Tag: herbarium

AI-squared: Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence in Botanical Education (presentation slides)

Want to get an overview of the challenges and opportunities when it comes to AI in botany teaching?  Here is our talk slides for the presentation we are…

Activity/Presentation: Specimen Stories by Lena Struwe

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…

Manual: Making a plant press with what you’ve got, by Tobias Policha

Introduction to the manual Preparing a Press for a Plant Collection Assignment in a Remote Field Botany Course by Tobias Policha: Many of us include a collections assignment…

Handout: The etymology of the word ‘herbarium’, by Kanchi Gandhi

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…