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Composting: Getting Down to Paydirt [Pdf]
Learn how composting works, how to build a composter, and a recipe for creating your own compost to fertilize your garden and crops.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Prairie Project [Pdf]
"The Prairie Project" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students who learn about the prairie, take a field trip to see one, and then plant one on the school grounds. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Most Effective Treatment for Whitefly Infestations on Plants?
Whiteflies are a group of closely related insect species whose larvae live on plants. Like aphids, they suck nutrients from the plant's circulatory system. You will be asked to find the most effective method for fighting a whitefly...
Curated OER
Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox, Florence Hedges, Unknown, Edna Fawcett
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), Florence Hedges (1878-1956), unidentified woman, and Edna H. Fawcett (b. 1879). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant pathologist, USDA,...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Lavender
This photo shows a bright lavender plant sitting in someone's garden.