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American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts

March 1, 2016 | 11 Comments
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I rounded up some fun American Robin free printables, resources, and crafts to kick off a spring unit study.

American Robin Unit Study Ideas

We pulled out the chalk pastels today, used our Chalk Pastel reference tutorial book that we love, which by the way was created by a homeschool mom and Tiny decided to sketch and do a chalk pastel of the American Robin.

A Seasonal Start in Spring Chalk Pastels

By the way, there is a guide for each season. I love this download because Tiny can read through it on his own.

The American Robin – First Sign of Spring

Sketch of the American Robin @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Like his mom, Tiny is not comfortable with art. However, with some coaxing to change the pace of our day, he pulled out the chalk pastels.

I have tried my best through the years to be sure each son views art as enrichment and pleasure. The emphasis has always been on the pleasure of art and not so much the product.

American Robin Chalk Pastel @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

However, I think he did quite well with this American Robin. Of course, he had to sketch it first so it would be “perfect”.

American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts

I tried to talk him out of it and to use the pastels to free flow, but he really liked the way it came out and more importantly, we enjoyed a change in pace.

We read some online about American Robins and enjoyed listening to the sound of them too. We’ll be looking out to see one or two this year also.

I gathered up some free and fun resources to help round out a unit study or quick study.

North American Red Robin Free Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Free Printables & Reference

American Robin lapbook
American Robin Menu
American Robin 3 page information
Coloring Page

American Robin Facts for Kids
Fun Facts About the Robin
6 page pdf. along with helpful map, habitat and facts.
Robin bird house plans for a nest shelf
Several American Robin Coloring Pages

Story of Robin Eggs
Bird Feather Types – scroll down close to the end of the page. Nice pictures of feathers and beaks.
Free printable critical reading passage with answers.
Easy find the bird crossword puzzle
How to identify a robin’s nest

50 page pdf download coloring pages of different birds, including the American Robin
Grab my free printables for a bird notebook

(image source: Sweet and Simple Life. Note: please give credit by pinning from original sources.)

Photos, Crafts and YouTube American Robin

Footprint American Robin. Isn’t that the cutest thing ever? What a perfect spring keepsake!
YouTube Mamma bird feeding her young video. There is a cool scene in this video. It is must watch, I but don’t like the music. (so distracting)
American Robin Mini-Documentary YouTube
Eggs hatching photos
Making a rockin’ robin with a cereal box

Paper craft robin
American Robin at a Glance

I hope you can use some of these free and fun resources to squeeze in a few days of learning about spring and the American Red Robin.

You’ll love these other crafts and ideas:

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Free Moon Journal For Homeschool Science

January 19, 2016 | 2 Comments
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Free Moon Journal - Hands on homeschool science.

Today, I am sharing this fun free moon journal for homeschool science.

Your kids will love this journal if you want some easy hands-on science.

Hands-on Homeschool Science

Besides the fact that we’re loving being back in Texas, I was looking for something that would spur Tiny on to a few more hands-on activities for science.

So he has been reading through the book Air Is Not Oxygen: Essential Science You Should Have Learned … But Probably Didn’t!.

It has really been a super fun and quick way to learn the essentials of science. Each concept has two or more ideas for hands-on activities to go along with the fact that is being taught.

We just started through it because we needed something more to add to what he is doing right now, which is chemistry.

Too, I like the fact that it is covering basic essentials in a fun and easy way without laboring complicated science facts.

He skipped ahead to a few chapters he wanted to read first and though he has read about the moon phases, I thought it would be a fun and uncomplicated activity to keep a moon journal, which is one of the many activities suggested in the book.

I will share a few other activities suggested in the book too.

Moon Journal 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Moon Journal 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

So I prepared this quick moon journal.

The first page has the eight phases of the moon and has a place for your child to write his name.

It also has a place for him to record how long he watched the moon.

The second page is an undated page with 31 boxes on it for 31 days to record or one month.

The top blue box above the gray moon is for your child to write the day, like 1, 2, 3,etc.

The middle box which has the moon is a place for him to lightly mark or color the moon and the double dotted line under the box is for him to label or write the name of it too.

I made this so you can use it with both an older and younger child.

The younger child can simple shade or color the moon and an older child can write the name of the moon and add other things he may have observed that night or during the month.

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Mega List Free Resources for Human Body Homeschool Unit Study. Crafts, Lesson Plans,Teachers Guides for Elementary, Middle and High School

October 12, 2015 | 15 Comments
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When we started our human body unit study we were excited to learn about all the free resources. By the way, don’t forget to grab the activities we have done so far, which are DIY Stethoscope, DIY Heart Pump and Rigid vs. Flexible bone. You can grab the activities at the link for the human body unit study.

However, all these free and wonderful human body homeschool unit study resources can be an unwieldy beast to tame as they took over my page.

That is unless they are organized of course so we can use them. Plus, I don’t want you to miss out on any super duper ideas when you start your human body unit study.

