SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany

SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Tuesday Thursday 01 18 August Ethnobotany 001 Course introduction▶️ 📖 One 20 Aug Tech and resources in ethnobotany ▶️ 📖 Text 🌺 Flora Ⓢ Schoology 🌿 iNat 02 25 Aug 016 iNaturalist mobile app introduction▶️ 🌿 Make & submit an iNat wild plant observation 27 Aug 📖 Two 020 Seedless vascular plants video▶️ 020 SVP plants presentation📄 03 01 Sep 020 SVP Field support day 🌿 Make & submit iNat moss, fern, lycopodium obs* 03 Sep 030 Intro to video presentations▶️ 031 Healing plant topic intro videos ▶️ 📖 Three 04 08 Sep 035 Healing plants demo & how to video ▶️ 10 Sep Healing plants production day 🎥 Make & submit healing plant YouTube video 05 15 Sepⓢ Test one 17 Sep 040 Gymno, spice, and timber intro ▶️ 📖 Four 06 22 Sep Gymno, spice, & timber obs support day 🌿 Make & submit iNat gymno, timber, spice obs* 24 Sep 050 Food plants introduction: Go local▶️ From bean to coffee ☕ ▶️ 📖 Five 07 29 Sep Food plants video production day Example videos: ais srimet, mos tempura ▶️ ▶️ 🎥 Make & submit food plant YouTube video 01 Oct 060 Angiosperms: leaf morphology intro📖 Six ▶️ 08 06 Oct Monocot and dicot leaf obs support day 🌿 Make & submit iNat monocot & dicot leaf obs 08 Octⓢ Test two 09 13 Oct 070 Material culture introduction▶️ 📖 Seven 15 Oct Material culture plant video production day 🎥 Make & submit material culture YouTube video 10 20 Oct 080 Floral meanings and morphology▶️ 📖 Eight 22 Oct Monocot and dicot flower obs support day 🌿 Make & submit iNat monocot & dicot flower obs 11 27 Oct 090 Angiosperms: fruit types▶️ 📖 Nine 29 Oct Monocot and dicot fruit obs support day 🌿 Make & submit iNat monocot & dicot fruit obs 12 03 Nov FSM Constitution day 05 Novⓢ Test three 13 10 Nov Invasive species introduction📄 12 Nov Invasive species observation support day 🌿 Make & submit an iNat invasive plant obs 14 17 Nov 100 Shinrin yoku▶️ Go for a slow walk in a safe forest! 📖 Ten 19 Nov 102 Sacred plants▶️ 15 24 Nov Plants in legends ▶️ 26 Nov Chuuk thanksgiving Kosrae thanksgiving 16 01 Dec Sacred/legendary plants video production 🎥 Make & submit sacred/legend plant YouTube 03 December Psychoactive plant: Areca catechu▶️ Psychoactive plant: Piper methysticum▶️ 17 08 Dec Sacred, legendary, or ceremonial plant obs 🌿 Make & submit an iNat sacred plant obs 09 Dec [Wednesday] ⓢ Test four

* Some outer islands will not have lycopodium, timber trees, or gymnosperms. The spice observation does not need to be a spice tree but can be a spice plant of any size.

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Course structure

Botanic studiesEthnographic experiences
1. 010 Most primitive, least evolved: cyanobacteria
More complex, more evolved
2. 020 Primitive plants: Mosses: spore capsules, spores, sperm, eggs; Monilophytes [ferns]: sori, spores, sperm, eggs; Lycophytes: cones, spores, sperm, eggs
4. 040 Seeded non-flowering plants: Gymnosperms: cones, pollen, naked seeds
Most complex, most evolved: Seeded flowering plants (Angiosperms):
6. 060 vegetative morphology: leaf shapes
8. 080 floral morphology: flower shapes
9. 090 fruit types
3. 030 Healing plants: Plants that heal us
5. 050 Food plants: Plants that feed us
7. 070 Material culture plants: Plants that provide shelter, transportation, clothing, and that decorate our bodies, homes, and gardens
10. 100 Sacred plants: Plants that entertain, inspirit,and enrapture us,plants that inspire legends.

Syllabus

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.