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Chris MartineCategory: photos and other images
Over 7,000 free botanical photos and drawings are available on Bruce Kirchoff’s Flickr feed. Most images are licensed, most licensed CC-BY 2.0 (a few are CC0 1.0 Universal…
A free plant diversity course by Bruce Kirchoff is now available to all educators. Here is a summary of his open-access teaching resources available online for download and…
Rebecca Humphrey from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI, USA, has developed this great virtual lecture slide deck with photos, videos, and detailed explanations of flowers and fruit…
Elizabeth J. Hermsen has provided great illustrated web-based introductions to plant systematics, anatomy and morphology as part of the Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life. These are great teaching…
So much of documentation of biodiversity and educational projects today include digital images, but how do you take good photos of plants and features associated with plants (such…
In this activity college students go outside and find ten street trees near their home or school, photograph them, identify them to species, and map them on a…
This iNaturalist plant observation assignment for college students was developed by Aaron Liston from Oregon State University. It was designed to replace a traditional collection assignment. The students…
Looking for images of dissected flowers that you can turn 360 degrees to understand how flowers are constructed? Look no more. John Riley and Benjamin R. Montgomery at…
This is an assignment I use in my Plant Diversity and Evolution class the week before they start their iNaturalist project. The students learn how to take great…
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Dept of Botany have many teaching images available on their Virtual Foliage homepage. They are divided up in three themed sets (linked below with an…
The online college class Intro to Alaska Flora from University of Alaska Fairbanks includes fantastic components developed by botany professor Stefanie Ickert-Bond. These online resources are available for…
This activity uses the citizen science tool iNaturalist for a project for high school and college students that focus on species discovery and identification. Observations are uploaded to…
These images of 21 hypothetical plants were created by Lynn Clark (Iowa State University) and Brandon Holt and can be used in a variety of exercises. Lynn Clark…
Looking for good photos to use in class or to learn morphology and anatomy? Scroll through the thousands of photos that have been added to the Flickr group…