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editorial
. 2007 Aug;19(8):2311–2319. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.053587

Table 1.

Example Resources for K-12 Plant Science Education

Curricular or Project Resources Website
Elementary Junior Master Gardener http://www.jmgkids.us
New Plants Module http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/NewPlants/index.html
Secondary Brassica Genetics for the Classroom http://www2.biochem.wisc.edu/brassicaclassroomgenetics/index.html
Grounding in Botany http://www.huntington.org/Education/gib.html
Partnership for Research and Education in Plants http://www.prep.biotech.vt.edu
Virtual Plant Biotechnology and Genomics Laboratory http://ppge.ucdavis.edu/Software/software.cfm
K-12 C-Fern http://cfern.bio.utk.edu
Fast Plants http://www.fastplants.org
Plant Genome Research Outreach Portal http://www.plantgdb.org/PGROP/pgrop.php
PlantingScience http://www.plantingscience.org
General Public Plants-in-Motion http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu
sLowLife Exhibition http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/usbg
Other Useful Programs and Documents
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1 (Bransford et al., 1999)
How Students Learn: History, Math, and Science in the Classroom http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10126.html (Donovan and Bransford, 2005)
Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards http://www.nap.edu/books/0309064767/html (National Research Council, 2000)
Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.project2061.org
The Role of Scientists in the Professional Development of Science Teachers http://www.nap.edu/catalog/2310.html (National Research Council, 1996b)
Funding Sources
Howard Hughes Medical Institute http://www.hhmi.org/research/professors; http://www.hhmi.org/resources
National Institutes of Health (R25) Science Education Partnership Award National Center for Research Resources http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-549.html; http://www.ncrrsepa.org
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-001.html
National Institute on Drug Abuse http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-518.html
National Science Foundation 2010 Project http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5337
Broader Impacts Criterion http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/broaderimpacts.pdf
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf04009/ehr/esie.htm
Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf04009/ehr/rec.htm
Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5472
Math and Science Partnership http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5756
Plant Genome Research Program http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5338
The Wellcome Trust http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/funding/publicengagement
Professional Organizations
American Society for Cell Biology http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=6; http://www.lifescied.org
American Society of Plant Biologists http://www.aspb.org/education
Association for Science Teacher Education http://aste.chem.pitt.edu
Botanical Society of America http://www.botany.org/outreach
National Association of Biology Teachers http://www.nabt.org
National Association for Research in Science Teaching http://www.narst.org
National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org
The Arabidopsis Information Resource http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/education