Every month
A checklist for your state
Ten things to look for this month where you live, with when and where to find them and the night-sky dates. Pick your state, read the page together, and print the one-page checklist for the walk.
For homeschool families
Nature study at home
Free checklists, printables and outdoor tools for every month of the year, from a small press run by a meteorologist and a geographer. Start free, and add the printable packs when you want more.
Start free
Print once
Calendars and a cloud card
The 2027 Full Moon Calendar, the 2027 Nature Calendar and Cloud Spotter, a field card for the ten cloud types. Free for home and classroom use.
Step outside
Tools for looking up
Name a cloud with the Cloud identifier, see tonight’s moon and the planets you can see, and check your town’s first frost and what is on the move in the Field almanac.
A simple nature-study week
Fifteen minutes a day is plenty. Swap days around to suit the weather.
- Monday: look up. Step outside, name one cloud with the Cloud identifier, and sketch it.
- Tuesday: weather log. Note the temperature, the wind and the sky at the same time each day. Weather now fills in the numbers.
- Wednesday: nature walk. Take this month’s state checklist and tick off what you find.
- Thursday: night sky. Find the moon and a planet or two with Tonight’s moon and Planets tonight.
- Friday: write it down. One page in a nature journal: the date, what you saw, a drawing, and one question.
When you want more
For younger children
Kids Weather Journal Pack
Two printable daily weather trackers: temperature, clouds and sky, simple enough for early readers and ready for the desk or the homeschool table.
Each month
Nature Study Pack for your region
Seven printable pages for every state in your region: the month’s checklist with photos, a sightings log, the month’s moon page, two cloud pages and a cloud-forecast log. $6.50 a month, or $14.50 for all of winter. Pick your region: Northeast · Southeast · Midwest · South Central and Southwest · West.
All year
The Naturalist’s Field Journal
A season-by-season notebook with fifty-three hand-drawn plates: wildflowers, birds, insects, tracks, trees and maps, for families, homeschools and classrooms. Digital, printable or paperback.
Printables are instant downloads on Etsy; print as many copies as your family needs.
The Season Ahead
One short email around the 10th of each month: the next three months, region by region, in plain words, plus the full moon, the meteor showers worth staying up for, and what to look for outside. Free, no spam, and you can unsubscribe anytime.