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    Module 5: How to Collect and Press Plants in the Field
    This activity will guide students through the process of collecting fresh plant material that will be transformed into a permanent herbarium specimen. Students will make a specimen for the plant...
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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...
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    Mysterious Occurrences: Representation, Resiliency, and Redundancy in Native Plant Populations
    Meet Dr. Rachel Hackett, a conservation plant biologist at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory.  We learn about Rachel's job and the restoration of threatened and endangered species. Rachel...
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    Plants We Eat: Learning Form and Function from Fruits and Vegetables
    This high school or undergraduate lab consists of four activities that guide students through learning about plant parts from the fruits and vegetables with which they are already familiar....
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    Downloading and Visualizing Project Data from the iNaturalist Database
    In this activity you will learn how to create a query, export, and download data from iNaturalist; load data into R; explore pollinator-plant interactions with R, and create heat map, bipartite,...
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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...
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    Graphing and mapping patterns of air quality in Los Angeles, California through an environmental justice lens.
    Air quality is an environmental issue that impacts everyone in Los Angeles. This activity presents current popular press articles about air pollution and environmental justice and maps and graphs...
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    Plant Defenses and Bioprospecting Mini-case Study
    This narrative mini-case study for use in undergraduate ecology courses reviews plant defense theory within the context of bioprospecting. Students learn about factors affecting plant defenses and...
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    Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
    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.
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    Constructing Phylogenies using Herbarium Specimens
    This lab is intended as an introduction to a plant systematics course. Students work in groups of two to apply what they have learned about plant structures to develop a character matrix based on a...
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    Exploring Plant Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Lab or Workshop
    In this workshop or lab exercise, participants will examine the effects of climate on the phenological events of a selected species using herbarium specimen data.
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    Case Study: Pollination of the Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) by the Solitary Bee (Andrena nigroaenea)
    The research uses natural history collection data to explore a potential phenological shift between an orchid that employs sexual deception and a solitary bee.
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    Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological and molecular data, and compare.
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    Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological and molecular data, and compare.
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    Bioinformatics: Investigating Sequence Similarity - A Plant Biology Approach
    This laboratory module is a modification of the original published on CourseSource with a focus on plant biology. In the final activity, students conduct a BLAST to compare histone protein...
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    GeoPhyl
    This Excel workbook allows students to explore evolution over space and time using published data on the invasive plant Tamarix (salt cedar).
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    Large Datasets in R - Plant Phenology & Temperature Data from NEON
    This module series covers how to import, manipulate, format and plot time series data stored in .csv format in R. Originally designed to teach researchers to use NEON plant phenology and air...
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    Morphological, Anatomical and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological, anatomical and molecular data, and compare.
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    Phylogeny of Land Plants
    In this lab, students review the characteristics of the major land plant lineages. Then they perform phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters.
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    Two-Way ANOVA
    In this lesson, students will learn the necessary statistical terms to understand two-way ANOVA, how to visualize their data, how to perform two-way ANOVA and interpret their results, and how to...
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