Category: Nature Studies

Geology, Nature Studies, Weather

Discover Your World – HUGE Activity Book

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Discover Your World with NOAA: An Activity Book (PDF ebook)

From the edge of space to the bottom of the ocean, this neat activity book from NOAA is designed to help students learn more about their world and how NOAA helps you explore and understand our Earth.

This huge volume (121 megs in size!) is filled with dozens & dozens of short lessons, craft activities, science experiments, assignments and more. If you prefer, you can download individual units from the book on NOAA’s download page. Your tax dollars at work — check it out!

Click here to go to NOAA’s download page for this book!

Art Instruction, Nature Studies

Willie’s First Drawing Lessons – Nature and Art

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“Willie’s First Drawing Lessons” (PDF ebook)

Young Willie learns that there are only two kinds of lines in nature – curved and straight – and how they can be used in drawing just about anything. This is a lovely little (50+ pages) book with a sweet narrative and many line art illustrations – very much in the spirit of Charlotte Mason instruction. If your kids enjoy drawing and nature, they will love this book. Enjoy!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer

Nature Studies, Weather

Droplets: Cloud Identification Guide for Kids

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Droplets: The Kiwi Kids Cloud Identification Guide

Clouds are fascinating for all ages. Here’s a terrific identification guide created especially for kids, to different types of clouds from the Royal Society of New Zealand, and written by Paula KcKean. Lots and lots of photos and illustrations!

To download the PDF (archived on archive.org), CLICK HERE, then click on the download icon.

Autumn, Living Books, Nature Studies

All the Year Round: Autumn

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All the Year Round: Autumn Nature Reader (PDF ebook)

Here’s another great resource for the upcoming Fall season! This classic nature reader was compiled by Frances L. Strong way back in 1895, but it is hardly dated at all. It’s filled with engaging stories and poetry about plants, animals and insects as they go through the fall season, preparing for wintertime.

Lovely illustrations, gentle text, great for read-alouds & nature study! Highly recommended!

To download this resource, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save” to your computer!

Nature Studies

The Bee People

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The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley (PDF ebook)

Today’s resource is this delightful 1899 “Living Book” about bees, written by the author of “Little Travelers” and “Seed Babies”, volumes which we have featured here in the past. Wonderfully easy to read and highly inviting to young readers, the chapters read almost like a storybook, and include Bees & Flowers, How a Bee Sees & Flies, Honeybees, How and Why Bees make Honey & Honeycombs, Queen Bees, Bee Facts & Fancies, and much more. Includes Questions for Review at the end of the book.

This is a great “Charlotte Mason” style nature study book your kids will love.

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your pc. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the above link and save to your mac.

Nature Studies

Air!

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Air! (PDF ebook)

Today’s resource is this classic introduction to the air of our atmosphere, originally published in 1917. Though a few of the references are dated, this is a delightfully written text with loads of great  information, plus some interesting hands-on activities. Check it out!

Excerpt:

We are usually not conscious of the air around us, but sometimes we realize that the air is heavy, while at other times we feel the bracing effect of the atmosphere. We live in an ocean of air as truly as fish inhabit an ocean of water. If you have ever been at the seashore you know that the ocean is never still for a second; sometimes the waves surge back and forth in angry fury, at other times the waves glide gently in to the shore and the surface is as smooth as glass; but we know that there is perpetual motion of the water even when the ocean is in its gentlest moods. Generally our atmosphere is quiet, and we are utterly unconscious of it; at other times we are painfully aware of it, because of its furious winds. Then again we are oppressed by it because of the vast quantity of vapor which it holds in the form of fog, or mist. The atmosphere around us is as restless and varying as is the water of the sea.

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your PC. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac!

Nature Studies

Children & Flowers II: Favorite Flowers & How to Grow Them

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Children & Flowers Part II: 12 Favorite Flowers for Children

In the second part of our “Children & Flowers” unit study, you’ll be introduced to twelve of the most popular domestic flowers (with beautiful, full color photos), learn about their unique characteristics, and find out how to grow them in YOUR home garden this year!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click the link and save to your mac.

Nature Studies

Children & Flowers I: How Flowers Work

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Children & Flowers Part I: How Flowers Work

In Part One of this two-part unit study on “Children & Flowers”, you’ll discover the amazing anatomy of flowers, how and why they move and grow, how they reproduce, why they attract insects, and all sorts of other fascinating facts. Wonderful, well-written guide for young readers or for read-aloud  listeners!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click the link and save to your mac.

Nature Studies

Wings, Stings & Leggy Things

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Here’s a very well done guide from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to all those common insects you find in your back yard, with lessons and activities for kids ages 7 – 10. Learn insect anatomy, solve puzzles, and much more. Lots of great pictures too.

To download this 24 page PDF activity & lesson guide, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click the link and save to your mac.

Nature Studies

Our Wonderful World

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DIYHomeschooler.com offers this excellent nature study book and curriculum free to homeschoolers. Here’s what they say about it:

Our Wonderful World by Emery Lewis Howe is a rich nature study book available for free download covering backyard neighbors, feathered friends, garden life, four-footed comrades, and the earth and its neighbors.

Written for young children, this treasure includes experiments, related Scripture verses, and activities such as drawing, narrating, and writing.

By covering one chapter each week, there are 32 weeks worth of lessons (not including this introduction).  We’ve added suggestions, helps for Mom, and resource recommendations that can round out the studies for older students.

By adding a weekly lab, and more related, comprehensive readings (such as a biology text), you may find you have enough material to qualify as a biology credit for an older student.

For the youngest children, simply reading the book may be enough.  You know your children best, but don’t overwhelm them.  Have fun!

CLICK HERE to go to the website!