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Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Week 1 -- Schedule
Day 1
Date:
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Science
Exploring
Creation
with Botany
Read and discuss pgs. 159-166.
Project: Make a
Nature Journal,
pg. 167
*** This is an ongoing project. ***
Notes
Project: glue, plain white paper, cereal box, yarn or ribbon, hole puncher, fabric or construction paper, pencil.
Week 2 – Schedule
Day 6
Date:
Exploring
Creation
with Botany
Read pgs. 1-6,
Write down all
vocabulary and
do notebook
page. **
Day 7
Pg. 7, Do
Taxonomy
Exercise with
buttons.
Day 8
Science
Pgs. 8-9, Phyla,
Vascular Plants.
Day 9
Pgs. 10-13,
Nonvascular
Plants.
Day 10
Review Lesson
1.
Notes
**You will always write down any new vocabulary in your science notebook; as well as, doing any notebook
pages. Additionally, we will always do “What Do You Remember?”
Vocabulary
botany (1)
astrobiologist (3)
taxonomy (5)
xylem (9)
gymnosperms (11)
biology (3)
phylum (4)
binomial nomenclature (5)
phloem (9)
anthophyta (12)
biologist (3)
classification(4)
vascular (8)
angiosperms (11)
Week 3 -- Schedule
Date:
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Day 11
Read pgs. 13-16,
3 other phyla.
Day 12
Day 13
Science
Notebook
Project: Light
Activity, pg. 16. Hut, pgs. 16-19.
Day 14
Project:
Growing the
Plants, pg. 19 –
just the first 5.
Day 15
Review Lesson
1.
Notes
Project: Light Hut – empty box, aluminum foil, electrical cord, light socket with plug, plastic plate or lit, glue,
scissors, 15 watt fluorescent light.
Project: Growing the Plants – peat moss, seeds, containers for plants, saucers.
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Week 4 – Schedule
Date:
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Day 16
Read pgs. 21-24,
Seeds, Testas,
Take Off Your
Coat!
Day 17
Day 18
Science
Project: Open a Read pgs. 25-28.
Seed, pg. 24.
Finish notebook
Start notebook
activity pg. 28
activity pg. 28.
Day 19
Pgs. 28-29,
Design a coat;
Make a
Germination
Animation.
Day 20
Review Lesson
2.
Notes
Project: Open a Seed – seed, that has been soaked in warm water for ½ hour, magnifying glass.
Vocabulary
dormant (21)
hilum (23)
radicle (25)
plumule (25)
producers (28)
embryo (22)
cotyledons (25)
hypocotyls (25)
germination (26)
testa (23)
endosperm (25)
epicotyl (25)
consumers (28)
Week 5 -- Schedule
Date:
Exploring
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with Botany
Day 21
Project:
Germination,
pgs. 29-30. This
Day 22
Day 23
Science
Read pgs. 31-32, Nature Walk pg.
Monocotyledons 33.
and Dicotyledons
Day 24
Project: Seed
Collecting, pgs.
33-34.
Day 25
Review Lesson
2.
project will last for
12 days.
Notes
Project: Germination – 3 ziploc bags, 3 paper towels, 3 turnip / bean seeds, tape, cm ruler, scientific
speculation sheet
Project: Seed Collecting – seed envelopes (can use pattern on pg. 34 to make some), seeds.
Vocabulary
hypothesis (30)
monocotyledons (31)
dicotyledons (31)
Week 6 – Schedule
Date:
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Day 26
Read pgs. 35-37,
Flowers; Even
the Flowers
Obey; Making
Seeds
Day 27
Day 28
Science
Project: Flower Read pgs. 41-42,
dissection, pgs.
Flower Families
38-40
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Day 29
Read pgs. 43-46,
Carnivores
Plants
Day 30
Review Lesson
3.
Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Notes
Project: 1 fresh flower – non-composite, piece of paper, glue or tape, adult with knife
Note: This idea comes from Kathy of Restoration Place: photocopy your flower dissection; it serves 2 practical purposes. First, it
allows you to do one joint dissection amongst many children. Secondly, it allows you to preserve your notebook page(s) for a long
time.
Vocabulary
herbivores (35)
anatomy (37)
corolla (38)
filament (39)
stigma (40)
ovule (40)
carnivores (35)
sepals (38)
nectar (38)
anther (39)
style (40)
composite flower (40)
dissecting (37)
calyx (38)
stamen (39)
carpel (40)
ovary (40)
carnivores (43)
Week 7 -- Schedule
Day 31
Date:
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Notebook
Activities, pg. 47
Day 32
Day 33
Science
Nature Walk
Project: Build a
Activity, pg. 47. clay model of a
flower, pg. 48
Day 34
Project:
preserve a fresh
flower, pg. 48
Day 35
Review Lesson
3.
