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More Nature Study With The Outdoor Hour Challenge – Autumn 2011 Ebook

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Nature Study Using the Handbook of Nature Study- Autumn 2011 Series

Completely updated in 2016!

The ten challenges included in this new ebook are written in the format of the Outdoor Hour Challenges that can be found on the blog. Each weekly challenge can be completed as you have the opportunity and you can complete as much or as little of each challenge as you have time and interest.

Each challenge has three parts: inside preparation work, outdoor time, and then a follow-up activity. Each challenge is written so you can adapt it to your own backyard or local area. Use the challenge ideas to get started with simple weekly nature study using the Handbook of Nature Study.

This ebook is written for families with children of all ages. In addition to the regular challenge, new to this ebook is the addition of suggested nature study activities and follow-up for more advanced students. I included “advanced follow-up” ideas and created “upper level” notebook pages to give each challenge a deeper study if you have children who are ready for additional learning opportunities.

Also, a new feature for Charlotte Mason style homeschoolers is the addition of suggested Charlotte Mason style exam questions to be used at the end of the term. The questions are meant to help your child recall and then share in some way his nature study experience. Since this is the first time I have included exam questions, I would love to hear your feedback after using them with your children. I am planning on using them with my high school age son.

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Included in the More Nature Study With The Outdoor Hour Challenge – Autumn 2011/2016 Ebook:
  • Ten challenges centered on the Handbook of Nature Study
  • Eleven notebook pages and eight coloring pages
  • Thirteen Upper Level notebook pages
  • Ten Charlotte Mason style exam questions
  • Complete instructions for each challenge included additional links and resources
  • Nature journal suggestions
  • Complete list of supplies needed
  • Coordinates with the monthly Outdoor Hour Challenge Newsletter ideas
  • 52 pages
  • Sample here: More Nature Study Autumn

Here are the topics covered in this autumn ebook along with alternate ideas for you to include if they are more appropriate to your area. 

  • Milkweed – any other autumn wildflower or weed
  • Leaf Miners – examine leaves with a hand lens
  • Pears – year long tree study
  • Cobwebs of all kinds
  • Fall Color – leaf gathering
  • Chipmunk – squirrel
  • House sparrow – any other bird
  • Leaf Close Up
  • Thistles – any other fall composite flower
  • Maple seeds – any tree that has seeds of any type


As always, please email me with any questions or comments. harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com

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Door to a Fuller Life:Nature Study for High School – New Ebook Coming!

“Mrs. Comstock believed that the student found in such a study a fresh, spontaneous interest which was lacking in formal textbook science, and the phenomenal success of her work seems to prove that she was right. Moreover, nature-study as Mrs. Constock conceived it was an aesthetic experience as well as a discipline. It was an opening of the eyes to the individuality, the ingenuity, the personality of each of the unnoticed lifeforms about us. It meant a broadening of intellectual outlook, an expansion of sympathy, a fuller life.”
Handbook of Nature Study Publisher’s Foreword 1939

Textbooks are lacking.
Nature study leads to an opening of the eyes and a fuller life.

Which would you pick for your children? I think there is no question that nature study is a door, or perhaps a window, through which our children can gain a view of a fuller life. They really see what is there and can make close connections between themselves and the physical world. This link with the physical world can actually build a foundation for a more spiritual person as well. (Romans 1:20, Hebrews 3:4)

High school is not the time to drop a living books approach to science and a nature study approach to awakening the curiosity and wonder of the world we live in. Our family continues our adventure with nature study using the Handbook of Nature written by Anna Botsford Comstock.

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More Nature Study With The OHC
Starting in September there will be a fresh new series of Outdoor Hour Challenges that will post every Friday. These challenges will be doors and windows into your own backyard and neighborhood. I will be offering them in a brand new ebook to be released on September 5, 2011. The first of the new series of challenges will be posted on September 9, 2011. Each challenge will be clearly explained and can compliment your autumn nature study. The ebook will contain notebook pages for each challenge and a number of coloring pages as well. If you like having everything ahead of time or you have worked through the previous series of Autumn Series 2010 and are ready for some new challenges, you will be interested in the new ebook: More Nature Study With The OHC.

What About the Monthly Newsletter?
I will continue to write the OHC Newsletters each month and they will be filled with ideas and articles to support your family’s nature study. The newsletter activities will complement the new ebook ideas perfectly and you will still find lots of free goodies to offer in your nature study. These will continue to be posted on the first of each month.

What About the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival?
I have enjoyed having all the month’s nature study gathered in one place and I think it has been easier for participants as well. I will not be adding Mr. Linky to each challenge posted in the new series but you are welcome to enter as many of your nature study related posts to the carnival for an end of the month carnival. If you have any questions, please email me.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.