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Make your Own Leaf Skeleton

Leaf skeleton art was a popular activity for Anglo-American women in the 19th century. Try making your own!

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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?

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Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

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Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

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

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Stems

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