Education formally is a social science that encompasses teaching and learning specific knowledge, beliefs, and skills. Good teachers in a given field use a variety of methods and materials in order to impart a knowledge of a curriculum to the students. Informally, teaching is the process of learning how things work including numbers, reading and language that are taught by parents and other members of the student's culture. There has been a plethora of journals, magazines, books, and digests in the field of education that addresses these areas. Such literature addresses the teaching practices, with subjects that include lectures, game playing, testing, scheduling, record keeping, bullying, seating arrangements, interests, motivation, and computer access. However, the most important factors in any teacher's effectiveness is the interaction with students and the knowledge and personality of the teacher. The best teachers are able to translate knowledge of a subject, good judgment, experience, and wisdom into a significant knowledge of a subject that is understood and retained by the student. It is their ability to understand a subject well enough they can convey its essence to a new generation of students that is needed by all teachers. The goal is to establish a foundation of knowledge base that allows the student to build on as they are exposed to different life experiences. The passing of knowledge from generation to generation (see socialisation) allows the student to grow into a useful member of society.

Botany Online - Comprehensive Internet Hypertextbook from the University of Hamburg. In German and English.
American Society of Plant Biologists - Education - Workshops, conferences, resources, list of undergraduate programs, publications, and forum.
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Botanical - Personal site with miscellaneous botanical content, including photos, educational information about botany, medicinal and poisonous plants, and gardening. In English and Spanish.
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Botanical Concepts - Botanical tutorials for use by undergraduate and graduate level university students of botany, biotechnology, and horticulture.
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Botanical Society of the British Isles - Projects - Information for botany and wildflower enthusiasts within the UK and Europe, featuring the 'Local Change' project in partnership with Plantlife.
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Cyberbotanica - Information from Indiana University's BioTech Project about plant compounds that are used for chemotherapy.
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biochemical information about botanical compounds used in cancer treatment
and natural histories on the plants that produce them. ]
Macrophyte and Periphyton Lab at Florida International University - Describes current research on Everglades periphyton (algae) and macrophytes (aquatic plants).
Plants-In-Motion - Time-lapse videos of plant behaviors.
Meta Description: [ An educational resource for teaching plant biology. Features over 40 time-lapse
movies of plant growth and development including phototropism, gravitropism, photomorphogenesis,
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Two Views of Helmont's Willow Experiment - Reprint of an American Biology Teacher article on uses of Helmont's 1648 willow experiment in biology teaching and discussion about the article by an historian and a plant scientist.
University of Hawaii at Manoa Botany Department - Information about faculty, degree programs, and research groups. Includes photo galleries of Hawaiian plants.
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