Human Flower Project
Orrington, MAINE USA
Murrieta, CALIFORNIA USA
Princeton, MAINE USA
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
A Floral Guide for Science Teachers
Lesson plans are now in the works. And just in time, thanks to a student at Mississippi State, we offer an updated guide for using this website in the classroom.
Teacher Judy Baxter of Hahira, Georgia, uses her laptop for a class on Leucojum (snowflakes).
Photo: Judy Baxter/Old Shoe Woman
School hasn’t even begun but we already feel that Human Flower Project has gone to the head of the class!
Thanks to Mauriesa Johnson of Mississippi State University and the Earth*Scholars, we can gratefully offer a Science Teacher’s Guide to all seven years of this website. This means that teachers have easy access to 269 illustrated essays on a wild (and domesticated) array of topics, all succinctly categorized and summarized.
Geography teachers, are you planning to study Iceland or Hungary? Just search for these nation’s names (or others that interest you) in the file and discover our stories about invasive species and an ongoing controversy over genetically modified plants.
Preparing a unit on conservation? The HFP archive includes nine stories that should be on target, with examples from Idaho to India. Other topics we’ve covered pretty extensively include flowers in medicine, food, ethics, and ecology. But see for yourself: