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  | Knowplants.org - your source for plant science education and outreach This primary goal of this website is to act as a repository for on-line resources that can be used for plant science education or outreach. If you have developed a resource that could be used for this purpose or you know a webpage that needs to be included here, please feel free to email us. |
Find games, teaching aids, pictures and other tools to make plant science education a fun experience The site (under continuous improvement) has categorized online resources that are available for any one interested in plants to use. More specifically teachers, students, scientists and public relations professionals can browse through and find some interesting web sites about plant biology.
| Plant science web directories - UN Lincoln AgNIC - A comprehensive searchable list of plant science websites
- Scott's botanical list - very comprehensive categorised collection of plant science websites
- Botany directory listings
Plant species databases Comprehensive databases Specialized databases - Crop database - an alphabetic list of crop plants and information about them
- Plant Care - Database of indoor plants (needs subscription for full access)
- Conifers - Database of gymnosperms (non flowering plants)
- Carnivorous plants - Database of carnivorous plants by International Carnivorous Plants Society
- Poisonous plants - List of poisonous plants and symptoms from Cornell University
- Tropical plants - List of tropical plants (The Amazon plants)
- Plants for a future - Search information about useful plants by name or use (informative, but no images)
- Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases - Searchable databases to identify plants producing phytochemicals having specific activities (e.g. anti cancer compounds, antioxidants)
Native / invasive plant databases United States Canada Other Weed Identification guides Herbaria and Institutes Herbaria directory - Searchable directory from the New York botanical gardens (The search engine is not very friendly, for example, recognises 'U.S.A', but not 'USA'). Additional directories
Careers in plant science | Teaching resources K-12 - Plants for kids - A list of websites providing information about plant science; aimed at kids
- SAPS - Science and Plants for Schools; initiative between scientists and teachers to improve plant science education
Proteacher - Plant science teaching activity ideas emints - List of useful plant science teaching resources on the internet
Science Fair Projects USDA - Agriculture science fair projects About.com - includes additional links as well
Undergraduate education Arabidopsis teaching resources PREP (Virginia Tech) - Online lab notebook, promotes communication between scientists and high school techers, students Greenomes - Lab and bioinformatics exercises that introduce genetics and genome to students Enhancer trap lines - Different tissue-specific expression patterns useful for teaching (Geisler et al. 2002. Plant Physiology)
efp browser - Pictographic representation of gene expression data for Arabidopsis Lehle seeds - Arabidopsis/plant biology teaching resources Seeds for teaching - Lehle, NASC
Photos - Cells - a collection of high resolution images of plant cells and organelles from the Danforth Plant Science Center
- Plant images - An organized collection of plant images from the Botanical Society of America
Plant facts - collection of images searchable by keyword Floral images - a collection of flowers in North-Western Europe, particularly the British Isles Plant pictures - collection of plant images catergorised by families (mostly native wild plants) - Image Bank - another list of plant image databases
- Dennis Kunkel Microscopy - Nice collection of micrographs of plants (strictly requires written permission before use even for educational purposes)
- Science Photo Library - Plant science related images searchable based on country
- FotoSearch - A collection of searchable images (includes lots of non-scientific images which may be useful for a presentation)
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PBS teacher source - Collection of videos and techer guides (Select age category and subject to see the list of materials) - Sify videos - Video answers by scientists to some botany questions (many ads on web-page)
- Plant life for Children - a collection of five videos (for purchase $149.75 or $29.95 ea)
- Plant life in Action - a collection of six vidoes (for purchase $179.70 or $29.95 ea)
- Stock photography - collection of plant videos
- Animations
- Wisconsin on-line - collection of learning objecs (animations) that can be used for teaching (requires free registration and permission to use)
- U Alberta Instructional multimedia - Animations about botany, cell biology, genetics, microbiology etc.
- Educypedia - A long list of links to biology animations
- Virtual plants - a neat resource from Univ of Queensland that has plant animations
- Library of crop technology - some neat animated lessons on plant biology
- Science animations - List of science animations useful for teaching (incl. plant biology)
- Cells alive - a collection of interactive images, animations and videos of cells and microbes (includes a plant cell too)
- Wiley Interscience - Interactive animations about cells
- Life cycle - Animation comparing plant and human life cycle
- Edumedia - A few nice plant animations (free light version; full version needs subscription)
- Micrometeorology - Animations about plant water relations
- Science Optics - Zoom in from space to the nucleus of a carbon atom in the DNA of an oak tree's epidermal cell in Florida! (Cool?)
- Games
- Planet Biotech - a suite of three interactive games to learn about plant biotechnology (under development)
- Ecokids - A few games about plants and ecology
- Bet on the farm - Try virtual farming in Ohio, manage a farm and see how you fare!
- Simfarm - manage a farm with crops and animals (from the makers of simcity)
- JC-schools - a collection of games and teaching materials from various sources about plants
- Wild kids - fun discovery about nature
- picadome - Collection of educational activities and games about plants
- Plant Game - Grow and care for your plants daily, all in your computer! (CNN's review)
- Primary games - Few word and puzzle games about plants
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