Abstract: Combining with the current practice of Botany Course, this paper takes the lesson of discovery of cell as an example and discusses how to carry out the teaching design of botany course based on historic knowledge from five aspects of the establishment of the teaching objective: the selection of teaching content, the excavation of teaching function, the construction of the flipped class and the problem should be paid attention in teaching. The purpose is to provide a reference for improving the teaching quality of botany course.

Key words: botany, historic knowledge, teaching design