Sunday, February 4, 2018

iNaturalist: A Tool to Connect Teachers and Students with Nature by Jennifer Cook

Article  by Jennifer Cook
It’s a hydrangea!  It’s a walking stick!  It’s….it’s….um….?  We’ve all been there with our children or students.  We are busy teaching and exploring when we get the one question that we just don’t know how to answer.  We try to pass it off as best we can and move on before it is known that we have no clue what we are talking about (shh...I won’t tell anyone if you won’t.).  But what happens when you come across an item in the field that you don’t know how to identify? iNaturalist is a tool that can aid in species identification.