Have you been thinking about how you can homeschool free in your yard? Well, science is really not very far away. Especially when you start to attach science with your yard.
Here are several free science homeschool ideas in your yard to add in your learning experiences.
How Old is that Tree?
Our 4-year old keep coming back to our front window. Using her two small hands she keeps putting her window like she puts a hand print on it over and over. My thoughts were that she wanted to go outside.
I went to her to give her a big hug. Before I can do that, I was easily startled with the brightness in our front-side. Immediately realizing that the trees in the woods beside our house is almost gone!
The building of the Phase 3 in our community has started. Our street needs to continue to have more that two houses, and ends with a cul-de-sac. It was a bittersweet moment realizing it.
While my older daughter was looking at the window for what it remains, she noticed an object. She came to me and said, “Mom, I think I saw something that can be added to our museum.”
With curiosity, I asked, “Which one?”
She walked towards the front window and pointed to the piece of a tree trunk. “You know we are able to count the rings on the tree trunk and that would tell us how old the tree is.”
“If we also look closely, the thickness of each ring will tell us how much rainfall and sunlight the tree received during that year,” she added.
So we immediately stopped with what we were doing. We grabbed the manifying glass, a pencil and a paper. Off we go outside to start counting the rings on the tree trunk and determining the thickness of each of the ring.
We counted 20 rings which makes the tree 20-year old.
That three trunk became the highlight of our day, which made us forget for a while that the woods in our side is gone.
Insect or Bug?
Head outside with your journal, pencil, and your Picture Insect and go crazy identifying all the insects or bugs that you see. Some are in plain site, while some are hiding behind leaves.
If you’re very thorough, you might find butterfly eggs! Even better, find a caterpillar or a chrysalis.
Aside from identifying the bugs, or insects, take a video of them so that you will see them in action. They are either eating leaves, sipping nectar, or playing with their friends. Then once you go inside, ask an adult to play the video in the TV. That will be give you a beautiful view of how insects interact with their environments.
