We are currently learning about plants in our Apologia Botany curriculum. Seeds, spores, germination, and plant anatomy … God sure is amazing!
During Thanksgiving we gutted our pumpkins and enjoyed the seeds. We compared pumpkin seeds to apple seeds, pepper seeds, avocado seeds, corn, and nuts. We listed all the seeds we like to eat!
But wait, it’s almost winter time and we’re learning about seeds!? Might seem like poor planning to our northern homeschool friends, but it’s still 70* in Florida!
I’m making it a bit easier with the Nature Series: Science on a Garden Adventure.
The kit comes with a several different types of seeds we get to examine before planting! God definitely likes variety.
We hydrated the dry soil pellets ~ which was a great lesson about soil and dehydration in our own bodies! Once our soil was nice and moist, we picked a few different seeds we wanted to plant. We also read From Seed to Plant.
While our seeds are germinating we decided to learn about flowers and take The Homeschool Scientist challenge Flower Dissection. Something I had never done myself!
I can’t wait to try out the other experiments in the Garden Adventure Kit!
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Stef Layton is a homeschooling mom to two energetic superheroes. She has adopted an interest-led tactile learning style to best teach her hands-on learners. Married to a busy traveling man, they enjoy school on the road and many field trips. Stef is the author of Educating Laytons and regular contributor to TheHomeschoolScientist.com.
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My son loved watching bread mold grow during an experiment on hand washing.
Oh! My children would love something like this! So far, they’ve enjoyed raising butterflies from larvae the most. They were sad to release them when it was time!
My sons favorite science project has been a oobleck or the study of non-neutonian liquid.
We studied botany a few years ago and my kids still get excited about planting.
What an awesome kit! I think the favorite experiment was making a model of blood from karo syrup and M&Ms. But they love all hands on experiments!
Our favorite experiment has been making sponge candy to capture gas bubbles.
For this year, I think it has been when we melted the chocolate with a magnifying glass. They have since then been trying to pop ants and melt other things! LOL Or it could making the Pinhole viewing box for a solar eclipse!
We are starting Botany in January! Would love this kit! Thanks for posting about it!
My daughter’s favorite project has been mapping the moon and watching the phases affect our river tides.
Our favorite has been watching a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.
We had so much fun raising butterflies and taking care of harvester ants. We’ve done other experiments, but I definitely think our kids would love this. They are so curious. I think hands-on science is one of our FAVORITE things to do. 🙂
Whatever it is that we’re currently studying… my kids are science junkies. 😉
Yesterday it was experiments on candy, today it was the physics involved with keeping {or not keeping} an egg from breaking in the “egg drop.”
Making a hurricane tube.
Just stumbled across your blog through Pinterest… I’ve enjoyed looking through the entries. I am trying to be more consistent with nature study this year, and will incorporate some of your ideas. We just did a nature walk this week and collected several types of seeds. We then sorted them according to how they were dispersed: wind, water, ingestion by animals, and hitchhikers.
Dissecting a flower. They love hands on science.
I would have to say dissecting a dead blue jay is their favorite.
I think the one experiment that they really enjoyed was making crystals!
Oh boy, tough choice. My son loves plants and animals but thanks to a great aquarium in town he’s very into sea life right. His favorites to study are sea stars and sea horses.
Wow, that’s a tough one! He enjoyed watching vinegar leach minerals from an eggshell and chicken bone, rendering them rubbery.
This would make a great gift and sounds like a lot of fun!
My son loved growing butterflies from caterpillar thru chrysalis. He took pictures of the evolution & still shows it off. 🙂
They love ALL our science experiments – but probably baking soda & vinegar and our garden this past spring & summer.
This would be amazing, we have been wanting to get into gardening!
Forgot the rest…his favorite science experiment has been making and blowing up a volcano! Lava anyone! Although the mentos geyser is right up there….we did a mad scientist birthday party last year.
my 6 year old answered “mold on an orange”