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No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
No Sweat Nature Study Habitats Curriculum
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Habitats

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

Discover how space, food, water, shelter, plants, and animals work together within a healthy habitat. Eight flexible multimedia lessons explore food chains, animal shelters, habitat balance, and the surprising amount of life a single tree or small pond can support.

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What does it take to keep a habitat healthy?

A cougar needs far more space than a carpenter ant. A dead tree can still provide food and shelter. Even one small pond can support hundreds of living things.

Habitats are filled with surprising relationships, and your children can investigate them right from the kitchen table.

In eight family-friendly lessons, 1st through 8th graders will discover:

  • what makes a habitat different from an ecosystem or biome
  • why plants and animals need the right amount of space
  • how food chains connect plants, predators, prey, and scavengers
  • the surprising ways living things find and use water
  • how animals use natural, built, and group shelters
  • how a single tree can support an entire community
  • what makes a small pond such a busy habitat
  • how natural disasters, pollution, and other changes affect habitats

Your family will meet everything from redwoods and red-tailed hawks to camels, koalas, pond organisms, and resilient plants that grow after a forest fire.

One curriculum. Five flexible ways to learn.

Every lesson begins with Extract, where children learn through carefully selected online resources or living books. From there, you decide how far to go.

Continue with Explain for nature journaling, Engage for a hands-on activity, Elaborate for research, or Explore for an optional outdoor experience.

Complete a simple lesson in 10 to 15 minutes, spend an hour exploring several levels, or spread the activities across the week. Sample schedules are included to help you use the curriculum during morning time, as part of your science studies, or whenever nature study fits into your day.

There is no pressure to complete every option. Choose the activities that work for your family, combine multiple ages around the same topic, and enjoy meaningful nature-based science from the comfort of your home or classroom.

By the end of the study, habitats will no longer seem like simple places where plants and animals live. Your children will understand them as active communities where space, food, water, shelter, and living things work together in a careful balance.

✏️ Do you need to see how this curriculum aligns with standards? Click here.

Note: This is a digital product. Nothing will be shipped.

  • Content suitable for charter schools
  • 34 pages
  • Eight flexible lessons
  • Digital curriculum
  • Designed for 1st through 8th grades
  • Online and print learning options
  • Sample schedules included
  • Appropriate for black-and-white printing
  • Printing is not necessary
Charter-Friendly

Format

PDF
Grade Level

1st-8th Grades
Is Printing Necessary?

Some
Suitable for Black and White Printing

Yes
Pages

34

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:

When purchasing a downloadable product, you are purchasing a license to use the product, not the product itself. The license is not transferable.

Each download is meant for single family use. You may keep a copy of the e-file on personal devices and print the file for personal use.

Please Don’t:

  • Share or link to the e-file directly; link to the blog post or product page instead.

  • Alter the e-files in any way.

  • Sell, distribute, or give away the e-files in any way.

  • Host an e-file on your website or upload it to a shared website.

A teacher of a co-op or classroom may use an e-file with her students. She may keep a copy of the e-file on personal devices and print it in its entirety for her use. She may make multiple copies of student pages as necessary.

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.

Please Don’t:

  • Share or link to the e-file directly; link to the blog post or product page instead.

  • Alter the e-files in any way.

  • Sell, distribute, or give away the e-files in any way.

  • Host an e-file on your website or upload it to a shared website.

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.

While Our Journey Westward is pleased you enjoy our products and wish to create derivative materials, doing so without authorization violates copyright law. In other words, it is considered theft of intellectual property rights. We trust that you will understand the importance of this and thank you for your cooperation.

If you wish to create derivative materials for sale or as freebies, please contact us to discuss possible permission.

If unsatisfied with a PDF product, your entire purchase price will gladly be refunded. We only ask that you please request a refund within two weeks of purchase and delete the file from your computer. Thank you for respecting these terms. Please contact us for a refund that meets these criteria.

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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