Plants

Links verified 5/10/2024

1. 4-H Children's Garden Tour
2. 13 Essential Tips for Conserving Water In Your Garden - from the Daily Gardener
3. Backyard Plants - great collection of resources
4. Biology of Plants - Plants are alive, just like people and animals! Learn about them here!
5. Biomes of the World - from Missouri Botanical Garden; Desert | Grasslands | Rainforest | Taiga | Temperate | Tundra
6. Biomes - Rainforest for Kids - many links with information about the rain forest.
7. Botany/a - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8. Changing Color - Find out how leaves change color!
9. Dig In - school garden success stories from Parents magazine online
10. Elementary School Garden - a garden of learning
11. Elementary School Gardens - simple guidelines and suggestions to help make a gardening project manageable and rewarding 
12. Flower Anatomy - the parts of a flower
13. Fun Botanical Science Fair Projects - Check out some fun and easy projects you can do with plants. grades 3 and up
14. 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.
15. Fun Project Ideas - some great ideas for fun activities to do with plants
16. The Great Plant Escape - Detective LePlant needs your help to solve the mystery of plant life! Designed for grades 4 and 5.
17. How to Attract Butterflies - how to create a butterfly-friendly environment
18. Kid's Valley Garden - how to grow flowers, vegetables, herbs, and other plants
19. Microorganisms - interactive BBC site, instructions can be read to the students by the site
20. Nutrition in the Garden - a fun way to teach children about nutrition: through gardening.
21. Our Rainforests Are In Peril - what needs to be done
22. Plant - a Britannica article
23. Plant Life Cycles - this BBC site allows students to interact with the lesson
24. Plant Parts - Match the drawing with the name and build a salad
25. Plant Parts - Each part of a plant has a very important function
26. Plant Parts - What plants need to grow
27. PLANTS Database - standardized information about plants of the U.S. from the USDA
28. Plants and our Environment - ThinkQuest winner 
29. Plants for Kids - lots of links
30. Plants of Hawaii - A collection of 6000+ copyright-free high-resolution images
31. Save Trees - Asian longhorned beetle threatens to change landscapes. Once trees are infested, there is no cure. There is something you can do to help. Download communication tools to raise awareness about the beetle 
32. School Gardens - farm to school
33. School Gardens - integrating horticulture into the elementary school curriculum
34. The Science of Plants - understanding plants and how they grow
35. Starting a School Garden - a step-by-step guide
36. 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
37. Youth Resources - Farming and Agriculture activities and games. 
38. What is a Plant? - The word ‘plant’ encompasses a wide range of living organisms, all of which belong to the kingdom Plantae and share a range of characteristics
39. Why Do Plants Have Flowers? - Flowers are the tools that plants use to make their seeds.
40. Why Garden With Kids - a garden is a wonderful place for children to play, learn, and grow
41. More plant information can be found on the Biology page of Internet4Classrooms.

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