My digital herbarium
You surely have noticed there are many different plants around you, but could you tell what they are called or if they are useful? Your grandparents probably would know, because even if you do not believe it, people used to know much more about nature than we do nowadays.
We are going to learn a little more about the world surrounding us by making a digital herbarium. To do so, I propose a series of activities and when you finish them, you will surely see your surroundings with different eyes.
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First, let's do a small survey at home. You have the link just below ... LET'S GO!
Activity 1. What our elders know
Use a sheet like this to do the survey and find out what your elders knew about the plants that surrounded them when they were your age. Complete the information here
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Continue the project by following the steps that I have left you below
To look up
In addition, you should know very well the general characteristics of the plants and the main groups that form them. We are going to work it in our classes, but I leave you some extra help.
Activity 2. What we have learnt
Next, you will make a worksheet to check if you have correctly understood what we have explained in class.
Here is the link to the worksheet. Do it calmly, and if you don't remember something, go back to the previous section, where you have information that will help you.
Activity 3. Working in the virtual laboratory
You will learn to handle simple dichotomous keys, which will help you to know what plant you are trying to identify.
We are going to use this information and an online key.
Activity 4. Creating our herbarium
We will make a virtual visit to a botanic garden in Malaga. You will have the opportunity to see many plants that will help you to make your own herbarium.
Here you have some detailed instructions, which you must read before doing the virtual visit.
Choose the plant that you like the best to put it in your herbarium. When you have taken your photo, put it in this document.
If you have followed these instructions ... you will finally have your herbarium ready! Send it to me, to the following email address.
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Now let's share the information with the rest of your classmates.
I leave you the rubric that we will use to analyze your works.
Activity 5. My learning diary
Lastly, you have to do this small survey, that will help you to improve and see if the activity has been interesting for you.