Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Plants Quiz
Brush up on plant facts before taking this interactive quiz.
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: Feeding in Green Plants
Learn how plants absorb water through either root systems or vessels in their stems with this site. Also understand how important water is to the make up of the plant!
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
Primary Resources
Science and Plants for Schools: Living Processes
Great site to help teachers enhance learning about plants and how they grow. There are many downloads including lesson plans, experiments, and activities.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Water Safari
Students are challenged to search for and find plants and animals that live in a mangrove forest.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Feed the Dingo
Help build the Australian desert ecosystem by filling it with appropriate plants and animals.
PBS
Nova Online: Curse of t.rex
NOVA site provides cool science facts on dinosaurs as well as additional links and resources.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Global Patterns in Green Up and Green Down
Students analyze and explore visualizations and graphs that show the annual cycle of plant growth and decline. They investigate several regions in each hemisphere that have different land cover and will match graphs that show annual...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Practice Quiz for Mendelian Genetics
This site from Palomar College provides an online practice quiz includes history as well as some of the genetics. Includes feedback. A great learning and practice site.
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's Word: Biology and Botany Crossword Puzzles
Try these puzzles as a review for quizzes and tests. There are interactive versions that are fun to try while on-line as well as printable versions. Puzzles cover a wide variety of general biology plus more specific ones on botany.
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's Word: Chile Peppers and Other Pepper Trivia
This article from Wayne's Word provides a fun and fascinating look at the world of peppers. You can learn about the many different types and uses of peppers.
University of California
University of California, Berkeley: Cal Photos: Plants
Need a photo for a project, report, multimedia presentation on plants from around the world as well as California? Find fair use images of specific plants by searching with the scientific name, common name, or location.
Other
Personal Site / Mendels Discoveries
This personal site gives the seven characteristics that Mendel observed and a fairly large background to what Mendel saw and interpreted.
Other
Ohio Dept. Of Education: Plants and Animals Around the Year
This is a unit for Grade Two where learners investigate the plants and animals found in their schoolyard and prepare a poster display.
Other
Planet Explorers
Celebrating plants and botanists, here find information on everything from photographic equipment, plant clubs, botanical gardens, seed sources, and a gallery where members can display their work. Read about famous botanists, or look for...
Other
Plant Explorers: Erasmus Darwin (1731 1802)
This site gives a detailed account Erasmus Darwin and his accomplishments in science and other areas.
Other
Osteospermum.com
A beginner's guide to Osteospermum, commonly known as the African Daisy. Includes detailed information about varieties, propagation, and care, along with vivid photographs and helpful links.
Other
Ohio State University: Cryptogamia (Seedless Plants)
Psilophyta, lycophyta, sphenophyta, are the three divisions of plants depicted in this focused site. Examples of each division is provided along with pictures.
Other
Hilton Pond Center
This Hilton Pond Center site is a resource for teachers, students and researchers who are interested in the environment and environmental conservation of animals and plants.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Growing Flowers
A lesson plan for young ELL learners on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Plant Structure and Function: Chapter Test Practice
Fifteen multiple-choice test practice questions covering plant structure and function. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.