Jennifer Frasher

Seeds and The Next Generation

Incorporating Indigenous wisdom into interactions with the local environment helps students recognize their role in the environment, and the responsibility to become better caretakers. Examining local phenomena and utilizing science and engineering practices to observe and question, deepens understanding.

How do Indigenous practices support scientific study and understanding of conservation practices for local plant and seed populations?

What indigenous skills can we apply to recognizing and understanding local phenomena?

Seed Conservation

Evolution of Indigenous Practices

Seed Evolution and Traits

What Indigenous skills can we use to observe and conserve seeds native to our region?

What practices and beliefs were developed by Indigenous people that benefitted themselves and the environment?

What traits did plants and seeds develop to become so successful and diverse?

Companion Planting Ethnobotany

Seed Retrieval Seed Bank

Seed Storage

Cold Stratification

Reference Charts

Indigenous Decimation

Migrate Extinction

Paleoindian Permian

Megafauna Co-evolution

Colonization Ceremonial

Gymnosperm Paleobotany Pollinator

Angiosperm Germination Native

Endosperm Scarification Seed Coat

Monocot Dormant Cotyledon

Dicot Dispersal Fossil Record

Online Native Seed Catalogs Video presentations from Indigenous people Good camera or phone for videotaping and still

Native seeds Seed identification guides shots of seed experiments and gardening,

Hand lenses Guest speakers or presentations from local plant experts plus an Osmo (gimble) for providing

Virtual Gallery for student work Seed Database stability for filming.

Journals Virtual fieldtrips