You are here: Home / Resources / Teaching Materials / Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections / Description
Resource Image

Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections

Author(s): Anna Monfils1, Erica Krimmel2, Debra Linton1, Travis Marsico3, Ashley Morris4, Brad Ruhfel5

1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio, Florida State University 3. Arkansas State University 4. Middle Tennessee State University 5. University of Michigan

2999 total view(s), 2625 download(s)

0 comment(s) (Post a comment)

Download

Adapt 0
Summary:
This educational module utilizes the traditional plant collection experience to engage students with biodiversity data protocols and resources available in our information-rich digital age.

Licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International according to these terms

Version 1.0 - published on 18 Mar 2019 doi:10.25334/Q4DN0M - cite this

Keywords

  1. Biodiversity
  2. plants
  3. natural history collection
  4. herbarium

Alignments

  1. Resource Type
  2. Audience Level
  3. Activity Length
Contents:
view all files

Description

This plant collection project includes the traditional field collection protocols and integrates these methods into a collection workflow designed to minimize legacy data. The materials and exercise emphasize current best practices both in botanical collecting and in specimen data management. Students following this workflow are exposed to biodiversity data literacy concepts organically, and learn best practices through application.

 

The learning objectives for the collection project are that students will be able to:

  1. Maintain a professional specimen collection notebook.
  2. Collect plant specimens from the field using proper techniques and including adequate material for identification.
  3. Identify unknown plant specimens using multiple forms of reliable evidence.
  4. Prepare and deposit research quality herbarium specimens.
  5. Deposit species and occurrence data into national/international databases.
  6. Explain the importance of herbaria in plant biology research.
  7. Discuss the value of large data sets for investigating large spatial- or temporal- scale         phenomena. (invasive species, rare species, climate change, etc.)
  8. Evaluate the importance of citizen scientists to large data sets.

Cite this work

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Close

Home

Search