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Botany

Viburnum Plant

Botany is a middle- and high- school science course. This course is taught as a traditional science course, incorporating laboratory activities, virtual activities, short-term projects, field investigations, and long-term studies. Students should have taken a previous course in biology before taking this course. Students should expect to spend 2-3 hours outside of class time each week preparing for class. Students will have the opportunity to conduct and present on their own research experiments in this course. There is an additional $50 lab fee for this course.

 

Topics covered in this course include:

  • Parts of the plant: roots, stems, and leaves

  • Genetics and molecular biology

  • Plant names and classification

  • Plant Metabolism

  • Meiosis and alteration of generations

  • Evolution

  • Classification

 

Required Materials

  • McGraw Hill Stern’s Introductory Plant Biology (14th edition), ISBN 978-1259682742, available through the Amazon Marketplace, or your preferred book seller.

  • Field microscope like this. 

  • goggles, ANSI standard Z87.1 approved (safety goggles will NOT work)

  • A basic calculator - does not need to be a graphing calculator

  • Computer access for Google Classroom

  • binder or notebook for notes

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