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• This illustrated guide is designed to help students recognize and learn the difference between entire and toothed leaf margins. The single Web page can be easily printed for use at field sites. Both leaf margin illustrations identify the leaf blade and the petiole.    

• Completion Time

  Less than 1 period

• Teacher Tip

  Supplement a study of biodiversity with an activity drawn from this guide to types of compound leaves.

  1. Ask students to speculate about how a toothed leaf margin is different from an entire leaf margin.
  2. Send students to this online guide, or print copies of it for them to read.
  3. Have the groups use field guides, the Web, or other classroom resources to identify 10 examples each of plants with entire and toothed leaf margins.

• Topic

  Biology

• Subtopic

  Plants