The Plant Project Rubric
Resources:
Websites:
- Seeds of Life Some excellent photographs of fruits and seeds as well as a set of links to related topics.
- CSU BioWeb Fruit Key (Steve Wolf at CSU Stanislas) Progress through the key or view the entire key. Illustrated too!
- Botany 3700 (Steve Wolf at CSU Stanislas) Images and notes about flowering plants.
- The Naked Seeds of Pinus Text and nice graphics on the life cycle of pines.
- Flowering Plant Family Recognition and World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification (Ray Phillips, Colby College) Illustrated guide to the "essential" families for Phillips' class.
- Fruits (Gopher menu from Wisconsin) A collection of images.
- Flower Whorls and Femaleness Text and very nice illustrations of megasporogenesis.
- Plant Biology (University of Maryland) Text, outlines, and images that are part of a general botany course.
- The angiosperm life cycle (University of Manitoba) Text with glossary and a few images.
- The Virtual Forest A 360 degree navigable (with QuicktimeVRŽ; links to download it if you don't have it) forest.
- Encyclopedia of Plants Scientific and common names for garden plants.
- The Botanical Society of America Fnd out what we botanists do when not inflicting tests and such on you students!
- Plant images (a collection of image files, many used herein).
- Plant Tissue Types Text and graphics, a nice supplement to coverage of the topic above.
- Ultimate web pages about dendrochronology Tree-rings were never this interesting! An excellent site with info and photos.
- The Ancient Bristlecone Pine An excellent page detailing the story of the bristlecone pines, some of which are over 4000 years old. Makes even me feel
young again!
- Monocots versus Dicots (UCMP Berkeley) Succinct presentation of the two classes of the angiosperms.
- Angiosperm Anatomy An excellent site detailing plant structure.
- Introduction to the Anthophyta (flowering plants) (UCMP Berkeley) Introduction to the most recently evolved major plant group, includes links to fossil record, systematics
and more.
- Plant Tissue Systems Lots of images and text.
- Plant Biology (University of Maryland) Text, outlines, and images that are part of a general botany course.
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