Exploring Herbarium Specimens Online

This quick 45 minute lab exercise, homework assignment, or extra credit assignment introduces herbarium specimens and how they are used for research. Students think critically about herbarium specimens by searching an online database, CCH2, and examining the specimen data and images.

This lab/exercise is appropriate for undergraduate or advanced high school students.

Peek into Plant Diversity using Herbarium Specimens (Online!)​

This 2-hour lab exercise introduces herbarium specimens and how they are used for research. Students contribute to specimen "digitization" using the citizen science platform Notes from Nature, and they work with the California specimen database, CCH2.

This lab/exercise is appropriate for undergraduate or advanced high school students.

​An Introduction to Biodiversity Databases and Specimen Images

​In this module, students will be introduced to some biodiversity data resources and how to search for and download herbarium specimen images. They will be asked to think critically about the strengths and utility of these data resources.