Free Resources for Human Body Homeschool Unit Study

So I have organized the resources by grade where possible just to give you an idea of where to start and then by topic like craft or teacher guides.

Prek/K/Elementary

First, look at some resources for the elementary kids. Of course you know how I feel about grade levels, they’re just a guide but not what defines our kids.

Your Brain and Nervous System – Audio too.
Human Body T Shirt by Everyday Graces.
Wearable Human Body Project by Amy at Homeschool Share.
Learn About Your Brain Activities by Ticia at Adventures in Mommydom
Sensory Touch Activity

Free Printable Skeleton Game
Paint Your Organs T Shirt
Idea to print Doctor’s Bag
Spelling by Picture – Fill in the blank spelling for human body
Human Senses Prek to 2 . 9 page .pdf Teacher’s Guide

Free body minibook
Free Organ Cards
Human Anatomy Notebooking for upper elementary to middle school
Skeletal System Unit Study
Learning About The Human Body Part 1: The Skeletal And Muscular Systems

Human body notebooking pages
Muscular system hand craft
Muscular system worksheets
Digestive system craft

Middle School

Next, look at these middle school resources for the human body unit study.

Human Body Systems by Cindy at Our Journey Westward. Hands- on activities for studying the bones, circulatory system and blood compatibility.
Circulatory System Game by Ticia at Adventures in Mommydom
Human Body 11 Organ Systems Foldable
Know Your Organs

Worksheets,Label and Answer Sheet about Skin
The Human Body Teacher’s Guide. For elementary to middle school
Body Worlds Guide and Student Sheets. For all ages
Color printable life sized child skeleton – So cool.
Black and white printable life sized child skeleton
Black and white printable life sized adult skeleton

Anatomy unit study

High School

Lastly, I gathered up some high school resources too.

History of the Brain information.
Neurons and the Nervous System Lesson Plan. Functions of the nervous system.
Advanced Matching Human Body Organs Worksheet.
The Great Vaccination Debate. View lots of infographics. Great for critical thinking.
Cervical Dilation Illustration. Remember to look over these sites first. This illustration was super helpful in understanding labor and delivery. The illustration starts with a cheerio and goes up to the size of a bagel.

These pdf are on the way back machine, so be sure to download them in case they eventually go away
Human Reproductive System (again be sure to look over before you hand this to your teen).
Study of the Skin
The Endocrine System Teacher’s Guide.
Atlas of Human Skeletal Anatomy Ebook – 68 page .pdf super helpful

Hands-On Activities (All Grades)

Body Basics: ideas for bones and joints, muscles, classifying classes, cells, nerves, digestion and lung capacity. (Looks like about 5th grade, but ya know how I feel about grades – pretty useless at times.)
Printable Life Size Skeleton mentioned above adult and juvenile size, so can use with older children too but also has puzzles.
Human Anatomy – Page full of ideas and fun hands-on activities, links and resources for multiple grades by Marci at The Homeschool Scientist.
Printable Human Body Piece Together
Foldable Brain

Brain Fluid Activity
Human Backbone Simple Model
Making a Lung
Printable Parts of the Eye
Eye Anatomy
Bend a Bone

Circulatory System with licorice pull and peel
Drawing Artistic Anatomy the arms, legs and torso
Printable Label Human Eye
Free Human Body Coloring Pages from Dover
Build a sticks and stones skeleton outside

Manipulatives showing bacteria and virus. Using pipe cleaners and pom-poms
Spinal Cord with lifesavers
Make a respiratory system
Make a hear from recyclable plastic
Printable pdf lung

Edible Projects

Eyeballs.(Pinterest image)
Eyeball bagels
Eyeballs cream cheese and life savers. Link is not on site, but Pinterest image is great.
Eye Cake Balls
Eatable Skin Mold

DNA, Edible Cells and Making Mini Pizzas for Cells by Alicia Hutchinson
Candy Spine by Ticia at Adventures in Mommydom
Edible Bone Model
Edible Skin Layers Cake
Another Edible Skin Layers

Blood

Components of Blood Experiment

Interactive Content, Media, Images

Also, your kids will enjoy some of these interactive games and pictures.

Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication.
Cardiology Super Virtual Lab. So cool! This virtual lab will familiarize you with heritable diseases of the heart. Learn about the diagnostic tools used to examine and diagnose patients.
Play Know Your Body Parts – Actually good for all ages, not babyish.
Paper Mache Body Images.
Anatomy Arcade – Beats worksheets.

Virtual Hip Resurfacing game
3 D Brain Anatomy A virtual 3-D
Map of Beating Heart
You Tube How the Heart Pumps

Journey through the Digestive track infographic
Video about Skin

Free Books

Biology Interactive and helpful online book covering a wide range of topics.
Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology Text. Super helpful university level textbook, great for high school and serious science students. HUGE. It’s a whopping 966 pages .pdf. Give this baby some time to load.
Life the Science of Biology. WHOAH. Another great find. A HUGE 1392 pages .pdf science book at the university level too. OH MY GOODNESS, this book and the one before this have TONS of great visual illustrations.

