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Edible and Medicinal Plants: Field Trip Guide
Though it's designed to guide a field trip to the New York Botanical Garden, you could take resource like this one to a local park, wilderness area, school garden, or even a weedy empty lot. Middle schoolers identify plant parts and...
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Botanical Gardens Lesson Plan
Students define botanical gardens and explain why they are important. They describe a plant using scientific ways.
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Mini-Ecosystems
Pupils use plastic bottles to create terrariums and plant Venus Flytraps. They observe the plants and the terrariums for illustrations of the water cycle and species' adaptations to a specific environment.
University of Washington
Natural History Museums and Collections
Presents links to museums worldwide, as well as categorizing them by each continent.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden
This site provides information on the Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden located in Blacksburg. If you click on the link "Photographs" you will see how two different gardens were constructed. Click on "What's Blooming" and get a beautiful...
University of Florida
Fmnh: University of Florida Herbarium
This excellent site contains information on the University of Florida Herbarium located in Gainsville, Florida. The Herbarium offers five different collections of plants as well as an electronic library of plants.
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Montreal Botanical Garden
This site presents information on the Montreal Botanical Garden in Quebec, Canada. The site contains general information about the Garden. Also on the site is information about various gardens and greenhouses of the Botanical Garden,...
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Denver Botanic Gardens
This site presents information on the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. There are five different gardens within the larger structure, they are: the plant collections, the chatfield arboretum, the japanese garden, the tropical botanica,...
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Botanischer Garten Und Botanisches Museum Berlin (Botanical Garden of Berlin)
In German. Informatin on The Botanical Garden of Berlin. The web page is very thorough and detailed; containing everything from a survey of the garden to information on other botanical gardens.
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National Tropical Botanical Garden
This is the home of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Kaua'i. The resource gives you a choice of three small gardens in Kaua'i to visit underneath the sub-heading "Garden Tours". The main site will also take you to a few gardens...
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Newfoundland Botanical Garden
Presents information on the Newfoundland Botanical Garden located in Newfoundland, Canada. It provides in depth information on each section of the garden.
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Kumamoto University: Medicinal Plant Garden
This site provides information on the Medicinal Plant Garden located in Japan. The web page presents a list of all the plants the garden contains, and their pictures.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The Weight of a Petal: The Value of Botanical Gardens
Food, medicine, and clean air are just a few of the benefits that plants give us. Delve into an article highlighting the significance of botanical gardens and peruse the additional research and educator resources offered.
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Zilker Botanical Gardens
This site provides information on the Zilker Botanical Gardens located in Austin, Texas. If you click on "Main Features, there will be descriptions of all the small gardens within the large garden. You can also check out pictures of the...
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Mangolia Plantation and Its Gardens
This site contains information on the Mangolia Plantation and It's Gardens located in Charleston, South Carolina. You can click on the link "The Gardens", and a new page will come up with pictures of the garden and with a description of...
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden
This site contains information on the Brooklyn Botanical Garden located in New York. If you click on the link "Visiting," and then on the link "Explore the Garden," you can view any area of the garden. The pictures on the tour are...
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New Orleans Botanical Garden
The homepage of the New Orleans Botanical Garden provides a history of the garden. You can also take a virtual tour.
University of Pennsylvania
Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
This site presents information on the University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum and Gardens. On this web page, you will find general information about the garden, features of the garden, information on the garden's plant collection,...
Harvard University
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
This site contains general information about The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. The site also gives a selection of links that tell more about the garden.
Read Works
Read Works: Top Crops
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rooftop gardens and the learning opportunities they provide. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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The Conneticut College Arboretum
This site contains general as well as specific informaiton on The Conneticut College Arboretum. The site contains numerous links to learn more about the 750 acre arboretum in London, Conneticut.
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Botanical Garden at Gottingen
This site provides information on the Botanical Garden at Gottingen University located in Germany. If you click on the sub-heading "Subjects and History",an English text will come up presenting further details on the garden.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Medicinal Herb Garden
This site provides information on the Medicinal Herb Garden located in Seattle, Washington. It provides an index of herbs and a virtual tour of the garden.
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
This site provides information on the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. If you click on the link "virtual tour", a new page will appear with a map of the garden, and details about the contents in the garden.