Curriculum Materials Available Through the University of Wisconsin, Plant Teaching Collection

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2018, Volume 39

Michael Clayton

Abstract

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Botany, has developed a set of teaching resources available at http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/. Included is a subset of images and movies encompassing botanical instruction as reflected in our introductory course. These may be sampled at http://botit. botany.wisc.edu/Resources/Botany/. We also have produced a set of lab topics and corresponding web lessons for the course. We invite others to use these resources. This use may include modifying the lab topics and lessons to suite your own curricular needs. The collection is not in the public domain. While we encourage others to use our collection, we wish to track who and how the materials are used. Within this framework, we wish to make the materials as freely available as possible. The lab topics and web lessons may be sampled at http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/botany_130/Laboratory.html. In this mini workshop, I wish to demonstrate how we integrate these resources together so that the lab manual, lab room, and lab web pages reinforce the same learning goals. I also wish to explore the logistics of how to freely share these resources with interested participants.

Keywords:  botany

University of Wisconsin, Madison (2017)