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Welcome to this week’s giveaway–sponsored by Be Naturally Curious!
From Valerie at Be Naturally Curious:
“I am a mom to two energetic and inquisitive young girls and also happen to be a former college Biology professor.
One of my greatest passions in life is to help ALL kids experience the joy in learning science and exploring nature!
I believe this is best done by focusing on concepts and reinforcing learning with multiple, non-traditional teaching techniques, which is why I started Be Naturally Curious, creating science and nature mini-courses for kids grades K-5.
I love to share and discuss ideas about science and learning on our Facebook page —please come connect with us!
I’ve enlisted the help of several other scientists, many of whom are also moms, to make mini-courses on really important and fascinating scientific concepts (these are the real thing—nothing watered down here!).
Current mini-courses include:
- Take Off with Airplane Science
- A Wide World of Vertebrates
- A Butterfly’s Evening Adventure
- Freddie and His Ocean Friends
- Molecules are Everywhere
- The Adventures of Carbon
- Discovering DNA
- Mighty Magnets
- Life in the Desert
- See with your Ears!
- Our Neighbor, the Moon!
- Amazing Animal Migrations
They are designed to give parents the tools to teach higher-level scientific concepts to all styles of learners. Whether you have a kinesthetic learner or a visual one, your child can master everything from molecules and DNA to ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
As moms ourselves, we specifically designed the courses so they can be done easily at home or on a trip with minimal supplies—most materials can be cut directly from the course print out. We believe science can be done anywhere!
Each mini-course focuses on a different scientific concept, whether it be how airplanes fly or how dolphins echolocate.
Every mini-course is designed to appeal to all kinds of learners and a wide range of ages (grades K-5), and includes a beautifully illustrated story, a board or card game, a movement-based activity, a craft or modeling activity, and an experiment or outdoor exploration activity.
Try them with all the kids in your family—each person has his or her own best way to learn!
Each mini-course also includes additional resources to allow kids to follow their curiosity (the most important thing we can develop!) and concept badges kids can add to their Science Tool Kits (print out included in each mini-course.)
The prize
One Simple Homeschool reader will win a complete set of Be Naturally Curious mini-courses (worth $120), in PDF format!
PDFs can be printed in their entirety or in part for the activity materials.
How to Win
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To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering the question: How old are your kids, and what is their favorite way to explore nature in spring?
(If you’re reading this via email or reader, you must click here to leave your comment on this post at Simple Homeschool. Comments or emails left elsewhere don’t count as entries.)
Note: This giveaway is open internationally. Yay, international readers!
For an extra entry, share about this giveaway on Facebook, using the buttons at the bottom of this post. Then leave another comment here letting me know you’ve done so!
Special Offer
Be Naturally Curious is offering Simple Homeschool readers 50% OFF all purchases of mini-courses through April 15, 2016!
Just use the discount code “SHSpring2016” at check out.
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Are you a weird (enough) homeschooler?
I have kids ages 6, 5, and 2 (boy, girl, girl). They lover to wonder around in the woods playing some imaginary game. Usually the girls are barefoot.
We are already naturally curious! 12,19,8,4,17mo. We love creatures of all kinds: currently a see through window bird feeder with bird a nd squirrel visitors, and a family of snajes living under a rock in our backyard.
My kids are 11, 10, 8, 5 and 2. They love to explore the woods near our house and learn in hands on ways. The older three also attend a weekly class called Ancestral Knowledge, where they spend the day in the woods with two instructors. They love it!
My boys, ages 6 & 4, love going for runs or bike rides on the seawall to look at cherry blossoms
My daughter is 10 and she loves smelling flowers, looking at butterflies,and ladybugs, and collecting stuff to make fairy houses!
My 6, 8 and 9 year old children are naturally curious about the seasons but here in Brisbane (Australia), we are having a very long summer and it seems that autumn might not even happen! We watch and notice how the sun moves differently across the sky in summer and winter (our only two real seasons) and creates different shadows across our city home.
My kids are 9, 5, and 1. Well, we don’t really have spring here in Indonesia (South East Asia). But, we have the condition and atmosphere a couple of days before the rainy season come. So, during these days, my kids love to learn outside in the garden, then help the neighbours to clean their yard, so they can keep the leaves, flower, sticks, and anything needed to make traditional puppets called wayang from the collected materials.
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Spring is one of our favorite seasons and we enjoy nature walks the most. We have enjoyed watching nature wake up from its winter slumber and observed the returned of the geese and started seeds for our garden amongst many others. My kids are 0, 3, 6, 8 and 9 years.
My kids are 1, 6, & 9. We love hiking and visiting natural history museums to learn about the world around us.
It’s Autumn here in Australia, a time when we notice cool air, mushrooms, magpies, pumpkins, sunflower seed heads, ibis… the list goes on. The 5-year-old loves gardening and finding mushrooms, the 3-year-old collects feathers and seed pods on our walks (and is a great cocoon-spotter), the baby watches tree leaves move in the wind.
I have two boys, 5 and 3. Their favorite way to explore nature is playing in “muck and mire” and wading in/throwing rocks in the creek :)!
What a wonderful giveaway. We are a natural loving family living in southern africa. We send lots of time outdoors. My children are 13, 10, 8, 5, and 1 year old twins. In spring my children love to pond-dip for frogspawn/crabs and other pondlife, they like to look out for spring flowers, and and the trees that look spectacular here in spring. They also love to look out for insects and wildlife signs. Spring is a subtle season here. My children also like to plan gardens and grow vegetables and herbs in spring.
My kids are 17, 12, 10, 7 and 3. Their favorite thing to explore in the spring is all of the new flowers.
I have a learning hungry daughter who is 5 and asks for extra work after school and a very curious three year old. I love the look of the molecules one especially. Thanks for the discount code but I would love to win the lot!
My kids, ages 17, 13, 11, 9, 6, 4, and 2 explore quite differently! The older ones go for long walks through the fields and pastures around our place. Others dig in the dirt. One especially loves keeping the bird feeder full and learning about the birds that come by. They are starting seeds in the house and planning their garden areas. We all wander around the yard watching the many changes that are happening, now that we can see the ground where the deep snow was only a couple weeks ago.
My kids are 8, 5, 3, and 20 months. They love to spend spring days running around outside, digging in the dirt, splashing in our creek, and planting flowers and veggies along side of us.
My kids are 9, 6, 3, and 1, and they love to explore the pond at our local nature park.
Hi! I am a homeschooling mom to 4 beautiful children. Ages 12, 11, 7, and 2! We love exploring outdoor nature! My 2 year old stops to bend down to look at the grass! My 7, 11 and 12 year olds love anything involving building and creating figuring out how things work and are made, and they love learning about different creatures!
I shared this on Facebook! 🙂
My boys are 6 & 7 and their favorite way to explore nature in the Spring is to be outside experiencing everything and getting muddy is always a plus!
My preschooler loves exploring the ponds in our backyard and enjoys scavenging for sticks and pebbles down our long driveway.
My kiddos are 6 and 8. We love hiking; we’ve recently be immersed in identifying early spring wildflowers!
My kids are 9, 8, and 3. Last spring, my older two spent hours trying to catch (and release) frogs from a nearby swamp. They developed some elaborate frog catching traps!
My kids are 7 and 4. This time of year they love discovering and learning science in puddles, streams, and especially lying on their bellies poking around in the dirt and grass
My boys are 8, 6, and 3 and they love to listen to birds and watch for the familiar ones returning in spring.