Keep Cultivated Crops & Weeds Nature Study Simple with these resources:
Nature Study Hacking| Cultivated Crops & Weeds
Based on Handbook of Nature Study, this guide simplifies the introduction of these common cultivated crops: corn, cotton, clover, strawberries and pumpkin and these common weeds: dandelion, thistle, buttercup, poison ivy. (This page contains affiliate links.)
ESSENTIALS:
If you were only going to buy TWO books in addition to Handbook of Nature Study to go with Cultivated Crops & Weeds, these are the ones I recommend:
Wildflower Folklore by Laura C. Martin
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
Crops & Weeds Supply List:
- Minimalism Art sketchbook or Dot grid notebook (This my favorite brand)
- Ticonderoga pencils and an eraser
- Prisma colored pencils (preferred for younger children)
- Nature for object lessons
- Clover
- Ear of corn with husk and silk still attached
- Dried cotton bolls (see options below:)
- DriedDecor.com - It's fun to get the bolls attached to the stalks. Be sure that the cotton bolls are natural.
- Cotton Educational Kit
- 35 Cotton Bolls for classroom use
- Strawberries
- Pumpkin
- Carrots (Here's a great root growing kit: Root-Vue Farm on Amazon)
- Dandelion
- Thistle
- Buttercup
Further Study:
If you want more great resources, these are the ones we LOVED:
Farm Anatomy by Julia Rothman
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock
​​Plant Families by Carol Lerner
Strega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaola
Carrots Grow Underground by Mari Shuh
Chapter Books
Cotton in my Sack by Lois Lenski (available to read on Hoopla and Kindle)
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder