I'm Susan Evans. I help homeschool moms bring more joy to their home through hands-on learning. I also encourage women to draw closer to God by making their faith real. I enjoy speaking at conferences, teaching creative writing classes, and homeschooling with unit studies.
Bring more joy to your home through hands-on learning.
On this website you will see hundreds of fun articles, videos, and blog entries. Everything that I do points to hands-on learning. I write a ton about homeschooling in all areas: science, history, geography, literature, writing, math, Bible, PE, and other miscellaneous subjects. I've created a huge Unit Study Treasure Vault, a membership site with over 2,000 fully loaded pages to actively engage your children in all subjects of homeschooling.
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I'm also the author of these two books:
If you are interested in booking me for a speaking engagement, take a look at my Speaking page.
Long-Term Goals for Children
What style of homeschooling fits your family the best? 
Here is a crash mini-course that describes each style of homeschooling, along with the pros and cons. It’s important to understand what type of homeschooling suits your family the best. It will depend on your own philosophy of education, and well as the learning styles and personalities of your kids. (Read more here.)
Homemaking for Homeschoolers: What Worked & What Didn't
Umbrella Star Chart 
One super fun and relatively easy hands-on activitiy you can do with your kids when you are studying astronomy is to create this umbrella star chart. The person who originally created this activity is H. A. Ray, who wrote a groundbreaking astronomy book called The Stars. He took the complicated constellations and made simplified stick figures out of them. (Read more...)
