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Zilker Botanical Gardens
This site provides information on the Zilker Botanical Gardens located in Austin, Texas. If you click on "Main Features, there will be descriptions of all the small gardens within the large garden. You can also check out pictures of the...
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Kumamoto University: Medicinal Plant Garden
This site provides information on the Medicinal Plant Garden located in Japan. The web page presents a list of all the plants the garden contains, and their pictures.
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Anderson Japanese Gardens
This site presents information on the Anderson Gardens in Rockford, Illinois. If you click on the link "Tours", a new page will appear with a map of the entire garden. Click on any number on the map to see a picture as well as find out...
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National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening
This complete resource for parents, teachers, and students on gardening provides information about creating and maintaining a school garden. List your garden in the registry of school gardens. Includes information about garden projects...
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Florida Gardener: Flower Parts
Learn about the parts of a flower. Do all flowers have the same parts? Do all flowers reproduce in the same manner? Answers to these questions and more are found here, along with many defined terms.
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Mendel Web: Flower Structure
This site presents a diagram of flower, followed by a focus on Gregor Mendel's experiments on a flowering species of the pea.
Royal Collection Trust (UK)
Royal Collection: Artist's Illustrations of Plants in English Gardens
From the Royal Collection in London, this is a short biography and selection of floral illustrations that made up part of the 154 plate "Flower Book" by the gentelmen gardener Alexander Marshal (c.1620-1682).
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.
PBS
Pbs Nova: First Flower: China, Mother of Gardens
The tutorial explores the native Chinese flowering plant species. Some topics include rock's peony, dove tree, and fortune's rhododendron. The activity consists of a printable version and ian nteractive version.
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Ontario Council for Technology Education: Sensory Garden Design [Pdf]
In this project, young scholars will design a sensory garden. The area to be designed is for a flower bed 3' wide, 5' long and 3' high. The design must be wheelchair-accessible from all sides. Students will research the different sensory...
University of Michigan
Floral Radiographs: The Secret Garden
A gallery depicting "floral radiographs," this website shows several examples of "this unusual art form" which shows "the secret beauty that lies hidden within [flowers'] blossoms." These black and white radiographs are done by Albert...
PBS
Pbs: Count on It!: Blossom and Snappy Go Gardening
Blossom and Snappy decide to plant a garden. They go to Calloway Gardens to learn about different types of plants and flowers, as well as butterflies and hummingbirds.
Read Works
Read Works: Butterflies and Flowers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about butterflies and how to get more to come to a garden. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Staten Island Children's Museum: Garden Terrace: All About Plants and Seeds [Pdf]
Use this guide and some everyday materials to learn about plants and start your own garden.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: May's Garden and Where the Flowers Went
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of May's Garden and Where the Flowers Went, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Song Flowers From a Child's Garden of Verses
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication Song Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, a book of children's fiction.
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden
This site contains information on the Brooklyn Botanical Garden located in New York. If you click on the link "Visiting," and then on the link "Explore the Garden," you can view any area of the garden. The pictures on the tour are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sequence Flower Reports
This is a hands-on book report project. It will be an extension activity that occurs after the reading of the stories The Secret Gardens and/ or The Gardener. Paper Flowers will be designed and put together by each student. Story events...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Little Flower Seekers by Rosa M. Gilbert
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Little Flower Seekers: Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden by Moonlight by Rosa M. Gilbert (c1885), an illustrated children's story about...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Plants
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden explores some commonly asked questions about the prairie and prairie plants.
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The Butchart Gardens
This site provides information on the 50 acre Butchart Gardens in Canada. Underneath the link images, you can see many colorful photographs of the garden. The site also provides a botanical calendar, telling when the different plants and...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Andrew Marvell the Garden*
This site provides the orginal text of Marvell's poem, "The Garden," without explanatory note. In this poem, Marvell compares the soldiers in England's Civil War to flowers.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Garden Terrace
Fun family project relating to plants and seeds.