Have you ever considered the wonder and beauty of the honeybee’s honeycomb structure? Just look at the beautiful honeycomb below.My professor in college used to say, “busier than bees and wax.” Can anyone be truly as busy as drones building their community’s honeycomb? Yes! Homeschool parents! They’re all made up of, you guessed it from the … Read more
Looking for circular patterns in nature is an easy yet intriguing activity. They can be found just about everywhere you could look in your backyard. Why start in your backyard first, or wherever you are? It’s for simple convenience sake. In this post, I invite you and your children to do a treasure hunt of … Read more
Creating rich, engaging math themed unit studies can be incredibly gratifying to you as a homeschool parent curriculum creator and inspiring for your learner’s experience across the curriculum. In part I of this series, I introduced you to the famed yet mysterious Golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers found in art, architecture, and nature. I’m not going … Read more
Much of modern mathematics curriculum treats math as a separate subject from the rest of academics. I don’t kid you when I say that math can become the most exciting, hands-on, integrative subject in your homeschool. Setting up various math and science (notice I added in science next to math) learning centers around your house, can … Read more
Let’s face it. The computer age has infiltrated most of our lives, save for those who choose for it not to. If you’re reading this blog, you most likely use your computer on a daily basis. Modern technology and the computer age are sweeping the planet, increasing in popular use as well as changing our … Read more
Are you confused by the massive Build Your Bundle homeschool curriculum sale? Let me simplify this sale for you. The Build Your Bundle sale is most likely the Internet’s largest homeschool digital curriculum sale of the year! First of all, many of you will want to know this: Giveaway Winners :https://buildyourbundle.idevaffiliate.com/103-28-1-92.html There are 20 categories to … Read more
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Studying the life of America’s first snowflake photographer, Wilson Bentley, affords ample homeschool science, math, art and history connections. Check out my free Wilson Bentley, the Snowflake Man Slideshow Lesson, Parts I and II below. Be sure to watch part II of the video below after the first video finishes! Enjoy! Born during the Victorian … Read more
In my cotton field YouTube episode, I take my viewers on a short nature walk beside a cotton field in Ehrenberg, AZ. It was the week before Christmas and I was just itching to get out from behind my computer and take a nice relaxing nature walk. It was my opportunity to not just get … Read more
Today’s post is going to amuse, amaze and cause a stir within to study our greatly unexplored oceanic abyss looking at the deep sea communities! Students from the NeS Dramatic Deep Sea Creatures course have been “diving deep” with their blogging research from the latest deep sea research from NOAA’s and MBARI’s deep-sea research. Without further blogging on my part, … Read more