Plants

Links verified 11/1/11

1. 4-H Children's Garden Tour
2. Backyard Plants - great collection of resources
3. Biology of Plants - Plants are alive, just like people and animals! Learn about them here!
4. Biomes of the World - from Missouri Botanical Garden; Desert | Grasslands | Rainforest | Taiga | Temperate | Tundra
5. Biomes - Rainforest for Kids - many links with information about the rain forest.
6. Changing Color - Find out how leaves change color!
7. Elementary School Gardens - simple guidelines and suggestions to help make a gardening project manageable and rewarding
8. Fun Botanical Science Fair Projects - Check out some fun and easy projects you can do with plants. grades 3 and up
9. Fun Facts about Fungi - Read about giant puffballs, truffles, fungal "shotguns," and "fairy rings," and try your hand at the mushroom hunt, the picture slide game, and a mold-growing experiment.
10. Fun Project Ideas - some great ideas for fun activities to do with plants
11. Fun With Lichens - Learn about lichens and their role in the ecosystem
12. The Great Plant Escape - Detective LePlant needs your help to solve the mystery of plant life! Designed for grades 4 and 5.
13. Kid's Valley Garden - how to grow flowers, vegetables, herbs, and other plants [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
14. Microorganisms - interactive BBC site, instructions can be read to the students by the site
    1. Quiz on Microorganisms
15. Mission : Endangered Species - Many people in the world don't think of plants as being endangered, but some are.
16. Nutrition in the Garden - a fun way to teach children about nutrition: through gardening.
17. Plant Life Cycles - this BBC site allows students to interact with the lesson
18. Plant Parts - Match the drawing with the name and build a salad
19. Plant Parts - four Quia activities; concentration, word search, flash cards, or matching quiz
20. Plant Parts - Each part of a plant has a very important function
21. Plant Parts - What plants need to grow
22. Plants and our Environment - ThinkQuest winner
23. Plants for Kids - lots of links
24. Plants of Hawaii - A collection of 6000+ copyright-free high-resolution images
25. Plants Module - plant seeds, watch them grow and then get information about plant parts
26. Poisonous Flowers and Plants - While most flowers and plants may look harmless, there are a variety of poisonous plants that can be toxic, or even deadly, to humans and animals. [Thanks for recommending this site Ms. McV]
27. Starting a School Garden - a step-by-step guide
28. Trees Module - Find out about plants and animals that live around the trees on a mountain, in a swamp, and in the desert.
29. Using Anatomy and Habitat to Identify a Tree - to help students with identifying a tree and the types of common tree species that exist in the United States
30. Youth Resources - Farming and Agriculture activities and games. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
31. Why Do Plants Have Flowers? - Flowers are the tools that plants use to make their seeds.[This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
32. More plant information can be found on the Biology page of Internet4Classrooms.

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