Plants in the Elementary Science Classroom - Grow your Students' Understanding of Plants with These Links

4-H Children's Garden Tour
Backyard Plants - great collection of resources
Biology of Plants - Plants are alive, just like people and animals! Learn about them here!
Biomes of the World - from Missouri Botanical Garden; Desert | Grasslands | Rainforest | Taiga | Temperate | Tundra
Biomes - Rainforest for Kids - many links with information about the rain forest.
Botanists-in-Training (Kids Only) - from the Canadian Botanical Conservation Network
Changing Color - Find out how leaves change color!
Elementary School Gardens - simple guidelines and suggestions to help make a gardening project manageable and rewarding
Fun Botanical Science Fair Projects - Check out some fun and easy projects you can do with plants. grades 3 and up
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.
Fun Project Ideas - some great ideas for fun activities to do with plants
Fun With Lichens - Learn about lichens and their role in the ecosystem
The Great Plant Escape - Detective LePlant needs your help to solve the mystery of plant life! Designed for grades 4 and 5.
Kid's Valley Garden - how to grow flowers, vegetables, herbs, and other plants
Microorganisms - interactive BBC site, instructions can be read to the students by the site
1. Quiz on Microorganisms
Mission : Endangered Species - Many people in the world don’t think of plants as being endangered, but some are.
Nutrition in the Garden - a fun way to teach children about nutrition: through gardening.
Plant Life Cycles - this BBC site allows students to interact with the lesson
Plant Parts - Match the drawing with the name and build a salad
Plant Parts - [this link opens in a new window] four Quia activities; concentration, word search, flash cards, or matching quiz
Plant Parts - Each part of a plant has a very important function
Plant Parts - What plants need to grow
Plants and our Environment - ThinkQuest winner
Plants for Kids - lots of links
Plants of Hawaii - A collection of 6000+ copyright-free high-resolution images
Plants Module - plant seeds, watch them grow and then get information about plant parts
Science4kids - Science Projects in Agriculture
Starting a School Garden - a step-by-step guide
Trees Module - Find out plants and animals live around the trees on a mountain, in a swamp, and in the desert.
Youth Resources - Farming and Agriculture activities and games.
Why Do Plants Have Flowers? - Flowers are the tools that plants use to make their seeds.
More plant information can be found on the Biology page of Internet4Classrooms.