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Spring is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!
🔭 Homeschool Astronomy: Celestial Lessons for the Whole Year
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.
Little homeschool astronomy lessons and easy teaching tips on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and more, from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Use these posts to enrich your homeschool science teaching all through the year, and subscribe to our free homeschool newsletter to get more little homeschool science lessons delivered right to your mailbox every week. 📫
❡ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy collection also includes our special series of monthly Great Star lessons that introduce you and your students to twelve of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere night sky. 🌟
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📡 JOIN A CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday
You and your young science students can join the search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your own homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Sirius and Canis Major for March
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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.
🖋 🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
“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 contrary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)
🌏 🌑 🌞 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE: Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the solar eclipse coming up on Monday, 8 April 2024, all across North America.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for March
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Our homeschool review of the educational wonders that you and your students can watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of March.
🗓 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Leo Term, our spring term, named for the Great Lion of the Heavens. Leo Term runs from March through May.
🚀 🌕 FLY YOUR HOMESCHOOL to the Moon (Really!)
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Your homeschool can fly along on NASA’s VIPER mission to the moon this year. Here’s how to add your name. (Deadline 15 March 2024.)
