Helping you home-educate in Australia
At Antipodes Life, you’ll find thoughtfully created guides designed to support you in your home education journey here in Australia. With a strong focus on Australian history, these resources are made to lighten your workload—taking one more task off your plate so you can spend less time planning and more time enjoying meaningful moments with your family.
Australian history guides for Australian families.
Australia has many stories to tell and it’s own unique history - so why settle for American or British history studies? While it is good to study world history, and our family does, we also need to study the history of our own country. The question is how do we do this well? And how do we do this with Charlotte Mason’s principles in mind.
There have been years in my homeschooling journey where we tried to piecemeal together some sort of Australian history study that often had no connection with our world history and just left us muddled. We have also completely ignored Australian history for a time because it was in the too hard basket, or if we did do it we simply read a book and got it done.
That is where these guides were born - because our family needed more than just reading a book and we wanted to follow Charlotte Mason’s principles including studying history in context. If we were studying 1650 in world history we wanted to be learning what was happening in Australia at that time, just as Mason had her students learn in this way.
These guides are designed to fit in with whatever Charlotte Mason curriculum you’re using, just swapping the American or British history for Australian. Simply pick the years you’re currently studying and use those guides.No need to completely drop what you’re already using, just swapping one building block for another.