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…
This teaching module uses the often hidden information about a plant, a place, and a person connected through a herbarium specimen and how students can investigate it. Herbarium…
Here is a list of recorded lectures on Plant Systematics by Bruce Kirchoff, professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, and used in his course…
Carmen Acedo at University of León, in León, Spain, has gracefully translated the manual The Naming of Plants into Spanish. We are making it available as a free…
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 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…
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…
How did the word ‘herbarium’ come to be? It actually has ancient roots in the deep history of Indo-European languages, and its origin and formation in Latin is…
Looking for a non-technical beginners and intermediate users manual in plant nomenclature that explains scientific names, common names, cultivated and trade names, and what changes in plant classifications…
Key concept: Engaging students in the discovering of biodiversity on a campus of a school or university can turn into a solid and valuable research project for years…