NaturExplorers as science curriculum?

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  • April 8, 2015 at 10:30 am
    mama_nickles
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    Next year I will have a 3rd grader and a K’er with a 3 year old tagging along (and a new baby-eek!). I love the idea of living books for science, but I am trying to not overcommit with plans for next school year. I am already planning on doing my own thing for history, and I had been thinking of doing my own thing for science as well, but am starting to re-evaluate. I am wondering whether anyone has used the NaturExplorers units as a whole science curriculum for their elementary students? My kids love nature study! I also don’t want to be super tied down to something set for science because I often tend to improvise. This year we did Outdoor Secrets and I ended up supplementing and going on tangents a lot. But it was nice to have a starting base to work from.

    I was looking at the “botany bundle” which includes 5 of the ebooks. Is that enough? DS has also said he wants to learn about dinosaurs so we will be doing a little unit study on that as well. I would add in an independent reading book on each topic for him to read and narrate on his own. My K’er and I are planning to read CLP Nature Reader book 1 together next year too. Thoughts?

    June 4, 2015 at 8:59 am
    mama_nickles
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    bumping this up to see if anyone will reply?

    June 4, 2015 at 9:15 am
    missceegee
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    I have seen but haven’t used these.  Outdoor Secrets and Companion was our fave! Next year I’m using SCM’s new Pond and Stream Companion for science for my third grader and K kid. I love having the spine book and the supplemental books/activities planned, but still super simple.  Can’t wait! Maybe that’s an option if the Nature Explorers isn’t what you’re looking for.

    January 26, 2016 at 4:45 pm
    Amandadixon22
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    I am wanting to use the Naturexplorers for our upcoming school year as well. There are not a ton of sample pages that I can find, so I’m a little nervous as how these actually look. I see this post is 7 months back…did you end up going with these? If so, how do you like it? Any details you might could add? We LOVE doing nature study, but I do need some help with starting lessons and info about what we’re studying would be ideal! thankyou fo any input!!!

    January 26, 2016 at 4:46 pm
    Amandadixon22
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    email notifications 🙂

    February 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm
    mama_nickles
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    Sorry I didn’t reply earlier. I didn’t end up using NaturExplorers. I have been doing living books (we liked several by Glenn Blough) and I have been loosely doing nature study following “Exploring Nature with Children.” I am planning to do living books again next school year. I have realized that my kids really like the living books that have a story with them. So we just recently started Owls in the Family and it’s good so far!

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