I’m excited to share that I’ve been working on a little side project in the nooks and crannies of my day as a homeschool mom. It is an E-book with step-by-step drawing instructions for Science Memory Work. The topics are Botany, Biology, Geology and work well for anyone using CC Cycle 1 in the fall or any other science curriculum on those topics. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Thanks Jason Baareman for your encouragement on this! And my girls who were my models and first customers!

It’s called “We Draw to Learn: Cycle 1 Science” – you can check it out on Etsy! Download a free sample of Classical Conversations Cycle 1 Week 2 Science: The Kingdoms of Living Things here.

The Details…

We Draw to Learn consists of 88 pages that cover 26 science fact topics. These drawing instructions are a wonderful resource to supplement science memory work from Classical Conversations (CC) Cycle 1. Each includes at least one page of step-by-step drawing illustrations, a final colored drawing, and a black and white final drawing which can be used as a coloring page. All are based on science memory work. Science topics include Botany, Biology, and Geology.

• Designed to help your students learn science facts while also learning how to draw them!
• Drawing dramatically aids knowledge retention! Studies show that drawing information can improve recall by more than double compared to just writing the information down!
• Draw and color science facts to make a notebook you can be proud of!

My Story
As a homeschool mom, I’m always looking for ways to maximize our learning and help my kids remember the information I am teaching the best. We were trying to learn memory work one semester and I sadly realized we hadn’t done nearly as much drawing as I had originally planned – there just wasn’t enough time for everything. Then it dawned on me, why not do both at once? Why not draw what we are learning about? Why not expand drawing skills and also enhance our memory on the subject and its parts? Instead of just learning to draw, we can be intentional with WHAT we are learning to draw and DRAW TO LEARN valuable educational information!

So many of the how to draw for kids books I see have the same basic set of drawings: animals, basic figures, food, etc. But kids are able to draw so much more than these simple subjects. Why not draw the layers of the atmosphere? Why not learn to draw the types of invertebrates? Instead of just learning to draw, how about we draw TO learn and do both simultaneously? This product is my answer to these questions and I’m excited to share it with you!