Hello, Curious to learn more about interesting, creative, unusual possibilities/ways how iNaturalist can be used for education that is dedicated to an amateur/non-scientific audience. Thank you.

Wonderful suggestion, thank you @Mecynogea_palustris !

It is creative, @arnanthescout ! I would say seasonality could also be turned into an additional reason to go find the plant and see how it’s doing during the whole year! Thanks!!

This is awesome! Super cool game for the amateurs!! Big thanks for sharing it!

Before working with others it’s crucial to check https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/teacher’s+guide and previous topics on organization of events.

Ah, yes, I do that too. I spent almost a year waiting for some violets in my greenbelt to bloom :smile: It can be a long waiting game at times, but imo worth it. I check in with my local plants as if they’re old friends… Meanwhile this Sida spinosa I found still eludes me. This observation was the…

A while back I posted a discussion topic about identifying all the species/locations that you ate at breakfast. I think that might make an interesting class project that would work at many grade levels. To make it fairer and less socially stigmatizing for certain students, perhaps dissect the schoo…

Another possibility is to build a trophic chain/net when a particular observation is linked to a “feeding on” or similar field. The problem is that only a few observations have got this field linked to another species. The biggest trophic net I have seen is build here .

thanks, @rafael_carbonell ! Sounds interesting! Just wondering if it’s the right link – should I go here → https://www.commanster.eu/commanster.html ? how can we utilize iNaturalist for it? i love the idea because you’re able to focus on relationships, rather than individuals.

You can ask the type of life it likes: medicinal plants, poisonous animals, mammals, birds, ducks, apis melifera etc. And what ecosystems do you like

[image] gretavalvonyte: training visual awareness of plants, inspiring to learn more. there’s a guy who uses items from nature to make miniature humanoid figures he calls Becorns , and then he photographs them with natural subjects to tell stories. i think the concept of using a miniature avat…

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