Odyssey Uses the Award-Winning Switched-On Schoolhouse, a 21st Century Tool for 21st Century Learners

For grades 3-12, Odyssey Academy offers the latest and most dynamic technology for delivery of its course content and connecting students with teachers. Switched-On Schoolhouse, published by Alpha Omega Publications, is not like traditional textbook curriculums. Instead of fixed one-dimensional lessons, Switched-On Schoolhouse has a lively mix of lessons, assignments, practice sessions, and quizzes reinforced by rich multimedia including movies, maps, timelines, learning games, and interactive projects. These lessons are sure to captivate your student's interest and engage him or her in their learning "odyssey".

Because we have chosen to use technology to deliver our educational content, we can always provide up-to-date curriculum. We upgrade every year to provide the most current content available. Switched-On Schoolhouse immerses your student in the subject through a dynamic mix of text and multimedia presentations. Questions and activities provide instant interactive feedback and will challenge your student's grasp of the information. Quizzes and tests then prove the student's comprehension and understanding.

Following is a short list of some of the exciting features:

• Text-to-Speech Feature

• Automatic Lesson Plans

• Automatic Grading with Instant Feedback

• Thousands of Multimedia Videos

• Animation and Graphics with new games!

• Book Reports

• Work Mode with Flexible Navigation

• Interactive Student Resource Center

• Enforced Mastery Learning Loop Enhancement

• Extensive Tracking, Reporting and Printing Capabilities

Last, but not least, we are able to connect your student with our qualified teachers through the internal Student-Teacher e-mail System. When your student has a question, just send a message to the teacher. Your teacher is only "a fingertip away!" Your student's teacher will communicate with your student on a daily basis for the purpose of meeting their individual needs through the questions submitted within the internal message center.

LIFEPAC

Flexible, complete, award winning—these are just some of the words used to describe our paper-based LIFEPAC curriculum available in the core subjects for students in grades 1-8. LIFEPAC stands alone in its teacher-friendly layout and instructional flow and is a complete, 12-year Christian curriculum designed to teach five core subjects (Bible, Language Arts, Math, History & Geography, and Science), plus an array of secondary electives. Composed of consumable textbook/workbook combinations that conveniently combine subject text, exercises, projects, review, and tests, this worktext format is designed for home school parents who want the advantage of extensive, pre-developed curricula with integrated lesson plans.

Mastery Learning

LIFEPAC's full-color, worktext curriculum is based on the principle of mastery learning, in which students truly master the context and skills of one unit before progressing to the next. Different students learn at different speeds, so mastery learning ensures success by allowing each student to move at his or her own speed. 

Critical Thinking Skills

Many specific LIFEPAC curriculum activities and questions require students to go beyond simple objective recall, asking them to instead, think analytically and draw conclusions that require a conceptual understanding of the material. More than just recalling facts, your student will grasp concepts through analytical and evaluative thinking skills.

Additional LIFEPAC Key Features 

• Individualized — Tailor a course of study to meet your student's individual need
• Integrated Biblical concepts and principle reinforcement
• Minimal lesson planning
• Flexible and customizable 
• Substantial savings over traditional hardbound texts
• Balance independent study with parent interaction
• Complete spiral-bound Teacher's Guides for lesson planning and charting student progress.

Click here to view the LIFEPAC Overview Chart.

Click here to view the LIFEPAC Scope and Sequence.

Click here to view the LIFEPAC Select Scope & Sequence.

Click here to view sample page from our LIFEPAC curriculum.

Horizons

For grades Pre-6, the Horizons curriculum is fun-filled and comprehensive with engaging workbooks and hands-on lessons. Creative, colorful lessons establish students in grades K-6 in the fundamentals of math, phonics, reading, spelling, and vocabulary. The Horizons Math and Language Arts courses use spiral learning—quick concept introduction, frequent review, and reinforcement. Uniquely different from LIFEPAC Math, Horizons Math is a quick-paced, teacher-directed format which uses manipulatives and accelerated learning to build mathematical understanding. The Horizons curriculum has the following courses: Phonics & Reading (K-2), Spelling & Vocabulary (1-2), and Math (K-6).

Click here to view the Horizons Scope and Sequence.

Click here to view sample pages from our Horizons curriculum.

Horizons Preschool

This program will serve as both a complement and an introduction to the other fine Horizons products.  Preschoolers will gain a strong foundation which will help them be successful in kindergarten Biblically-based lessons and hands-on activities give an introduction to social studies, language arts, math, phonics, and science.  Additional topics such as health & safety, arts & crafts, music and physical education add variety and depth to this foundational curriculum.  This program can be easily adapted to a variety of daily schedules and program objectives with a flexible organization structure.  This built-in flexibility has been developed to meet the needs of two different types of preschool programs:  activity centered or academically centered. 

Click here to view the Horizons Preschool Scope and Sequence.