Creative approaches to teaching field botany skills

Here are the slides from the presentation by Alastair Culham & Jonathan Mitchley at

Welcome

Field skills are key skills

Many ways of learning

Learning if part of life

The three ‘E’s: Encourage, Enthuse, Enlighten

Prepare students before the fieldwork

Herbarium resources are often underutilised

Living plants can challenge all senses

Sheer quantity of material can be daunting

monitor progress

Make full use of valuable field time

Lizard peninsular offers a great educational resource

Test field knowledge in the field

Reinforce outcomes

There is no single ‘right’ way of teaching

Use appropriate technologies

Here’s a group test you can run for your students http://quizizz.com

We also had to set a #Twitter scavenge in #HydePark. You can try it yourself from this url or see how a team coped here.

About Alastair Culham

A professional botanist and biologist with an interest in promoting biological knowledge and awareness to all.