Mom
If you want to highlight Black history and African culture while keeping your current curriculum, you can use one of these heritage packs.
Each heritage pack contains book lists and lesson plans.
Heritage Mom also offers a history of the South listed as a “multicultural celebration of the American South.”
Barefoot Books
Create your own unit study by sourcing materials from Barefoot Books.
This publisher offers books on various cultures and perspectives, as well as bilingual books.
You can even search for books by continent.
Stories of Color
Woke Homeschooling offers a history series that focuses on African American history while highlighting stories of Native Americans and immigrants of color.
Christmas Around the World
Use these activity sheets as the base for your Christmas Around the World unit study.
To find out more about how Christmas is celebrated around the world, check out this article.
Multicultural Resources for Homeschool
This list of multicultural homeschool curriculum and unit studies will inspire you to broaden the scope of what you teach your kids.
