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Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!

Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?

Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

Experiment: Leaf Patches

What happens when leaves don’t have access to sunlight? Let’s do an experiment to find out!

Experiment: Access to Water

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to water affects a plant’s growth and survival.

Experiment: Access to Light

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to light affects plants’ growth and survival.

Experiment: Access to Soil

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to soil affects plants’ growth and survival.

Experiment: Access to Air

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to air affects plants’ growth and survival.

Botanical Videos

Desert Garden

Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei began a scientific revolution when he shared a new way of studying the universe in his book Siderius Nuncius.