Browsing through old Gardeners Chronicles from the 1800s will make our ancestors come alive. By mapping out the habitat ranges of various species, kids can sit down with world maps and take a global tour. Climate Drosophyllum grows in a Mediterranean climate. Astronomy Growing CP can give young people their first conceptualization of our earth's axis of rotation and revolution around the sun. Kids start paying attention to the changing seasons, the equinoxes, and the length of the daylight period.
Most major cities have botanical gardens.
The CP electronic-mail discussion group has over 500 subscribers from 30 different countries. Pen-pals Children can communicate with others around the country or around the world who grow these strange plants, sharing information, seeds and plants. Their profits were used to set up a CP display for their school. We have had classes visit our nursery not to study the biology of CP, but to draw them and photograph them. Geoff Wong, an award-winning CP grower in Northern California, has built several ingenious mechanical models of CP that have toured children's museums for displays and shows.