Nature Study Curriculum and Resources
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Welcome to Day 2 of our 10 Days of Nature Study series! Today we are going to talk about nature study curriculum and resources. There are so many options available now that even the mom who knows nothing about nature study could easily begin nature studies with her kids. I’m excited to show you some options to bring nature to life in your own backyard!
General Nature Study Curriculum + Resources
We are going to begin with nature study curriculum that is more general. This is curriculum that could take you through an entire year of nature study or it could be curriculum that looks at multiple subjects.
Our new favorite nature study curriculum of choice is Homeschool Nature Study. If you’ve ever heard of the Outdoor Hour Challenge, this curriculum is from the same creators. Using the Handbook of Nature Study, the membership provides prompts, printables, and resources to bring nature to your homeschool!
Let’s chat about Gentle + Classical Nature. I love Erin’s style for all of her products and this one is not only beautiful, but also currently free! She has her nature study curriculum separated by terms. The first term is currently available and you will study inland waterways + forests. So you’ll be looking at amphibians, freshwater fish, inland birds, butterflies, bees, reptiles. arachnids, and worms!
Nature Studies, Nature Journals + Poems Throughout the Year
This is a 216 page eBook full of monthly nature studies. You will get an entire list of nature study ideas for 12 months, divided by the seasons.
This is a free version of the nature studies offered above. This is perfect to try out for the summer if you’d like to give nature study a go right now!
This is a comprehensive guide that allows you to connect nature with all aspects of learning. Not only will you do nature study, but you will also connect with your community!
This free nature study curriculum uses The Handbook of Nature Study to cover a different topic each term.
Exploring Nature with Children
This popular curriculum is a complete, year-long curriculum that takes you step by step through nature study for the entire year. You’ll get a themed nature walk for each month, a themed book list, a poem, a piece of art, and references to The Handbook of Nature Study.
Topic Specific Nature Study Resources
Next, we are going to take a peek at nature study resources you can use when studying a specific topic in nature.
This super cute nature study includes notebooking pages and butterfly life cycle pages!
Like the above, find notebooking pages and life cycle pages!
The bee nature study pages include notebooking pages, bee anatomy, and bee life cycle pages.
Keep a moon journal and label the phases of the moon.
Learn about wildflowers in your area with these notebooking pages!
Keep track of local insects with these notebooking pages!
Learn all about snails with this nature study!
NaturExplorers are individual nature studies on a variety of topics. Each nature study takes you on a guided nature walks and you will get to choose from a variety of activity ideas and notebooking pages!
Check out all of our Nature Study posts!
Half of these links don’t work and the rest are ridiculously expensive. It would be more helpful to give free or affordable resources for us homeschoolers.
Thank you for letting me know to update this post as it’s a few years old. I think I removed three links that no longer work. I provided options for resources at different price points here when I wrote the post. Resources aren’t free to create, so often there is a charge just as anyone else would charge for items they are selling that time and effort is put into. If price is really an issue, it is completely free to head outside and observe nature. Use a cheap composition notebook to record what is observed and wikipedia or the like to look up facts about what you found.