Buds, Blooms & Bees Botany Science
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Buds, Blooms & Bees Botany Science
$24.99
This is a digital download. Please read full page thoroughly & view return policy below.
Gather together as a family to learn about the beauty of botany with Buds, Blooms & Bees!
Buds, Blooms & Bees is a science curriculum for ages kindergarten through sixth grade, but can be adapted for younger and older children with extension activities included as well. The curriculum centers around The Burgess Flower Book for Children by Thornton Burgess.
What Is Included?
- 92-page Teacher Guide with 42 daily lessons, book lists, supply lists, video links, weekly spreads, extension activities, field trip ideas, movie recommendations, and more!
- 17-page Student Notebooks with pages to draw, diagram, and write about learning in multiple lessons
- 17 vocabulary cards on 3 pages to teach with and display
- Book list with 42 picture book recommendations (one per lesson)
- 26-page Activity Book with 21 hands-on activities (a mix of experiments and fun, open-ended flower-related activities)
Description
This curriculum is based on the educational philosophy and writings of Charlotte Mason, who based all learning on self-discovery, living books, notebooking, and learning through experiencing.
In Buds, Blooms & Bees, every lesson contains a reading from the Burgess Flower Book, an additional short botany reading from Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds, a vocabulary card (when applicable), a video link to a wholesome Youtube video that explains something learned in the lesson in more detail (so children can see the flowers and science in action), a picture book reading (with links/QR codes to video read alouds of the book when available), and a notebooking prompt (when applicable).
Additionally, to make the learning more hands-on and bring the concepts to life, about every other lesson includes an activity. Some activities are more traditional science experiments like dissecting a flower, learning how water travels through the veins of a leaf, or watching oxygen form on a leaf. Other activities are fun ways for children to interact with flowers such as making playdough, making paint out of petals, or making a flower bookmark.
What ages is this for?
This guide is designed for kindergarten through sixth grade, but it can be adapted for older and younger children to truly be family-style. The Teacher Guide includes extension activity ideas for older children, and many of the activities can be enjoyed by toddlers and preschoolers as well.
How long does a lesson take?
This curriculum is designed to present a feast for your children. I provided the feast and you choose which dishes to partake in. It is a very robust curriculum, but designed to take about 15-30 minutes most lessons, with an additional 15-30 minutes on activity days. You can easily adapt each lesson to fit your family's needs!
Digital Download + Printing
This file is a digital download ONLY. Once purchased, the files will be sent to the email address you use at checkout. The Teacher Guide, Student Notebook, Activity Book, and Vocabulary Cards are in a compressed .zip file that you can save and use as personal use only.
The Teacher Guide can be used digitally or printed out. Both links and QR codes are found throughout the Teacher Guide so make it easy to pull up videos and video read alouds whether using the Teacher Guide digitally or in printed form.
We have partnered with Humble Heart Press to print our resources for customers who do not want to or are unable to print themselves. All digital resources come with instructions for how to print directly from Humble Heart Press making it simple and easy!
Return Policy
Due to the digital nature of this product, all sales are final. Please read this page thoroughly and view all images, as they outline the curriculum in great detail.
Each of the 42 lessons contains:
- One short chapter reading from the Burgess Flower Book
- A picture book that ties into the lesson (with QR codes when available to online read alouds if the book is not available at your library)
- An additional short reading in Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds that helps children learn more about the flowers and botany information they encountered in the Burgess Flower Book
- A short video (with a QR code so you can easily pull it up) diving deeper into learning about the plants and features of nature you discover in the Burgess Flower Book and Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds book
- Many lessons include notebooking prompt for children to complete in their student notebook (that also comes with the curriculum)
- Many lessons include a vocabulary card to discuss
- About every other lesson contains an activity in the Activity Book that helps deepen their learning
21 Hands-On Activities
- Bring the learning to life through hands-on activities!
- Children will dissect a flower, compare seeds, watch oxygen come out of a leaf, see water travel through the veins of a leaf and SO much more!
- Interact with nature in fun ways such as through painting with nature, creating a flower bookmark, and making perfume with flower petals.
On top of all that, it also includes:
While not every lesson lends itself to notebooking, many lessons include a notebooking page where children will diagram, draw, and write about what they learned in their readings and activities.
The Power of Living Books
This is no dry, dull science curriculum! Science comes to life through not only the core Flower Book but also 42 living picture books! Some of the picture books feature real botanists who discovered interesting facts about plants while others tell stories of features of botany in fun, interesting ways that will bring the learning to life.
Two Schedules are Included:
- Summer Scholé Schedule: This schedule splits the 42 lessons into 10.5 weeks with 4 lessons a week. You can easily use this as a main curriculum over a summer break!
- Half-Year Schedule: This schedule splits the 42 lessons into 21 weeks with 2 lessons a week. This can be used as a science curriculum your family does twice a week for half a school year as your main science curriculum.
- If neither of those work, no problem! The open-and-go nature of the Teacher Guide makes fitting in a lesson incredibly easy whenever you are able to get back into it.
This curriculum is a digital download only and includes:
- 62-Page Teacher Guide
- 17-Page Student Book
- 26-Page Activity Book
- 17 Vocabulary Cards on 3 pages
You can print for personal use only or use the teacher guide on a phone or tablet. It includes both clickable links (for using digitally) and QR codes (for using a paper copy) so you can easily access all video read alouds and videos included in each lesson.
