Exploring Creation with Botany
Sprout a love for science as your child uncovers the wonders of plants, fungi, and seeds—no teacher guide required, just hands-on discoveries and awe.
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Exploring Creation with Botany
Plants are everywhere, but most children rarely stop to consider how they grow, reproduce, and support life on Earth. Exploring Creation with Botany is a Christian botany curriculum that helps your child investigate the plant kingdom while discovering the wisdom and creativity of God's design.
Designed for elementary students, this hands-on course guides your child through 14 lessons covering plant anatomy, photosynthesis, pollination, seed dispersal, fungi, gardening, trees, flowers, and more. Conversational text, vibrant illustrations, Scripture, and practical activities work together to make botanical science approachable and memorable.
Rather than simply reading about plants, your child will observe, experiment, record findings, and explore the natural world firsthand. Most activities use common household items, and an optional lab kit is available for families who prefer a ready-to-go solution.
The full-color Student Notebook keeps everything organized with a built-in two-day-per-week schedule, narration prompts, vocabulary activities, notebooking pages, experiment logs, mini-books, and review questions. The structured format makes it easy to stay on track without requiring a separate teacher guide.
As your child studies seeds, roots, leaves, flowers, fungi, and ecosystems, he will develop observation skills, scientific thinking, and a deeper appreciation for the complexity of the world God created.
Whether your child already loves gardening or simply enjoys exploring the outdoors, Exploring Creation with Botany provides a hands-on, Bible-based introduction to plant science that encourages both discovery and wonder.
See some sample pages from this book and browse all that it has to offer.
Young Explorer, Jeannie Fulbright's elementary science program is an in-depth science curriculum with gorgeous, full-color pictures and captivating, God-exalting text. It sparkles in comparison to the mainstream, dry-bones science program, and it utilizes what we believe is the most sensible method of teaching science, the immersion approach.
With their yearly superficial overviews, other science programs quickly become tedious as children encounter the repetitiveness of topic matters. The Young Explorer, science immersion program will allow your family to enjoy the depth and riches that genuine science can give. Most home-taught children who enjoy science are taught with a science immersion program. This program utilizes a combination of the Charlotte Mason and classical methods. You can rely on each Young Explorer book to acknowledge the evidence of Creation, have easy-to-follow self-contained lessons, include hands-on activities, and support the National Standards of Science.
Recommended for ages six through twelve, but written with a fourth-grader in mind, you may find that your older children will enjoy doing the coursework independently. At the same time, younger, less confident readers will prefer parental involvement. We encourage you to let your child choose the topic to study that captures your student's interest. Your student can use the Young Explorer titles in any order since each book's content stands alone.
Because of the concept levels, the publisher suggests that Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades. However, younger students can certainly follow along and learn well if older siblings have progressed into these last three books.
Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries
Author: Jeannie Fulbright
Age Recommendation: 6 - 12
Grade Recommendation: K - 6th
ISBN: 9781946506399 (text), 9781946506405 (journal)
Format: Hardcover (text), Spiral-bound softcover (journal)
Size: 11.25" × 8.75" × 0.8" (text), 11" × 9" × 0.8" (journal)
Consumable: No (text), Yes (journal)
Faith-Based: Yes
Made in: USA
Lessons: 14
Edition: 2nd
- Old Schoolhouse EE Award 1st Place Winner
- Practical Homeschooling Reader Award Top Ranked by Homeschoolers
- One of Cathy Duffy's 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
- About.com Readers' Choice Winner
Get the optional Lab Kit for Exploring Creation with Botany here.
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Yes, it is! The series is designed to be used in any order, so you can choose to start with whatever topic most interests your child.
Some of the books in the series have content that is a bit more advanced than others. In particular, Earth Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Chemistry & Physics are better suited for upper elementary grades.
- June 25, 2021
truly amazing!
Jennifer C.
I knew we needed to step up our science curriculum this year, and this was such a fun and easy experience! The reading portion of the lesson are short and sweet to keep kids' attention. The activities are pretty easy to do, but I do recommend looking ahead and planning for those. I also love how the lessons/activities are planned out for you in the notebooking journal! That was a life saver when I found it. No more planning for me! Just flip to the page to see what we are supposed to do that day.
- December 28, 2020
JE
Bought this for my nephew and he loves it!
- October 28, 2020
Love it
Alicia K.
We are loving this book. My child loves plants and flowers and is really having so much fun with it.
- September 14, 2020
Botany
Melanie
We enjoyed reading the botany book, and liked the pictures and info, but skipped the note booking. My daughter likes the way Apologia's books read, although occasionally finds some of the text repetitive. I wouldn't do these books with younger (early elementary) kids, though, unless your child has a particularly impressive ability to deal with lots of text (to read or to listen to and process).
- November 23, 2019
Exploring Creation with Botany
Kay B.
Exploring Creation with Botany wasn't my favorite. It is really thorough and in depth, so maybe I just got more than I bargained for. I couldn't keep up with the constant need of gathering materials and supplies for which these projects ask. Next time I'm going with Berean Science and also picking up the pre-made material kit that accompanies it. Really, what I wanted for botany was a text to go along with us putting in a garden, and this pushed our workload over the limit. This is an in depth full botany curriculum full of projects that you'll want to have the time to schedule in if you want to try! We will probably look at this again when the kids are a little older.
- April 27, 2018
Exploring Creation with Botany
Jenn o.
The science lessons are fun and engaging. Science is one of my son's favorite subjects, and he loves the hands on experiments.
- April 27, 2018
Exploring Creation with Botany
Melissa, N.
This science curriculum is Great! It kept our daughters attention and had good experiments to do and reading lessons were easy to follow.
- April 27, 2018
Exploring Creation with Botany
Anne, M.
I really disliked this textbook. It feels like it's written for a much older student at times, so I had to do a lot of prep to cut out sections that would be confusing. I ditched it after a month of trying to find ways to make it work for us.
- April 27, 2018
Exploring Creation with Botany
Karina A.
We liked learning about Botany this year. There's so much about God's creation that I didn't even know, as an adult. I love the God-centered approach of this book.
- April 27, 2018
Exploring Creation with Botany
Morgan o.
This science curriculum is really hands on, which we loved. I also really liked how much it detail it goes into on the different areas of one subject of study. I gave it 4 stars because of its take on evolution. I understand it's a Christian based curriculum so it's going to favor creation instead of evolution. I have no problem with it talking about creation, my issue was with the book denying evolution. There is a 2 paragraph segment dedicated to "proof that evolution doesn't exist". I would have liked it more if they had chosen to not mention evolution at all, rather than completely denying a widely accepted scientific theory. This is a personal preference of mine but something I feel should be noted.
