Plants are always a favorite topic to learn about in our household. My kids love exploring new plants that they come across and there's something kind of magical about watching a garden grow. Here are some of our favorite plant science activities and resources: Identifying Local Plants One of our very favorite ways to study plants, is simply to go out into nature and explore. We take short nature walks around our neighborhood, along hiking trails, and in the park, several times a week. While we're out, we like to photograph plants that we come across to try to identify later. You can buy a plant guide book or use an online plant guide  to try to identify the plants you saw, or my personal favorite is the iNaturalist app . iNaturalist is a free app you can download onto your phone or tablet. You just upload your plant pictures and the app and other users help you identify them. You can also help other users identify their posts. Chicory Ziplock Greenhouse Activity

Since my daughter is a very kinesthetic learner, I've been trying really hard to come up with more hands on math activities for her. We recently spent couple days working on a series of measurement and geometry activities that ended up being really fun.  Create Your Own Unit Of Measurement Have a discussion about different units of measurement for measuring distance like feet, inches, meters, miles, etc... Talk about how some units of measurement are more practical for certain situations. Measuring the distance between your house and the grocery store is generally done in a large unit of measurement like miles or kilometres. Measuring that large of a distance with a small unit of measurement like inches or centimeters would be impractical.  Then challenge your child to come up with their own unit of measurement to measure a set of distances.  For our challenge, I asked my daughter to create a unit of measurement to measure from one side of our house to the other, and anothe