BSA Suggested Websites Young People's Plant Sites |  K-12 Resources |  Undergraduate Resources |  Career and Funding |  Some BSA Member Sites of Special Interest |  Journals, Newsletters, Blogs, & Discussion Boards |  Fun for Everyone - Images, Gardens, & More | Updated 8 Nov. 2007.  If you would like to suggest a resource, please email us at bsa-manager@botany.org Young People's Plant and Science Sites AgNIC- Youth Plant Science WEB Resources "Biomes of the World"- Missouri Botanical Garden Climbers and Creepers - games and online fun by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Dragonfly Web Pages Eco-Sensor Web - live data from the National Botanic Garden, Ireland with online  tours and elementary-level activities Flora Delaterre, The Plant Detective - learn about medicinal plants and listen to radio audio clips Focus on Forests - from World Land Trust Fun Facts about Fungi Fun with Lichens Junior Master Gardener "KIDS ONLY"- Canadian Botanical Conservation Network Kids Stuff on Plants -California Native Plant Society Kid's Valley Webgarden - K-5 page on growing plants, understanding flowers, veggies,  herbs, shrubs and more Kid's Web - puzzles, games about fertilizers Meet the Plant Parts - build a salad, presented by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Photosynthesis, Energy and Life - an elementary school science site Science 4 Kids - from USDA (click on parts of the large picture!) Plant Watch - part of Canada's Nature Watch citizen science programs The Great Plant Escape - a clever chapter for 4th and 5th graders, 6 activities and a teacher's guide The Science of Gardening - from the Exploratorium US Department of Agriculture for Kids Young Naturalist's Page - a focus on plants of Florida Fact Monster - includes science(!) The WWW Virtual Library: Science Fairs - search science fair projects Try Science - a gateway to science centers and online activities  NASA 2007-2008 Engineering Design Challenge - Build and Test Lunar Plant Growth Chambers  K-12 Resources BSA's www.PlantingScience.org - fostering student research and science mentoring AAAS - BioSciEdNet (BEN) - portal to lessons, images, and other teaching resources AIBS - Action Bioscience - lessons and essays Avoid Misconceptions When Teaching about Plants More Misconceptions When Teaching about Plants Analyzing Wetlands - chapter from Earth Exploration Toolbook focusing on international wetland data Biodiversity Counts - from American Museum of Natural History, includes plant  identification and ecology Canadian Botanical Society Teaching Section - resources for elementary and secondary school Center for Plant Conservation - Plants in Peril lesson for middle school Chicago Botanic Garden's Education Division C-Fern - hands-on curricula using Ceratopteris Ecological Society of America's Education Programs North American Association for Environmental Education's Enviromental Education Links Flora of North America - lesson plans and fact sheets for middle and high school Measuring Vegetation Health - self-guided activities for middle and high school Missouri Botanical Garden's Education Division National Biological Information Infrastructure - accessible information on plants, ecology, systematics National Digital Science Library - searchable K-12 and higher education resources New York Botanical Garden's Education Program Plant Genome Research Outreach Portal - searchable comprehensive list of programs and activities Plants and Animals - Partners in Pollination - three lessons from the Smithsonian Instititution Plants-in-Motion - timelapse photography and more by Roger Hangarter Purdue University, Agronomy Outreach Partnership for Research and Education in Plants (PREP) - a teacher, student, scientist  project focusing on Arabidopsis Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Science and Plants for Schools The Green Machine Science Education Centre Tree World Understanding Evolution - your one-stop spot for teaching evolution Wisconsin Fast Plants- hands-on learning with rapid cylcing Brassica What's new in Paul's Sandbox - downloadable activities by the developer of Wisconsin Fast Plants STANDARDS AND SCIENCE LITERACY AAAS Atlas of Science Literacy National Science Education Standards Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards Academic Benchmark's list of State Standards Computer-Assisted Content Standard Assignment & Alignment (CASAA) Standard-aligned STEM resources for PK-12 - from University of Wisconsin-La Cross;  botanical information found under "The Living Environment" (plant biology) and "The  Designed World" (agriculture) 12 Principles of Plant Biology - by the American Society of Plant Biology Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Resources Angiosperm Phylogeny Website Canadian Botanical Society Teaching Section  The Cuticle Database Bryophyte Ecology MORPH Research Coordination Network - links to literature, labs, and grants in plant  evolutionary developmental biology Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy