Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 7.2 Plant Evolution
Discover the evolution and change of plants over time.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Learning From Leaves [Pdf]
An investigation into how light levels affect leaf adaptations in plants.
Other
Nasa: The Case of the Prize Winning Plants [Pdf]
This program uses a scenario with fictional detective characters to present plant growth to students. While the unit focuses on the basic needs and parts of plants, the topics of plant classification and adaptations, soil formation and...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Rooting Into the Soil [Pdf]
An experiment to investigate the capacity of different soils to retain water, and how this impacts on the survival, evolution, and adaptations of plants. Extension activities are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Touch and Feel: Plant Adaptations
This introductory lesson centers on getting hands-on before getting drug into the vocabulary and nomenclature. In cooperative learning groups students will describe leaves in simple terms. Then, students will use various resources for...
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Desert Plants
Site contains information on desert plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to biomes, a biome summary, how to read a climograph and more!
Curated OER
National Park Service: Arches National Park: Plants
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Interdependence and Adaptations
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about interdependence and adaptations through the needs of a common household plant.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plant and Animal Habitats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explains plant and animal habitats with brilliant pictures and photos. It also includes discussion and non-Activote questions.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gone With the Wind: An Experiment on Seed and Fruit Dispersal
If you have ever made a wish and blown the fluff of a dandelion, you have witnessed how some plants are adapted to spreading their seeds using the wind. The tiny, furry parachute allows the seeds to be picked up by the wind and to be...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers
In this lesson, young scholars create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Needs of Plants
Each student will make his/her own mini-garden and will observe the growth and development of radishes. To help students learn about requirements for plant growth, the teacher will make four experimental gardens and place them in...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Mantenimiento De La Especie
Learn about animal and plant reproduction: similarities and differences, coordination, relationship and adaptation.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Deserts
An overview of the climate conditions of deserts. Includes examples of plants and the adaptations that allow them to survive in the dry climate. Includes a link to information about animals that live in a desert habitat.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Anthophyta, Evolution & Diversity
An online summary of the evolution of flowering plants at an advanced level. The text is supported by good illustrations and is followed by a quiz. This is a good review for exams.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Mini Ecosystems [Pdf]
A lesson activity where learners create a terrarium inside a plastic bottle using a Venus Flytrap and other plants. They then observe growth and changes over time.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Plants
Site offers information about tropical rainforest plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
Other
City of Austin: Watershed Protection Office: Plants
Provides guidance for what plants will survive the best in the Texas environment, and how to grow and protect them. There is information about native and adapted plants, invasive plant species, plants resistant to deer, backyard ponds,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nuclear Reaction: Meltdown
What happens when a nuclear reactor overheats? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl, the worst accident of its kind.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: A Plant With Smarts
Not only are orchids tricky when it comes to being pollinated, they also have some tricks that help them survive in a competitive environment. Discover how orchids outwit insects to reproduce and how they have adapted to survive in their...
Tramline
Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mitosis
This video segment, adapted from the Interactive Secret of Life videodisc, explains the stages of mitosis, the process of dividing equally a cell's massive jumble of DNA just prior to cell division. [1:34]
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