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Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum. Photo of the planet and orbits of the solar system in the middle of the page.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Space Observations No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.

Space Observations

Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $10.00.

Explore the moon, planets, constellations, and more with a space science study for 1st–8th graders. Eight in-depth lessons offer nature journaling, hands-on activities, and research, with enough options for weeks of learning together.

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Your kids can recognize the moon, but can they explain why its shape seems to change? Do they know how to tell a planet from a star or what they’re seeing when a “shooting star” streaks across the sky?

Space Observations offers eight in-depth lessons to help your family better understand what’s overhead. Written for 1st–8th graders, this flexible science curriculum combines clear explanations, nature journaling, hands-on activities, and research, plus suggested books and online resources for further exploration.

You don’t have to head outside after dark to enjoy this study. Your family can learn indoors, with optional skywatching activities to try together.

Explore the Sun, Moon, Planets, and More

Throughout the eight lessons, your family will study:

  • What space is
  • The sun and moon
  • Venus, Mars, and Jupiter
  • Constellations
  • Satellites
  • Shooting stars, meteors, and comets

Each lesson includes enough choices to explore a topic over several days or even two weeks. Read and discuss together, create nature journal pages, try an experiment, or follow an interesting question through research. Choose a few activities for a shorter study or spend more time with the suggested resources and hands-on learning.

You can use the same guide with several ages, choose activities that fit your children, and give older kids opportunities to take their learning further.

Put Science into Practice

Nature journaling prompts help your kids look closely at images, notice details, and record what they learn through drawings and notes. Discussion questions and research activities encourage them to explain their discoveries in their own words.

Simple experiments connect space topics with other science concepts, including chemical reactions, physical reactions, and surface tension. Outdoor prompts give your family opportunities to connect what you’ve studied with what you can observe overhead.

Less Planning for You

The lessons, resource suggestions, and activity directions are already gathered for you. Most preparation involves collecting supplies for the optional hands-on activities, so you can keep a lesson simple or add more when you have time.

Enjoy a focused space study or spread the learning over several months, without building the lessons yourself.

✏️ Need information about standards alignment? Download the standards alignment sheet here.

Product Details

  • 36-page digital curriculum
  • Designed for 1st–8th grades
  • Suitable for homeschool or classroom use
  • Printing is optional; suitable for black-and-white printing
  • Content suitable for charter schools

This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped.

Charter-Friendly

Format

PDF
Grade Level

1st-8th Grades
Is Printing Necessary?

No
Pages

36

Frequently Asked Questions

Each Nature Study Made Easy guide contains eight meaty lessons. Each lesson includes introductory material to read with the children. Follow-up learning for each lesson is based on the five “E”s – Extract, Explain, Engage, Elaborate, and Explore.

Extract – Books and YouTube videos are suggested for learning more.

Explain – This is a nature journaling activity.

Engage – This is a hands-on activity.

Elaborate – This is a kid-friendly research project.

Explore – This is a nature walk prompt.

It’s easy to pick and choose from the five “E”s to make the study as in-depth as you wish.

They are written with 1st-8th graders in mind and can be used with multiple ages together.

They can be! The unique thing about these guides is the amount of learning that can occur indoors—even though children are focused on nature study topics. Many of the activity ideas are also conducive to group work.

No, they work well for all types of homeschoolers. Because they are so flexible yet provide plenty of learning options, they can be used for almost any homeschooling situation. For example, some families may want to spend a week’s worth of morning time working on one small part of a lesson. Others may decide to use the lesson material as a full science curriculum. While others may decide to use the curriculum for a full day of nature club learning. The options are endless, but sample scheduling ideas come with each guide.

It’s entirely up to you and how you use it. One guide can last an entire semester if you open it once a week and work through most of the suggested material and activities. If you do a small portion of one lesson daily each week, a guide will last eight weeks. If you choose to cover one lesson per day (that would be really hard), a guide will last you eight days.

No. Because they rely heavily on indoor learning, they can be used worldwide. If you use the nature walk prompts, most can still be used wherever you live.

No worries! You can use 95% of the curriculum without leaving the house. The only exception is the nature walk prompt provided with each lesson. Otherwise, the rest of the learning is indoors.

Yes! They are religion-neutral and don’t discuss creation or evolution.

You can always email a picture or story to me at [email protected]. Better yet, share pictures of your adventures on social media and tag me @ourjourneywestward!

In regards to the downloadable curriculum and freebies on Our Journey Westward:

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She may not share the e-file with other teachers, even if they are team teachers. Each teacher needs to purchase her own copy of the curriculum file.

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Some folks enjoy creating additional notebook pages, worksheets, charts, etc., to accompany the NaturExplorers studies and other Our Journey Westward publications. The pages you create must only be used with your children and may NOT be sold for profit or shared with others (online or otherwise) as free enhancements, go-alongs, or otherwise.

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The following curricula meet the requirements of charter schools to remain neutral on religion.

The following professional development materials remain neutral on religion.

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