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Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.
Symbiosis No Sweat Nature Study curriculum.

Symbiosis

$20.00

These fun symbiosis lessons take a tough science topic and make it easy for children of all ages to understand!

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Symbiosis sounds like a topic that should be saved for high schoolers, but these unique symbiosis lessons are perfect for 1st-8th graders. You’ll be amazed when your children or students start using words like facultative and endosymbiont in easy conversations!

What exactly is the relationship between whales and barnacles? How does mistletoe weasel its way into the vascular system of a tree? Why do arctic foxes follow polar bears around in the tundra? All of these questions and so many more can be answered by your students after an amazing study of symbiosis.

With this curriculum, tackle tough concepts and rich scientific vocabulary easily. Elementary and middle school students won’t even think twice about the difficulty of symbiosis! In eight symbiosis lessons (that can each be stretched out into several days), children will learn:

  • the three main types of symbiosis – mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism,
  • about symbionts and hosts,
  • the difference between obligate and facultative symbiosis,
  • the difference between ectosymbionts and endosymbionts, and
  • lots of amazing symbiotic relationships.

Yes, really. The curriculum teaches these topics in ways that students younger than high school CAN understand them easily!

Kid-friendly text and YouTube videos do the teaching and follow-up activities accompany each of the symbiosis lessons. Children have opportunities to create nature journal pages, do simple research projects, and participate in hands-on activities. All are easy, optional, and easily tweaked if you’re teaching multiple ages.

Prepare your children with knowledge of upper level sciences through connections to real life examples in nature. It truly does make high school science and beyond easier in the end!

Use the symbiosis lessons as your science curriculum for part of a semester or as a supplement to what you’re already using during science. The symbiosis topic fits in with any study of plants or animals. 

  • 34 pages
  • Digital curriculum
  • Appropriate for black and white printing
  • Printing is not necessary
  • Content suitable for charter schools

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 cindy@ourjourneywestward.com. Better yet, share pictures of your adventures on social media and tag me @ourjourneywestward!

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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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