Homeschool Learning Ideas for March
Do you want to introduce your kids to a variety of people and places, historical time periods, and interesting ideas? Here you’ll find a big list of March homeschool ideas. Choose a few to explore and see what sparks their interest.
This article is part of a series of monthly homeschool learning ideas. Each month offers suggestions for learning topics related to that month. Use the specific suggestions given, or research additional people or topics in a particular category.
You can expose your kids to books, music, poetry, people, and careers they might not otherwise encounter, just through choosing a few to read about or watch a quick video on each month.
The learning suggestions are grouped in the following categories:
- Read Aloud Book Suggestions
- Movie/Book Combos
- Poetry
- Classical Music
- Quotes
- Artists (birthdays in March)
- Athletes (birthdays in March)
- Authors (birthdays in March)
- Composers (birthdays in March)
- Engineers (birthdays in March)
- Inventors (birthdays in March)
- Presidents (birthdays in March)
- Scientists (birthdays in March)
- Interesting People (birthdays in March)
- Interesting Occupations
- Animals
- Plants
- World Landmarks
- Games
- Crafts
- Study Skills
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Where to Find Learning Resources
After you decide on a few people or topics you want to learn about in March, head to your local library to check out books, magazines, movies, and more related to your topics of interest. You may find that your library system is able to request additional material from other libraries as well.
Another free source of information is YouTube. There is a massive amount of educational content on YouTube and a quick search will turn up many options to learn about almost anything.
For relatively inexpensive and sometimes free resources related to many of these topics, check out Teachers Pay Teachers.
Read-Aloud Suggestions for March
March is a great time to read a book that takes place in spring or in a garden, a book with themes of renewal or growth, or a book that breaks up the seemingly endless winter with mischievous escapades and adventure. Here are a few suggestions for books to read together in March.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mischief Came to Town by Katrina Nannestad
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Movie/Book Combos for March
Whether you’re taking refuge from dreary, rainy skies or relaxing together on spring break, March holds plenty of opportunity to enjoy a book and movie combo. If you think the movie will generate interest in the story, do it backwards for your child. Here are a few suggestions for March book and movie combos.
Read: 100+ Family Movie Night Suggestions
Poetry to Read in March
Read poetry aloud to explore the rhythm of the words. Here are some poetry suggestions to consider for March.
Dear March—Come In by Emily Dickinson
Spring Song by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Spring by Christina Rossetti
Today by Billy Collins
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
Additional poems for March can be found at discoverpoetry.com.
Classical Music to Listen to in March
Choose a few pieces of classical music to listen to this month. Here are a couple of suggestions for March.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons—Spring
Quotes to Ponder in March
March brings us spring. Choose a quote to read and discuss, or even memorize, in March. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.
“Nothing ever seems impossible in spring you know.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“It’s spring fever. that is what the name of it is. and when you’ve got it, you want to—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
– Mark Twain
“In winter I plot and plan, in spring I move.”
– Henry Rollins
More March Ideas…
Artists Born in March
Hans Hofmann (American abstract expressionist painter)
Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter known for abstract paintings using squares and rectangles)
Vincent van Gogh (renowned Dutch post-impressionist painter)
Athletes Born in March
Simone Biles (gymnastics)
Stephen Curry (basketball)
Peyton Manning (football)
Authors Born in March
Theodor Seuss Geisel (The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
Lois Lowry (Number the Stars, The Giver)
Patricia MacLachlan (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
Anna Sewell (Black Beauty)
Composers Born in March
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frederic Chopin
Franz Joseph Haydn
Antonio Vivaldi
Engineers Born in March
Joseph Bazalgette (civil engineer who built London’s first sewer network)
Wilhelm Rontgen (German engineer who detected electromagnetic radiation known as X-rays)
Beatrice Shilling (British aeronautical engineer known for developing a device to restrict fuel flow used in fighter planes during WWII)
Entrepreneurs Born in March
Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
Larry Page (co-founder of Google)
Lillian Vernon (founder of Lillian Vernon Corporation)
Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter and venture capital firm Obvious Ventures, founder of Blogger and Medium)
Inventors Born in March
Alexander Graham Bell (credited with the first practical telephone)
Carl Josef Bayer (invented the process that makes economical production of aluminum possible)
Rudolf Diesel (invented the diesel engine)
William Perkin (invented artificial dye)
Scientists Born in March
Albert Einstein (most famous for his theory of relativity)
Otto Hahn (referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear fission)
Caroline Herschel (astronomer who discovered several comets)
Percival Lowell (astronomer who founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona)
Emmy Noether (German mathematician known for her contributions to abstract algebra)
U.S. Presidents Born in February
Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th president)
Andrew Jackson (7th president)
James Madison (4th president)
John Tyler (10th president)
Other Interesting People Born in March
William Clouser Boyd (immunochemist who made a worldwide survey of blood types in the 1930s)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English poet)
Liz Claiborne (fashion designer whose company became the first female-founded company to make the Fortune 500 list)
Patty Smith Hill (composer and teacher known for writing the tune for Happy Birthday)
Edith Nourse Rogers (American congresswoman known for her work on behalf of veterans)
Fred Rogers (creator and producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood)
Find even more interesting people with March birthdays noted on ThoughtCo’s list of March famous inventions and birthdays.
Interesting Occupations to Learn About in March
Animals to Learn About in March
Bluebird
Chipmunk
Hedgehog
Plants to Learn About in March
Asparagus
Daffodils
Rhododendron
World Landmarks to Learn About in March
Easter Island
Giant’s Causeway
Games to Play in March
Crafts to Make in March
Study Skills to Work On in March
Review Strategies: Have your kids learn ways that work for them to review covered material (flash cards, quizzes, teaching someone else)
Studying for Exams (YouTube – Crash Course Study Skills)
How to Study Effectively (YouTube – Memorize Academy)
The Most Powerful Way to Remember What You Study (YouTube – Thomas Frank)
March Nonfiction Reads for Moms
Don’t forget to keep learning for yourself!
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: A classic, and still worth your time!
8 Great Smarts by Kathy Koch: Great insight into ways your child is smart, beyond the traditional way of thinking about intelligence.
8 Great Smarts for Homeschoolers by Tina Hollenbeck: Based on Kathy Koch’s book, this book applies the 8 “smarts” to homeschooling curriculum.
Redeeming Your Time by Jordan Raynor: A unique take on Biblical principles for being purposeful, present, and productive
What to Learn in March
Obviously, this is not a comprehensive list. Nor is it a prescriptive list of things you should study in March.
Choosing some of these topics to learn about in March will expose your kids to a variety of people, places, and ideas. If they find something or someone especially interesting, feel free to dive deep. If not, read a short excerpt, watch a short video, and move on to something else.
Your kids won’t necessarily know what they find interesting or exciting until they read, see, or hear something about it. Give them the chance to discover things that generate interest by providing a broad spectrum of learning opportunities this month.
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