How to Become a Botany Graduate During Containment

Thanks to a website, middle school students can take advantage of confinement to perfect their knowledge of botany, while following part of the SVT school program. An "active quarantine" which can lead them to a diploma of budding naturalist.

A site offers college students to improve their knowledge of botany and come out with containment graduates.

How to make this difficult period a boon to learn and even obtain a diploma as a budding naturalist, here is what a program offers designed for young college students confined to the SVT school program. For this appointment on the site zoom-nature.fr, in the "active quarantine" section, where the naturalist Gérard Guillot offers various exercises to practice at home, such as for example germinating apple seeds with the concrete objective of planting his baby apple tree just after confinement.

Another challenge is to learn to recognize the song of birds from your balcony.

The beautiful days are there, we are frustrated not being able to go out, but the window is wide open and the song of birds is very loud since human activities have calmed down. So, just take half an hour a day and listen carefully to the singing birds and try to identify them, this is an exercise that is proposed to improve your knowledge in identifying common birds. Like knowing how to distinguish a blue tit from a great tit, or even making the difference between a pigeon and a turtledove, a swift and a swallow. In a few sessions the children will quickly develop their skills.

A houseplant also becomes an object of learning.

For confined school children, the surrounding environment can be exciting if you take a closer look. Again, another challenge is to take detailed photos of some observed changes to the green plant. For example: the birth of a flower, the death of a leaf, the growth of a shoot. Or, look for its two common names and scientific Latin. Or better yet, make small drawings in naturalist notebook mode. A tutorial helps to draw the sketches of plants. An initiation during this confinement which can awaken vocations, it can start from the tender age. Let us not forget that Charles Darwin himself was already a naturalist at the age of 21.