“Spring Equinox: Celebrating Life & New Beginnings” is a great spring resource. It is designed to be used by families, students and even adults– there are opportunities for learning, fun rabbit holes to scamper down and new ways of looking at spring traditions. This guide can be used to celebrate the spring equinox, learn in and out of the classroom and/or to establish seasonal traditions with your family. You can spread these activities out over the whole spring, the month of March/April or focus on just a few activities the week of the Spring Equinox and try others next year.
This book is organized around some of the most common signs of spring. Spring doesn’t happen at the same time in all places and what spring looks like in your part of the world may be different from some of the things I have outlined here. I encourage you to find and incorporate the things that make spring in your own place special, whatever that may be. There are way more activities in this guide than you could feasibly celebrate on the one day of the Equinox, so spread them out and enjoy them all spring or revisit different activities each year. You’ll find an extensive booklist for all ages separated by subject and I encourage you to read some of the adult books even if you only plan to work with young children (and vice versa.). Take your time, add in your own traditions or start new ones. Use this unit as a springboard for learning or just for fun, the choices are yours to make.
The guide starts with the science behind the equinox, different cultural traditions surrounding the Spring Equinox and then walks through information, projects and tutorials that celebrate signs of spring. There are 8 sections with two projects each for a total of 16 different crafts, games, recipes and traditions to celebrate. It covers the return of migrating birds, vernal pools, sleepy animals waking from hibernation, flowering trees and spring ephemerals, rainy, muddy weather and worms, wild greens, symbols of renewal and ideas of balance.
You’ll receive a 100 page e-book featuring background information, tutorials with crafts, recipes, games and more, lesson seeds for further exploration, and book lists.
This unit study is multidisciplinary, allowing you to explore different areas of core content, arts, nature, and culture within the same project. (Core content: science, social studies, math and english language arts)
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