Botany Lesson 6
Lesson 6 (Video Lesson 5)
Good morning!
We’ve made it to the mid-point of our class! If you haven’t already, please go through your lesson book and check that you have all the pages listed below and pick our a few to share in our Main Lesson Book check in thread. Also, if you haven’t already, please send me your answers to our last reading questions.
Today you will be going through your fifth video lesson. While you are watching the video you will need to have your Main Lesson Book and pencils with you. Please take your time as you work through the video lesson. You will need to pause and restart the video several times in order to do all the tasks in the lesson.
Here is the link for today’s video lesson:
https://youtu.be/WJbNVAZZWqs
Questions on Anna Botsford Comstock:
1. Why was Anna an unusual teacher?
2. On page 17 there is the phrase, “But Anna preferred to blend in rather than raise eyebrows.” What does this mean?
3. Were the other teachers at Cornell happy to have Anna as a teacher there?
4. Why did the publishers not want to print Anna’s book, “The Handbook of Nature Study”?
When you have finished the lesson you will have the following pages in your Main Lesson Book:
1. Title Page
2. The Plant Is A Child of the Earth and Sun verse
3. Summer and Winter Verse
4. Plant Life Cycle Picture
5. Picture of Theophrastus and Notes
6. Life Cycle of the Flowering Plant
7. Photosynthesis Picture
8. Photosynthesis Summary
9. Pollen & Pollinate Definitions
10. Plant and Butterfly Diagram
11. Maria Sybilla Merian Notes
12. Mushroom Intro Quote
13. Mushroom Drawing
14. Carl Linnaeus Picture and Notes
15. Taxonomy Pyramid
16. Algae Intro
17. Kelp Diagram
18. Lichen Intro
19. Lichen Diagram
20. Anna Botsford Comstock Page
Upcoming Assignments:
- Turn in questions on reading- Due by Class 8 – Send directly to me in private message.
- Plant study 3 – Due class 7
- Read Frances Hamerstrom’s Story- Due in Lesson 8
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