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Plant Fossils of West Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
Has great diagrams of plant fossils as well as some general information on prehistoric plants.
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Fossil Fun: Plant Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief site that explains how plant fossils let us know what the weather and temperature was long ago. Text is supplemented with photographs.
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Read Works

Read Works: Fossils & Dinosaurs Plant Eaters

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes an example of a plant-eating dinosaur, the Stegosaurus, its appearance, and its eating habits. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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University of California

Ucmp: Fossil Record

For Students 9th - 10th
Charts when certain species of plants first appeared.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Paleobotany and Palynology Image Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting slide show of unique plant fossils, each picture has a caption.
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Hans' Paleobotany Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
A good site discussing the history of fossil plants, including oldest land plants and links to related topics.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students use a chemical indicator (bromothymol blue) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide in animal and plant respiration and in the burning of fossil fuels and its absence in the products of plant...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Biofuels and Bioprospecting for Beginners

For Students 9th - 10th
Biofuels can provide energy without the reliance on environmentally harmful fossils fuels, but scientists are still searching for a plentiful source. Craig A. Kohn demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant...
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Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Corn for Fuel?!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students examine how to grow plants the most efficiently. They imagine that they are designing a biofuels production facility and need to know how to efficiently grow plants to use in this facility. As a means of...
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Louisiana Petrified Wood

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed article about the petrified wood which is found in Louisiana.
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Yale University

Yale Peabody Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This home page describes what the museum has to offer. Links to the exhibits and more information is provided at the bottom of the site.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Biomass

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about "biomass," organic non-fossil material of biological origin. Includes external links.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: Green River Insects

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive photo search of the collection of 35,000 fossiliferous rocks found within the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution: Scientists at the Smithsonian

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of video interviews with twenty Smithsonian scientists who work in a scientific areas as vastly different as measuring the moon and figuring out what kinds of birds collide with aircraft. An interesting way to...
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Cincinnati Museum Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the Museum of Natural History and Science in detail and provides links to other programs and exhibits offered.
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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Clasificacion De Los Seres Vivos

For Students 9th - 10th
All known form of life gathers in large groups, which are called kingdoms. This site provides a thorough overview of the five kingdoms with many illustrations. The lessons contain 15 interactive activities.
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Curated OER

Unesco: Kenya: Lake Turkana National Parks

For Students 9th - 10th
The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Hadrosaurus Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a plate from an 1865 lithograph of fossilized Hadrosaurus bones. Hadrosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 70 million years ago). It was a herbivore (plant eater) and moved on two legs.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Avaceratops

For Students 9th - 10th
This drawing shows the possible appearance of Avaceratops, a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period. The first fossil remains of Avaceratops were found in 1981 in Montana, USA. Like other Ceratopsian dinosaurs, Avaceratops was a...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Prenoceratops

For Students 9th - 10th
This drawing shows the possible appearance of Prenoceratops, a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period (around 80 million years ago). Prenoceratops fossils have been found in the US state of Montana. It belonged to a family of dinosaurs...

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