BOTANY
Looking for Waldorf inspired,
Botany homeschool lessons?
Open year-round!
*Flexible payment options like Klarna, Clearpay, or PayLater may be available, depending on your location and eligibility.
What's Included?
OVER 75 videos that cover a year's worth of exploration & lessons for your child.
The lessons are split into 2 parts that can be used during the autumn and spring (much like this topic is covered in Waldorf schools) OR they can be used sequentially, throughout the full school year.
Discussions for adults about:
Possible ways you might schedule the lessons
Ways the botany curriculum meets a typical 5th grade child (families with children in different grades are welcome to use this course! We’re choosing to focus this particular discussion on the 5th grade as this is when Botany is most frequently taught at Waldorf schools.)
Main Lesson Books - their purpose and a few ways to approach their creation
Observational nature-sketching - why and how we do it
Ways to adapt the lessons for your own specific landscape and local plant life
“Now I know exactly what to do!”
Details:
On the day you register you will receive access to all the lessons.
We’ll also provide you w/ a detailed supply list
As with all of our other courses, once enrollment is complete, you will have lifetime access to these lessons. They will continue to be accessible no matter if you are able to watch them before the end of your school year or not
The course is designed for parents and/or children to watch and work with.
Bonus: Teacher Caitlin Amajor shares a wreath-making project to create with your family and friends!
Ready to enroll?
*Flexible payment options like Klarna, Clearpay, or PayLater may be available, depending on your location and eligibility.
Refund policy is in the FAQ section of this page.
Please note, we are vendors with many charter schools. Please check here for a detailed list.
Waldorfish Botany includes explorations of:
The “lower plants” - algae, fungi, lichen, moss, and ferns
Seeds
Plant organization - monocots & dicots
Photosynthesis
Trees
Flowers (+ pollinators!)
This is achieved through:
art lessons (painting, chalk/pastel drawing, coloured pencil botany drawings, botanical print-making)
story-telling
demonstrations (that you can set up in your home as well)
prompts for taking the learning outdoors into your own local plant communities
Main lesson book page creation (for every lesson!)
Your Guide:
Caitlin Amajor is excited to bring her love of art and teaching to the Waldorfish community! As a Waldorf student growing up in a small Northern California town, Caitlin’s love and appreciation of artistic and experiential learning began at a young age. With the encouragement of her parents, Caitlin pursued her certificate in Waldorf teacher training after college, and taught in the middle school grades as a class teacher for seven years. While the list is long, some of her highlights of being a teacher are teaching geometry and physics, watercolor painting, and observing the many triumphs and successes of her beloved students. Caitlin enjoys discussing and expanding Waldorf pedagogy and how it can evolve in the modern world, and also has a wealth of knowledge (because of much trial and error!) around the practical elements of teaching on a day to day basis. She offers helpful tips and observations from her own experience, and inspires others to explore the wide-ranging and artistic realm of geometry and botany.
All lessons are filmed in HD. You get access to the course content for the lifetime of the course.
Frequently Asked Questions:
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Adult educators should be prepared to manage the supply list, and assist in keeping your child on task as much as they need. Some activities, like sprouting seeds, require advanced preparation for lessons. We will have a clear "How to Prepare for Next Time" section, and depending on the child, the adult educator should be prepared to assist the student however much they need so they can move through each lesson smoothly.
As this is Botany after all, there will be prompts and activities that would ideally be completed in an outdoor space, a garden, a yard, a patio, etc. However, we are aware that everyone lives with varying access to outdoor spaces! With that in mind, all of the activities are kept general and with suggested modifications, with the hopes of making them enjoyable and accessible to all, no matter where you live, or what time of year it is!
We will be providing various supplemental activities throughout the course that an educator could use in other subjects, such as Language Arts or gardening. These sections are designed to be used by the adult educator, though one may decide to look over the options with their child and see what sparks inspiration!
Lastly, a parent/adult educator is always welcome to work alongside the student- Botany, art, and connection with the outside world is for everyone to enjoy!
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Yes, all videos are high quality, so you will need a fairly high-speed Internet connection to view them. The videos are a vital part of the content of this course, so please do consider this. We are not able to provide alternative viewing options for people on dial-up or on very slow connections (and we cannot give refunds if you are having issues viewing the videos due to your internet connection). Therefore, please bear this in mind when registering. If you have regular broadband, you should be fine. The videos in this course are *not* downloadable.
If you are easily able to use any of our sample lessons with your current wi-fi/internet setup, then you're good to go!
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Students can view course content from any recently updated web browser or mobile device.
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Forever! Successfully register for the course, and you get access to the lessons for as long as you need them. ("Forever-access" does assume successful payment of both payments, for those who enrolled using a previous 2-payment option!)
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Due to the instant, all-access and digital nature of this course, there are no refunds. Fees from this course may not be applied to a different course.
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This course is sold to be used 1 per household. If you would like to use this course in a homeschool group or class, please contact us first for pricing and permission.
*I'm still not sure if this course is right for me.
Uncertain if this is the right course for your family? Send us an email! We'll help you sort it out :)
Work at your own pace.
Know that you’re ready for the week!
*Flexible payment options like Klarna, Clearpay, or PayLater may be available, depending on your location and eligibility.
(refund policy is in the FAQ section of this page.)
“A deep connection exists between the growth of plants & the growth of the human soul. Through our interaction with nature, we can cultivate our own inner development.”