PBS
Pbs Kids: Water Safari
Students are challenged to search for and find plants and animals that live in a mangrove forest.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Feed the Dingo
Help build the Australian desert ecosystem by filling it with appropriate plants and animals.
PBS
Nova Online: Curse of t.rex
NOVA site provides cool science facts on dinosaurs as well as additional links and resources.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Global Patterns in Green Up and Green Down
Young scholars analyze and explore visualizations and graphs that show the annual cycle of plant growth and decline. They investigate several regions in each hemisphere that have different land cover and will match graphs that show...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Practice Quiz for Mendelian Genetics
This site from Palomar College provides an online practice quiz includes history as well as some of the genetics. Includes feedback. A great learning and practice site.
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's Word: Biology and Botany Crossword Puzzles
Try these puzzles as a review for quizzes and tests. There are interactive versions that are fun to try while on-line as well as printable versions. Puzzles cover a wide variety of general biology plus more specific ones on botany.
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's Word: Chile Peppers and Other Pepper Trivia
This article from Wayne's Word provides a fun and fascinating look at the world of peppers. You can learn about the many different types and uses of peppers.
University of California
University of California, Berkeley: Cal Photos: Plants
Need a photo for a project, report, multimedia presentation on plants from around the world as well as California? Find fair use images of specific plants by searching with the scientific name, common name, or location.
Other
Personal Site / Mendels Discoveries
This personal site gives the seven characteristics that Mendel observed and a fairly large background to what Mendel saw and interpreted.
Other
Ohio Dept. Of Education: Plants and Animals Around the Year
This is a unit for Grade Two where students investigate the plants and animals found in their schoolyard and prepare a poster display.
Other
Planet Explorers
Celebrating plants and botanists, here find information on everything from photographic equipment, plant clubs, botanical gardens, seed sources, and a gallery where members can display their work. Read about famous botanists, or look for...
Other
Plant Explorers: Erasmus Darwin (1731 1802)
This site gives a detailed account Erasmus Darwin and his accomplishments in science and other areas.
Other
Osteospermum.com
A beginner's guide to Osteospermum, commonly known as the African Daisy. Includes detailed information about varieties, propagation, and care, along with vivid photographs and helpful links.
Other
Ohio State University: Cryptogamia (Seedless Plants)
Psilophyta, lycophyta, sphenophyta, are the three divisions of plants depicted in this focused site. Examples of each division is provided along with pictures.
Other
Hilton Pond Center
This Hilton Pond Center site is a resource for teachers, students and researchers who are interested in the environment and environmental conservation of animals and plants.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Growing Flowers
A lesson for young ELL students on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Plant Structure and Function: Chapter Test Practice
Fifteen multiple-choice test practice questions covering plant structure and function. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.
Science & Plants for Schools
Science & Plants for Schools: Pollination, Fertilization, Fruits [Pdf]
Great PDF to teach learners about plant reproduction and life cycle. There are many teacher printables.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Plant Cells
A slideshow accompanied by music and text, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the topic of plant cells.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Flowers
A video and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the structure and functions of flowers.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Protist
Wikipedia provides information on the biological kingdom protista, including a list of different divisions of the kingdom.
Texas A&M University
Wildflowers in Bloom: Wildflowers
Start wildflowers from seed, find out what your hardiness zone is, learn about seed germination and sunlight needs of plants. All this and more.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...