Course Title: Collect and classify plants

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5305 Diploma of Conservation and Land Management

Course Title: Collect and classify plants

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 120

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

AGRI5021C

City Campus

TAFE

155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Face-to-Face or Internet

Term1 2013,
Term1 2014,
Term1 2015,
Term2 2016

Course Contact: Namrita Kaul

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4309

Course Contact Email: namrita.kaul@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit covers the process of collecting and identifying plants using taxonomic keys and the preserving of plant specimens and defines the standard required to: collect plant specimens; note the location, characteristics and occurrence of specimens at the point of collection; clean, preserve, mount and label plant specimens; use a plant key to identify plants against the botanical description of the species; label preserved specimens.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

There are none



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

AHCPCM502A Collect and classify plants

Elements:

1.Prepare for plant collecting

2. Collect plant specimens

3. Preserve specimens

4. Identify plant specimen


Learning Outcomes

This is a competency based course with learning outcomes embedded in the competencies


Overview of Assessment

Assessment fo this course may include reports, project work, individual assignments, practical assessment and tests