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Posted: Dec 28 2006 at 7:33am | IP Logged Quote J.Anne
Hi All! We are beginning a year long botany study very soon. I am hoping to supplement our text (Apologia - Exploring Creation with Botany) with some other good books. Is that too broad? I ordered Mary's Flowers from Amazon recently and we have many great gardening books. Does anyone have anything they really love and use frequently?

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Posted: Dec 28 2006 at 9:56am | IP Logged Quote Marjorie
Jennifer,

We used ECWB last year and really loved it. I bought serveral of these little guides as stocking stuffers after I saw them at Lapaz Home Learning (people really do pay attention to those reading lists :-). We have the fern finder, berries and flowers. They are inexpensive and are a great key to identify various plants. You just answer questions and follow the page prompts. I think they might be a nice addition.



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I love Teaching the Trees (which I bought after seeing it at Lapaz Home Learning!)   

Theresa (Lapaz Home Learning) has many beautiful snapshots of their nature journals (with seed dispersion studies and leaf collections and more) on her blog. You might want to poke around to get some great real learning ideas.

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When Garrett (age 10) was younger, he absolutely lovbed flowers and plants. Some of the picture books we used were:


The Reason for a Flower
The Red Poppy
Tiger Lilies and Other Beastly Plants
Seeds Pop Stick and Glide
From Seed to Plant
Planting a Rainbow

Dover publishes many different botany related coloring books that my kids have enjoyed, even if they couldn't color the pictures "perfectly".

We use the Audobon field guides pretty extensively.

We also put together our own field guide with photos we took at our local botanical gardens. I used a small scrapbook and devoted a page to each plant. (I handwrote the names -- Garrett was only about 4 or 5 -- so no fancy fonts , it was pretty easy.) I remember Garrett poring over that book for *hours*.

(Garrett also puts in a plug for many of his rainforest picture books here, but studying the rainforest is probably a unit on its own. Let me know if you'd like titles, though!)

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Posted: Dec 30 2006 at 5:40pm | IP Logged Quote J.Anne
Thank you everyone! I was looking at many of those titles myself - it is nice to hear from people who have used them.

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