Botany Comments

 How are we addressing Botany?  We’ve created graphics, labs, sketched slides, tested anthocyanins, done POGIL worksheets, the HHMI Photosynthesis Animation, and looked at slideshows.  I feel the level of detail in Botany warrants another course.  Frankly, I prefer to spend more time on animals. I devoted a lot of time on the process of photosynthesis.  We learned about chloroplasts back in cells.  We did a leaf dichotomous key which emphasized leaf margins and shapes in Module 1.  My kids are doing open book tests for Modules 14-15 (3rd edition Modules 11-12).  In college I took both Botany and Field Botany.  I feel as though the Biology textbooks cram two semesters of information into one or two modules.  What’s important? They need to understand photosynthesis and the reactions.  Most of the rest depends on the instructor’s interest or a college level Botany course.