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Alice Ferguson Foundation: Bridging the Watershed: Plant Identification
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 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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Plant Family Characteristics
Students make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.
US Department of Agriculture
Us Department of Agriculture: Plants Interactive Id Keys
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,...