MERLOT Materials

This material includes an informative webpage covering topics of the diffrent kinds of tropism taht plants experience and... see more

This is an online course from Spring 2011 created by the webcast.berkeley project at the University of California -... see more

Students will learn about the different parts of the plant and what each part does, as well as about seeds and their... see more

The plant anatomy image database was started in the early 2000’s with the visit of professor Alexander Lux from Comenius... see more

This is a beginner’s guide to the study of plant structure and function. An overview is provided at the main site and... see more

This site helps grade school students learn more about the life cycle of a plant with a very fun video cartoon. Students... see more

This is a great site that includes animated gifs of topics in plant physiology such as photosythesis, circadian rhythms,... see more

This site provides a good introduction to understanding how auxin affects plant growth. The animation shows how auxin... see more

This diagram details the external anatomy of a plant in a concise and understandable presentation. The parts of a plant... see more

This website gives a decription of many aspects of plant physiology. It gives brief overviews over subjects such as plant... see more

This free site provides a good overview of plant stem anatomy. Stems are a part of the shoot system of a plant. They may... see more

This site provides lecture notes in MS-Word and Adobe Acrobat format for General Biology, Plant Biology, Plant... see more

This site provides photomicrographs of various plant structures and sample questions pertaining to each lab topic. There... see more

"Virtual plants" are computer simulations of the structural development and growth of individual plants in 3-D space.... see more

This site requires Flash. The site includes a simulator that uses a virtual potometer to show rates of transpiration.... see more

This is the journal site for the American Society of Plant Biologists. This particular site provides information for... see more

This is a fun little site describing general details about flowering plants from germination to flowering and seed... see more

Teaching Tools in Plant Biology, published by the American Society of Plant Biologists, combines peer-reviewed... see more

This site has resources and other information availiable to understand why plants are important, how they function, and... see more

Activity sheet for Plant Growth Regulation.

This site provides basic information as well as detailed explanations about the action of ethylene as a plant growth... see more

This site provides basic information as well as detailed explanations about the action of ethylene as a plant growth... see more

This is an eloquently simple and straightforward simulation to show the importance of minerals in plant nutrition.... see more

This is a good website to teach general terms and concepts of plant physiology to students. This website also comes with... see more