Category: STEM

  • The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

    The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

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    Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…

  • Astronomy Unit

    Astronomy Unit

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    A few years ago we studied astronomy for our homeschool science lessons, and I think I finally have it all blogged about.  We’ll see with the way my organization skills are I will find something buried deep down on my computer.  We had a blast with our astronomy lessons and there were so many fun…

  • Insects booklist

    Insects booklist

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    When studying flying creatures we often break things down into individual insects (At some point I should make a Flying Creatures Unit landing page). We look at ants (ants are included in flying creatures because they do fly briefly when forming new colonies, and because it would be weird to have one solitary insect over…

  • Water booklist

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    As I set about putting together this water booklist I had a couple of criteria for this list. First I wanted to focus on fresh water, so that immediately eliminated large numbers of books, next I wanted to focus on the water cycle, animals near water, and people interacting with water. My big dream was…

  • Moon booklist

    Moon booklist

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    I had this absolutely amazing Moon booklist that I had put together, and I was so excited by it, and then before I got to the library someone checked out all of the nonfiction moon books on my list. I had five nonfiction books on my moon booklist, and they were all checked out, so…