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Friday, May 4, 2012

Dandelions: Weed or Seed for Teaching Science and Childhood Wonder



If you are a gardener or tend the lawn to any degree, you see this as a weed and even the sight of a child blowing the seeds into the air may cause a bit of uncomfortable panic.

She sees it as a source of wonder, a chance to make a wish for a dream to come true, or at least for a moment of pretend fun.  She relishes God's amazing creation of this plant that is a weed to some, but to others it is a source of medicine, food and even a physical representation of the moon, sun and stars.

To a homeschooling parent, this is just another opportunity to learn!

Perhaps a lesson from Bright Hub on the lifecycle of a plant is up your alley.






Or, some interesting and fun facts about dandelions from "My Dandelion is a Flower".

  
Use it as a chance to teach science or a moment to sit back and relish your child's childhood wonder.  To me, the joy she expresses when blowing the white puffy seeds from a dandelion is worth the work of future weeding.


3 comments:

  1. Isn't it funny that our posts were right beside each other in the Google Group list today? Mine is about how to make dandelion coffee.

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    1. Oh it must be true what they say - great minds think alike :-)

      My motivation for waking up each morning is my coffee, yet I've never had dandelion coffee. How does it taste? I did, however, have dandelion greens when I was a kid.

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  2. I'm proud to say that my lawn has dandelions! When did a vast expense of uninterrupted green grass become considered more beautiful than green spotted by yellow anyway?

    Jennifer
    Fellow Blogathon2012 participant

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