Homeschooling High School Biology
Biology is my favorite! It’s my degree and professional background as a science educator. So, I’m exciting to share this resource page with you. You’ll find ideas, resources, lessons, and courses to help you to homeschool high school biology at home. You can do it! I’m here to help!
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Bookmark this page and return to it often as you are planning your homeschooling high school biology course.
You have permission to design this course for the teen who you are teaching not just whatever you think (or someone else tells you) makes up a biology course in high school.
Let’s do this!
Biology Resource Pages
These links will take you to more biology related hubs here on Blog, She Wrote. Keep watching because there are more pages to come!
- Homeschool Microscope Lessons– the home for all things microscope related. You’ll find free lessons, tutorials, and more information on the high school course, Microscopic Marvels: Explorations in Historical & Modern Microscopy.
- Biology: The Science of Insects– this post will take you to all of our entomology content which was hands down one of the best things we ever did in our homeschooling years.
- Geography Quests– while geography may not sound like the best place to find biology lessons, you’ll find a lot of biology topics in these short adventures.
- STEM Activities for Teens– this page is a hub for all things science and math oriented. You’ll find lots of biology lessons here.
- Plant Journaling Pages for Homeschoolers– go here to sign up and download a 40 page eBook related to all things plants and documenting them!
Homeschooling High School Biology Lessons
These links are to individual posts related to biology that share information, lessons, and tips for teaching biology at home to your teen.
- What Gregor Mendel & Growing Peas Can Teach Us about Heredity– this is a great lesson on Mendelian genetics using the picture book (yes, in high school!), Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas.
- How to Determine the Frequency of a Trait– a lab teaching how to find out the frequency of a given trait using the principles of Mendelian genetics.
- Gardening as a Teaching Tool– specifically botany and plant science
- Amphibians & Reptiles with The Salamander Room– yes! Another children’s book to work with in teaching high school biology.
- Illustrating the Human Body– otherwise known as how to engage your creative teens with biology!
- Entomology: The Science of Insects– an introduction to studying insects
- Must Have Equipment for Entomology– the second in the entomology series
- Best Practices for Collecting Insects– how to pin your specimens according to the guidelines for entomological collections.
- Tips for an Excellent Insect Display– if you have an insect collector, you don’t want to miss this! If you’ve thought about trying this with your teen, then you don’t want to miss this! We’ve had county and state fair blues with our collections!
- How to Make a Plant Journal– the original plant journaling post which helped our daughter study for the state and national horticulture contest
- Tips for Botanical Illustration– perfect for the artists in your homeschool
- Wildflower Blooms: Art & Nature– drawing blooms and resources for studying them
- Adventures with Flowers: Pressing & Identification– this is part of our Adventure Box series with a focus on flowers.
- How to Teach Literature Based Seasonal Nature Study in Your Homeschool– this is a review of Seasons Afield from Beautiful Feet.
- Nature Journaling All About Birds– this is a look at my nature journaling course at the Masterpiece Society. You can purchase them in a bundle or by the module.
- Art & Nature Study with Beatrix Potter– this is one of my most popular posts of all time! We love studying science through the lives of the people who made big contributions to a field of study. Ms. Potter was an accomplished mycologist (mycology is the study of mushrooms).
- January Nature Journal Calendar– activities and studies for the month of January
- February Nature Journal Calendar– ecology focused on late winter
- March Nature Journal Calendar–
- April Nature Journal Calendar–
- May Nature Journal Calendar–
- June Nature Journal Calendar–
- July Nature Journal Calendar–
- August Nature Journal Calendar–
- September Nature Journal Calendar–
- October Nature Journal Calendar–
- November Nature Journal Calendar–
- December Nature Journal Calendar–
- The Big List of Awesome Living Books for Homeschooling Science– a giant list of books you can use to teach high school science. Yes! Even in high school!
- Wild Plant Scavenger Hunt– with a free download, so that you can take the sheet on the go. This is best for spring time in the northeast U.S.
- Big List of Popular Plant Journal Ideas– there are so many ways you can keep a journal and talk with your teen about plant collections
- Book Binding Plant Journal Pages– this is a tutorial on using our free plant journal pages.
- How to Find & Collect Animal Tracks– fun ways to preserve and collect the tracks you find
- Plant Journal Pages for Homeschoolers– love this set of FREE pages and this post shows all the things you could do with.
Subscribe for Your Free Microscope Observation Sheets
With these free observation sheets, your teen can observe a wide variety of specimens and record the results.
Biology Courses for Homeschooling High School
I’m talking about courses that I’ve written and that are available to you and your teen.
- Microscopic Marvels: Explorations in Historical & Modern Microscopy– one of the most fun courses I’ve written, for sure! Take a journey through time and look at the people, the microscopes, and the experiments that made biological history. You’ll also find lessons on advanced microscopy and modern microscopy.
- Nature Journaling Courses at Masterpiece Society– You can purchase all the modules at once or pick and choose the ones you need.