What Local Native Plant Is That?
In Bushland Near Your SchoolHerbarium Plus
This is where it gets even more interesting and each school has an opportunity to produce something very individual.
Everything you can find out about your local plants should be put into this one book as your school's own reference to where it lives — maybe vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. with other students adding information (or improving it) as years go by.
The more you can find out about your local plants, the more valuable your book will become to yourselves, other students, the staff, and future students.
HOW TO MAKE THE BOOK
Collect specimens of leaves, flowers and fruit and take some photographs of the whole plant to remind you what it looks like.
Scan or press the specimens and make a separate page for each.
Divide the book into different TYPES of plants: trees, shrubs, groundcovers, creepers, ferns, etc.
Begin with one or two plants of each type. Find out things about them and add this information to your plant book.
While you are in the bush you may find other creatures interested in the plants. Make as list of them, take photos. Make a section in the plant book where you can keep information about the local fauna — birds, animals and insects.
In the front of your book list:
Section headings: trees, shrubs, groundcovers, birds, etc.
The address where your plants were collected.
The name of the class and
the people who did the collecting.
Next year’s class can add their names.
Make a place for:
FAUNA that enjoys your bushland
BIRDS that enjoy your bushland
BUTTERFLIES and INSECTS that enjoy your bushland
Creating extra pages in your Herbarium for RELATED SUBJECTS SUCH AS:
Soils and Rocks
Weeds
Mapping
History
and lots more
