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
Supermarket botany
- nice teaching resource to help teach plant parts. incl. work sheets as well.
- Ticklemeplant - Buy gift packs of 'tickleme' plant (Mimosa pudica).
- UC, Davis - SEED curriculum for grade school
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
Multimedia
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)
- CanStockPhoto - offers professional royalty free stock images starting at $1. might require free membership for lower price.
- Flowerinfo - beautiful pictures of a number of flowers and background information about flower types/groups.
Videos
PBS teacher source - Collection of videos and techer guides (Select age category and subject to see the list of materials) - Library video - a collection of plant science videos for purchase (different choices available for different age groups/purpose)
- 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 INRA, France and Univ of Queensland; 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
- Science Learning Network - List of useful science learning links
- Life cycle - Animations about life cycles of different organisms
- 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