The coat of the seed is called a testa. It protects the embryo inside like your winter coat keeps you warm. Is your winter coat striped like a sunflower seed or brown like a bean seed? God made lots of colors of testas. He must not like things to be boring.In fifth grade we had an expression for such like the above. Hm, what was it?
Oh yeah. Gag me with a spoon!
If I wasn't disturbed by the replacement of natural science, simple observational study, with theologizin', I'd still have to be interjecting myself there to explain to my kids that this is not the logically or rhetorically proper way to exegete a seed.
Why? Why? Why are all the good botany books for children such lousy books for botany?
Secular homeschooling peeps, keep your butt on that chair until the science curriculum you're writing is done!
I bought a montessori botany curriculum written by Priscilla Spears that is completely secular and was pretty good. It's not written for homeschoolers, but I found I could adapt it for my two kids.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why I used a college botany text to teach my Goobs about plants. I hate, hate, HATE that crap- and I'm a Christian!
ReplyDeleteLate on this, but I hate that kind of thing too. That is so not the proper way to exegete a seed. Doesn't do any favors for theologizin' either.
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