Botany Unit

We never officially studied botany in our science lessons. We just ran into the occasional botany lesson, and I think we may have had a short botany unit when we had a year of zoology. Mainly because I remember having a lesson about different leaf types. Okay, but either way, I was realizing I had a variety of random botany posts, but no organization, and so I decided to put this all together into a botany unit post for y’all.

Slowly I am getting my blog better organized. This is what happens when you have 15 years worth of blog posts to sort through.

(there are affilliate links in here probably)

Botany Unit Resources

Okay, this would be where I would put booklists, and I know I have a few botany type booklists, actually, this is part of what inspired writing this post, because I was about to link to something that referenced not having a botany unit post.

• Botany picture booklist
• Seed sorting activity kit

Those are my posts, and I think there are some others, so I need to go look at some other ways I have posts listed.

I would pick up a couple of useful identification guides:

• Wildflower identification guide
• Peterson field guide

Honestly, the best stuff for botany is just being outside and grubbing about in nature and getting your hands in the dirt and hoping you have a parent that is better at growing plants than I am.

My poor kids, the years I attempted to grow a garden were the worst years of the drought here and my poor plants died horribly.

Identifying plants and learning about different types of plants

This is the majority of my botany posts that are specific to learning about botany, learning about seeds, and leaves.

• How do trees grow preschool science lesson– this is one of the very earliest posts I wrote, and my kids don’t remember this lesson, but man I sure do
• Preschool apple unit
• Where is the baby plant in the peanut?– this is a fascinating look at plant seeds that I never thought to do prior to our learning more about peanuts
• Teaching kids how to identify leaves
• Does a pumpkin float?
• How do seeds travel?
• Botanical garden scavenger hunt

Botany inspired activities

Okay, many of these are only vaguely related to botany, and actually many of them are more botany related only because it is about a plant in the story, so I tagged it with botany because as an extension activity we frequently learned more about the plants mentioned in the story.

• Leaf Men Come Forth to Rescue Us book and activity
• Johnny Appleseed lessons– this can be part of a larger unit on apples and trees, and cross-breeding
• Sunflower preschool art lesson (Mortimer’s First Garden)
• Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
• Legend of the Bluebonnet
• Cactus Hotel