Students begin the activity by noting the many ways in which to use peanuts. In groups, they use the internet to research the work of George Washington Carver. They discover the allergies and nutritional information of the peanut and...

Visit the Smithsonian's Department of Botany, and search online from the specimen collection of nearly 800,000 plant specimen records. In addition, learn about research being conducted, activities and events hosted by the department,...

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.

The New York Times Learning Network has developed interactive & printable crossword puzzles. The theme of this puzzle is Botany.

This site describes the museum. It shows the viewer what is currently on exhibit, interesting facts, and many links to other exhibits.

This is a lesson plan for grades 9 - 12. There are worksheets that can be printed out. Each activity and objective is stated.

This is a teacher's guide to a lesson on ecosystems. The objective is for the students to set up their own ecosystem and define the roles of producers, consumers and scavengers.

Students make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.