Apologia Exploring Creation with Botany

Introduce your young naturalists to plants with the Apologia Botany curriculum!

Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany 2nd Edition Student Text has been updated with 14 lessons, new and redesigned activities, and a new course schedule. This Charlotte-Mason style course uses a notebooking journal (sold-separately) to have students explain in their own words what they're learning. . . which also helps with memory retention! In addition to the written notes, mini-book (lap-style) activities, and vocabulary building exercises in the Notebooking Journals, students will also create their own Nature Journal to take with them as they go outside to explore, study, and document the wonderful world of plants and fungi.

In this text, students will learn about seeds, pollination, fruits, leaves, roots, taxonomy, and stems, and most importantly, why botany matters. Plus, students will build and use their own light hut to help them study the life cycle of different types of plants throughout the year! Each chapter features bright, full-color photography with bold headings and easy-to-follow instructions for hands-on activities.

Grades K-6. Hardcover.

This Botany 2nd Edition Notebooking Journal includes everything your children need to complete with the assignments in Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany 2nd Edition Student Text (sold-separately). It includes a daily schedule as well as pages for students to complete assignments, record their experiment hypotheses and results, and display their work. Each notebook will become your students' own as they fill it with their careful investigations into the fascinating realm of Botany! It will become a great reminder of the knowledge they've gained in their studies. 2nd Edition.

The Notebooking Journal is designed for students in grades 3-6. For students who struggle with handwriting or writing, the Jr Notebooking Journal (sold-separately) might be more appropriate as it contains fewer writing-based activities.

This audiobook CD is an audio recording of the Apologia elementary textbook Exploring Creation with Botany, 2nd Edition. Perfect for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or who have disabilities that make reading difficult! This is an MP3-CD; you must have an MP3-compatible CD player or computer to listen. Grades 1-6.

Please Note: In order to improve the listening experience, some words and sentences have been altered from the textbook.

Lapbook Journals are designed to bring a more hands-on learning aspect to all levels of Apologia science. All 14 lessons of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Botany 2^nd Edition are covered. As your student explores all of the parts of a plant, the purpose of plants, pollination, germination, seed dispersal, honey bees, and more, they will cut out, assemble, and write in booklets that are then glued into lapbook folders. Instructions for assembly are part of the PDF file, along with a Teacher’s Guide that tells you where to find the answers to all the questions within the chapters of the textbook. PDF download.

Knowing key terminology is an important part of scientific study. Study the important vocabulary terms in Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Botany 2^nd Edition with Knowledge Box Central's printable vocabulary flash cards. All 201 terms (the blue bold words in each module) are included. Cards feature the vocabulary word and module number one side and the definition on the other side. The cards are intended to be printed double-sided, with six cards per page, to be cut along the printed lines. Print as many as needed for your own household. PDF download.

This schedule of daily lesson plans is designed to be used alongside Apologia's sold-separately Exploring Creation with Botany, First Edition. Arranged by lesson, each day's work is laid out for the student with page numbers, notebook activities, project activities, experiments, and supplies needed. Printed-paper; stapled in corner.

Easily create your own lapbook with this pre-printed, do-it-yourself format! This notebook covers all lessons 1-13 of the sold-separately Apologia Exploring Creation with Botany.

The Lapbook Assembly Guide provides instructions and diagrams on assembling the lapbook, and where to glue each booklet. The Student Instruction Guide is written directly to the student and provides information on what should be written inside each booklet and what folder it should be glued to. The Teacher's Guide section features page numbers for where answers may be found in the textbook and suggestions of extra activities. The included booklet templates includes all of the booklet templates; they have been printed on colors thought to improve retention of information presented. Softcover.