When you’ve been homeschooling for nearly twenty years, some curriculum companies come and stay in your homeschool. For our family,…
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Science
The Homeschool Chemistry Curriculum Your Student Needs
This year our family enters year 18 of homeschooling… …and I enter my fourth time leading a teen through high…
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Exploring Nature with Children, a Charlotte Mason Method
Nature studies. Outside time. Looking. Investigating. These are the things we love! I ran across something called Exploring Nature with Children…
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The Outdoor Homeschool: Take Your Homeschool OUTSIDE
It is not difficult to see the benefit of the great outdoors providing the perfect classroom to ignite student interest…
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Tree Finder – Review of a Dichotomous Key For Plant Identification
We picked up this really cool dichotomous key at a homeschool class we attended at our local nature center. It…
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The Kids’ Book of Weather Forecasting Review for Homeschool
Do you have any budding meteorologists in your home? Have you been taking extra notice of the weather lately due…
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Farm Food and Nature Anatomy: Books for Exploring our Natural World
Have you seen these Julia Rothman books? Farm, Food, and Nature Anatomy are three books you want to have on…
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Do Hands-On Learning with Oak Meadow First Grade – My Review
I was delighted when I found Oak Meadow First Grade. It is full of hands on activities, beautiful art, and…
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NaturExplorers :: Snow and Ice Nature Study
As the temperatures slip below freezing a world of possibilities for snow and ice nature study opens up. I know…
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Elementary Astronomy Ideas for Your Homeschool
I’ve shared before around my own experiences with teaching science in our homeschool. At times I felt quite confident, especially…
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Creative Chemistry for Your Homeschool
Years ago my now college junior wanted to dissect a frog — a real one. I tried convincing her Biology…
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Exploring Ionic Bonding with Home Science Tools
Welcome back! Today’s post is the third and final installment of chemistry lessons I have developed for my high school…
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