Plant Bioinformatics Portal of the BIC-GH Plant Systematics Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages Cal's Plant of the Week - from OU's greenhouse Tree of Life Virtual Plants: 3D Measurement and Simulation of Morphogenesis TEACHING RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND TOOLS AAAS - BioSciEdNet (BEN) - portal to lessons, images, and other teaching resources Active Learning Site Home Page - resources for active learning in college classrooms AIBS - Action Bioscience - lessons and essays Biological Science Curriculum Study - a leader in inquiry-based science education and  professional development BioQUEST Curriculum Constortium - problem-based and case-based learning BioQUEST Botany 2007 Symposium - downloadable presentations and resources for  problem-based plant biology from the 2007 BSA Education and Outreach Forum LabWrite - tutorial for student lab reports Ecological Society of America's Education Resources - syllabus exchange and much more MERLOT Biology Portal - teaching tips and learning resources National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science - cases and strategies for teaching with cases National Digital Science Library - searchable K-12 and higher education resources Plant Genome Research Outreach Portal - searchable comprehensive list of programs and activities Project Kaleidescope - alliance to build strong learning environments for undergraduates Starting Point - Teaching Entry Level Geoscience - comprehensive guide to course design, assessment OER Commons - Open Educational Resources for a worldwide learning network Moodle - open source course management software TEXTBOOK LINKS BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook Biology of Plants, 7th edition Raven, Evert, & Eichhorn Plant Physiology, 4th Edition Online - Taiz & Zeiger Plant Systematics Instructors Website - Simpson Principles of Botany - Uno, Storey, & Moore LINKS TO LITERATURE AND DATABASES ONLINE Internet Directory for Botany (IDB) by Raino Lampinen, S. Liu, A. R. Brach & K. McCree Internet Directory for Botany - Alphabetical List Botanicus - historical botanical literature accessible online from Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Genome Database - resources for plant comparative genomics National Agricultural Library - AGRICOLA Article Citation Database - powerful literature database National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - access GenBank, Blast, and more National Library of Medicine - PubMed Article Citation Database - MedLine access to authors,  titles and abstracts Internet Guidepost for Plant Production - extensive botany and agriculture WWW site World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany part of the W3 World-Wide Web Virtual Library BioAgMed INFOMINE - encyclopedic site, searchable by keywords or index directories The Mining Company's Botany site - links to lots of sites PlantSCIENCEnetBASE - new plant science titles Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory - directory and database to  environmental biology resources  Career and Funding Botanical Career Opportunities - Postings on BSA job board, with links to others HOW TO FIND UNIVERSITIES, PROGRAMS, AND PEOPLE ON THE WEB University Home Pages American University Home Pages Community College Home Pages Canadian Universities/Universités Canadiennes International University Home Pages Study abroad Comprehensive Guide to University Courses in Australia Graduate Studies Programs AAAS Alliances for Graduate Education and the Profesoriate Program GradSchools.com - An online resource for graduate programs in botany New York Botanical Garden: International Plant Research Center Graduate Studies Program Postdoctoral Programs and Association National Postdoctoral Association Programs and Associations for Increasing Diversity in Science Association for Women in Science SPIRES Network working with Historically Black Colleges adn Universities HBCU Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science American Indian Science and Engineering Society Email Directories BSA Online Membership Directory STUDENT FUNDING SOURCES AND GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS U. S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Department of Energy - DOE Environmental Protection Agency - EPA National Instititutes of Health - NIH National Science Foundation - NSF Community of Science Funding Opportunities - a worthwhile, comprehensive database Fieldwork Support from the Earthwatch Institute - support for fieldwork Graduate Fellowship Notebook - from Cornell University Garden Club of America - Scholarships and Fellowships New England Botanical Club - Graduate Student Research Award Welcome Europe - funding for European projects Some BSA Member Sites of Special Interest » Joy Marburger - Cattail Volunteer Monitoring Project » John M. Miller - The Origins of Flowering Plants, gigantopteroid.org » Scott's Botanical Link of the Day and Botanical Links - Subject Index » Tim Gerber's