Plants and Gardens

GENERAL GARDEN SITES

http://urbangarden.com - Welcome to Urban Garden

http://www.gardenguides.com - Garden Guides

http://www.arnprior.com./kidsgarden/index.htm - Kid’s Valley Garden

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solutions/hort.html - Horticulture Solution Series

http://www.bright.net/~gardens/ - Seeds of Hope…Harvest of Pride

http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english - Trees

http://www.worldbook.com/fun/wbla/camp/html/walk.html - CyberCamp: Come Along On A Nature Walk

HOW PLANTS GROW

http://versicolores.ca/seedsoflife/ehome.html - Seeds of Life

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe - The Great Plant Escape

PLAN A GARDEN

http://www.garden.com/cgi-bin/v2/gedesign/AGENT=HOMEARTS - Design a Garden

http://www.mobot.org - Missouri Botanical Gardens

PHOTOS AND BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botart/art_cat.htm - Catalog of Botanical Illustrations

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/books/Mburgh/introd.html - Illustrations of Rare Plants

http://www.flowerbase.com - Welcome to Flower Base

BIOMES

http://www.desertusa.com/flora.html - Desert Plants

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/wildflowers.html - Wildflowers in Bloom

http://www.vt.edu:10021/forestry/wildlife/stein/plants.html - The Virtual Herbarium

ENDANGERED AND PROBLEM PLANTS

http://www.nesarc.org/stlsts.htm - State Lists

http://www.fws.gov/r9endspp/lsppinfo.html - Listed Species Information Central

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/poison - Poisonous Plants

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
http://nyelabs.kcts.org - Welcome to Nye Labs Online

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~agrxray/ - Floral Radiographs: The Secret Garden

http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/images_1.html - The Nanoworld Image Gallery

http://www.sarracenia.com/galleria/floorplan.html - Galleria Carnivora

http://ampere.scale.uiuc.edu/~m-lexa/cell/cell.html - Virtual Cell

http://www.si.edu/resource/tours/gardens/butterfly - The Butterfly Habitat Garden

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/garden - 4-H Children’s Garden at Michigan State University

PLANT EXPERTS

http://www.eagle.ca/gardens - Gardening at eagle.ca

http://www.epa.gov/kids/feedback.htm - Explorers’ Club ask EPA

GENERAL SCIENCE EXPERTS

http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/ - Ask Dr. Universe

http://www.madsci.org/ - Mad Scientist Network

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/ - Scientific American: Ask the Expert

PROJECTS TO JOIN
http://earth.simmons.edu/plants/plants.html - Welcome to the Plants Project

http://www.nwf.org/nwf/kids/other/explore.html - Explore the Outdoors

http://treemusketeers.org/ - Tree Musketeers

http://www.nwf.org/habitats - The Backyard Habitat Wildlife Program

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/unpave - Unpave the Way for Wildlife

http://www.globe.gov/ - Explore the Globe Program

http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern96/pt053/GEOMYstery/geomys.html - The Geo-Mystery project

UNUSUAL GROWING THINGS

http://www.herb.lsa.umich.edu/kidpage/factindx.htm - Fun Facts About Fungi

http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/farms.htm - Family Farms Around the World

LANGUAGE ARTS

http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~hixson/evans/higgins/monet.html - Poetry Inspired by Paintings of Claude Monet

INSECTS

http://www.insect-world.com - Welcome to the Wonderful World of Insects

http://www.honey.com/kids - honey.com the Honey Expert

ECOLOGY

http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/pages/ecoreg1_home.html - Description of the Ecoregions of the United States

http://www.afseee.org/sf/home.html - The Secret Forest

KEYPALS

www.epals.com - ePAL Classroom Exchange

http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc - Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections

http://www2.garden.org/nga/EDU/penpals.htm - Growing Ideas: E-Mail Pals Growing Network

STUDENT GALLERIES

http://www.kids-space.org/ - This is the International Kids’ Space

http://www.muohio.edu/dragonfly/index.htmlx - Dragonfly

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/kids.htm - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Kids’ Page

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/life.html - Living Things

http://www.epa.gov/kids - Environmental Protection Agency’s Explorers’ Club

http://www.KidStuff.org/ - KidStuff

FORUM

http://www.npr.org/cgi-bin/WebX?14@^14870@.ee6fc6c - Science Friday Kids Connection-Science Talk

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

http://www2.garden.org/nga/home.html - National Gardening Association

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9659/books.html - Garden Books for Kids

http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/ - A Science Fair Project Resource Guide

SCHOOL GARDENS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

http://www.owu.edu/~mggrote/pp/ - Project Primary

http://www.fvs.cornell.edu/gardening - garden-making

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kinder - KinderGARDEN

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/ - National Science Education Standards