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BOTANY
WEB SITES: |
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BioTech's
Life Science Dictionary |
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Algae
of El Eden Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico |
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Alaska's
Blooming Beauties |
| Amazing
Story of Kudzu, The |
Educational
Resources from Swan Farm
Swan's pumpkin farm is located
in Wisconsin so most of us can't go there to take a tour but you can visit
this web site and participate in a pumpkin
trivia
quiz, fun
facts, word puzzle
and a faq.
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Great
Plant Escape
'Detective LePlant needs your
assistance in helping him find clues, do experiments, and solve problems
as you journey into the world of plants.' Case
#1 is the mystery of plant life,
Case
#2 involves rolling up your sleeves and digging in soil to discover
what it is and what kind of soil plants grow in,
Case
#3 is determining how a seed grows into a plant,
Case
#4 is to discover how one plant can produce other plants,
Case
#5 is learning about bulbs and
Case
#6 is going over the things you have learned in working the other cases
and sharing your new knowledge with others.
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KinderGARDEN
A great web site for kids
that explains different ways they can interact with
plants
through gardens. It also contains some
fun
projects they can participate in and take part in a
garden
survey. |
Plant-Parts
Salad
A great interactive puzzle
where you match the image with the right word - all of them are parts of
a salad. It takes a little while to download all of the images to your
computer but it is worth the wait. Try it out, it is fun!
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Australian Flora
Take a look at the unique
Australian flora. Australia's harsh environment along with its isolation
has given rise to many unique varieties of flora. |
Oklahoma
Wildflowers
A collection of over 380 high
quality images. Listed alphabetically or in the table of contents by family.
Family name, size and time of bloom are noted for each flower.
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Almaden
Wildflowers
Gorgeous images of a variety
of wildflowers abound on this site. With a remarkably fast loading time
for a site with pictures of this quality, it's not to be missed. Click
on the wildflower color of your choice to see a detailed list of specific
flowers the site has images for.
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Flowerbase, the Netherlands
Is a database offering over
7,000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants.
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Wildflowers in Texas
Thumbnail images and links
to photographs of wildflowers taken by John Dettling, a teacher from El
Campo, Texas, USA. |
Wildflowers
of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Images of wildflowers of the
Canadian Rocky Mountains |
WEBQUESTS: |
| Create-A-Habitat
- http://www.biopoint.com/WebQuests/dist204/Welcome.html |
| Biomes: The Desert -
http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Desert.html |
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ASK
AN EXPERT SITES: |
| Ask
a Plant Expert -
http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/ask_Expert.html |
| Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/ |
| Ask a Biologist
http://lsvl.la.asu.edu/askabiologist/ |
