Open Directory - Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: Living Things: Plants and Trees
This category in other languages: [ ] - Provides an introduction to plants. Topics include how they grow, individual plant parts, making food, pollination, seed dispersal, adaptations, and how they help the environment. [ ] - An encyclopedia of plants where you can look a plant up by its common name or its botanical name. It also includes a dictionary of botanical words and information about pests, diseases, and weather. [ ] - Eighty different species are described and illustrated as you take a virtual walk around the University of Washington. Common and Latin names are given. [ ] - Provides accurate drawings of 63 wildflowers. Flowers listed by both common name and scientific name. Each drawing includes coloring guide. [ ] - Learn how the roots, trunk, leaves, twigs, and buds are put together. Tells how to identify trees and what happens inside the tree. [ ] - Learn about the parts of a tree by clicking on the drawing. Page explains the purpose of the leaves, trunk and roots. Photosynthesis and types of seeds are also discussed. [ ] - Contains a wide variety of terms associated with botany and paleobotany (which is the study of plant fossils, or ancient plants). [ ] - Tells what different parts do and why they are important to the health of the tree. [ ] - Learn the names for the various parts of a flower. From the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [PDF] [ ] - Includes a fact sheet on this tall, branching shrub, and what is being done to help it. [ ] - Learn about poisonous plants and find out ways to avoid these plants. [ ] - Full of interactive adventures to explain why trees have different shapes, how squirrels help oak trees to survive, how trees spread their seeds, and how trees protect their space. [ ] - An introduction to photosynthesis and other energy sources that move through nature. [ ] - Information on scientific plant names including why they are written in Latin, why they change and how to write scientific names in an English document. [PDF] [ ] - Intended as a starting point for finding plant pathology sites on the net. It is divided into themed sections. [ ] - Includes games, coloring pages, facts, and stationery. [ ] - Offers information on basic biology as well as explanations of different parts, pollination, germination, photosynthesis and spreading seeds. Also includes simple quizzes on each section and a glossary. [ ] - Contains short movie clips that show movements of plants and flowers over an extended period of time. Also includes learning projects and plant art. Apple QuickTime is required to view the movie clips. [ ] - Provides an alphabetical list of plants, flowers, and ornamentals. Also includes pictures. [ ] - Fun facts, photographs, and information about tree types, classification, life cycles, habitat, stems, rings, and harvesting operations. [ ] - Provides descriptions and photographs of trees and shrubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Includes an image database. [ ] - Weekly column focusing on science, farming, nature and related topics. [ ] - Non-profit program dedicated to educating children about the responsible management and use of California's most renewable resource. Includes resources for students and teachers, including lessons, games, and other resources. [ ] - History, varied uses for kudzu plants, links and references. [ ] - Help Detective LePlant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life. [ ] - Comprehensive information about this plant that eats meat and also includes includes information on how to grow one. [ ] - An identification resource that covers plants, grasses, and trees. Information is sorted by common name, scientific name, and by the “family” to which it belongs. [ ] - Travel with Pierre as you learn all about how trees are important to us. [ ] - Provides information on plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories. Users can search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics. [ ] - Covers a wide range of subjects that study plants, algae, and fungi. Topics include the importance of botany, etymology, history, and botanists.
