Other
Plant Fossils of West Virginia
Has great diagrams of plant fossils as well as some general information on prehistoric plants.
Other
Fossil Fun: Plant Fossils
A brief site that explains how plant fossils let us know what the weather and temperature was long ago. Text is supplemented with photographs.
Read Works
Read Works: Fossils & Dinosaurs Plant Eaters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes an example of a plant-eating dinosaur, the Stegosaurus, its appearance, and its eating habits. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Paleobotany and Palynology Image Gallery
An interesting slide show of unique plant fossils, each picture has a caption.
Other
Hans' Paleobotany Pages
A good site discussing the history of fossil plants, including oldest land plants and links to related topics.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks
In this lab activity, students use a chemical indicator (bromothymol blue) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide in animal and plant respiration and in the burning of fossil fuels and its absence in the products of plant...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Biofuels and Bioprospecting for Beginners
Biofuels can provide energy without the reliance on environmentally harmful fossils fuels, but scientists are still searching for a plentiful source. Craig A. Kohn demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant...
Other
Insightful Interaction: Visualizations
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Corn for Fuel?!
In this activity, students examine how to grow plants the most efficiently. They imagine that they are designing a biofuels production facility and need to know how to efficiently grow plants to use in this facility. As a means of...
Other
Louisiana Petrified Wood
A detailed article about the petrified wood which is found in Louisiana.
Yale University
Yale Peabody Museum
This home page describes what the museum has to offer. Links to the exhibits and more information is provided at the bottom of the site.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Biomass
Learn about "biomass," organic non-fossil material of biological origin. Includes external links.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: Green River Insects
Interactive photo search of the collection of 35,000 fossiliferous rocks found within the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Scientists at the Smithsonian
This is a collection of video interviews with twenty Smithsonian scientists who work in a scientific areas as vastly different as measuring the moon and figuring out what kinds of birds collide with aircraft. An interesting way to...
Other
Cincinnati Museum Center
This site describes the Museum of Natural History and Science in detail and provides links to other programs and exhibits offered.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Clasificacion De Los Seres Vivos
All known form of life gathers in large groups, which are called kingdoms. This site provides a thorough overview of the five kingdoms with many illustrations. The lessons contain 15 interactive activities.
Curated OER
Unesco: Kenya: Lake Turkana National Parks
The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Hadrosaurus Bones
This picture shows a plate from an 1865 lithograph of fossilized Hadrosaurus bones. Hadrosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 70 million years ago). It was a herbivore (plant eater) and moved on two legs.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Avaceratops
This drawing shows the possible appearance of Avaceratops, a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period. The first fossil remains of Avaceratops were found in 1981 in Montana, USA. Like other Ceratopsian dinosaurs, Avaceratops was a...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Prenoceratops
This drawing shows the possible appearance of Prenoceratops, a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period (around 80 million years ago). Prenoceratops fossils have been found in the US state of Montana. It belonged to a family of dinosaurs...