“There is peace in every storm.” -Vincent VanGogh Learning about weather in your homeschool? We hope you’ll find some ideas from our Weather and storms homeschool unit study! This page should serve as a guide for you, if you are teaching your 2nd-6th grade students about hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms. If your child has a fear of weather or storms, […]
Looking for a quick mini lesson and parts of a cell project? Check out this quick lesson and activity you can do with any student who is around age 8 and up. You can make the model with either candy (as shown below) or clay if using candy is not your style. This mini lesson contains three parts: watching a […]
Join us for two fun elementary winter science experiments for ages 4-12. Although we live in Florida and don’t get to truly experience winter and snow, that doesn’t mean we can’t pretend! This year we created baking soda snowmen and then, in true Florida taste – we melted them! The girls also created peppermint slime – slime has really been […]
Living on the Space Coast of Florida, you get pretty familiar with rockets. The Kennedy Space Center resides just 45 minutes from our home, and often we forget how lucky we are to be able to watch these amazing real-life science projects take flight. And right from our driveway! On the brink of the launch of Artemis this year, we […]
Looking for a quick mini lesson and kids project on the Ocean Floor? Check out this quick lesson and activity you can do with any student who is around age 8 and up. We are lucky enough that we live by the ocean, but if you don’t readily have a beach available, you can use dirt, sand, kinetic sand, or […]
“Double Double, Toil and Trouble. Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble.” -William Shakespeare Welcome to our homeschool Halloween unit!! October is one of my favorite months to be a homeschool mom. There are so many great Halloween projects and activities! Here you will find books, art, and science projects to do with your children ages 5-10 designed for the month of […]
“The most beautiful rocks have faced the hardest waves” -Kruti Joshi Welcome to our rocks and minerals homeschool unit! This was a great mini-unit that we used alongside our history units on ancient Greece & Rome!! If you are looking for some hands on activities and experiments on rocks to use for your K-4th children, you have come to the […]
“So much universe, and so little time.” -Terry Pratchett Welcome to our space homeschool unit! This page should serve as a guide for you, if you are teaching your K-3rd children about space! If you are unfamiliar with what a unit study is, or how it works, I recommend you read my post about it here. Our space homeschool unit […]
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean Join us in our alternative energy homeschool unit! This unit takes about a week to complete. Our alternative energy unit focused on solar, wind, and water power. We branched into this until after our study on forces and motion. […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw Marbles: so many things you can do with just a small object. Here we are going to share an engaging STEM activity and an art project as well! Marble Runs A really neat project for rainy day, is to gather some recyclables […]
