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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Irrigation Conservation for Trees, Shrubs, Gardens, and Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to provide the proper amount of water for optimal growth and biodiversity in a backyard habitat.
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City of Austin: Watershed Protection Office: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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H2ous.org: H20 Use: Gardening Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Find inspiration for water-conserving gardens. Take a garden tour or look at the garden gallery for more ideas. Hot links are provided to favored plants and their detailed information.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: English Language Learners Create a Botanic Field Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gather information and create a botanic field guide which includes the common and scientific names for plants (trees, shrubs, wildflowers, plants) typically found in their surroundings.
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Radford University: Taiga or Boreal Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a thorough fact sheet of a taiga forest (or boreal forest as it is otherwise known). Content includes a look at the forest climate, vegetation, growth forms, and soil. Additional information can be found on the alpine...
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Perspective: The Plant Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know their are about 270,000 plant species? This webpage investigates the phyla of the plant kingdom. Learn how plants are classified based on their tissue structure, seed structure, and stature. Each division is described with...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Field Challenge Strategy Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan describing a strategy game where students use flags in a large field to mimic the growth and spread of trees, grass, and shrubs. Rules for game include how trees, grass, and shrubs interact to compete for sunlight, nutrients,...
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Flowers

For Students K - 1st
Certain plants are known for their eye-catching blooms. Think of roses, orchids, carnations, and tulips. We often refer to these plants as "flowers." A flower, though, is just one part and quite an important part of a plant. Not all...
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Bureau of Land Management: Yuma Area Desert Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Graphics and descriptions of the desert lily, desert marigold, desert mallow, purple threewa, Mexican poppy, trees and shrubs in the Yum, Arizona region.
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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences: Pot Biz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to be a successful innovator as you try to turn an idea for a decomposing plant pot into a profitable business. It won't be easy; being an innovator never is. In this interactive game, the decisions you make could lead to fame...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Arches National Park: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Evergreens

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs have important roles to play in landscaping- from aesthetic to ecological.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Terrestrial Biomes

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A terrestrial biome is an area of land with a similar climate that includes similar communities of plants and animals. Different terrestrial biomes are usually...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Forest Plants

For Students 3rd - 5th
Forest plants include trees, shrubs, vines, mosses, ferns, woodland wildflowers, and other green and growing things that can thrive in shade. Read about some of Wisconsin's forest plants.
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NSTATE

Texas State Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a complete list of the Texas state symbols, including their year of adoption. Click on one to be taken to a page with more information and a picture.
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University of California

University of California, Berkeley: Cal Photos: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Need a photo for a project, report, multimedia presentation on plants from around the world as well as California? Find fair use images of specific plants by searching with the scientific name, common name, or location.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Uinta Chipmunk

For Students 4th - 8th
Uinta chipmunks are common in coniferous forests, especially at elevations higher than 1,800 m. They readily climb trees and shrubs to forage for seeds and often sleep in trees. Learn more about the Tamias umbrinus, more commonly known...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Brush Rabbit

For Students 4th - 8th
When they are frightened, Brush Rabbits often thump the ground with a hind foot and may also squeal. These very small cottontails use burrows dug by other animals as escape routes, and sometimes climb into shrubs or low trees to avoid...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Caribou

For Students 4th - 8th
Caribou, or Reindeer, is the only deer species in which both males and females have candelabra-like antlers. They live in large, migratory herds along the tree line of northern forests, eating mostly grass-like plants and shrubs in...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Eastern Red Bat

For Students 4th - 8th
Common and widespread from far southern Canada throughout most of the United States and Mexico, and farther south through Central America and into South America, the Eastern Red Bat requires trees and shrubs for roosting. It is...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Golden Mouse

For Students 4th - 8th
Partially arboreal, with a semi-prehensile tail - a tail that it can use to grasp as it climbs - the golden Mouse nests, feeds, and escapes from predators and flooding by climbing trees, vines, and shrubs. Sometimes one will remodel a...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Animals for Kids: Stick Bug

For Students 1st - 9th
A site where students can learn about the Stick bug which is a strange insect that mimics the trees and shrubs they live on.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Vegetation of North America, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1916 of North America, Central America, Greenland, and the Caribbean to Puerto Rico showing the general distribution of vegetation types in the region. The map is color-coded to show natural vegetation in areas of ice desert,...

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