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Module 3: What on Earth is a Herbarium?

Author(s): Shawn Elizabeth Zeringue-Krosnick1, Kelly Moore1, Brittany McGuire2, Rachel May

1. Tennessee Tech University 2. Tennessee Technological University

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The goal of this activity is to introduce students to herbarium specimens and why they are an important source of information. The emphasis of this activity is on examining the types of data that specimens provide and how this data can be used to…

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The goal of this activity is to introduce students to herbarium specimens and why they are an important source of information. The emphasis of this activity is on examining the types of data that specimens provide and how this data can be used to answer questions in biology (e.g., species distributions, ecological interactions, genetics) and anthropology (ethnobotany). Students will explore these data by following the life of Ynés Mexía, an important botanical collector working at the turn of the 20th century. Students will study her specimens to identify the various types of data they contain.

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Version 1.0 - published on 08 Apr 2024 doi:10.25334/X09Z-R610 - cite this

Keywords

  1. natural history collections
  2. herbarium
  3. Herbarium digitization
  4. Ynez Mexia

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Students will examine a variety of plant specimens, each from a different country. They will collect information from these specimens to answer various prompts about ecology, geography, and anthropology. Students will then create their own illustrated herbarium specimen and share with their classmates. Students will evaluate herbaria and natural history collections as sources of useful information, and begin to consider how the structure of herbarium specimens and the information contained on them best conveys this information as a historical record.

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