Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. It includes a unit lesson plan for seventh grade students and links to forty educational and ethnobotany sites. The lesson plans contain unit objectives, a list of required and optional resources, and assessment instruments for both individual and group evaluation. Ideas for interdisciplinary study are offered. The goal of the unit is to help students learn about the diversity and value of plants while validating the value of the indigenous people's contributions and knowledge of medicine.
Students learn how to identify plants and their antimicrobial properties.
Enrichment activities include an investigation into indigenous food plants. The links to other sites give teachers the opportunity to gather information about the societal issues related to ethnobotany, sources for plants and seeds, and curricular materials related to the unit. Sites with databases, books, and bibliographies can also be accessed from this home page. History of science.