Online Botany Lecture & Laboratory
This course was developed by Ben Montgomery and has since been added to and improved by Kate Farrah. We are both at University of South Carolina Upstate. You may use elements from this course for your instruction, but you may not incorporate these materials into published materials outside of your institution (e.g. lab manuals used outside of your own university) without prior written permission. Please let us know if you use these materials for purposes of our internal documentation: bmontgomery@uscupstate.edu / kfarrah@uscupstate.edu .
See links for the syllabus, schedule, supplies list, and laboratory activities on the left menu or the drop-down menu at the top. Activities are organized by the week in which we teach them, and some activities span multiple weeks.
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List of Laboratory Activities and Lab Week(s) in which they are described:
Orientation activities: practice importing images into Padlet and Blackboard
Week 1: Orientation activities
Grow terrariums in sun and shadier locations
Week 2: Terrariums part 1
Week 15: Terrariums part 3
Graft Coleus & Make a Coleus cutting
Fern life cycle - germinate spores, grow gametophye and sporophyte
Week 2: Situate fern dish in window or under lamp (brief instructions)
Week 4: Fern journal (part 1)
Week 8: Water fern dishes
Week 11: Update fern journal
Week 15: Final fern journal update
Dichotomous keys & identification of winter twigs with a key
Week 3: Dichotomous keys & winter twigs
Tree rings / dendochronology
Week 4: Dendochronology (exercise based on Flash, current fuctionality needs to be checked)
Photo documentation of leaf traits & other vegatative traits
Gymnosperm Identification
Week 6: Gymnosperms
Flower dissections
Week 7: Flowers and Terrariums
Human nutrition
Week 8: Human nutrition
Iodine test for starch / hypothesis testing
Phenology / Effects of climate on Phenology
Week 11:Phenology
DNA extraction / polyploidy / hypothesis testing
Week 12 DNA extraction
Community engagement / volunteer opportunity / digital herbaria
Week 13: Community / volunteer activity
Radish genetics
Weeks 11, 12, 13, 14
Week 11: Radish genetics, part 1
Week 12: Radish genetics, part 2
Week 13: Radish genetics, part 3
Week 14: Radish genetics, part 4
Cooling power of shade trees
Week 15