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This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]

Vascular plant transport, adaptations for growth, and seed versus nonseed vascular plants are discussed in this succinct site.

You can learn all about the flora and fauna of the great swamp. A great place to take students, scouts and family.

A very simple introduction to the various types of growth and reproductive styles of common plants.

This site contains information on endangered species. Learn what the U.S. government is doing about this problem.

Findings of an expedition by the New York Botanical Garden in French Guiana to investigate vegetation.

You can visit the tall grasses on Iowa. There is 7,000 acres on this refuge. You can see elk and buffalo. You can go on an auto tour, or go hiking on a trail.

This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The students will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...

Site details the parts of the flower as well as provides links to terms such as seed, calyx, corolla and many more.

This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.

Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.

This nine-stanza poem combines botany and an adolescent's view of home life into a greater statement.

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

This paper, the work of a Ph.D. researcher, presents an interesting discussion of the reasons that assexual reproduction is not used by most organisms. Toward the end is a specific discussion of reproduction in plants. Advantages and...

In this lesson plan, learners identify parts of seeds and the effect of fertilizer on their germination and development.

A very good overview of the hormonal control of plant responses to different environmental cues. Good place to start research.

The Iowa State University provides a good description of the development of an important crop plant. The overview compares favorably with the development of any plant.

This is the reproduction chapter from an online text, courtesy of the Forest Biology Department of Virginia Tech. Learn about trees, their flowers, and other details of their reproductive cycle.

The Department of Biodiversity at UWC presents the impact different abiotic components on plants and animals. Some factors are light, temperature, and wind.

A fascinating Ibiblio.org collection of Kudzu photos in a variety of southern habitats. There is a short report on the history and botany of this vine.

This short biography about Agnes Arber describes her contributions to botanical science.

Students can take a virtual tour of a Hawaiian volcano which erupted in 1974. Pictures show plants starting the succession process occurring along a pahoehoe flow.

This site provides information on the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. If you click on the link "virtual tour", a new page will appear with a map of the garden, and details about the contents in the garden.