Identifying plants is a major challenge for students new to horticulture. With hundreds of plants to memorize, visual aids are imperative to make the connection between foreign-sounding latin names and the plants they see in the field.
Learning plant names without being able to tour the plants in person is hard. What if you had a great distance learning tool to help your students?
Using PlantMaster, students can view individual plant data (called ePlants) by browsing through dozens of plant images, reviewing a robust summary of information from the database, or exploring the collection of garden images featuring the plant within the design.
Solution.
Learn plant identification faster.
Your students have hundreds of plants to memorize – which means they need an easy way to quiz themselves on the plant lists every week. PlantMaster has a clever quizzing tool built right in to the system. Students can test themselves on Botanical Names, Common Names, and/or Family Names for the plants specific to each week of your curriculum.
PlantMaster is powered by a robust plant database. So for each plant, you’ll be able to see several high resolution images to really get a sense of the plant, plus tons of data like soil, tolerances, anatomy, and zones.
Students can quiz themselves on the plants you teach.
With your account, you can add your own pictures, edit any data, or add your own field notes – the database is completely editable.
Explore your quizzing tools.
Learn the features of each plant.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Choose a Plant Name
Identify each plant by selecting the correct plant name for the image provided.
Change the settings to select random images so you truly learn each plant’s characteristics instead of memorizing the images.
Click to enlarge any image to full screen.
Learn how to identify plants, faster.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Choose a Plant Image
Based on the botanical name and common name of a plant, select the correct image from the options.
Change the settings to select random images or hide the botanical or common name to make it more challenging.
Learn how to spell each plant name.
SPELLING TEST
Test yourself by viewing an image and typing in the exact spelling of the plant name.
Test yourself on botanical name or common name – or both!
Try as many times as you like, or see the correct spelling before you move on to the next plant.
Customize your quizzes.
Select from a myriad of settings you can change to make the quizzes more challenging.
For example, hide the botanical name so you are forced to learn the common name.
Or, choose to display a random image of each plant so you really get to know the characteristics of each plant instead of memorizing the image.
Plus you can change the quiz type or which plants you are quizzing yourself on at any point!
Other classroom ideas.
Create Plant Palettes
In their professional career, designers and architects will most definitely need to create palettes of plants to finalize into their planting plans. They can start buiding their professional palettes now by organizing them into groupings – giving them a head start in the design process.
Creative challenges/Presentation skills
Students can practice putting together planting plans and presenting them to you. You can set parameters and see what they come up with. For example: Create a planting plan with deer resistant ground covers, three trees, winter interest, etc. and see what they come up with.
Not only will they have practice pairing plants together, but using PlantMaster presentations, they can hone their presentation skills and practice walking a customer through their design choices.
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Contact us.
Please contact us to talk more about incorporating PlantMaster tools into your curriculum. We’d love to speak with you.
Gerry Kiffe | General Manager
gerry@plantmaster.com
805.499.9689