Citizen Science can be an excellent tool in a worldschooler’s education toolbox. It offers a way for parents and children, side by side, to do “science lessons” by engaging in a real-world scientific process.

Involving kids during the early stages of a Wonder Year, even as the notion takes hold and you begin to plan, has many benefits. It helps them ease into the idea of leaving for an extended time. It gives them ownership and buy-in to the shared family project. And it allows your family to integrate the interests and desires of everyone involved.

Go to Alaska! Take ferries, kayaks, catamarans, canoes or bush planes. And when you get there, go where the locals go. Follow their trails, listen to their stories, learn their traditions.