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Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Plant ID Class-Electronic Plant Collections
Hello All,
I am getting ready to teach a plant ID class. Typically for this class
students
As mentioned by another, this is not a good way for students to learn to
identify plants. In the past, I have allowed photographs of correctly
identified plants to count as part of the collection only in the case where the
species was protected or threatened (e.g. orchids).
As a final exam
Gretta
Taking only pictures as vouchers requires the student to
already know what part or feature of the plant is necessary to identify the
plant. This is backwards they will not know that information. Everyone
does not need to be a taxonomist, but, part of the purpose of a
Hi Everyone,
I have received a lot of helpful and insightful suggestions-thanks so much
to everyone who responded.
I probably should have clarified that the class is a beginning 1-credit
freshman-level weed ID course mostly taken by agricultural science majors.
Most of the students will not be
Hello All,
I am getting ready to teach a plant ID class. Typically for this class
students collect, press, and mount plants as a group project. I have been
toying with the idea of allowing students an option to make an electronic
collection instead of a real one if they so choose. My idea is that