Dynamic and Fun Human Body Lapbook for Multiple Ages
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Free Lapbooks or Ideas for Lapbooks

Blood and Guts Lapbook – Super duper year long lapbook based on Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology (Young Explorer Series).
The Care and Keeping of You (Girls) by Amy at Homeschool Share.

History

Grab all of my hands-on activities below.

A Civil War Surgeon’s Diary Transcribed. Great way to tie in history with science. Read a Civil War Surgeons Diary.

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Body Part Labeling and Skeleton Quiz Human Body Unit Study

October 9, 2015 | 2 Comments
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The body part labeling and skeleton quiz minibooks are part of the completed human body unit study.

The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.

Body Part Labeling and Skeleton Quiz

Be sure to grab the other activities we have done so far with our Human Body Unit Study.

Also, make an eazy peazy DIY Stethoscope and a great project for a middle school kid is the Heart Pump activity. Too, do the rigid versus flexible bone activity too.

Today, I have two more minibooks for the Human Body Lapbook.

You already have the heart minibook and the Did You Know heart facts minbook.

One minibook is titled I am Wonderfully Made and it is a labeling of general body parts.

This book can for sure be used for a younger child and a middle school kid.

Human Body Hands-on Unit Study Ideas

Because we have only read about the human body and not really done any written work, I wanted to be sure Tiny had a good visual placement of the major body parts.

The human body minibook is a triple fold book. Triple fold and put the cover on the outside.

Human Body Unit Study

Too, remember, because I don’t like to waste paper, the cover page for this body labeling book you already downloaded with the heart minibook.

Be sure to grab it and place it on this minibook.

This next fun minibook is a 4 question quiz about the skeleton system.

The four questions are:

■ How many bones are in your body?
■How many bones are in your skull?
■What is the largest bone?
■What is the smallest bone?

We generally pull out our file folder at this time and start trying to place the minibooks we have so far on the lapbook. But we don’t glue them yet until we are finished.

Generally though when I have about 4 minibooks or so, I do try to start laying them. Not all the time do I chose portrait position on the lapbook.

This lapbook just feels like it might look pretty hot if we turn the lapbook landscape. But that is generally what I do right now, which is to start looking at the layout.

However, we are still undecided, which is why we also keep the minibooks in a ziploc bag until we’re done.

Completed Human Body Lapbook

Dynamic and Fun Human Body Lapbook for Multiple Ages
$5.00 Add to cart

Lastly, more human body unit study activities coming! (Update: The hands-on activities are all at the bottom of this post. Click on each one for all the fun hands-on ideas.)

Grab all of the lapbook printables and hands-on activities below.

Hugs and love ya,

Body Part Labeling and Human Skeleton Quiz Free Minibooks - Free Human Body Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body Hands-On Kids Stethoscope Activity

September 24, 2015 | 12 Comments
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This next homeschool unit study human body will be a large one for us. Also I have this Human Body Crafts page for more fun ideas.

We won’t get lopsided with our unit study topics, which is so easy for us to do because of our love for history and geography.

I got excited about this next unit study though because with the older two boys they just wanted to read and health and move on.

Homeschool Unit Study Human Body Hands-On Kids Stethoscope Activity

Tiny is always up for as many hands-on activities as we can fit into the day and he doesn’t care if they are too young-ish or old-ish, he’s in.

Did I mention the kid is such a joy to teach?

We started off with an easy hands-on activity. And you know my standard is always minimal fuss with maximum fun when doing hands-on.

So we made an easy diy stethoscope.

We use to have a stethoscope when we were in the states, but not here. Besides, it was more fun to make it quickie quick.

Human body unit study DIY Stethoscope. Hands-on Learning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

More Human Body Crafts

Kids Fun Stethoscope Activity

The list is short and easy for what you need and if you’re like me, you already have these items in your house.

paper towel tube
funnel
masking tape
watch to count seconds

Place the paper towel tube on top of the funnel, the narrow end.

Wrap the tape around the tube for a DIY stethoscope @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Be sure to tape it down real good as you don’t want any air to escape or want any gaps.

Listen to the heart @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Then practice finding the heartbeat and count the beats within 15 seconds. Multiply that by four and that is the resting heart beat.

Mr. Awesome 2015 was sick that day, so he was actually a good candidate for Tiny.

Though Mr. Awesome did not feel like exercising, he walked up and back down the stairs one time to elevate his heart beat.

Tiny compared that to the resting heart beat. It was a fun and easy activity to kick off our next unit study.

We have several more fun hands-on activities we are doing for this unit study. You’ll love the homeschool lapbook.

Lapbook

Dynamic and Fun Human Body Lapbook for Multiple Ages
$5.00 Add to cart

I think we will enjoy learning in a more interactive way.

Grab all of the hands-on activities below.

Hugs and love ya,

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American Robin Free Printables, Resources and Crafts

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