Shrub Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

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National Park Service: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas

For Students 9th - 10th

A virtual who's who of invasive plants, herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees. This comprehensive site provides easy-to-read fact sheets that contain native ranges, plant descriptions, ecological threats, U.S. distributions & habitats,...

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US Geological Survey

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th

The Great Plains organization provides individuals, organizations, and governments with key information about the Great Plains environment through a resource pool of publications, reports, and government data.

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H2ous.org: H20 Use: Gardening Guide

For Students 9th - 10th

Find inspiration for water-conserving gardens. Take a garden tour or look at the garden gallery for more ideas. Hot links are provided to favored plants and their detailed information.

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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: English Language Learners Create a Botanic Field Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Students gather information and create a botanic field guide which includes the common and scientific names for plants (trees, shrubs, wildflowers, plants) typically found in their surroundings.

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National Park Service: Arches National Park: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th

Information about the cacti, grasses, lichens, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers that grow in Arches National Park, located in Moab, Utah. Focus is placed on the adaptations of these plants that allow survival in a desert habitat.

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Evergreens

For Students 9th - 10th

Learn how evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs have important roles to play in landscaping- from aesthetic to ecological.

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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Terrestrial Biomes

For Students 6th - 8th

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A terrestrial biome is an area of land with a similar climate that includes similar communities of plants and animals. Different terrestrial biomes are usually...

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NSTATE

Texas State Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th

Here is a complete list of the Texas state symbols, including their year of adoption. Click on one to be taken to a page with more information and a picture.

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University of California

University of California, Berkeley: Cal Photos: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th

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.

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Wild Raisin Shrub Professor Beaker

For Students 9th - 10th

Listed on this page are some northern Ontario wildflowers that occur in the northern deciduous forest in Canada. Provided are descriptions and information about the plants, and numerous pictures.

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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Brush Rabbit

For Students 4th - 8th

When they are frightened, Brush Rabbits often thump the ground with a hind foot and may also squeal. These very small cottontails use burrows dug by other animals as escape routes, and sometimes climb into shrubs or low trees to avoid...

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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Pocosins

For Students 9th - 10th

Pocosins are naturally occurring freshwater evergreen shrub bogs or wetlands of the southeastern coastal plains. In 1962 pocosins still covered nearly 2.25 million acres in North Carolina-accounting for almost three-quarters of the...

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Perspective: The Plant Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th

Did you know their are about 270,000 plant species? This webpage investigates the phyla of the plant kingdom. Learn how plants are classified based on their tissue structure, seed structure, and stature. Each division is described with...

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Etc: Maps Etc: Vegetation of North America, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th

A map from 1916 of North America, Central America, Greenland, and the Caribbean to Puerto Rico showing the general distribution of vegetation types in the region. The map is color-coded to show natural vegetation in areas of ice desert,...

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Unesco: Cote D'ivoire: Comoe National Park

For Students 9th - 10th

One of the largest protected areas in West Africa, this park is characterized by its great plant diversity. Due to the presence of the Comoe river, it contains plants which are normally only found much farther south, such as shrub...

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Unesco: Brazil: Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves

For Students 9th - 10th

The Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, in the states of Bahia and Espirito Santo, consist of eight separate protected areas containing 112,000 ha of Atlantic forest and associated shrub (restingas). The rainforests of Brazil’s...

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Swamp

For Students Pre-K - 1st

What characteristics make a swamp a swamp? This site features information on the Great Dismal Swamp, Conifer Swamps, Okefenokee Swamps, Shrub Swamps, Hardwood Swamps, and Cypress Swamps. This site also offers some great photographs of...

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