Daily Lessons for Teaching The Botany of Desire

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: The main premise is the book is that plants have helped to shape the course of human evolution. Today's objective is to discuss this idea, its validity, and whether it can ever be completely proven.

1) 1. Have each student list the plants that they feel that help them everyday.

2. In smaller groups, have students discuss whether they think a plant has ever changed...
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