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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.
This giveaway has ended, and the winner has been contacted via email. Thanks for your interest!
Are you a weird (enough) homeschooler?
My boys are 7 and 8. Our favorite way to study is to go to the creek and see what we can find and do research. Also, bird watching!!
My kids are 9, 7 and 5. There favourite thing to do in the spring is explore the flooded woodland behind the house. Last year, we collected frog eggs.
My boys are 4 and 3 years old. We love to take nature walks. We have a woods nearby with a huge swing off a tall tree and it is a delightful stop during our walk!
My children are 7, 6, and 4. They love climbing on our rock wall, and discovering animal tracks. We also do a lot of hiking and camping.
Mine are 7 9 11 and 13 and really only one word is necessary about how they explore nature: dirt. (Mud, soil, humus, loam… Dirt.)
My kiddos are 9, 7 and 5 . We enjoy nature regularly with bike rides , trips to local parks and nature walks . Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
My sons are 3, 6, and 12. They like to play in the mud and run around on a nice spring day.
Our kids are 10, 5, and 3. They love being up close and personal with nature, and the 5yr. old especially likes watching and playing with bugs. The 10-yr old has a microscope and loves to look at new and different things through it.
posted on Facebook.
My kiddo are 10, 8, and 4. We love hiking in our area and exploring nature that way. 🙂
I shared on Facebook
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My children are almost 4 and 6. Their favourite way to learn about nature is through immersing themselves in it, often literally! They enjoy mud baths and looking for tadpoles. Recently we have been learning about how the water cycle helps to create river banks, delta’s and beaches. There’s so many fascinating things to learn by getting out there!
3.15pm over here in Australia!
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My 5 year old daughter loves to pick wildflowers and go for nature walks, in the spring.
We are in the UK, lucky enough to live in the countryside, surrounded by nature, no light pollution, visiting foxes and hares, rabbits in the garden, weasels and badgers in the lane. So I really would like to list all the lovely ways the children (11, 10, 9 and visiting 2yo cousin) explore nature. But today it was rolling in the freshly mown grass clippings. A lot. at least we got them to an art gallery and manga class beforehand. That is bragging. Most days it would just be rolling in the grass.
Our son is almost 8 and our daughter is almost 4. Their favorite way to to explore nature in the spring is to just be outside and explore on their own and ask as many questions as they can.
Both my three year old and five year old L. O. V. E. the outdoors! From making their own garden, digging up worms, melting snow in the creek to hikes, chasing birds and squirrels and climbing rocks. So much to learn about!
My kids are 12, 7 and 6. We love to get out and hike. we recently just started a family garden with my brother and his family we are having so much fun learning about planting times and soils and composting. 🙂
Shared on Facebook (I don’t have any Twitter followers… Yet)
My boys are 4 and 6 and love anything to do with dirt. They love planting seeds, digging holes and filling with water, hunting for animal tracks in the mud, making dams in streams, etc.
I shared on Facebook, I don’t have twitter.
I have six kids ranging from 1-12, we love the spring as we can spend more time outdoors. We live near a national park and our favourite things to do are hiking, exploring the park, looking at wild flowers and bugs and generally just enjoying being outside more.
My boys are 9 and 7. They love everything about nature – observing it, playing and digging, gardening and even reading about it.
My son is 12 years old. He loves to explore outside. We have a small creek that runs along our property and he loves spending time finding creatures and treasures. He really likes watching the frogs in their different stages.
Our children are 12,11, and 5. We like to go on nature walks in the spring and listen to all the different birds’ songs and try to identify them. The boys like to see the snakes in the slough nearby. We like to go poking around looking for any living creatures and new growth of perennials.