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I'm planning to put together a botany study for my 10 yo ds for the second half of the school year. I'm looking for some book suggestions!
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Hey, Cassie - I am going to get back to this. Got to get my resource list together. I taught a Botany class last spring for our co-op for middle school and previously had done one for 5th-6th grade. I love this topic!
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MaryM wrote:
| Hey, Cassie - I am going to get back to this. Got to get my resource list together. I taught a Botany class last spring for our co-op for middle school and previously had done one for 5th-6th grade. I love this topic! |
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 That would be great! Botany is a favorite of mine too but I'm struggling finding age appropriate material (either for early elementary or it's for high school level).
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Jenn (Mackfam) did Botany a few years ago. I remember because I loved perusing the booklist.
Here are the detailed plans.
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If you want something that is already well laid out as a "course" then this Apologia book from the Young Explorer Series could work well.
Exploring Creation with Botany
I have mixed feelings about Apologia in general but think they did a nice job with this. It doesn't have really unique ideas and I had already thought of most of them, but I like that it was all done already and the arrangement of the topics for presentation made a lot of sense. It would be very little work for a teacher/parent to use this.
It says it is for K-6 grade. My thought is that it is best for 4th-6th, so fits the age you mention.
So that is a textbook recommendation. For just general resources, I need to double check the Jen list that was linked to see what she doesn't mention that I have used and like.
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On Jen's booklist is Wildflowers, Blooms, and Blossoms by Diane Burns. It is part of a science series that I love for mid to late elementary age. So I do recommend that book and also the others that fit this topic:
Berrie, Nuts, & Seeds
Trees, Leaves, & Bark
There are two compilation books that contain several of the individual books. Unfortunately these three aren't all in one volume - which DOES NOT make sense to me - oh, well they didn't ask my opinion. 
I also really like the Arabella Buckley and Sharon Lovejoy books she lists for botany resources.
Beautiful, visually appealing book.
Seed Flower Leaf Fruit
Experiment book for middle elementary:
Janice van Cleave's Plants
And it is fun to pull in some history with a botany study. We used this book as well as some others to tie in history.
10 Plants that Shook the World
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I wouldn't count out picture books that seem like for early elementary. I think a visually attractive, well written picture book can be used for any age because it is so appealing. Maybe it's just me...
So favorites:
Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed
A Seed is Sleepy
...Charles Micucci has a beautiful series of picturebooks on nature topics. They are wonderful.
Ones that apply to botany:
The Life and Times of Corn
The Life and Times of the Apple
The Life and Times of the Peanut
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| And it is fun to pull in some history with a botany study. We used this book as well as some others to tie in history. |
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And it's fun to read about famous botanists, naturalists, scientists that affect botany - George Washington Carver, Gregor Mendel, William Bartram, Lewis and Clark, Alice Eastwood, John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, Carl Linneaus, Barbara McClintock (not the author - though she is fabulous in her own right), Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Lady Bird Johnson, and others are a few I know there are children's books about - some wonderful picture books too.
Need titles?
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If you want open-and-go, Elemental Science is about to release their Living Books Botany Course. I like their classic series, but will be using the Sassafras Science with one of my dc next year.
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I went to the library to find some of the recommended books and see what my library had and I found an interesting book. Linnea's Windowsill Garden by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson.
It is a living book and has experiments listed to do or just read how it turns out. It is an older book (1978) and it shows them using a cigarette to do an experiment. I've read over half of it and most of the information still seems valid but keep in mind that techniques in plant science tend to change a lot. (I have a plant science degree and recommendation on how to plant a potted tree changed twice while I was in college and I no longer keep up with current recommendation as the two ways I was taught both seem to work equally well.)
What I liked about the book is the suggestion for planting were done inside and this makes them easier to get them to work and makes for being able to do them year round (except in the middle of winter unless you have extra light).
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pumpkinmom wrote:
| I went to the library to find some of the recommended books and see what my library had and I found an interesting book. Linnea's Windowsill Garden by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson. |
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Thanks for the recommendation - have to check it out. I have seen other Linnea books - like the Monet's Garden one, but not that one.
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It is a living book and has experiments listed to do or just read how it turns out. It is an older book (1978) and it shows them using a cigarette to do an experiment.
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 Definitely makes it a little dated, doesn't it.
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I second Mary M's recommend ofthe Apologia Botany book. It verybwell done with lots of opportunity for rabbit trails, if sobdesired. We really liked it.
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