Getting Ready to Forage

I put together some helpful activities that I found for free. Its so important that the children are able to identify and differentiate between the different types of plants. It could be one little detail that makes one plant okay to eat and another one poisonous! So below are some activities that you can do before or after to help teach the different shapes of leaves and "margins" to help train their eyes. 

Leaf Identification Power Point FREE

Leaf Identification Lesson, Leaves

			Leaf Identification Lesson, Leaves This is a 250 slide PowerPoint presentation about leaf identification (Mostly the Northeast United States but will have value if you live in another area).
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Parts of a flower Montessori Matching Cards FREE

Montessori Nomenclature - Parts of a Flower

			Montessori Nomenclature - Parts of a Flower 3 Part Cards - Parts of a FLOWER A great set to progress to the abstract after working with the Flower puzzle This 3 part cards consists of : 6 control cards
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Leaf Shape Worksheet and Poster (FREE!) 

			Leaf Shape Worksheet and Poster (FREE!) This is a poster and worksheet I made of the 5 most common leaf shapes. The 5 shapes include orbicular, elliptic, ovate, obovate, and reniform. Leaf shape is
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Links to Free botany activities  (purple links are free)

MontessoriMaterials.org