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Homestead Homeschool Curriculum - Digital Download Build Your Own Homestead – Little Learners Homestead Science is the first of the Homestead Science series. This curriculum is an interactive homeschool curriculum that will introduce your child to small scale farming. This one of a kind homestead curriculum is designed for pre-school through to 3rd or 4th grade depending on your child and whether this will be used as a full curriculum or supplemental to another curriculum. Build Your Own Homestead is designed to give your child a better understanding of where their food comes from. This allows them to take ownership in providing food for the family, whether that’s understanding what they are choosing at the grocery store, helping you tend to the garden, or gathering eggs from your chickens. Homesteading is a science on multiple different levels. Agriculture, animal science, food science, experimentation, and social science are used every day on the homestead. Set includes: Homestead Alphabet Coloring Book Little Learner's Homestead Science (with Poster, Stories, and Deed) Little Learner's Expansion Pack for Guided Lessons and Older Learner's Homestead Science is also a great option for afterschool activities, summer learning, and co-ops!
Learn all about homesteading in your homeschool with Rabbit Trails through Science: Homesteading! Homesteading Science Curriculum
Bring home a Common Sense Education A new way of teaching agriculture science, food science, life skills, applied mathematics, and quality character. Option ...
Spring is the perfect time to learn about dandelions! Have fun learning about those little bursts of sunshine that fill your lawn every spring in this mini Dandelion Unit Study.
This was a fun project the boys and I put together to learn about what living things need and how composting and decomposing work. We got our worms from a gas station but you can find yours in your backyard, on the sidewalk after a fresh rain, in a bait shop, or another place that sells them for f
Y'all know that we love to incorporate real-world learning into our homeschool here! It's not just cooking and adulting, but getting dirty with the garden and animals....all that in addition to the regular school curriculum. When we stumbled upon what we are dubbing Homestead Science, it delighted our youngest (who is not traditionally-school-minded) to no end! It might be just what you've been looking for, too... The Permaculture Student includes: Private Community Facebook Group for Students Unlimited Access to the Video Library Includes eBook versions of The Permaculture Student 1 textbook & workbook Hands-On Projects with Step-by-Step Directions & Video Open & self-paced course. Start anytime, take your time & enjoy the design! What you will learn: Permaculture Design - homes, landscapes, society, businesses & more Pattern Literacy Reading the Landscape Seed-to-Table Cooking Earthworks Seed Saving Composting, Compost Tea, & Extract! Food Preservation & Storage Students that complete and turn in all their design assignments (workbook) will receive a certificate of completion in the mail. You'll receive the textbook in PDF format. You can choose to upgrade to a physical textbook, but we just used the digital one. We started to print it out, but sent it to our kindles instead...less waste and easier to access! Inside the full-color textbook are vocabulary words, informational text, graphics, and beautiful illustrations to bring the concepts to life! Each of the units is broken down into multiple videos, hands-on projects, workbook components, and reading from the textbook. In the picture above, each of those tiny squares is a unit cover...which makes it very easy to access your unit. We have the main page bookmarked, and are able to quickly find each day's work. After watching the informational videos for the unit, you'll find a video guide to the workbook components and a video guide (or multiples) for each of the hands-on projects. In this unit, we are learning to use different types of flours to make homemade breads, pancakes, scones, and biscuits...yum! The workbook features activities for all ages, including coloring pages for the younger children, but is more geared toward middle school and above. There are graphics for students to apply the concepts learned to their own property / land areas. Critical thinking questions flesh it out for the upper grades, making them apply the concepts learned. In each unit, there is a food plant focus, such as the squash we see in the pages above. Students are learning to grown, preserve, and cook with these foods. Each unit brings something different! In one, you are designing a microclimate, including looking around your own land (could be one acre, could be a small lot around your home) and learning about the things that you already have nearby and finding new ways to make the land work for you. In the next unit, you might be learning about how to raise chickens and cook eggs six ways from Sunday! Our son - who writes over at Xander's Farm - has long shown a propensity for the outdoors. He likes working with his hands, and started his own chicken business in elementary school. It was his idea to try out this course, as he's most likely not going to follow the traditional route of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics through high school. He knows what he wants, and one of the beautiful things about homeschooling is that we are able to tailor his learning experience! I would count the course as one semester of high school or (with some more hands-on activities) a full year of middle school. That said, there is an Advanced Permaculture course that you can take, too, if your student is really into it. What we are doing is filling out that second semester of science - because the transcript says Homesteading Science - with the Homesteading Course from SchoolhouseTeachers. Printables and some how-to videos are included with these weekly lessons...and it's all included with the 350+ other courses offered at SchoolhouseTeachers.com. We already have a family membership, and it is no additional cost, plus these two courses really complement each other well! Right now, the Permaculture Student is on sale for 60% off! Snag this unique course today and give your homeschool a serious real-world upgrade!
This was a fun project the boys and I put together to learn about what living things need and how composting and decomposing work. We got our worms from a gas station but you can find yours in your backyard, on the sidewalk after a fresh rain, in a bait shop, or another place that sells them for f
Simple Soil Science Experiment for Kids
Make homemade butter in a jar for an edible science activity your kids can eat! Making butter with kids is quick, easy and tasty too!
This post contains affiliate links. Want to add a little hands-on fun to your nature study? Science experiments are a great way to stir up curiosity. Use this list to explore nature with science experiments! Make a Snake Egg Worm Experiments Butterfly Projects & Experiments Honey Bees for a Day Tell the Temperature with Crickets Make an [...]
Best vegetables & herbs to regrow from kitchen scraps in water or soil. Start a windowsill garden indoors, or grow foods using grocery lettuce, beets, etc!
Spring is the perfect time to learn about dandelions! Have fun learning about those little bursts of sunshine that fill your lawn every spring in this mini Dandelion Unit Study.
Try this fun twist on dirt cups and make some edible soil layers. This will teach kids about geology in a fun, tasty, hands-on way!
Learn about water filtration and make your own water filter at home or in the classroom. All you need is a few supplies for this STEM project.
Spring is the perfect time to learn about dandelions! Have fun learning about those little bursts of sunshine that fill your lawn every spring in this mini Dandelion Unit Study.
Best vegetables & herbs to regrow from kitchen scraps in water or soil. Start a windowsill garden indoors, or grow foods using grocery lettuce, beets, etc!
Kids will be amazed by this Homemade Butter Science project where they will make butter. Grab worksheets and start making edible experiment!
Making a worm farm in a jar is a fun and easy way to teach kids about the importance of earthworms and how they help improve soil health.
