CC Cycle 1 Science Resources
Freebie of the Week:
Invertebrates Worksheet
This year, we’re studying the natural world, including animal and plant species, geology, weather patterns, and more! These Cycle 1 Science resources can help to make your homeschool environment colorful and creative as you help your kids to interact with the world around them.
Be one the lookout for opportunities in your area like zoos, parks, and museums to make the experience more hands-on and exciting.
These fun coloring pages are fun to encourage exploration and art within Cycle 1 and also serve well as cut-outs for notebook projects. These fun illustrations are easy to color or practice tracing if your kids love to gather their own doodling ideas.
Check out Amie’s Etsy shop for more creative CC printables.
Botanicum + Animalium Poster Books
A creative mama in the Classical Conversations Facebook group had this great idea to frame vintage-looking plant drawings from these books and frame them on their wall. What a beautiful visual to have for art and science integration!
Trisha Sue also has Etsy shops here:
OJoyous where she sews custom instrument cases for tin whistles & recorders
OJoyousToo where she prints fun TShirts for CC families
Nitty Gritty Science
This website is a one-stop-shop for super cool science printables for cut-out projects including 3D pop ups, interactive notebooks, pockets, diagrams, and more fun for life cycle and earth science lessons.
There are so many fun things to choose from, or just check it out to be inspired for the upcoming weeks.
Little Passports
Give your kids something to look forward to each month with Little Passport’s Science Edition! Subscribe to have a small science kit sent to your home with hands-on projects that help them to understand big concepts.
Nature Anatomy – by Julia Rothman
My favorite thing about this book series is how the author integrates arts and science. The illustrations are hand-drawn, which I believe encourages kids to re-create renderings they observe in nature. They are simplified with simple science lessons in storytelling format and encouragement for conservation awareness.
*DISCLAIMER* – the science facts in this book allude to evolutionary theory and the age of the earth being billions of years old. If you are looking for science resources based on Creationism, we have great recommendations in our article: Creation Science Homeschool Curriculum.
Plants of the Bible Art – Scribbling Grace
Jenna Parde, creator of Scribbling Grace has made these sweet and simple watercolor designs of plants mentioned in scripture. Use this during your plant study with the kids, have them find scripture based on each plant, or have them write about how God uses these plants to teach a lesson or point back to His love, grace, and provision. Cycle 1 Science meets Bible study meets art!
Jenna is also a talented Bible cover and journaling illustrator! Check out her custom-made covers and prints at ScribblinGrace.com. Click on the photo below to follow her free watercolor world tutorial!
These resources are so great! I’m getting really excited about Cycle 1! My girls love to draw so I just created an e-book with step-by-step drawing instructions for each week of Memory Work. I’m hoping to help my visual learners and have them learn some drawing skills while I read to them about the science topic each week. https://www.etsy.com/listing/987721539/cycle-1-science-memory-work-5th-ed-we
I love how you’ve put all of this together! Thank you! I purchased the Science Coloring sheets for cycle 1 (via etsy) but it says on this page that there is a freebie, invertebrates worksheet – how do I download that? Thanks in advance!
Hi Amina 🙂
The science coloring sheets are from a different mama creator Amy Snider. If you are taken to her Etsy store, just reach out to her through her shop and she can direct you further. Thanks for visiting Practical Family!
Hi Jennifer! When I click on the Invertebrates Worksheet Freebie, it takes me to an error page that says: “No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found.”
We’d love to use this great resource 🙂 Maybe the link is just missing?
Thanks for the heads up, Nicole! I fixed the link. Just click on the picture and the PDF will show up for download. Enjoy!