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Celebrate National Park Week

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I love nature and I love finding free things to do that are new for our family. We are lucky enough to live near a few National Park Service parks. We have been able to visit a few of them the last few years as either a homeschool field trip or on a blog trip.

Celebrate National Park Week

We have many more to visit and we hope to visit a few new one’s this year. National Park Service isn’t just a place to learn about nature but History, Invention, and places of historical significance like Perry’s Monument National Park.

Just in case you didn’t know National Parks Week is April 15-23 which means many NPS locations will waive their normal admission fees to allow more visitors to enjoy the National Parks.

Other Free NPS days in 2017:

  • January 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • February 20: Presidents’ Day
  • April 15-16 and 22-23: Weekends of National Park Week
  • August 25: National Park Service Birthday
  • September 30: National Public Lands Day
  • November 11-12: Veterans Day Weekend

Free Admission for 4th graders:

If you are a fourth grader, or age equivalent free-choice learner, you and your family can receive an Every Kid in a Park pass that will give you free access to hundreds of parks, lands, and waters for an entire year.

Junior Rangers and Web Rangers:

Do you know about the Junior Ranger program offered through the NPS? I love having my children work on these very education scavenger hunt style books as part of our homeschool education. If you don’t live close to a National Park then you can work on a variety of Junior Ranger type skills via Web Rangers!

Read more about National Parks by visiting these posts:

{Spice Up Your Homeschool} National Parks

N is for National Parks

Homeschooling and Homemaking Tips and Good Tips Tuesday #119

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Everyone could use some good homeschooling and homemaking tips now and then. This week we have a few really good tips that were linked up last week. Check the featured posts our and be sure to link up your own.

GTT party

 

We want this to be a resource for you to find Good Tips for your life, home, kids and everything in between! So what kinds of posts are you able to link up now? Check out this awesome list!

  • Recipes & Cooking Tips
  • Homemaking Tips
  • Parenting Tips
  • Kids crafts & Activity Tips

Your hosts each week are:

4 The Love of Family

A Bird And A Bean

A Diligent Heart

Day by Day in Our World

Simply Sherryl

Something 2 Offer

Successful Homemakers

Looking for the previous link ups? You can find them all right here.

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This week our featured posts are:

Maintaining Your Identity Beyond Being a Homeschool Mom at Day by Day in Our World
Tips for Homeschooling Parents ~ High School at Home Sweet Life
Tips: Dealing with Curve Balls at A Net in Time Schooling
Fitting in Homemaking Responsibilities When You Homeschool at Day by Day in Our World
The weird way I spring clean the bathrooms at Gym Craft Laundry

 

Now let’s get to today’s Good Tips Tuesday party!

  • Link up your recipe/cooking, homemaking, parenting, and kids craft/activity tips below (4 per person please)
  • Please link directly to your post, not to your main blog page. All links that do not follow this will be deleted.
  • Visit other posts in the party, comment, tweet, pin and let them know you came from GTTuesday!
  • We will feature 4 posts each week, picked via random.org. We will each be picking our favorite post from the week and pinning all of the featured posts and favorite posts to the GTTuesday Pinterest Board!

Follow Good Tips Tuesday #GTTuesday Board on Pinterest.

Disclosures:

We can’t wait to see all the amazing posts you will be linking up this week!

Blessings,

Angela, Erin, Marlene, Laura, Laurie, Sherryl, & Thaleia

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Types of Maps Found at the Soil and Water Conservation District

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We are recently took a trip to visit to our county Soil and Water Conservation District.         I remembered a nature training that I took a few years ago and all the cool maps that they offer. I realized my children had not had this experience and wanted to share with them some of that same knowledge that I have.

Types of Maps Found at the Soil and Water Conservation District

The two staff members that showed us the maps were very enthusiastic and generous with their time and knowledge. They were eager to share with us the difference between the old style maps and the newer digital maps. Right inside the office were two large framed maps on the walls. We were then lead back to a work area with a large map on the wall, a few larger printers, and some smaller items such as soil survey books.

 

Types of Maps:

Land Cover Maps- these types of maps show the different areas that are agriculture, forest, and urban.

Land Cover Map

Contour Maps- These types of maps help determine where to dig a well or pond as well as where additional drainage may need to be placed in a field.

Contour Maps

Global Soil Map- Shows all the types of soils found all around the world.

Global Soil Maps

Watershed Maps- Show how water moves over the land and into which stream or rover it flows. This type of map helps when a chemical spill happens or other type of water pollutant.

Eldest with Map

More Maps Activities for Kids:

Maps-Collage

Find the Letter C is for Compass from 3 Boys and a Dog

Build Excitement for a Disneyland Vacation from Crafty Mama in ME

How Maps Change Case Study: Boston’s Boundaries Over Time from Boston Kid Friendly

How Kids Can Create Sketch Maps for the Outdoors from Frog Mom

Map Books for Young Explorers from Brain Power Boy

Map Skills for Kids from Schooling a Monkey

Map Books for Children: Intro to Maps from The Jenny Evolution

Continents and Countries Olympic Sort from Planet Smarty Pants

Maps Unit for Preschoolers from Bambini Travel

3 Free Puzzles to Make Learning the Continents Fun from Books and Giggles

Geocaching for Kids from Parenting Chaos

Map Activities for Kids: France, England, Ireland {Printables} from The Natural Homeschool

Travel Maps for Kids from Craft Create Calm

Around the World Fun for Kids: Exploring Architecture from Artsy Momma

Using Maps as an Idea for Art Projects from Our Daily Craft

Making a Salt Dough Map from Tales of Education at Home

Middle School Literature Curriculum with Memoria Press

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We recently were given the Seventh Grade Literature Guide Set for review from Memoria Press via TOS Review Crew. I chose this particular grade level so that both Eldest and Princess could both benefit from it. Eldest is in 7th grade and Princess is in 6th grade but this is both their first time using a Literature guide.

Middle School Literature Curriculum with Memoria Press

 

We received both the student guides and the teacher’s guide for four classic Literature novels. The Seventh Grade Literature Guide Set includes: Anne of Greene Gables, The Bronze Bow, The Hobbit, and The Trojan War. I felt that these selections would be both beneficial and interesting to both a Middle School boy and girl.

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