Archives for August 2020

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: A new homeschool year (!), a new fall term, handsome houses, library lessons, famous physicists, little emperors, peaceful treaties, a toast to free rivers, and more!

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: annual endings, artistic ornithologists, chemical celebrations, volcanic anniversaries, monstrous birthdays, the great river of the heavens, a toast to new voyages, and more!

Thank you for taking a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with us over the past year! We conclude today with the Earth itself and the amazing Universe beyond.

“Go, little book, and wish to all / Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, / A living river by the door, / A nightingale in the sycamore.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Louis Stevenson, for the end of the River Houses year.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Suffrage centennials, successful steamboats, transatlantic telegraphs, Martian explorers, explosive overtures, poetical wishes, the Great River Ocean, a toast to the ballot, and more!

Point your homeschool students to the constellation Perseus this week for the annual Perseid meteor shower, the lovely trail of debris left behind by Comet Swift–Tuttle.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Perseid meteors, American songs, leaning towers, magnificent museums, suspicious signals, polar places, a toast to happiness and freedom, and more!

“From following walls I never lift my eye, / Except at night to places in the sky / Where showers of charted meteors let fly.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for this month’s Perseid meteors.)

Our grand homeschool tour of North American bird families has at last come to its close. This week we wrap up the year with a look at a number of Accidental and Extinct North American birds from your bird guide’s appendix.

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge as we take a year-long homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month, as the year ends, we’ll take a quick look at the alternative Library of Congress Classification, commonly used in colleges and universities.

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for serious homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition. This month’s themes are “High-Dynamic-Range Imaging” and “Demonstrations and Protests.” Take a look!

Our August 2020 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can join and contribute to from the comfort of your little home academy.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: terrific trumpeters, wonderful writers, fighting Quakers, leaning towers, bright stars, free presses, meteoric poems, arid rivers, a toast to the many, and more!