Australian National Botanic Gardens
Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia
The Aboriginal people of Australia survived for over 40,000 years by using the plants that grow in the bush for food, medicine, tools, and utensils. Introduce young botanists to the wonders of the Outback with a 25-page packet that...
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Plants
In this reading comprehension about plants learning exercise, students study an informative text about the medicinal use of plants. Students answer 4 short answer questions.
Channel Islands Film
Sa Hi Pa Ca (Once Upon a Time): Lesson Plan 2
What tools do archaeologists and anthropologist use to learned about what life was like in the past. After watching West of The West's documentary Once Upon a Time that details how scientists use artifacts to establish a...
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First Nations Plants and their Uses
Learners identify the uses of plants by researching Native Americans. In this First Nations culture lesson, students identify the First Nations coastal people of British Columbia and their use of plants such as seaweed, bark and moss....
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Tudor Homes- The Still Room and Herb Garden
In this Tudor homes instructional activity, students read about the importance of the still room and the herb garden in Tudor life. They locate and identify herbs, sketch a plan of a herb garden at Blakesley Hall, draw an herb, and...
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A Book of Eighteenth Century Herbal Remedies
Students discover the kinds of medicines used by midwives in the late 1700s by researching several herbs used by Martha Ballard. They research different herbs and found out how they have been used throughout history. Students create a...
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Objectivity
Help young readers examine historic artifacts to determine if they were designed to help people survive or to create enjoyment. They identify objects that were designed to help people to survive and to enjoy themselves. Then compare and...
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-Nanotechnology
Ethical concerns are not always black and white. A well-designed lesson presents learners with scenarios for which ethics may come into question. Scholars learn to consider the different sides of a situation and make an unbiased...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Islamic Civilization in Spain
There may be elements of this instructional activity that are useful for a unit on Islamic influence in Spain; however, there is little alignment between the learning objectives and the final product --a ten page report. For example,...
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Mobiles For Good-Mobile Phone Uses
In this mobile phone worksheet, students read a selection about mobile phones and their uses in today's society, then complete a variety of comprehension activities related to the passage.
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Going...going...gone? Tropical Rainforests-How They Work, What They Do for Us, What's Being Done to Them...
Sixth graders explore the Tropical Rainforest and come to understand what it is and how it affects the ecosystem. In this rainforests instructional activity, 6th graders write about the Tropical Rainforest, imagine they are in the...
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Prehistory Prowl
In this North Dakota prehistory activity worksheet, students study the mastodon, bison, native plants, and native people of North Dakota as they respond to 21 drawing, graphic organizer and matching questions.
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Arbor Day Vocabulary Quiz
In this Arbor Day vocabulary activity, students draw lines to match ten words pertaining to trees to their definitions. Some prior knowledge or research is assumed.
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The Seasons of Thanks
First graders explain the Native American cyclical concept of time
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Leonardo the Genius
In this artists history worksheet, students read an excerpt about Leonardo Da Vinci. They suggest what natural abilities, attitudes, and personal characteristics he would have needed to do all the famous works that he painted. Students...
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Container Gardening: American History Herb Garden
In this settler's garden worksheet, learners write which herbs they chose to grow and how the settlers used that herb. Students fill in 3 herbs and 3 ways the settlers used them.
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Baga Drum
Pupils examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Medicines, Foods, and Teas
Pictures of the various plants the Micmacs used for food and medicinal purposes. Click on the name of the plant to see a picture and a description of its use.
Purdue University
Purdue University: History of Horticulture: Medicinal Birch Fungus
Take a peek at medical practices of the Ice Man in this picture of a plant fungus attached to a leather strap.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Medical Technology
Many medicinal plants native to Africa found their way around the world and into modern medicine. Find out about five such plants at this informative site.
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Coca Museum
Coca is a plant that lives in the Andean region and is used to make the drug cocaine as well as being used in various medicinal and cultural practices of the Bolivian people. Find out about the science, history and uses of the coca plant...