SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Tuesday Thursday 01 14 Jan A101 → outdoor Introduction to Ethnobotany Final exam Presentations 📖 One 16 Jan A204 Tech in ethnobotany Text 📖 Flora 🌺 Schoology Ⓢ iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 Android Apple iOS 02 21 Jan A204 Making obs of wild plants ▶️ iNaturalist FAQs ▶️ 23 Jan A204 iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 Identotron iNaturalist report back to class Ethnobotany class links for iNaturalist ▶️ 03 28 Jan A101 Preparation for group presentations cyano, mosses, monilo, lyco 📖 Two 30 Jan A101 → westside. Outdoor hike. Wet, muddy, steep. Mosses, lyco and monilo Valley west of campus. 04 04 FebA101 Group presentations: cyanobacteria, mosses (bryophytes), lycophytes, monilo 06 FebA101 Test one SVP: samples in class Latin, local, use or meaning 05 11 FebHealing plants If sunny ☀️ A101 → Paies walk. 📖 Three 13 FebA101 If Tue was sunny ☀️: A204 Healing plant ▶️ 💘 💘 06 18 FebA101 Healing plant individual presentations 20 FebA204 Preparation gymno How to avoid death By PowerPoint ▶️ Schoology 🌲▶️ ☕▶️ 07 25 Feb LRC → Pwunso Kolonia. Outdoor Gymnosperms, plants with economic value. Pwunso botanic garden 📖 Four 27 Feb A204 Group presentations: gymnosperms Preliminary food groups food presentations. 08 03 Mar LRC → Pwunso Kolonia/IFCP Island Food Community of Pohnpei. 📖 Five 05 MarA101 Midterm field walk structure IDs + use SVP + healing plants 09 10 MarA204 iNaturalist follow-up 🌿 🌼 Including observation fields? 12 MarA101→walkabout. Outdoor Plants that feed us. Planning session food Smells, memories 10 17 Mar A101 Plants as food: Each cultural group brings a traditional food to share Group presentation with food. 19 Mar→ Gym. Haruki. Outdoor dirty. Ohigan. Shunbun no hi. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. 🔪 → exiv 11 24 Mar A101 → outdoor. Vegetative morph. Leaf and stem 📖 Six Veg morph walk handout 26 Mar A204 then Outdoor walk. Flowers! 📖 Eight 8. Floral morphology. Floral morph walk handout ▶️ 12 31 Mar Rahn en tiahk 02 Apr A101 Fruit salad worksheet. Fruit key 📖 Nine 13 07 Apr Test three veg morph + floral + fruit 09 Apr 09 AprEaster break 🐰 🐇 14 14 Apr Material Culture: Thatching At gym if sunny Doakoahs en Pohnpei, Ruhk 📖 Seven 16 Apr A101 → walkabout. Outdoor Invasive species checklist A walk and talk 6 steps handout 15 21 Apr A204 + Course eval to end period iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 observations clean up Add locations, photos. Delete spurious obs. 23 AprA204 iNaturalist group presentations using iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 16 28 Apr A204 Psychoactive plants. Piper methysticum ▶️ Kava handout K. Paul info 📖 Ten 30 Apr → Field Trip: Kava cultural ceremony Location to be determined. 17 05 May A101 → campus 4:20 to 6:20 A field practical final on campus identifying the plants and their uses. 07 May

Botanic studiesEthnographic experiences
1. Most primitive, least evolved: cyanobacteria
More complex, more evolved
2. Primitive plants: Mosses: spore capsules, spores, sperm, eggs; Monilophytes [ferns]: sori, spores, sperm, eggs; Lycophytes: cones, spores, sperm, eggs
4. Seeded non-flowering plants: Gymnosperms: cones, pollen, naked seeds
Most complex, most evolved: Seeded flowering plants (Angiosperms):
6. vegetative morphology: leaf shapes
8. floral morphology: flower shapes
9. fruit types
3. Healing plants: Plants that heal us
5. Food plants: Plants that feed us
7. Material culture plants: Plants that provide shelter, transportation, clothing, and that decorate our bodies, homes, and gardens
10. Sacred plants: Plants that entertain, inspirit,and enrapture us,plants that inspire legends.

❧ Required material: Smartphone. Textbook is online. Flora is online. Schoology is online. iNaturalist 🌿 🌼
❧ Attendance policy: Students who have more than four unexcused absences prior to the last day to withdraw with a W may be withdrawn from the course by the instructor. Exceeding four unexcused absences after the last day to withdraw with a W can result in failure of the course. Absences for medical or academic reasons can be excused by a note from a medical official or a faculty sponsor.
❧ Attendance and participation are critically important in this class. The class is in part a set of shared experiences. Being absent not only has a negative impact on your own learning, being absent has a negative impact on the social cohesion of the class as a whole. This is a participatory class.
❧ Come to class prepared having read the text, prepared to listen or take notes, and ready to learn or give a presentation and you will do well. This class is all about actively being here.
❧ Field trips, hikes, and outings: Rain or shine, on and off trail. Hikes over difficult, steep, muddy, and slippery terrain are conducted. Outdoor work days are in pouring rain or hot sun and involve sharp objects such as machetes. Plants grow where they want to, not where it is convenient for us. Plant knowledge gained on hikes is testable material: Ethnobotany is a listen, watch, experience, do, and learn field!
❧ Office hours: Monday & Wednesday 10:00 to 11:00, 1:00-2:10, 3:00 to 4:00 or by appointment. Calendar. See also further contact information below.
❧ No betelnut chewing in class.
❧ Assessment: Tests and examinations include coverage of student learning outcomes on outline. Some outcomes are assessed via presentations. Grade is based on participation in course activities, performing presentations, and achievement on tests. Being here and being an active participant are crucial to success in this course.
❧ Ethnographic individual presentations are oral presentations to the class. Healing plants presentation: bring the plant. Some students will have to work with the instructor to find suitable material for presentations.
❧ The presentation of a traditional food is done as a group. Each culture presents a single food, bringing that food to share with the class.
❧ Photographs are taken of class presentations, hikes, field, trips, and activities. These photographs are used as part of the documentation of the course.
❧ Work phone: 320-2480 Extension 161. Cell: 926-2868 Email: dleeling@comfsm.fm, danaleeling@gmail.com
❧ Course grade is tracked in Schoology.
Program learning outcomes:
GE 3.4 Define and explain the concepts, principles, and theories of a field of science.
GE 4.2 Demonstrate knowledge of the major cultural issues of a person's own culture as well as other cultures.
MSP 2 Demonstrate proficiency in the geographical, historical, and cultural literacy of the Micronesian region.
Course learning outcomes:
1. Identify local plants, their reproductive strategies, and morphology.
1.1 Identify local plants by local and scientific names.
1.2 Compare and contrast the distinguishing reproductive characteristics of different phyla of plants including mosses, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
1.3 Label the key morphological features of the different phyla of plants including mosses, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms including the morphology of the reproductive structures.
2. Communicate and describe the cultural use of local plants for healing, as food, as raw materials, and in traditional social contexts.
2.1 Communicate and describe the healing uses of local plants and the cultural contexts in which that healing occurs.
2.2 Communicate and describe the food uses of local plants and engage and describe the production processes
2.3 Communicate and describe the use of plants for transportation, for shelter, and in other material culture applications.
2.4 Engage in activities that explore the use, role, and importance of psychoactive plants within their traditional ceremonial cultural contexts.