Teacher's Using Living Plants (TULIP) site From Dr. Peter Wilf, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan: Manual of Leaf Architecture by the Leaf Architecture Working Group (Amanda Ash, Beth Ellis,  Leo Hickey, Kirk Johnson, Peter Wilf, and Scott Wing). The Manual can be downloaded in pdf  format from a server at Yale From Dr. Joe Armstrong, ISU: The Biggest, Tallest, Oldest Trees of the NW US - virtual fieldtrip with captioned pictures by  David Lee and pages on rainshadows and phytogeography Costa Rican Rain Forest Ecology - typical images, with more to be added Photo essays from his economic botany course: Rubber Tree Tapping and Latex Processing Cassava, Cassava Bread, and Protein Deficiency Origin of Paper & Paper Production from Paper Mulberry Bark Processing of Coir, Coconut Fiber Science and Biology Introduction - Chapter 1 of Armstrong & Collier's biology textbook. Answers,  what is science? From Dr. Steven Wolf, CSU-Stanislaus: Steve's Digital Plant Photos ASPT Nomenclatural Discussion Web Arnica type specimens database Botanists - If you have an education or outreach website you would like to profile, please email us at  bsa-manager@botany.org Journals, Newsletters, Blogs, and Discussion Boards Electronic Editions of Selected Journals, links to indexes: American Journal of Botany - BSA's scientific journal Academe this week (synopsis of current issue of Chronicle of Higher Education) Journal of Biological Chemistry Nature Science The Scientist Public Library of Science Full Electronic Journals Links Botany Electronic Journals World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Electronic Journals Newsletters: Plant Science Bulletin - BSA's newsletter for members Botanical Electronic News (BEN) Archive Agriculture Online The Arid Lands Newsletter Home Page Conservation Ecology Kew Scientist Progressive Farmer Online BCGI's Education E-update Science Blogs: UBC Botanic Garden Blog Plant Science Blog Plant Discussion Groups: TOPICA Newsletters & Discussion Groups - Plants Yahoo Groups - Plants - free listserv hosting service (135 lists on plants 11/04/03) Plant-ed listserv - discussion of botanical educaiton issues Human Flower Project - international newsgroup, photo album, and online discussion of plants Fun for Everyone Find a Plant or Learn More About Specific Plants Unknown Tree - A "find it" key! Missouri Botanical Garden - Plant Finder Alphabetical List of Plants in PlantFinder The Carnivorous Plant FAQ The Cycad Pages - Welcome to the intriguing world of Cycads - Survivors from before the dinosaurs! Poisonous Plants of Nova Scotia - slide show plus medicines, toxins and poisons from native plants The Cornell University Poisonous Plants Page The Parasitic Plant Connection - by Dan Nickrent The University of Illinois PLANTS TOXIC TO ANIMALS Page Florida Plants Online - information about sustainable agriculture and everything you wanted to know about  Florida plants! Wyane's Word - Botany BOTANICAL TERMS The GardenWeb Glossary - over 4400 terms relating to botany and horticultre Glossary of over 4400 terms relating to botany and horticulture The Meanings of Latin names Image sites BSA Image Collection - from the BSA Teaching Section and members! AAAS - Biological Education Network Portal (BEN) CalPhotos Flowerbase Image Database - about 7,000 photos (Dutch site with translations of common names ) Fungal Images of Jose Herrera International Carnivorous Plant Society Image Gallery Steve's Digital Photos - images with rich detail from Steve Wolf Texas A & M Vascular Plants Image Gallery - collection of angiosperms Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library - Wieslander Vegetation Type Maps  & Photographs Wisconsin Image Collection - broad collection of angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns, microscopy views also The Plant Image Gallery USAD Plants Gallery Catalog of Botanical Illustrations : Smithsonian Institution HortiPlex Database - GardenWeb's searchable image collection Botanical Gardens, Herbaria, and Natural History Museums Missouri Botanical Garden New York Botanical Garden Chicago Botanic Garden Smithsonian Institute Department of Botany Field Museum Department of Botany UBC Botanic Garden and Centre for Plant Research Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh http://www.botanique.com/ - tours of gardens and arboreta, calendars, links Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens Smith College Botanic Garden Native Plant Groups California Native Plant Society Hawaiian Native Plant Genera Native Plant Information Network - Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center Missouri Flora website Central Washington Native Plants Gardening Sites Kemper Center for Home Gardening - MBG Gardening Help The Helpful Gardener The Garden Gate GardenNet - vast information directory for growing plants! LI>Dave's Garden GardenWeb - garden and gardening resources Garden Club of America National Gardening Association

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