Links to informative and fun websites
For Students
Discover Plants K-2
University of Illinois The Great Plant Escape:
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html
For Educators/Parents
I Love That Teaching Idea “My Adopt a Tree” Booklet:
web.archive.org/web/20030605054501/http://iloveth
atteachingidea.com/WRCenter/science/My+Adopt+a+T
ree+Notebook.pdf
Michigan Reach Out! Have You Ever Met a Tree?
www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubjec
t/lessons/arb/meetatree.html
For Students
Fantastic Fall 3-6
Sambal’s Science Web Photosynthesis:
www.sambal.co.uk/photosynthesis.html
Plants and Our Environment
Photosynthesis:
library.thinkquest.org/3715/photo3.html
Spreading Seeds:
library.thinkquest.org/3715/seeds4.html
Seeds:
library.thinkquest.org/3715/seeds.html
users.adelphia.net/~lubehawk/BioHELP!/photosyn.htm
Spring Sprouts 3-6
Plants and our Environment
Flowers: library.thinkquest.org/3715/flower.html
Pollination: library.thinkquest.org/3715/pollin5.html
"Who Wants to be an IPM Super Sleuth?" Project:
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For Educators/Parents
For Students
Athena Wetlands:
vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/wetland/
Twin Groves Beaver Games
www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Wetlands/Beaver/
BeavGames.html
Ducks Unlimited Program For Young Conservationists:
www.greenwing.org/
US Environmental Protection Agency Wetlands:
www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/awm/
Adopt a Stream Foundation’s Stream Links:
www.streamkeeper.org/opportun/links.htm
Dialogue for Kids Wetlands Links:
http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season6/wetlands/li
nks.cfm
Homewaters Project: www.homewatersproject.org/
Newton’s Apple Teacher’s Guides Index
Photosynthesis:
www.tpt.org/newtons/9/phytosy.html
Lubey’s Bio Help Photosynthesis (the big picture):
www.ipminstitute.org/supersleuth.htm
Pick the Pollinator
Wetland Ecology Walk K-8
For Educators/Parents
For Educators/Parents
For Students
Discovery Education Lesson Plans Library Pollination
Parties (K-5)
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/prog
rams/tlc-butterflies/ , also see All About Plants (3-5)
school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/allaboutpla
nts/
Native Plants and People 3-8
For Students
Dragonfly
People and Plants:
www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/plants/
My Dad the Ethnobotanist:
www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/plants/plotkin.shtml
For Educators/Parents
History, photos and stories of Duwamish:
www.duwamishtribe.org/
Maps and info on Coast Salish:
coastsalishmap.org/
Suquamish Tribe: www.suquamish.nsn.us/
American Memory Library of Congress American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest:
memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/pacific/
Washington Park Arboretum 2006
Links to informative and fun websites cont.
Other Links
General Botany
For Students
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Kids Trees
Student’s Guide:
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/tree_kit/student/index.ht
ml (K-4)
PBS Nature for Students:
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/plants/planet.html
Mrs. Mitchell’s Virtual School Plants for Kids:
http://www.kathimitchell.com/plants.html
For Students
Born Free - an international organization promoting
wildlife conservation and protection
http://www.bornfree.org.uk/animals/
Reading, science and games at Houghton Mifflin’s Kid’s
Place: www.eduplace.com/kids/
For Educators/Parents
Activities and resources for parents, care givers and
homeschoolers: www.eduplace.com/parents/
For Educators/Adults
UW Botanic Gardens Elisabeth C. Miller Library:
www.millerlibrary.org
Education World, The Educator’s Best Friend Lesson
Plan: How Does Your Tree Measure Up?
UW Botanic Gardens Otis Douglas Hyde Herbarium:
www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp309-01.shtml depts.washington.edu/hydeherb/
(3-12)
Union Bay Natural Area:
Urban Programs Resource Network:
depts.washington.edu/urbhort/html/plants/ubna.html
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/
UW Botanic Gardens Center for Urban Horticulture:
depts.washington.edu/urbhort/
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Kids Trees
Teacher’s Guide:
UW Botanic Garden Rare Care:
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/tree_kit/teacher/index.ht courses.washington.edu/rarecare/
Burke Museum: www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/
ml
PBS Nature for Teachers:
Museum of History and Industry:
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/teach.html
www.seattlehistory.org/
Teacher’s Domain: www.teachersdomain.org/
Woodland Park Zoo: www.zoo.org/
Sharing Nature Foundation: www.sharingnature.com/ Seattle Aquarium: www.seattleaquarium.org/
A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling:
Pacific Science Center: www.pacsci.org/
Wolf Haven International: www.wolfhaven.org/
homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/explore/botany.htm
Scott Foreman Science: www.sfscience.com/ (K-6
Seattle Parks and Recreation:
www.cityofseattle.net/parks/
lessons on all science subjects)
Washington Park Arboretum 2006