Homeschool/Education Freebies: Flowers and Wildflowers
By Denese. Filed in Homeschooling |
Learning About Flowers and Wildflowers
Flower Children: The Little Cousins of Field and Garden -a lovely vintage picture book depicting many different varieties of flowers as small children, with accompanying rhymes.
Free e-book from Homeschool Freebie of the Day, today only.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Teacher Resources -free pdf downloads of activities and mini-lessons for use in the classroom or field to learn about wildflowers.
- Fun Facts
- Scavenger Hunt
- Collecting and Pressing Wildflowers
- The Pollination Game
- Butterfly Gardening
- Many more…
Most of these lessons and activities apply to field trips to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas; but many can be used in or adapted to classroom and home study.
Spring Flowers Wordsearch -for beginners, free printable from Kaboose.com.
Florida Wildflowers Coloring Book -free printable (scroll down to "Environment – Plant Industry"), from Florida Department of Agriculture.
Recommended Field Guides
Audubon Field Guide to North American Wildflowers
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
Fall Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains
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Happy learning,
Denese
Tags: education freebies, nature, science, wildflowers
Monday, March 16th 2009 at 12:06 pm
I love that Flower Children book, especially the illustrations, so lovely. Wonderful resources especially the Lady Bird Johnson’s site. She did so much for saving our native wild flowers.