16 electives · 6,400 lessons · 64,000 questions
Electives
Courses a family adds by choice. They are not filler credits — each one runs to a hundred lessons or more, with the same quizzes, supply lists, and downloads as any core subject.
How they work
Electives sit outside the daily schedule. Nothing else shifts if you add one, and nothing breaks if you skip it. Most are offered in each of grades 9 through 12 so the credit can be recorded in whichever year the student takes it — the lessons are the same course either way, listed four times rather than written four times.
The elementary garden course is the exception: it is written for grades 3 to 5 at that reading level, and is a different course from the high school one.
Mathematics & science
Full-year high school courses, each one a subject in its own right rather than a chapter inside a general book.
Home & homestead
Practical work with hands, soil, and animals. Self-paced: take one over a summer or stretch it across a year.
Heirloom & Organic Gardening (Grades 3–5)
Seeds, soil, and the patient work of growing real food — an elementary garden course.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 3–5Look at the course →Heirloom & Organic Gardening (Grades 9–12)
Open-pollinated seed, living soil, and a garden planned around your own frost dates and hardiness zone.
15 units 180 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Botany & Gardening
Plant families, soil life, and the Back to Eden method, from tomatoes and squash through herbs, berries, and companion planting.
15 units 180 lessons Grade 12Look at the course →Animal Husbandry
Chickens, goats, rabbits, and sheep — housing, feeding, health, and the honest daily work of keeping livestock well.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Beekeeping
A first hive from the ground up — bee biology, seasonal inspections, mites and pests, and the honey harvest at the end.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Food Preservation & Canning
Canning, drying, fermenting, and cold storage, taught to tested USDA safety standards — nothing in it is guessed at.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Forestry & Land Stewardship
Trees, wildlife, soil, water, and fire — how to read a piece of woodland and leave it better than you found it.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Home Economics
Cooking, budgeting, sewing, laundry, hospitality, and child care — the ordinary skills that keep a household running.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Home Maintenance & Repair
How a house works, what it needs each season, what you can safely fix yourself, and when to call somebody.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Woodworking
Hand tools, power tools, joinery, and finishing — projects that end with something useful set on the table.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Faith, citizenship & life skills
Courses about believing well, thinking clearly, speaking honestly, and handling money as a steward.
Christian Apologetics
Why Christians believe what they believe, and how to give an answer with meekness and fear rather than a raised voice.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Church History
The church's story from Pentecost to today, martyrs and reformers included, with a full unit on the Anabaptists.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Civics & Government
How American government actually works, and where the Christian's obedience to it begins and where it ends.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Personal Finance
Budgeting, saving, debt, banking, insurance, taxes, and giving — money handled as a steward rather than an owner.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →Rhetoric & Public Speaking
Clear thinking, honest persuasion, and the steadiness to stand up in front of people and say it well.
10 units 100 lessons Grades 9–12Look at the course →