Create a Herbarium Specimen
Preserve information about a particular plant for future generations.
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?
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?
Be a Plant Detective
Can you solve the mystery and find the best home for these plants?
Botanical Art
Learn about botanical art and create your own artwork.
The Life of Radish
Lisa Pompelli, Life of Radish, 1994, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens | All rights reserved by artist
Getting Food
Every living being needs food to survive. How do plants get their food?
Water is Life
Every living being needs water to survive. How does water affect the plant world?
Plant Parts & Patterns
Similarities and differences in plant-part patterns can help us make sense of the natural world. How can looking closely at plants help us understand our own environments?
Survival through Adaptation
Survival through Adaptation helps students develop their scientific literacy skills and their sense of belonging in the natural world. The curriculum invites students to observe and make inferences about plants from rainforest, desert, and aquatic ecosystems.