backyard homestead adventures
workbook 1
A 165-Page Nature Study Companion Guide for Ages 8–12
Backyard Homestead Adventures: Companion Workbook is a 165-page educational companion guide created for teachers, homeschool educators, parents, and other adults working with middle-grade learners ages 8–12.
Designed to extend the learning in Backyard Homestead Adventures: Storybook 1, it includes 50+ guided nature and homestead-learning activities, along with discussion prompts that encourage observation, curiosity, critical thinking, and real-world understanding.
Inside you’ll find:
- 50+ Guided Learning Activities: Hands-on nature and homestead activities for adults to facilitate with children.
- Discussion & Critical Thinking Prompts: Questions that help learners reflect, make connections, explain what they observe, and think more deeply about the natural world.
- Nature-Based Learning: Activities that encourage exploration, observation, stewardship, and meaningful engagement with the environment.
- The GROW Anywhere System®: Introduced in the foreword and applied throughout the workbook as a practical framework for nature-based learning and homesteading.
- Flexible Use: Suitable for classrooms, homeschool settings, families, and other adult-guided learning environments.
This is not a blank journal or activity notebook. It is a structured educational resource containing original instructional content, guided activities, discussion material, and learning prompts throughout its 165 pages.
Bonus: The workbook includes a QR code providing free access to the Backyard Homestead Adventures: Storybook 1 eBook, so adults and learners can use the storybook and companion activities together. The paperback storybook is also available separately on Amazon.
Related to the Sunny Stella® Series, this companion guide helps turn backyards, gardens, outdoor spaces, and everyday surroundings into opportunities for observation, discovery, practical learning, and stewardship.
Start where you are, use what you have, and discover how learning can grow in any space.
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