Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Color Are the Leaves Really Turning?
Everyone loves the beautiful colors of fall, but where they come from and how they change color is a mystery. In this project, you will uncover the hidden colors of fall by separating plant pigments with paper chromatography.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Air Pollution and Climate Change
Through this interactive module, students learn that the atmosphere is so much more than air, its complex role on Earth should be explored, and its quality carefully monitored and protected.
Other
Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biology Quizzes: Photosynthesis
Assess your understanding of photosynthesis with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Photosynthesis
Kids learn about the science of photosynthesis. How plants gather energy from the sun.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Goals of Science
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the goals of science.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Light Dependent Reactions
Article explores the light-dependent reactions as they take place during photosynthesis in plants. Traces how light energy is used to make ATP and NADPH and explains photosystems and electron transport chains.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Energy for Life: An Overview of Photosynthesis
Students will be able to identify the kind of energy which powers life.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Importance of Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses plants, their needs, and their importance. The structure and function of roots, stems, and leaves are covered as well.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Norway: What Do Plants Need to Grow Well?
Join Hilde on her trip through the fjords in Norway. Learn more about plants and how plants are able to grow.
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Plants
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate comparison charts, crosswords, and journals for recording data on plants and plants processes. One can also find lesson plans and plant experiments, as well as flower and tree resources.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Importance of the Atmosphere Study Guide
Get the big-picture overview of the importance of Earth's atmosphere and the reactions that happen within it.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 112.16 Producer
Understand the role that producers play in the ecosystem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.22 Carbon Cycle
Understand the role that the carbon cycle plays in the ecosystem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 7.1 Plant Characteristics
A textbook tutorial over biological characteristics of plants.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 5.3 Bacteria Nutrition
Learn about different types of bacteria and the ways they get nutrition.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Cell Structures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Even though plants and animals are both eukaryotes, plant cells differ in some ways from animal cells. Plant cells have a large central vacuole, are surrounded by a...
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: Science and Technology Education
A very comprehensive site for teachers and students. Topics include bugs, energy, bones, animals, photosynthesis, energy, and technology.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Chemical Reactions in Everyday Life
Provides some common examples of chemical reactions, e.g., in respiration, rusting, and photosynthesis.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Helpful Guide to Understand the Photic Zone
The photic zone is the upper layer of the ocean where sunlight can penetrate and support photosynthesis. This article explains the characteristics of this zone, the food chain that exists there, the adaptations of the plants and animals,...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Understanding the Ocean Ecosystem
Describes the two organisms capable of photosynthesis in an ocean ecosystem, the different ocean zones and the plants and animals that live in them, some facts about the ocean, and the five oceans of the world.
Texas A&M University
Peer Curricula: Story Time: Melvin Calvin
A biography of Melvin Calvin, the chemist who figured out how photosynthesis works. The emphasis of this biography is on his early life, the development of his interest in science, and his education.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Algal Heat Damage and Coral Bleaching
Article identifies elevated water temperature as a cause of coral bleaching due to loss of photosynthetic ability in symbiotic algae.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Why Leaves Change Color
This is a site that offers answers to some often hard to answer questions such as why do leaves change colors. Provides an easy to understand answer to the question along with a section that students can read on their own, a puzzle,...