Growing our roots into Botany
January 24, 2010 — Alenka | Posted in Encyclopedic Knowledge, Teach Your Child. No Comments »
We started Botany last month and picked Zoology as our next topic. It really worked well for us to learn their introductory units one by one – so much in common! Though, it stretched a little – holidays, long weekends, flu… but we don’t mind – it is fun! We even have a new PPT presentation about all the things we’ve learned: Introduction to Biology, Botany and Zoology
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Categories – Materials and ToDo lists (MS document)
Materials Useful for Learning Botany
Books:
- The Magic Schoolbus:
- The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow by Joanna Cole, John Speirs, and Bruce Degan
- The Magic School Bus Gets Planted: A Book About Photosynthesis by Lenore Notkin
- Rookie Read
- From Seed to Plant by Allan Fowler
- Cat in a Hat:
- I Can Name 50 Trees Today!: All About Trees (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) by Bonnie Worth, Aristides Ruiz, and Joe Mathieu
- Let’s Read and Find out Science Books:
- How a Seed Grows (Let’s-Read-and-Find… Science 1) – Paperback (April 10, 1992) by Helene J. Jordan and Loretta Krupinski
- A Tree Is a Plant (Let’s-Read-and-Find… Science) – Paperback (Sep 4, 2001) by Clyde Robert Bulla and Stacey Schuett
- I can read about… series:
- I Can Read About Trees and Plants by Elizabeth Warren
- Diary of a sunflower (I can read about science library) by Carol Pugliano
Web:
- http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_main.html : our absolute favorite site for learning about plants, cells, animals, etc.
- Plants and our environment: http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/
- Projects for young botanists: http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
- Plants for kids: http://www.kathimitchell.com/plants.html
- Solve great mysteries about how plant grows (available in Spanish too!): http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/
- Photosynthesis for kids: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html
- Involving kids in your garden: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm
- Photosynthesis explained in a fun way: http://www.ftexploring.com/photosyn/photosynth.html
- Interactive slide show for learning about trees: http://urbanext.illinois.edu/trees2/index2.html
DVD:
- Magic School Bus – Goes To Seed“, “Gets Planted“
Toy list:
- Root Vue Farm
- Carnivorous Creations – Dome Terrarium
- Grow Your Own Apple Tree
- Prehistoric Plant – Plant Cube
- Dinosaur Plant
PowerPoint Presentations:
- http://www.childandme.com/encyclopedic-knowledge-plants/
- The Classical Mommy presentations
- The Classical Mommy Friends’ presentations
Units
Unit 1: Introduction to Biology & Botany.
Please note: we did Zoology Unit 1 right after this unit, and they worked very well together.
MOST USEFUL MATERIAL: World Wide Montessori course, Botany album.
a. Books:
- The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow by Joanna Cole, John Speirs, and Bruce Degan
- The Magic School Bus Gets Planted: A Book About Photosynthesis by Lenore Notkin
- Rookie Read: From Seed to Plant by Allan Fowler
- How a Seed Grows (Let’s-Read-and-Find… Science 1) – Paperback (April 10, 1992) by Helene J. Jordan and Loretta Krupinski
b. DVD:
- Magic School Bus – Goes To Seed“, “Gets Planted“
c. Toys:
- None this time
d. PPT:
e. Web:
- Haven’t used this time
f. Hands On Learning:
- Biology Science Tray: dried flower, toy-fruit, toy-spider, toy-jelly fish, toy-lion, toy-mushroom, pine cone, leaf, stick, bacteria model (used some elongated cat toy), virus model (used a spiky ball), shell, mushroom
- Botany Science Tray: flower, stick, leaf, toy-fruit
- Needs of Life beings tray: water, air, food, reproduce (seeds)
- Examined leaves in a microscope
- Project: planted cat grass together.
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