Description
Exploring Creation with Botany, 2nd Edition is a homeschool science curriculum for elementary students. As your student works through an overview of botany and dives deeper into plant anatomy and classification, your student will walk away with a foundational and working knowledge of plants. Each lesson is written in a conversational tone and created using vivid graphics, engaging lessons, and hands-on projects that will make learning about botany fun!
Curriculum Overview
God’s ability to blend creativity and order together is so clearly seen in this award-winning study of botany. As your student works through the lessons and activities, they will explore the life cycle of seeds to plants, how plants reproduce and make their food, and how to identify and classify a variety of plants.
This elementary Botany course has 14 lessons that cover the following topics:
- Lesson 1: Why Botany Matters
- Lesson 2: Seeds
- Lesson 3: Angiosperms
- Lesson 4: Pollination
- Lesson 5: Fruit
- Lesson 6: Leaves
- Lesson 7: Roots
- Lesson 8: Stems
- Lesson 9: Gardening
- Lesson 10: Trees
- Lesson 11: Gymnosperms
- Lesson 12: Seedless Vascular Plants
- Lesson 13: Nonvascular Plants
- Lesson 14: Mycology
Textbook
Packed with vivid photos and a variety of hands-on activities and experiments that bring botany to life, the textbook provides engaging hands-on activities to bring learning to life. All the activities and experiments use easy-to-obtain household items and truly make the lessons come alive!
Designed to captivate your student’s curiosity, this botany course has 75 different activities for your student to choose from! Some of the activities and experiments your student will complete in this course include building (and harvesting) a raised garden, making a tree field guide, building a light hut, growing edible mushrooms, and building a lichenometer.
Notebooking Journal
The Botany Notebooking Journal provides everything your student needs to complete this study of botany. It will serve as your child’s place to complete every assignment.
What’s Inside?
- A Suggested Schedule with a breakdown of exactly what students need to complete each week
- Templates for your student to record what he or she learned in each lesson, using both words and illustrations
- Note-taking pages with prompts to help teach the student how to identify and record important information from the text
- Creative templates for completing the notebooking assignments
- Project Pages and other sheets for your student to use to keep records of experiments, projects, and activities completed throughout the course
- Beautiful, full-color Miniature Books for your student to create, encouraging him or her to record facts and information learned in each lesson
- Helpful and engaging graphics to help your student visualize and understand concepts
The Benefits of Using a Notebooking Journal
- Facilitates retention and provides documentation of your student’s education. The unique personal written and artistic expressions incorporate both sides of the brain.
- Allows flexibility for multilevel learning. A twelve-year-old student may write an essay and make an elaborate illustration, while a six-year-old may write one sentence with a stick-figure drawing.
- Improves writing skills and penmanship.
- Helps students record experiences, observations, and thoughts.
- Engages students in the scientific process.
- Provides a written history that students can reference as they explore new subject areas.
- Gives your students a place to record and organize experiences and observations.
- Provides a place for students to review their notes, create opinions, and draw conclusions about how their world works.
Audiobook
The audiobook version of the Exploring Creation with Botany textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.
Product Flip Through
Look inside the textbook and notebooking journal for Botany.
