The Art of Keeping Chickens

Posted in Animals, High School, Home Economics, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 24, 2011

If you are looking for a great 4-H project or a way to supplement your income, keeping chickens and selling their eggs and meat would be feasible with just a small section of property. Chickens that are free-range are all the hype nowadays, and you can make money from selling farm-fresh eggs. These books will Read More »

Duck Identification Book

Posted in Animals, High School, Life Skills, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 23, 2011

Hunters, naturalists, and bird enthusiasts in general will enjoy this booklet produced by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.  The public domain book can be used in a variety of ways. From the book: Recognizing the species of ducks and geese can be rewarding to birdwatchers and hunters— and the ducks. Hunters can contribute to Read More »

Let’s Raise Pigs

Posted in Animals, Applied Math, Hobbies and Crafts, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 23, 2011

This fun little book combines information about pigs with a conversation about starting a small hog operation.  Written for children in elementary school, it has lots of examples of real living math and science. It also has cute illustrations and even a couple of worksheets to fill out while providing theoretical problems and choices you Read More »

Nature Stories for Young Readers

Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 13, 2011

A great example of how public domain texts can be used for commercial projects is the series of nature readers Christian Liberty Press offers.  Each of these books (except volume 4) is a reprint of an older book that has fallen into the public domain. The volumes have been edited and beautifully reprinted.  I highly Read More »

Nature-study readers

Posted in Animals, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Preschool, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 12, 2011

If there were ever a better set of nature books suitable for notebooking projects than these simple beauties they would certainly be on my bookshelves!  We have been printing chapters from this series for years now to read aloud together and to use for copywork and notebook projects. The text is fairly simple and straightforward Read More »