Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.3.9
Making photo herbarium for raising awareness of students about plants
Jelena Barbarić – Gaćina
orcid.org/0000-0002-0376-6517
; Science-graphics school, Zadar, Croatia
Martina Perić
; Science-graphics school, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
There is a photoherbarium hidden behind the project Green streets of our town started in Prirodoslovno-grafička škola Zadar. Instead of dry plant samples, in the photoherbarium the photos of plants are collected. The basic idea is that students take photos of various plants they can find in the streets, parks and gardens of their native town using cameras or smartphones. Next step is determining the sort and kind of each plant and after that the photos of the plants with the appropriate data are placed in the photo gallery according to the date the photo was taken. A dot (mark) is put on the map of Zadar for each plant, so they get its precise location. Marking each location on the map of Zadar and then placing it on the web pages of the school, turns the plant photos into the data base accessible to everyone.
This project, incorporated into biology tuition, surpasses the traditional frames of teaching methods and its major purpose is encouraging the students to get aware of the surrounding plant world by searching and taking photos of the plants that normally don't catch their attention. On the other hand, the process of making photoherbarium integrates biology tuition with the tuition of graphics group of subjects.
Keywords
photo herbarium; integrated tuition; biology; graphics
Hrčak ID:
192687
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2017.
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