Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Skuas and Jaegers, and the Auks, Murres, and Puffins, two widespread groups of oceanic birds.
🏞 Post Archives: Homeschool Natural History
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
Great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on birds and natural history 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! 😊
❡ Homeschool birds: This Homeschool Natural History archive includes our regular Friday Bird Families posts on the birds of North America, which are also available separately. 🦅
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (II)
Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Sandpipers (Part II), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (I)
Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Sandpipers (Part I), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Lapwings, Plovers, and Jacanas
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Lapwings and Plovers, and the Jacanas.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Stilts, Avocets, and Oystercatchers
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Stilts and Avocets, and the Oystercatchers, long-legged and long-billed birds every one.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Swifts and Hummingbirds
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Swifts and Hummingbirds, masters of the air.
🗺 MARVELOUS MAPS: A Geology Lesson from the Library of Congress
Teach a little lesson on geology and plate tectonics this week with some beautiful maps from the collections of the Library of Congress.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Cuckoos, Roadrunners, & Anis, and the Goatsuckers. (All birds with funny names!)
⛏ NATURE NOTES: It’s National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
🕊 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Pigeons and Doves
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Pigeons and Doves.
🦩 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Grebes and Flamingos
Join our year-long homeschool review of North American bird families. This week: the Grebes and Flamingos, two very different groups of aquatic birds.
