For homeschooling families
Nature study is real science.
Now it keeps its own records.
You already know the walk counted. Proving it is the part that eats your Sunday — hours logged from memory, work samples hunted down in a camera roll, standards matched to a spreadsheet at 11pm. WildSnap logs the science while your kids are outside doing it, and prints the portfolio when review week comes.
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If this is your house
- You teach two or three kids at different levels off the same afternoon.
- You believe time outside is the curriculum, not the reward for finishing it.
- You keep a portfolio because your state asks — or because you want the receipts.
- You're tired of worksheets that teach a robin from a drawing of a robin.
And if it isn't
This won't suit you if you want a screen that keeps a child busy indoors. Nothing here unlocks from the couch — every card, every reward, and every logged hour starts with a real photograph taken outside. If quiet tablet time is the goal, buy something else with our blessing.
Before and after
Same walk. Filed paperwork.
- "We did nature study" written in a planner from memory.
- Photos scattered across two phones and a tablet.
- Standards matched by hand, the week the report is due.
- No honest way to show what the science actually built.
- Every observation timestamped into a dated hours log.
- Work samples selected, labelled, and captioned for you.
- Coverage mapped to NGSS as Introduced, Practiced, or Demonstrated.
- One tap: a printed portfolio, plus a CSV for your binder.
What you're actually getting
Cover sheet, attendance and hours log, standards coverage table, dated work samples, assessments passed, vocabulary demonstrated.
Field time is derived from timestamped observations in your own timezone — by day, by session, by species. Nothing to remember.
Every strand maps to real performance expectations for K-2, 3-5, and middle school, with evidence behind each coverage claim.
Classification, habitats, food webs, life cycles, adaptations, and conservation — taught from the species your child found today.
Build a brush pile, plant for pollinators, clean a stretch of creek — then photograph it. No photo, no completion, no reward.
Up to 5 learners on one plan, each with their own band, records, and dex — plus a household rollup for the whole year.
Scope and sequence
Six strands, each with a unit, a check for understanding, and field work that has to happen outdoors. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013). Codes cited for alignment reference only.
Every wild thing has a family. Learn to tell who's who.
Forest, pond, meadow, log — everybody needs the right home.
Sun to plant to bug to bird. Follow the meal.
Egg to caterpillar to butterfly. Nature keeps changing.
Every superpower is for a reason. Find out why.
Some species need our help. Here's how to be one.
Less than one science workbook
A boxed elementary science kit runs $80 to $200 a year, per child, and still leaves the record-keeping to you.
or $4.99/mo · cancel anytime
- Full Field Science and all six units
- Portfolio, Field Report, and CSV exports
- Deep field guide and the whole shop
or $8.99/mo · one bill for the house
- Separate records and learning band per child
- Shared family gallery and household rollup
- A portfolio export for each learner
Questions homeschoolers ask
It's a complete life-science and nature-study spine for K-8: six strands, sequenced units, checks for understanding, and stewardship missions. Most families use it as their science, and add reading and lab work on top.
Yes. The Portfolio export prints a cover sheet, a dated attendance and hours log, an NGSS standards-coverage table, dated photo work samples, assessments passed, and vocabulary demonstrated. There is also a CSV log for your own binder.
The Family plan covers up to 5 explorers on one bill, each with their own learning band, dex, and records. The Family Hub shows a shared gallery and a household rollup.
Six through fourteen. Three learning bands change the depth of every lesson and check — Explorer (6-8), Naturalist (9-12), and Field Scientist (13+) — so siblings work from the same walk at their own level.
No. The bestiary is built from what actually lives in your area, including a city block. A sidewalk clover, a house sparrow, and a garden spider are all real, identifiable science.
Go deeper
Short, practical guides on how WildSnap fits the way you already homeschool.
A sequenced K-8 nature study curriculum built from the species living near you: six strands, checks for understanding, and records that print themselves.
Keep the Charlotte Mason nature walk and nature notebook intact — and let the attendance hours, species list, and portfolio assemble themselves in the background.
Attendance hours, dated work samples, assessments, and a standards table — assembled while your children are outside, and printed as a portfolio in one tap.
Map real outdoor observations to NGSS life-science performance expectations for K-2, 3-5, and middle school — with the evidence behind every coverage claim.
A nature journal children keep because they want to: every find becomes a photo card with range, habitat, diet, and life cycle they can narrate and draw from.
Open-and-go nature study lessons generated from the species near you — field task, reading at your child's level, a check for understanding, and a stewardship mission.
Start with this week's walk
Take one photo outside today. By Friday you'll have an hours log, a species list, and a standards table you didn't have to write.
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