Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences

Cassandra L. Quave, PhD Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Center for the Study of Human Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.

• Carrying Plant Knowledge Forward in the USA.- Lessons Learned in Development of an Interdisciplinary Science Curriculum Support Organization.- The Contribution of Ethnobiology to Teaching Plant Sciences: Student and Faculty Perspectives.- From Learning to Teaching: Bridging Students’ Experience and Teachers’ Expectations.- Research-Based Learning.- Aligning Plant Identification Curricula to Disciplinary Standards Through the Framework of Student-Centered Learning.- Cultivation of Local Botanical Knowledge or Knowledge of Nature Using Interdisciplinary, Innovative and Mind/Brain-Based Techniques.- “What’s That Called?” Folk Taxonomy and Connecting Students to the Human-Nature Interface.- Learning from the Land: Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives into the Plant Sciences.- Pedagogy and Botany of the Columbian Biological Exchange: The 1491 Meal.- Teaching Plant Science in School and Community Settings.- Using Community Resources for Ethnobotany Courses.- Learning in Paradise: The Role of Botanic Gardens in University Education.- Teaching Ethnobotany Through Field Research: A Case Study Integrating Conservation with Tibetan Traditional Ecological Knowledge.- Excursions in Teaching Plant Science Through the Local Ethnobotany of the Food-Medicine Continuum: Field Trips to Traditional Specialty Food Market.- Ecosystem Excitement: Using Everyday Items, Projects, Field Trips and Exotic Images to Connect Students to Plants.- Teaching Ethnobiology Online at a Canadian Distance Learning University.- Linking Student Skill-Building with Public Outreach and Education.