Archives for March 2021

Our March 2021 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can contribute to from the comfort of your little home academy.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: April shoures, full moons, famous physicians, harvest festivals, peaceable artists, children’s books, Montenegrin rivers, a toast to good eating, and more!

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the familiar Crows and Jays (Part II).

“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for early spring.)

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny musical masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Baroque birthdays, pensive poems, famous farmers, splendid speeches, cheerful cherries, Moldovan rivers, a Shakespearean toast to spring, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Iowa, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, and Monaco.

Spring is here! In the northern hemisphere, that is; in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March 2021 equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Crows and Jays (Part I), garrulous residents of town and country.

“And if you can’t curb your ambitions, / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. / And the higher you go, / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March.)

Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.

You and your young science students can assist in the search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your own homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: the Ides of March, famous physicists, springing seasons, memorable evacuations, rocket science, cautionary poems, emerald isles, Mauritanian rivers, a toast to liberty, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Texas, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, and Mauritius.

Make the acquaintance of the brilliant nearby star Sirius, “the dog star,” in the constellation Canis Major this month — the brightest star in earth’s night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the predatory Shrikes and the plain but vocal Vireos.

“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, contrariwise, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Astronomical anniversaries, skeptical poems, imaginary Martians, bright stars, temporal anomalies, Malaysian rivers, a toast to cleverness, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Florida, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, and Mali.