WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

Week of 3/30-4/5

Happy Easters! This weeks reading is part 3 of A Little Book For New Scientists: How and Why to Study Science, by Josh A. Reeves & Steve Donaldson. This will also be our last week in this book. I have attached a PDF of part 3.

Elvis and June! Here is the link to Edible Estates, which is a rather radicalized approach to home gardens, or at least the author thinks so. Historically, a kitchen garden was pretty routine for just about everyone, even royalty.

You will each read one of the ‘Stories From the Front Lawn’ and give a mini-report on it. Additionally, I would like each of you to prepare 4-5 questions or discussion points from your chapter for our meeting Wednesday.

Here are the story/chapter assignments:

Elvis, Edible Estates ‘Full Frontal Gardening’, and A Little Book For New Scientists chapter 7

June, Edible Estates ‘Why Mow?’, and A Little Book For New Scientists chapter 8

Greta- Edible Estates ‘The Great Grid’, A Little Book For New Scientists and chapter 9

Please think of something Botany related that you would like to learn about- I need to pick a book or two for our last few weeks. Can you believe it?

For your home gardens, write a list of things you might need to get started, soil, compost, tools, pots, etc. Narrow down your planting ‘map’, and we will work on determining when last frost will be this year, and what you can plant first.

*Continue working on your Materia Medica entries, adding your previous entries to your NEW BOOKS! 😀

*Keep up on your readings of Wicked Plants. At this point, we should all be finished with First Studies in Plant Life. If you are not done reading it, finish it!

Sketchbook/Materia Medica/Assignments:

Work on your spring garden plan, draw ideas, and list plants you would like to include. This garden can be any size that works for you. Make a little map of your yard and think through where the best location would be for the plants you would like to grow.

Read through this page about building your own materia medica– and take some time to list a few plants that you are already familiar with that you could start with.

Readings:

Chapters 7-9 of A Little Book for New Scientists

Edible Estates – Stories from the Front Yard

Vocabulary week 4:

In some cases you will be able to locate a specific definition, in other cases, you might create your own educated answer that pulls together thoughts from various sources. Write them out in your sketchbook, and feel free to illustrate any of them.

Please provide thorough definitions for the following terms:

Vegetable soul

Being

Science

Printable sketchbook items/questions, vocabulary terms.

Just for fun, from The Secret Life of Plants:

Daily

Read about one Wicked Plant each day– pick your favorite of the week to talk about in class each Wednesday.

Read with your sketchbook, taking notes about anything interesting to you, drawing parts of plants, illustrating concepts, a ‘Botany Commonplace’. Bring this to class and show me that you have done this each week. There isn’t a required amount/length, but I will be able to tell if you have done a sincere job;) This will contribute to your grade as well.