Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "Weslandia"
Here you will find websites on plants and ancient civilizations to enhance the book "Weslandia," by Paul Fleischman.
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Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Gardens: Drought Tolerant Container and Landscape Plants [Pdf]
This chart provides a list of drought-tolerant container and landscape plants for all your gardening concerns.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Gardens: Grow Your Own Victory Garden [Pdf]
This site provides an overview of gardening throughout the year. Learn what plants thrive during each season and how to prepare, plant and care for your new plants.
Other
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
This site contains information on the Brooklyn Botanical Garden located in New York. If you click on the link "Visiting," and then on the link "Explore the Garden," you can view any area of the garden. The pictures on the tour are...
Other
Rare and Unusual Plants
This site presents information on the plants in the botanical garden of Forstlehrgarten University. If you click on the link "Plant List" a list from A-Z of all the plants in the garden will appear. A picture and a description of the...
Other
Bonn University Botanical Garden
This site provides informaiton on the Bonn University Botanical Garden in Germany.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life Religious Tract Soc.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life, or, Rambles in Parks, Forests, Conservatories, Orchards, Gardens, Fields, and Heaths by Religious Tract Society (1866), a...
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: How to Plant a Monarch Friendly Garden
Information about how to create your own Monarch butterfly garden in your backyard is provided. There are detailed descriptions of the kinds of milkweed and other wildflower plants that a Monarch butterfly needs in order to lay its...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Temperate Deciduous Forest Topics
At this site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can discover what the temperate deciduous forest is like, where it is located, and much more. There are links to other temperate forest sites also.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Giant Kelp
Learn about forests under the Pacific Ocean! Giant kelp is a forest under the ocean that is divided into layers based on the kind of animal life found there. Kelp is useful in making adhesives, dairy products, and pharmaceutical...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: What's It Like Where You Live?
Learn about each biome with this site. Site will give you information about the plants, animals, and the climate found at each biome.
Other
The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens
The Centennial Museum is an academic support and outreach unit of the University of Texas at El Paso focusing on the natural history and the indigenous, colonial, pre-urban, and folk cultures of the border regions of the southwestern...
Other
Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
Other
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
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.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Medicinal Herb Garden
This site provides information on the Medicinal Herb Garden located in Seattle, Washington. It provides an index of herbs and a virtual tour of the garden.
Other
The Dillon Garden: Homepage
This site presents information on The Dillon Garden located in Dublin, Ireland. "The Garden" link explains the layout of the entire garden, and the "Photo Gallery" link gives you pictures of the garden to view.
Other
City of Orlando: Harry P. Leu Gardens
This is the official website for the Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida. It includes planning a visit, taking a virtual tour, and much more.
Texas A&M University
For Kids: Nutrition in the Garden
This resource provides all types of garden activity ideas on nutrition. It contains eight activities that students can do at home with resources that can be rounded up from a backyard garden.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Plant Parts
Learn about the basic parts of a plant and their jobs.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Animals of the Desert
Learn about different types of animals that live in the desert biome such as the cactus wren, the desert lark, the dingo, the fat sand rat, the fennec fox, the Gila monster, and so on. Animal pictures and information is taken from the...
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.
Other
Missouri Botanical Garden: Education: Exploring the Tropics
Extensive information about tropical forests, including the plants, animals, and people found there. Also covers adaptations, biodiversity, economic benefits of tropical rain forests, and threats to their survival.
EL Education
El Education: Kid's Guide to Buffalo & Erie Co. Botanical Gardens
Elementary students at the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, created this brochure of their local botanical gardens to be used by other students. Each student selected a specific plant to research, photograph, and write...
Other
The Butterfly Web Site
This site features both scientific and common information about butterflies, including photos, butterfly clipart, and links related resources.