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πŸ”­ 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.

β€”β€ŠKeats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Homeschool teaching tips and little astronomical lessons on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and other astronomy-related topics from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊

❑ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy collection also includes our special series of monthly Great Star posts that introduce you and your students to twelve of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere night sky. 🌟

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for June

3 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 June.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ—“ πŸ’ͺ HERCULES TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year

1 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Hercules Term, our summer term, named for the Great Hero of the Heavens. Hercules Term runs from June through August.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

πŸ–‹ 🌟 WONDERFUL WORDS: Hymn to the North Star

20 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“A beauteous type of that unchanging good,Β / That bright eternal beacon, by whose rayΒ / The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.” (An extra astronomical homeschool poem-of-the-week, from William Cullen Bryant, for Polaris, our Great Star for the month of May.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Language & Literature, Monthly Great Stars, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: The Antikythera Mechanism

17 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Spend a few homeschool history minutes this week learning about one of the most amazing objects the ancient world ever produced: an astronomical computer called the Antikythera mechanism.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History

πŸš€ HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: Skylab’s 50th Anniversary

14 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Do you have a future astronaut in your homeschool? Then why not take a few minutes this week to learn about Skylab, America’s first space station, launched on this day in 1973.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Polaris for May

13 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the pole star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor this month, one of the most important stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend and sky-mark for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for May

6 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 May.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Regulus for April

8 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of “the little king” Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ–– HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy First Contact Day!

5 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Sure on this shining nightΒ / IΒ weep for wonder wand’ring far aloneΒ / Of shadows on the stars.” (On this day in the year 2063, in a remote area near Bozeman, Montana, a Vulcan survey ship will make first contact with the human race. Perhaps some of today’s homeschoolers will be there to see it.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for April

1 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 April.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ—“ 🌷 SPRING IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)

20 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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!

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

πŸ“‘ JOIN A β€œCITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday

14 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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?

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Lunar Society Bulletins

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Sirius for March

11 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ–‹ πŸ”­ WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

8 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Till rising and gliding out IΒ wander’d off by myself,Β / InΒ the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Β / 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.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for March

4 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ—“ 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year

1 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

β˜€οΈ 🌍 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Copernicus and His Revolutions

19 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

On Copernicus’ birthday, introduce your homeschool students to one of the most important books ever published: “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” (1543).

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

πŸ”­ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: The Starry Messenger

15 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Remembering one of the great minds of history, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), on the anniversary of his birth.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Betelgeuse for February

11 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the red giant Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion the Hunter this monthΒ β€” aΒ strange, irregular, enormous variable starΒ β€” and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for February

4 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 February.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ–‹ 🌊 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: Remembering Challenger

22 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,Β / And allΒ I ask isΒ a tall ship andΒ a star to steer her by.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Masefield, for the Challenger Seven of 1986.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Capella for January

14 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of Capella in the constellation Auriga the Charioteer this monthΒ β€” a nearby four-star system and one of the brightest lights in the northern hemisphere night skyΒ β€” and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for January

7 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 January.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ—“ ⛄️ WINTER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)

21 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Winter is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, summer is here! Happy December solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Aldebaran for December

10 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the ancient red giant Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull this monthΒ β€” one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere skyΒ β€” and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for December

3 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

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 December.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ—“ πŸ—‘ ORION TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year

1 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Orion Term, our winter term, named for the Great Hunter of the Heavens. Orion Term runs from December through February.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

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