Make every pupil and student a botanist
Provide an opportunity for children and students to learn, discover, inventorize, photograph and track
Inspire our scientists of tomorrow
Plantsoon is applicable in all educational environments
Map the flora on your playground and classrooms
Give trees and (house) plants a unique digital passportTrack your trees, plants, houseplants and planting beds based on GPS coordinates and/or smart plant tagPrint your own plant labels with QR codeSupport teachers
Exact determination of plants throughout all seasonsRecord data on accessible digital plant recordsConsultable by anyone, both inside and outside the classroom
Zones and collections
Create your own plant collections such as vegetables, fruits, houseplants, deciduous trees, berries,...Assign plants to areas such as vegetable garden, greenhouse, orchard, playground, wadi or classroomsManage the flora at your school according to arboretum standardsVirtual excursions
Introduce the world to the plants and collections at your school through your own public webpageA virtual visit to the playground or classrooms with just a few mouse clicks
Add a little Plantsoon magic to your school
Nurturing Ecology, Education and Engagement in Higher Education
19/04/2024
John Carroll University (JCU) in University Heights, Ohio is making significant strides in sustainability, being recognized as a USA Tree Campus, launching an on-campus arboretum, and pledging to become a Laudato Si' Campus in alignment with Pope Fra...
Digitizing the Oedelem Agricultural and Horticultural School Garden
15/03/2024
Kimara Goethals has been working at the Agriculture and Horticulture School in Oedelem for 10 years, first as a science teacher and now as the director for the past three years. Transferring from a general to a vocational secondary education school, ...
Sint-Pietersinstituut Turnhout
16/02/2023
A few years ago, the Sint-Pietersinstituut had typical gray monotonous plain as a playground where it quickly became too hot in the summer. Since then, the area around the school buildings was transformed into a climate-friendly playground where spor...
All trees have a passport at the Sint-Paulus School in Kortrijk
08/12/2022
On the playground of the Sint-Paulus school in Kortrijk, the children come into contact with nature again. Playing and learning are paramount. Due to a goal oriented and sustainable process, the city school has successfully transformed its concrete f...
Den Boogerd is creating a cooperative food forest
26/09/2022
During the winter of '22-'23, Den Boogerd created a food forest of 0.7 ha in Zelem. They added berry, flower and herb beds and other types of fruit in shrubs, low and semi-standard varieties to its collection of apple trees. Together with the adjacen...
The 'crooked birch' is the first identifiable tree of the HOGENT
21/07/2022
The 'crooked birch' is a concept on this college campus in Ghent and an important part of the Ecoshelter XL project. All employees can scan a QR code that gives them more information about the tree. HOGENT also wants to turn the 'crooked birch' into ...