Botany Unit Study
Watch your student's appetite for science blossom with the MatchCard Science Botany Unit Study. Hands-on projects, game-like review, and creative activities will keep them digging for more
FREE student MatchCards at the bottom of this page.
                                       
About MatchCard Science

If you are new to MatchCard Science, you will want to learn more about the
MatchCard Science Unit Studies and their interactive teaching activities. Hands-on demonstrations, review games, visual learning, and creative projects will engage your students and enhance their enthusiasm for science.
Botany Objectives
Here are the objectives for your Botany Unit Study.
- Compare the eco-systems of the following habitats: deserts, prairie, woodlands, mountain, rainforest, tundra.
- Describe the reproductive parts of flowering plants.
- Compare flowers that are pollinated by insects and those pollinated by the wind.
- Compare deciduous and non-deciduous trees.
- List environmental factors that alter an ecosystem.
- Identify six main parts of a plant cell and describe their functions.
- Explain what photosynthesis is and what is needed for it to take place.
- Trace the transport of water and nutrients inside the plant.
- List the steps of sexual reproduction in plants in the correct order and describe each step.
- Compare features of living things that reproduce asexually and those that reproduce sexually.
- Describe the carbon cycle.
- Describe the nitrogen cycle.
MatchCards
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The Matchcards are great for teaching and reinforcing the objectives. There is one MatchCard for each of the objectives listed above.
The MatchCards give you:
- A simple diagram of the concept
- Information pieces to place on the student card as a game
- Instructor's card with all the answers, a suggested activity for teaching
- A system for built in review
Every week you will use the corresponding MatchCard to teach the objective. In addition, the students review 5 previously learned MatchCards two or three times per week. This game-like activity is a favorite activity of many students. The Instructor's Guide gives you more ideas on organizing and using the MatchCards.
Get the MatchCard Science Botany Unit Study
The Botany Unit Study is available in three forms:
- Free Unit Study (student materials only)
- Purchase the download (Instructor's Guide, Student MatchCards, Answer Key, Learning Activities)
- Purchase the soft cover book (same as above, but mailed to your home
Downloadable Unit Study: $3.99

Includes all Student & Teacher Materials
Buy the Book: $8.99

Soft Cover Book Mailed to Your Home
Includes all Student & Teacher Materials
Student MatchCards: Free
Includes all student materials. Teacher's key is not included.

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