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Web Resources

Scott’s Draw Your State Flower Contest - Inspire students to create entries for the Scott’s Draw Your State Flower Contest. Winning artwork will be displayed at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.

Flower Courtship - This article spotlights the relationship between flowers and pollinators.

These sites offer information about U.S. state flowers:
National Arboretum
State Web page Index
E-referencedesk
Netstate.com
50States.com

Learning Resources
from the Gardening with Kids Store

Sunflower Seed Collection
Though it's officially the state flower of Kansas, sunflowers are unofficially the symbol of kids' gardens everywhere! Your students will be delighted when their plots of fast-growing, vividly colored sunflowers burst into bloom. Easy and fun to grow, this collection contains 5 varieties: skyscraping Mammoth, Autumn Beauty (multicolored red blooms), petite Sunspot, double-flowered Teddy Bear, and unique Vanilla Ice.

Floral Bookmark Kit
Merge art with science as your students explore the variables — humidity, temperature, air flow, flower type, and so on — that can affect different techniques for drying flowers. This kit provides everything you need to make 25 bookmarks, plus instructions for several flower-preserving techniques to experiment with. Includes 80 dried flowers (blue and pink larkspur, yellow and pink daisies, and pansies — enough for three per bookmark plus a few extras), 2 rolls of clear magic cover, blank bookmark strips, plant name labels, and more. A great classroom activity or gift.