Teacher: Maria Cabeza
Dates for 4-week course:
April 28 – May 23, 2025
Times for Live Sessions: Monday through Thursday. Each session lasts between 35 and 60 minutes. Please note that all times are given in Mountain Time (MT), which is two hours behind ET, and one hour ahead of PT.
- Option #1: Starts at 9:30am MT
- Option #2: Starts at 11am MT
Course Description
Following the fourth grade study of the animal kingdom, the fifth grader now takes up the study of the plant kingdom, or botany. Students combine personal observations and teacher-led information to delve into the relationship of the human person to the plant world.
Students create a Botany book that combines drawings and diagrams with writing work. Students learn the scientific note taking strategy of diagram drawing. They complete an observation journal of an outdoor plant (ideally, a shrub, bush, or tree).
Topics covered:
- The plant as a Child of the Sun and Earth
- Life cycle of plant and the relationship to seasons of the year
- Parts of the flowering plant
- How a flower forms
- The Plant Families: Fungi, Algae and Seaweed, Lichens, Mosses, Grasses and ferns
- Flowering Plants, Lily and Rose families, Insects and flowers
- Trees: Conifers, Deciduous
- Biomes of the Earth and their flora
