June’s Creation Club
Posted by Cindy on June 24, 2008
Yep, we’re still as busy as beavers around here! I thought I’d stop in for a few minutes to show you some of the fun from our Creation Club this month…..
We met at the local cemetery. Cemeteries are wonderful for nature study! Typically, they have a huge variety of trees, shrubs, fungi, weathering and even critters to be found. With tweezers and baggies in hand, the kids’ first job was to go on a Tweezer Trek. Basically, they were asked to collect anything and everything nature related that they could pick up with tweezers. We had a show-n-tell time and studied a few things under the magnifying glasses.
The next activity was to dissect flowers. Thanks to a couple local nurseries, we had an abundance of flowers to use. Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Botany has a wonderful flower dissection tutorial that we went through. Before digging in, though, we read The Reason For a Flower and drew/labeled a flower diagram. As you can see, our little botanists were very serious about their dissection and recording what they had found.
Here are a few great sites to go along with flower dissection…
Flower Dissection Lab Activity
ETA: Since the original post, Shining Dawn Books was born and NaturExplorers Wonderful Wildflowers was written where you can find OODLES more creative ideas for individual or group study on the topic of wildflowers!
