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Chris MartineTag: ethnobotany
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…
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…
What kind of and how much botanical diversity can you find in the products in a a home, or just in a bathroom, freezer, fridge, or pantry? Go…
This interactive timeline marking major events in the history and evolution of food, crops, migration of food, agriculture and cooking methods were created in 2012 by myself (Lena…
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…
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…
Emergency Room (ER) toxic plant role play for Botany classes Developed by Dr. Lena Struwe (lena.struwe@rutgers.edu) This is the activity I presented at the Botany 2018 meeting as…
This innovative book and its 52 playing cards with flowers and families on them comes with instructions for 5 different card games to enhance learning of major family…
The new 6th edition of this well-known book by Thomas Elpel follows the APG system (a phylogenetic classification system now used worldwide) and provides easy to access information…
Weeds are everywhere and people like to taste new things, so why not combine the two? Here is an article that explains how we did it at Rutgers…
College-level course module exploring the diversity of plant species available for sale at a local grocery store. Survey data are analyzed by calculating measures of species richness and…
The manual Field identification of the 50 most common plant families in temperate regions by Lena Struwe is available for download below. (color pdf with images, 60 pages,…