Notes
Project: sculpie clay (do variation of project by building complete project with sculpie clay)
Project: fresh flower, box with lid, borax, tape
Week 8 – Schedule
Day 36
Date:
Exploring
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Botany
Day 37
Day 38
Science
Pgs. 53-54; A
Pgs. 56-59;
Pgs. 49-53;
Pollination, Animal
Pollination, Bees
Bee’s Landing Pad.
Notebook
Activity, pg. 54
Flower Color,
Nectar Guides, A
bee’s Ultraviolet
Vision, Getting the
Pollen
Day 39
Day 40
Project: Flower Review Lesson
Pollination, pg.
4.
60.
Notes
Project: Two flowers still on their plants, q-tip
Vocabulary
Self-pollination (49)
Week 9 – Schedule
Date:
Day 41
Day 42
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Day 43
Day 44
Day 45
Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Science
Pgs. 61-65;
Notebook
Pgs. 65-68; Why Notebook
Exploring
Butterflies,
Moths,
Most Flowers Do
Activities, pg.
Activities, pg.
Creation with
Hummingbirds,
Bat
Not Self-Pollinate,
62, and 64.
68. Project:
Botany
Pollinators, Wind
Self-Pollination,
Hummingbird
Butterfly
Pollination
The Pollinated
feeder.
Garden, pg. 69Flower
70.
Notes
Project: Planting a butterfly garden (plan, buy plants for, and plant)
Review Lesson
4.
Vocabulary
Proboscis (61)
nocturnal (62)
Week 10 -- Schedule
Date:
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Day 46
Day 47
Pgs. 71-75; Fruits,
Pgs. 75-78; Wind
Human Dispersal,
Water Dispersal,
Dispersal,
Mechanical
Dispersal, , Animal
Dispersal, Velcro
Day 48
Science
Pg. 79, Activity:
Examining Burrs
Day 49
Pgs. 79-80; Grass,
Little Gardeners,
Mistletoe, Seed
Droppings, Scattered
Seeds
Day 50
Review Lesson
5.
Notes
Activity: burr, magnify glass
Vocabulary
fruit (71)
dispersal (73)
schizocarps (76) (AKA samaras)
Week 11 – Schedule
Date:
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Day 51
Day 52
Day 53
Science
Pgs. 81-83; Fruit
A Nutty Game,
Project: Split a
Types, Fleshy Fruits, pg. 83-85
Squash, pg. 85Dry Fruits.
86.
Notebook
Activity, pg. 83.
Day 54
Project: Which
Flies Farthest,
pg. 86.
Notes
Game – file folder, index cards, colored pencils, different nuts or pods, 6-sided die
Project: Squash, adult with sharp knife
Project: dandelion tuft, samara, piece of paper, measuring tape
Week 12 – Schedule
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Day 55
Review Lesson
5.
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Day 56
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Day 57
Pgs. 87-89;
Pgs. 89-92;
Leaves
Photosynthesis,
Color-Fill.
Notebook
Activity, pg. 92,
illustration
Day 58
Science
Notebook
Activity, pg. 92,
Testing a
Hypothesis
Day 59
Pgs. 93-95;
Day 60
Review Lesson
6.
Transpiration,
Falling Leaves
Notes
Vocabulary
stomata (87)
sap (90)
transpiration (93)
consumers (87)
photosynthesis (90)
deciduous (95)
producers (87)
chlorophyll (91)
petiole (95)
Week 13 -- Schedule
Date:
Exploring
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Day 61
Project: Testing
Transpiration,
pg. 96.
Day 62
Day 63
Science
Pgs. 96-102;
Notebook
Anatomy of a Leaf,
Activity, pg.
Simple Leaves &
103-105,
Compound Leaves,
Storybook &/or
Leaf Arrangement,
Leaf Venation, Leaf Term Project
Day 64
Project: Make a
Leaf a Skeleton,
pg. 106.
Day 65
Review Lesson
6.
Shapes, Leaf
Margins
Notes
Project: adult helper, leaf or leaves, stove, pot, water, 3 Tbsp. washing soda, gloves, spatula, paper towels
Vocabulary
Anatomy (96)
Week 14 – Schedule
Date:
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Day 66
Day 67
Pgs. 107-111;
Pgs. 111-114;
Roots, Root Hairs,
Root Growth,
Geotropism
Root Systems,
Geophytes, Rooting
Day 68
Science
Pgs. 114-115;
Root Classification
Hunt. Project:
Taproots
Notes
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Day 69
Project: Force a
Bulb, pg. 116
Day 70
Review Lesson
7.
Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Project: 2 carrots, knife, water, blue food coloring
Project: hyacinth bulb, pot of soil, water, thermometer
Vocabulary
roots (107)
auxins (110)
geophytes (112)
clone (113)
erosion (107)
taproot (110)
rhizomes (112)
geotropism (111)
fibrous root systems (111)
rooting (113)
Week 15 – Schedule
Day 71
Date:
Day 72
Day 73
Day 74
Day 75
Science
Exploring
Creation
with Botany
Pgs. 117-120;
Stems, Woody &
Herbaceous Stems,
Cactus stems
Pg. 123, Celery
Experiment,
Pgs. 121; Auxins.
Pgs. 122-123;
Phototropism
Activity,
Notebook
Activities
Project:
Seeking the
Light, pg. 116
Review Lesson
8.
Examples of
Phototropism
Notes
Activity – clay or play-doh
Project: 2 cups with lids, 2 bean seeds, 2 peat pellets, pencil, black paint, black paper
Vocabulary
runners (117)
vascular bundles (118)
xylem (118)
auxins (121 – again)
phloem (118)
phototropism (121)
Week 16 -- Schedule
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Day 77
Pgs. 125-128;
Pgs. 129-131;
Trees, The Role of
Trees in Creation,
Seed Making, Tree
Growth
Twig Anatomy,
Notebook
Activities*
Day 78
Science
Pgs. 131-133;
Growing Outward,
The Layers in a Tree
Trunk, Thirsty
Trees, Tree
Identification
Notes
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Day 79
Pg. 134;
Notebook
Activity, Bark
Rubbings,
Project: Tree
Identification
Day 80
Review Lesson
9.
Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Notebook Activities* -- Twig growth: ruler, colored pencils. Estimating the Height of a Tree: helper,
measuring tape, 12 inch ruler, tall tree.
Project: A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs
Vocabulary
masting (127)
terminal bud (128)
heartwood (131)
seedling (128)
nodes (129)
sapling (128)
lenticels(129)
Week 17 – Schedule
Day 81
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Day 82
Pgs. 135-137;
Pgs. 137-142;
Gymnosperms
Softwood,
Evergreen,
Day 83
Science
Pgs. 142-143;
Two Other
Interesting
Gymnosperms,
Ginkgo Biloba,
Notebook
Activity* ,
Notebook
Activity
Gymnosperm
Leaves, Cones,
Forest Fires, Berrylike Cones
Day 84
Pg. 144;
Persuasive Speech,
A tree Grows Up,
Day 85
Review Lesson
10.
Project:
Opening and
Closing
Pinecones
Notes
Notebook Activity* -- 2 plastic bags, 2 clothespins
Project: pinecone, oven, cold water
Vocabulary
conifer (135)
evergreen (137)
Week 18 -- Schedule
Date:
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Day 86
Pgs. 145-149;
Seedless, Vascular
Plants, Fronds, From
Spore to Prothallus
to Fiddlehead to
Fern, Other Methods
of Reproduction,
Tree Ferns
Day 87
Pgs. 149-150;
Notebook
Activities,
Project: Fern
Transfers,
Project: Fern
Spores
Day 88
Science
Pgs. 151-157;
Nonvascular Plants,
Moss, Reproduction,
Liverworts, Lichen,
Pollution Monitors,
Uses for Lichen
Notes
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Day 89
Pgs. 157-158;
Notebook
Activities,
Project: Test
Your Air with a
Lichenometer
Day 90
Review Lessons
11 & 12.
Project:
Making Soap pg.
20
Exploring Creation with Botany © 2004
Project: paper, several fern fronds, several colors of paint, paint brush or sponge
Project: fern frond with sori, paper towel, hardcover book, magnifying glass
Project: coat hanger, yarn, tape, trees with lichen
Project: glycerin soap bars, glass measuring cup, soap mold, Vaseline, dried herbs, craft sticks, fragrance,
microwave
Vocabulary
Sporangia (145 - review)
Sori (146)
Antheridia (147)
Gemma (148)
Sporophyte (153)
Algae (154)
rachis (146)
prothallus (147)
archegonia (147)
bryophytes (151)
brood bodies (153)
symbiosis (155)
pinnae (146)
rhizoids (147)
fiddlehead (148)
desiccate (152)
fungus (154)
Congratulations! You’re done!
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