Doctor Who Homeschool Unit

Doctor Who Homeschool Unit

My husband and I like to watch the TV show Doctor Who. It has a complicated plot, it is funny, no nudity and there is not massive amounts of swearing which is a refreshing change from most shows.  We often discuss together the characters and speculate where the plot is going.

As we have done this our kids have been very curious about the show. However, if you have seen the show you know that it can be very scary at times, for example any weeping angels episode. We decided that the kids could watch some of the episodes but we would have to very careful about which ones they get to see, no extremely  scary ones right before bed, one of us is always with them when they are watching and they watch it with all the lights on.

As a result of watching some of the episodes  “Spiderman Jr.” wanted a Doctor Who homeschool unit.  I was hesitant to say yes. He has watched the fewest episodes and I didn’t know if I would have enough source material he could see that wasn’t too scary. I did eventually decide he could have a Doctor Who homeschool unit. Here is what I came up with from images that were available that allowed for noncommercial reuse.  If you print these don’t sell them, the people who shared their images did not give permission to sell them.

Math

 

He kept forgetting which ones he had counted, 

so we had to add check marks above each one. 

Kind of funny that he kept forgetting.

The Silence- write the tally marks worksheet

Silence Tally Mark Worksheet

The Silence- count and clip cards.

The Silence count and clip cards

I created this to help him work on how to use and count tally marks.

Bow ties with cubes

 

 

 

 

 

I printed out a template for making a paper cube and cut it out. After that I traced the template onto black construction paper I cut them out.  Then “Spiderman Jr.” and I glued them together. I cut out blue numbers and glued them onto the cubes.  I then cut out enough red bow ties each box. He then placed the same number of red bow ties in the cube as the number that was on the outside of the cube.

Van Goph Color by number worksheet

Sunflower Color by number

We were focusing on adding the numbers 10-13 into the numbers he is better at recognizing more consistently so I only had these number. More numbers could be added because there are far more colors in the original painting.

Science

We built a sonic screwdriver. We spent a couple of days on this and he had a great time.

Art

Cubist Bow Tie coloring page

We watched some documentaries on Van Goph and Pablo Picasso. We talked about cubism and I made a cubist inspired Doctor Who coloring page for us to color together as we talked about that style of art.

English

Alphabet letter matching

I created a card matching game where he had to match the first letter to the villain or companion of the Doctor. We also worked on identifying vowels and constants.

Doctor Item Spelling Cards

I also created cards were he had to match identical items. One card had the words spelled in it and the other was blank. He had to look at the card that had the correct spelling and write the same letter on the blank card to practice writing his letters.

History

Match the Sonic to the Doctor cards

For fun I had him match cards I had made of the doctors sonic screw drivers to the doctor who used that sonic screwdriver. It was a chance to work on timelines and understanding that things come in a certain order.

“Spideman Jr.” and I had a lot of fun doing this unit. After he finished each day’s work we watched the episode that went with what we had worked on that day.