Traditional Herb Documentation Protocol
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Not documenting a plant. Writing the standard by which plants get documented.
This is a step up in abstraction and it is the right one for grade eight. What fields are required, what counts as a source, how consent is recorded, how uncertainty is expressed, how entries are reviewed.
The page has the protocol template, examples of good and poor standards, and a testing requirement where another student documents a plant using their protocol. The gaps that test reveals are the assessment, and every first draft has them.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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