Go on a wilderness adventure at Eagle Landing. You can go canoing and backpacking while learning about nature, teamwork, leadership and build confidence.

This is the reproduction chapter from an online text, courtesy of the Forest Biology Department of Virginia Tech. Learn about trees, their flowers, and other details of their reproductive cycle.

The science section of this popular homework helper site features links to chemistry, life, earth, physical, and space science resources.

This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.

Good list of examples of how dormancy in tree seeds can be overcome. In the discussion, you'll pick up a fair amount about dormancy in plants.

This page provides nutritional information on the apple and links to other supplementary resources. Available in Spanish or English.

This site provides information on the Botanical Garden at Gottingen University located in Germany. If you click on the sub-heading "Subjects and History",an English text will come up presenting further details on the garden.

A good graphic overview of flowering plant reproduction and the specific parts of the plant responsible for that.

Great research from the Andean Botanical Information System into the diverse environments and plants of the Andean region of South America, and particularly Chile and Peru. Available in Spanish or English, photographs and written...

Photographs, informative tables, and illustrated diagrams help explain the diversity of the plant kingdom in this college-level textbook.

Explore some different areas of study in the life sciences.

Are you interested in an environmental career? Explore current environmental job opportunties in the Earthworks database.

At this site from the Center for Distance Learning and Innovation there's a monstrous listing of possible science fair projects. You can choose from primary (grades 1-4), elementary (grades 4-6), intermediate (grades 7-9), or senior...

This site from Ibiblio.org presents information on the musical accomplishments of Hildegard of Bingen. It contains a brief biography of the abbess and saint, and lists how she excelled in letters, plays, botany, and music.

Carnegie Museum botanist Otto Emery Jennings (1877-1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (d. 1957). Grace Jennings was a fourth-generation Pittsburgher whose family had established one of the city's major iron foundries. She was an...

After earning Ph.D. in botany from University of North Carolina, Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981) worked as a mycologist at The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she discovered cycloheximide, an anti-fungal agent widely used...

American educator, professor of botany and biology, writer, and advocate for peace.

Learn about greenhouses in a unique way. All the fun-fact information is drawn in a cartoon style.

This lesson plan has students make a model of a flower's structure using clay, toothpicks, and construction paper.

In this lesson plan, learners identify parts of seeds and the effect of fertilizer on their germination and development.

Have a fun learning experience as you read about the smallest flowering plant. Botanical facts, pictures, projects, and practical uses of the Duckweed plant are all part of this site.

In the lab experiment site, you will determine the age of a tree, see if you can determine what years had more precipitation than others, and label the cross section of a tree: bark, heartwood, sapwood, and rings.

This site provides information on the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. If you click on the link "virtual tour", a new page will appear with a map of the garden, and details about the contents in the garden.

An excellent site for learning about plant tissue culture. Great visuals and easy to understand instructions. Lots of links to other good sources.