Another excellent resource from NASA. Optics: Light, Color, and Their Uses Educator’s Guide is a 98-page download with STEM-focused activities for K–12. The guide includes 18 lessons or activities. Each lesson includes the objective, theory, materials needed, procedures, and leading questions from which to draw conclusions. Sounds like a great opportunity to practice the scientific […]
Coloring with Spiders ~ Free Download
Coloring with Spiders is a great find from the University of Florida extension center that goes perfectly with the spider portion of our free nature studies! This free 17-page download covers orb spiders, jumping spiders, and more! The illustrations are perfect for coloring, while the included captions provide just enough information to learn something at […]
Celebrate 100 Days of Learning {Free Download}
“Celebrate 100 Days of Learning” is a free download from MensaForKids.org that actually includes 50 activities related to the 100 theme: The activities may be given to the students for individual self-guided work, or they may be taught in a classroom or a home-school setting…. Assessment strategies and rubrics are included. Examples include: Line up […]
Garden Notes: Master Gardener Course ~ Free Download!
Garden Notes, the Colorado Master Gardener Course is available for download. We have used several of these pages in our free nature studies. Now you can download the entire 2020 course (all 940 pages) free! This material is used in the Colorado Master Gardener certification program. As such it is pretty robust: The Colorado Master […]
Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring Book ~ Free
Working through our free nature studies? Have you reached the wildflower section yet? You’ll want to grab this free Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring Book from the U. S. Forest Service. There are 44 free pages of wildflowers to print, color, and learn from. Color Wildflowers are wildflowers you can color! Each coloring page includes a wildflower […]
Alabama History Notebook ~ Free
To date, we have posted state unit studies for twelve states. It is often difficult to track down student resources for each state. Not so in the case of Alabama! The Alabama History Notebook offered by the Alabama Department of Archives and History is a free “collection of Alabama symbols, maps, and photographs for students.” […]
NASA Rockets Educator Guide ~ Free
NASA is offering a Rockets Educator Guide with “activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics” free! This 145-page guide begins with a pictorial history of rockets (available as a separate download for students). It then covers: Space Launch https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153410main_Rockets_History.pdfSystem Architecture. How Rockets Work. Applying Newton’s Laws. The remainder of the guide offers 14 rocket activities […]
Animal Report Form Free
We had a favorite notebooking printable for recording information about animals that is no longer available. This free Animal Report Form from Highland Heritage is a perfect substitute! You’ll find room for: Animal name. Scientific name. Classification. Size. Lifespan. Description. Special traits. Diet. Home. And more! There is also a map to denote where the […]
Featured Site: Puzzlemaker
We linked to this ages and ages ago as one of our favorite sites. Then for one reason or another the tool was unavailable. Well, Puzzlemaker is back! Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word list. With […]
Days of Creation Coloring Book {Free}
You can download this free Days of Creation Coloring Book at New Leaf Publishing Group. The download also includes boxes that can be colored and used to create a mobile. Each page includes the title for what God made (God Made the Sky) and a blackline illustration to color, along with the appropriate Bible verse […]
Try Engineering {Featured Site}
TryEngineering is a STEM-focused site provided by IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The site offers both students and teachers a wide variety of resources aimed at developing the next generation of engineers: TryEngineering aims to empower educators to foster the next generation of technology innovators. We provide educators and students with resources, […]
Christmas Cookie Advent
We included a free Christmas cookie advent in our Christmas Holiday Helps. But we recently found another Christmas cookie countdown from Betty Crocker that we are totally enjoying! You can sign up for their newsletter if you want to receive a cookie a day — or just check the link below each day. Betty’s Cookie […]
