FREE Spring-themed Unit Studies

Two things I love most in homeschooling — unit studies and free. Add gorgeous spring weather to the mix, and I just couldn’t be happier. Although I love putting together my own unit studies, sometimes it’s just nice when someone else has done the work for you. 

 

One of the best resources available to frugal homeschool families is Homeschool Share. Do you know about HSS?  

 

Imagine a bunch of your homeschool friends got together, everyone wrote some unit studies and then someone (in this case her name is Ami) compiled them all, designed lovely lapbooks for many of them, and then distributed them for free to anyone and everyone who wanted to them (and not just homeschoolers). 

 

Now you have a picture in your mind of Homeschool Share is. But believe, me your mind’s eye just scratched the surface. Whatever you are imagining, multiply that by about a thousand.

 

Now you’re getting the idea. 

 

 

 

 

I thought I’d share some of our favorite spring-ish unit studies from Homeschool Share. Most of these are literature-based, so get your library cards ready; you’ll need them! 

 

 

 

 

making the world more beautiful
gardening
seeds
plants
parts of a flower
story problem
planning a garden 

 

 

 

ducks 

animal parents

food chain

Massachusetts

alphabetical order

Caldecott,
classic story

rhyming words

days of the week 

 

Buy the book. 

Canada

kites

Niagara Falls
book dedications

thank you notes
geometry

poetry

measurement,
geology 

rainbows

wind,
silkworms

kite safety

character lessons

 

a set of templates that can be used with any bird to create a bird-watching nature notebook

 

 

 

 

Based on Gail Gibbons’ book, Chicks and Chickens

 

 

 

 

Kentucky Derby

Kentucky

Horses

Horse Occupations

Recipes

 

Free Nature Study Journal 

Encourage your children to keep a nature journal with this free nature study printable for all four seasons. Includes scavenger hunts, draw and write pages, backyard bird count, and more! To receive your copy, enter your email below.

  Be sure to take a gander at these Thornton Burgess nature books for Kindle. They are all free!