Day |
Date |
Fixed Ev |
Area |
Topic |
Thu |
01/07/10 |
|
Intro |
1. Introduction to Ethnobotany. Cyanobacteria. Lee Ling: Chapter one Balick: Chapter one |
Tues |
01/12/10 |
Add end |
Botany |
2. SVP hike. Outdoor. Primitive and less complex plants field hike: Monilophyta: Mosses, lycopodium, ferns WET MUDDY STEEP. Lee Ling: Chapter two Balick: Chapter eight 217 – 251 |
Thurs |
01/14/10 |
|
Ethnogarden |
Outdoor. Finding the plants: Tall razor grass will cut your legs and hands. Merremia peltata will stain your clothes. Machetes will be used. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. 1. Tour of the garden as a group to learn the locations of the plants in the garden and to cover the garden cleaning ground rules. 2.Clean-up around the plants. 3. Learn the local and Latin names of the plants. |
Tues |
01/19/10 |
|
Botany |
Preparation for group presentations on cyanobacteria, mosses, monilophytes. |
Thurs |
01/21/10 |
Class lists |
Botany |
Group presentations cyanobacteria, mosses (bryophytes), monilophytes. |
Tues |
01/26/10 |
|
Ethnography |
3. Healing plants walk. Outdoor field trip. Plants that heal us. Traditional and medicinal plants of Pohnpei garden at Pohnpei state campus. Lee Ling: Chapter three Balick: Chapter seven |
Thurs |
01/28/10 |
Grad app |
Botany |
Plant collecting process. Herbarium specimens. Outdoor: a walk through the living herbarium. |
Tues |
02/02/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Healing plant individual presentations |
Thurs |
02/04/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Healing plant individual presentations |
Tues |
02/09/10 |
|
|
Test One |
Thurs |
02/11/10 |
|
Botany |
4. Outdoor field trip: Gymnosperms, plants with economic value. Pohnpei Pwunso Kolonia botanic garden road trip and walk. Lee Ling: Chapter four Balick: page 220 |
Tues |
02/16/10 |
|
Botany |
Preparation for gymnosperm presentations. Determine food groups food presentations. |
Thurs |
02/18/10 |
|
Botany |
Group presentations: gymnosperms |
Tues |
02/23/10 |
|
Ethnography |
5. Haruki food plants walk. Outdoor: Plants that feed us. Planning session for food presentations. A walk and talk on campus. Lee Ling: Chapter five Balick: Chapters two, three, four, five |
Thurs |
02/25/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Plants as food: Each cultural group brings a traditional food to share. Group presentation with food. |
Tues |
03/02/10 |
|
Ethnogarden |
Outdoor: Cleaning up the garden! A chance to learn the plants. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. |
Thurs |
03/04/10 |
Middef |
Ethnography |
6. Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Vegetative morphology A walk from the ethnobotanical garden to the oahs: the family with the largest leaves on the planet. Lee Ling: Chapter six Balick: Chapter eight pages 251 – 512 |
Tues |
03/09/10 |
|
Ethnography |
7. Material culture: Plants that shelter us, transport us, and decorate our bodies, homes, and gardens. Location to be determined and announced. Lee Ling: Chapter seven Balick: Chapter eight pages 228, 229, 255, 265, 291, 293, 294, 304, 305, 322, 326, 327, 346, 347, 350, 351, 398, 408, 429, 443, 476, 481, 482, 484 |
Thurs |
03/11/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Traditional materials experience: thatching Balick: Pages 263, 265, 267, 268 |
Tues |
03/16/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Material culture individual presentations |
Thurs |
03/18/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Material culture individual presentations |
Tues |
03/23/10 |
|
Ethnogarden |
Outdoor: Ohigan. Prevention of ghost diseases by honoring the dead through respectful cleaning of a cemetery. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. |
Thurs |
03/25/10 |
|
|
Test two |
Tues |
03/30/10 |
|
|
Founding day observed |
Thurs |
04/01/10 |
|
|
Maundy Thursday |
Tues |
04/06/10 |
|
Botany |
8. Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Floral morphology. Sketch flowers. Floral formulas. Floral SVG handout. [Reminder: one week to brint a fruit to eat] [Share a plant story in a week and a half] Lee Ling: Chapter eight |
Thurs |
04/08/10 |
|
Botany |
9. Let 'em eat fruit! Bring an edible fruit to share with the class. Angiosperms: fruits. The third morphological component in the trio leaves, flowers, and fruit. Lee Ling: Chapter nine |
Tues |
04/13/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Share a story about a plant. The story could be a legend, a personal experience where a plant played an central role, or the story of the history of how plant came to your island. Any kind of plant story that can be shared. Session is off-the record. |
Thurs |
04/15/10 |
|
Ethnography |
10. Plants that entertain us. Memes and Areca catechu. Entering other worlds lecture: Five types of psychoactive substances. Lee Ling: Chapter ten Balick: Chapter six |
Tues |
04/20/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Piper methysticum: Chemistry and Uses, Legends Balick: Chapter six Lee Ling: Sakau ceremony purposes |
Thurs |
04/22/10 |
|
Ethnography |
Field Trip: Kava cultural ceremony |
Tues |
04/27/10 |
|
Ethnogarden |
Outdoor: Clidemia hirta (riahpen rot) pulling exercise. Extremely muddy, very wet, itchy. Coconut oil a must. Gloves recommended! |
Thurs |
04/29/10 |
|
Ethnogarden |
Outdoor work. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy Ethnobotanical garden: Cleaning the garden and reviewing for the final. |
Mon |
05/03/10 |
|
Ethnobotany |
4:20 to 6:20 A field practical final in the ethnobotanical garden identifying the plants and their uses. |