Cultivated Crops & Weeds RESOURCES and LINKS

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.)

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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. MartinFrom 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
  1. Clover
  2. Ear of corn with husk and silk still attached
  3. Dried cotton bolls (see options below:)
     1. DriedDecor.com – It’s fun to get the bolls attached to the stalks. Be sure that the cotton bolls are natural.
     2. Cotton Educational Kit
     3. 35 Cotton Bolls for classroom use
  4. Strawberries
  5. Pumpkin
  6. Carrots (Here’s a great root growing kit: Root-Vue Farm on Amazon)
  7. Dandelion
  8. Thistle
  9. Buttercup

Further Study:

If you want more great resources, these are the ones we LOVED:

Farm Anatomy by Julia RothmanHandbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock​​Plant Families by Carol LernerStrega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaolaCarrots 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 LenskiOn the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder

YouTube Playlist for Cultivated Crops & Weeds: