Nature Study Hacking| Stars & Skies Resources and Links

Keep Stars & Skies Nature Study Simple with these resources:

Nature Study Hacking| Stars & Skies

Provides 24 lessons for an introduction to the STARS & SKIES. Based on the Handbook of Nature Study, this guide simplifies the introduction of the Moon’s phases, three constellations everyone should be able to find, the Sun and its relationship to the earth. (This page contains affiliate links.)

ESSENTIALS:

For this study, the absolute best resources on this topic for reading aloud is, in fact, Handbook of Nature Study, The Skies, p. 815-859. But because I LOVE simplified versions of each topic covered in Stars & Skies, I'm sharing these that can easily be found at the library:

Stars:A Walk through the Heavens: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends by Milton D. Heifetz

Planets:The Planets by Gail Gibbons

Sun and the Seasons:The Reason for Seasons by Gail Gibbons

Moon:The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons

Stars & Skies Supply List:

Supply List:

1. Minimalism Art Dot grid notebook (8.5/11 size preferred for younger children)
2. Ticonderoga pencils
3. Prisma colored pencils (preferred for younger children)
4. Preprinted Phenology wheel sliced into 32 pie pieces for each day month (plus one space for the month’s name) 
5. Scissors
6. Tape or glue (for phenology wheel)
7. Protractor  (optional if making phenology wheel instead of printing/copying it from book)
8. The night sky, sun and moon
9. Book about the Moon, Stars, Planets and Seasons (See above)
10. Night Sky App (point at the sky and it tells you what star/planet/constellation you are observing!)

YouTube Playlist about Stars & Skies Click Here.