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BOOKS AND TEACHING GUIDES
Brackenbury, John. Insects and Flowers: A Biological Partnership. Dorset, England: Blandford Press, 1995.
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
Johnson, Sylvia A. Roses Red, Violets Blue: Why Flowers Have Colors. Minneapolis, Minn.: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Proctor, Michael, Peter Yeo, and Andrew Lack. The Natural History of Pollination. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1996.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Many government and educational organizations sponsor sites on the World Wide Web pertaining to pollination. All of the sites listed below describe the process of pollination and provide information on plant-animal interactions as well as adaptations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Global Entomology Agriculture Research Server(GEARS) is an award-winning site dedicated to promoting the latest entomological research findings. The site's Internet Classroom section provides a number of excellent links to information on pollination and related topics.
What Is Pollination? A Sticky Question, a pollination unit developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden, offers online lesson plans, definitions, activities, and "virtual biomes"
for use in the classroom. You can access this site through MBGnet, which is produced and maintained by the Evergreen Project, Inc.
Other sites of interest include:
Pollination and Benefits of Insects
Pollination: The Art and Science of Floral Sexuality
Pollination Adaptations
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Judy Manning
Friends of the National Zoo
Tamsen M. Gray
Department of Invertebrates
National Zoo
Writer
Lydia Paddock
Editors
Douglas Casey
Jennifer Jackson
Translator
Sarita Rodriguez
Web Design
Alan Smigielski
Flower and Bee Illustrations
Karlic Design Associates, llc
Baltimore, Maryland
Publications Director
Michelle Knovic Smith
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