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Alice Ferguson Foundation: Bridging the Watershed: Plant Identification

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive guide to identify plants based on their leaves. For each step, you are given two choices, and you continue down the branches until you discover a plant's name.
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Siemens Science Day: Life Science: The Key to It All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this hands-on science activity, young scholars will create their own unique creatures as well as dichotomous keys so that classmates can identify the creature.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Identifying Plant Family Characteristics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.
Website
US Department of Agriculture

Us Department of Agriculture: Plants Interactive Id Keys

For Students 9th - 10th
A database of information about plants across the United States and how to identify them. Covers grasses, legumes, gymnosperms, wetland monocots, and the Ericaceae flowering plants. The information is contained in downloadable zip files,...