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Creek Study and Family Fun
A peaceful family afternoon can turn into a wonderful nature study experience! My husband likes to fish – I, um, don’t. However, rather than be a party pooper, I decided to tag along on the afternoon...
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An Abundance of Wildflowers
My children and I have just ended a wonderful month of nature study focused on wildflowers. Wonderful, beautiful, magnificent wildflowers. I could go on and on about my feelings toward wildflowers, but...
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Finding Animal Signs
You don’t have to walk far to find signs that animals and insects have been around! I took these pictures over the course of two or three walks on our farm and along the edge of a creek. My children...
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A Fossil Hunt
Have you ever been on a fossil hunt? My preacher’s wife and I have become wonderful friends. She also homeschools and we have so much in common otherwise. Her children were recently studying fossils,...
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Transpiration Experiment
In our four-year science cycle, we’re back to the study of biology. {I ♥ biology!} Duh, right? It should be a given that any writer of nature study curriculum pretty much loves biology. Yesterday,...
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Parts of a Flower
While Mahayla takes a formal, high school biology class this year, Caleb (6th grade) and I (along with the interested 4-year-old) are studying biology using a variety of resources like Considering...
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Pond Water Study
What is this?? A bowl of wonderful, living pond water! Even though you can’t see anything living with the naked eye, there’s a world of life waiting to see under a microscope! Mahayla has been...
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Celebrating Lewis and Clark with To-Scale Mapping
In 1803, President Jefferson wanted to find out if the Missouri or Columbia Rivers made for easy traveling (and potential trading) routes to the Pacific Ocean. An expedition was planned not only to...
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August Nature Study
Anytime is the perfect time for nature study, but late summer is especially wonderful! All the photos above were taken during nature walks over the last two weeks. So, just what topics do I...
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Pond Nature Study
What could we possibly find during one simple walk around a small pond? Enough to keep us busy for over an hour! My big kids were busy with other commitments not too long ago, so hubby and I set off...
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Do Homeschoolers Ever REALLY Vacation?
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2013 Cindy West. All rights reserved. I cannot even begin to tell you what a wonderful vacation our family was blessed to take in early October. Indian...
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Chromatography with Leaves: A Nature Study Experiment
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2014 Cindy West. All rights reserved. (This post contains links to my books.) What is chromatography? It’s simply a big name that means separating...
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