Botany
The Berkeley MIP site is a huge but easy-to-navigate database in the field of botany...
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The Berkeley MIP site is a huge but easy-to-navigate database in the field of botany.Herb at the University of Regina in Canada includes databases, too, and major organizations, conservation sites, and special topics such as ethnobotany.
Search Field Trips within this media center for locations of botanical gardens.
LifeLab describes how a school can turn a patch of its open space into a living garden for investigating not only botany but also interaction of plants in different kinds of soils. Especially for students who may not have a backyard to grow things this use of school grounds is a wonderful way to level the playing field. The Great Plant Escape, appropriate for very young children, is similar to LifeLab's content. Presented as mysteries, a half-dozen experiments, like "Is it dust, dirt, dandruff or a seed?", are illustrated. Its audience, too, are urban schoolchildren. You won't find new technologies, although other pages at ACES do showcase them, but the titles of the experiments are pretty funny.In that vein, the Agriculture Department engages students with unit titles, such as "No Mousing Around", "Something's Fishy",and "Plants That Like Heavy Metal". The full food chain has been explained.
Garden, home of the National Garden Association, contains K-12 curricula and information on topics such as grasses, fungi and butterfly gardens.
At Xray radiographic displays of flowers and plants reveal a perspective and contents not found in most charts.
Horticultural and crop science at Ohio State contain databases, photos, etc. which would be very helpful to students studying agriculture in other regions of the US.
Fast Plants is full of animations for classroom activities about plant growth.
The impact of invasive plant species illustrates the adaptation of non-native vegetation in different ecological environments. They illustrate diffusion of species.
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Interestingly, subject matter experts have taken different approaches to telecommunications. For instance, microbiologists have glombed onto modeling and simulations while botanists, at least for the moment, mount magnificent photos of specimens (Field Trips). The Berkeley database is targeted for higher ed researchers.
Help! If you come across great sites for botany for K-12, here is the place to contribute.
