Hilltown Families 
August 8-14, 2020: What do you want to learn today?
SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS,
RESOURCES, & EVENTS
August 8-14, 202
Mindfulness ♦ Phenology ♦ Chemistry ♦ Biology ♦ Entomology ♦ Botany ♦ Family Dinner ♦ Social Skills ♦ Emotional Development ♦ Linguistic Skills ♦ Fractals ♦ Geometry ♦ Math History ♦ Fermentation ♦ Kimchi ♦ Sauerkraut ♦ Pickles ♦ Sourdough ♦ Chemistry ♦ Cellular Biology ♦ Canoes ♦ Native American Culture ♦ River Walks & Trails ♦ Housatonic River Walk ♦ Westfield River ♦ Deerfield River ♦ Connecticut River ♦ Rainbows ♦ Meteorology ♦ Physics ♦ Science ♦ Music History ♦ Artisan Tradition
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
August 1-7, 2020
Unseen World ♦ Time-lapse ♦ Slow-motion ♦ Electron Microscope ♦ Words Of Wisdom ♦ Astronauts ♦ Space Travel ♦ Social Isolation ♦ Human Connection ♦ Gaia Hypothesis ♦ Extinction ♦ Endangered Animals ♦ Invasive Species ♦ Animal Conservation ♦ Gene-Editing ♦ Conservation Biology ♦ Rewilding ♦ Trophic Cascade ♦ Mega Fauna ♦ Keystone Species ♦ Umbrella Species ♦ Tomato Season ♦ Agriculture ♦ Heirloom Vegetables ♦ Botany ♦ Food History ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Sweet Corn Season ♦ Native American Culture ♦ Seed Saving ♦ Physics ♦ Pop Corn ♦ Folk Music ♦ Shadows ♦ Moon Lore ♦ Storytelling ♦ Shadow Art
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
July 25-31, 2020
Shooting Stars ♦ Astronomy ♦ Playing Cards ♦ Card History ♦ Statistics ♦ Manufacturing ♦ Physics ♦ Chemistry ♦ Food Science ♦ Folk Games ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ DIY Nature Crafts ♦ Basket Coiling ♦ Sun Catchers ♦ Bee Hotel ♦ Kitchen Scrap Gardening ♦ Stone Fruit ♦ Peaches ♦ Botany ♦ Living Art ♦ Entomology ♦ Spiders ♦ Literacy ♦ Psychology ♦ Campfires ♦ Cooking ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Coffee History
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
July 18-24, 2020
Blueberry Season ♦ Ethnobotany ♦ Horticulture ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Ice Cream ♦ Nutrition ♦ Kitchen Science ♦ Summer Science ♦ Chemistry ♦ Physics ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Soil Science ♦ Sandy Shores ♦ Aquaculture ♦ Seaweed ♦ Earthscape Art ♦ Fishing ♦ Tie-Dye ♦ Mud Bricks ♦ Catapults ♦ World Mythology ♦ Hero’s Journey ♦ Creation Myth ♦ Greek Mythology ♦ Maori Mythology ♦ Native American Mythology ♦ American Folklore ♦ Aesop’s Fables ♦ Entomology ♦ Orthopterology ♦ Lepidopterology ♦ Edible Insects ♦ Grasshoppers ♦ Moths ♦ Silk Worms ♦ Sociology ♦ Psychology ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Textiles ♦ Fashion Design
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
July 11-17, 2020
Bike Riding ♦ Learning to Ride ♦ Mountain Biking ♦ Bamboo Bikes ♦ Manufacturing ♦ Cherry Season ♦ Cherry Festivals ♦ Maraschino Cherries ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Women’s History ♦ Aviation History ♦ Colonial History ♦ French History ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Native American Food ♦ Multicultural Celebrations ♦ Religious Studies ♦ Obon Festival ♦ Lady of Fatima ♦ Bastille Day ♦ Japan ♦ Portugal ♦ Puerto Rico ♦ Cuba ♦ Animation ♦ Ecology ♦ Flowers ♦ Classical Music ♦ Traditional Childhood Games ♦ Hand Clapping Games ♦ Marbles ♦ Jump Rope ♦ String Games ♦ Hopscotch ♦ Jacks ♦ Rockets ♦ Entomology ♦ Water Striders ♦ Surface Tension ♦ Physics ♦ Engineering ♦ Technology
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
July 4-10, 2020
4th of July ♦ Humanities ♦ U.S. History ♦ American Revolution ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ Firework History ♦ Summer Foods ♦ BBQ ♦ Food Science ♦ Picnics ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Food History ♦ Sandwiches ♦ Potato Chips ♦ Popsicles ♦ Fruits ♦ STEM ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Neuroscience ♦ Chemistry ♦ Pyrotechnics ♦ Maillard Reaction ♦ Convection Currents ♦ Manufacturing ♦ Meteorology ♦ Thunderstorms ♦ Clouds ♦ Weather ♦ Folklore ♦ Entomology ♦ Benthic Macroinvertebrates ♦ Metamorphosis ♦ Dragonflies ♦ Ants ♦ Women’s Studies ♦ Women’s Rights ♦ Social Issues ♦ Art Studies ♦ Watercolor Painting ♦ Sketching ♦ Origami ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Mechanical Theater ♦ Behind the Scenes ♦ Costume Design ♦ Rehearsals
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
June 27-July 3, 2020
Jam & Jelly ♦ Farmers’ Markets ♦ Fireflies ♦ Flowering Bogs ♦ Birds Nests ♦ Summer Trails ♦ Summer Insects ♦ Berry Season ♦ Food Studies ♦ Food Preservation ♦ Food History ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Mixology ♦ Holyoke Farmers’ Market ♦ Family Dinner ♦ Storytelling ♦ Recipe Books ♦ Food Traditions ♦ Family Recipes ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Carnivorous Plants ♦ Botany ♦ Organic Chemistry ♦ Bioluminescence ♦ Marine Ecology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Hummingbird ♦ Hooded Merganser Ducks ♦ Chickens ♦ Conservation Properties ♦ Emerson ♦ Thoreau ♦ Entomology ♦ Metamorphosis ♦ Spittlebug ♦ Lady Bugs ♦ Moths ♦ Oak Galls ♦ Parenting in America ♦ Conversations on Race ♦ Fascism ♦ Suffrage ♦ Mindfulness ♦ Sense of Place
FEATURED SUGGESTED LEARNING IDEAS:
June 20-26, 2020
Summer Solstice ♦ Strawberry Moon ♦ UMass Sunwheel ♦ Stonehenge ♦ Midsummer ♦ Astronomy ♦ Swedish Culture ♦ Folk Dance ♦ Father’s Day ♦ Genealogy ♦ Family History ♦ World Culture ♦ India ♦ Kinship ♦ Family Tree ♦ Poetry ♦ Vista’s & Byways ♦ Wild Orchids ♦ Woodland Garden ♦ Butterfly Garden ♦ PYO Farms ♦ Strawberry Season ♦ Kitchen Science ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Strawberry Jam ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Native American Studies ♦ Mythology ♦ Nolumbeka Project ♦ Ethnobotany ♦ Entomology ♦ Biomimicry ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Butterflies ♦ Swallowtails ♦ Moths ♦ Luna Moth ♦ Summer Sun ♦ Helioseismology ♦ Solar Energy ♦ Solar Science Experiment ♦ Distillation ♦ Sun Prints ♦ Nature-Based Math ♦ Mathematical Reasoning ♦ Geometry ♦ Hexagons ♦ Crystals ♦ Molecular Physics
