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Painting with a reddish mountain in the background, hills in the midground, and trees and water in the foreground.

Chimborazo

How can artists express their understandings of the natural world through composite landscape paintings?

Painting of a valley with greenery in the valley basin and high vertical mountains. A waterfall is visible on one of the mountain faces.

Yosemite

Natural Beauty and National Identity: One Artist’s Impact

Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem. A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.

Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Light

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

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

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?

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Leaf Patches

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

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Air

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

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Soil

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

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Water

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

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