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Truth be told, there are no botanists in our family able to teach our kids plant science. We also don’t have the patience to take books out in nature and study features to identify plant life. With Google Lens on the other hand, a whole new world has opened up expanding our horizon about plant biology! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It couldn’t be easier to use Google Lens<\/a>. All you need to do is to point your phone camera towards the object you want to identify, and voila! – a suggestion pops up for what you’re looking at. As long as you have a fairly good internet connection at least – we have struggled to get results when out in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this case, Google Lens told us we were looking at Paper Birch, which is native to North America. This is actually Silver Birch, so not entirely accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google Lens told us European horse-chestnut. We’re happy with that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plants we identified with Google Lens<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Google Lens identifying Hemlock <\/div><\/a>\"daisy
Google lens screenshot of daisy flower <\/div><\/a>\"Google<\/a>\"Identifying<\/a>\"snowflake
A beautiful Snowflake identified with Google Lens<\/div><\/a>\"Marsh
Marigold found through Google Lens<\/div><\/a>\"google<\/a>\"Bee
Google Lens was quick to identify a bee in the picture<\/div><\/a>\"common
Common Nettle ID'd through Google Lens<\/div><\/a>\"Google<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

Creating a leaf book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After coming back from our local woodlands, we press the leaves between books before using transparent adhesive contact-paper attaching them to our leaf-book! As the proper researchers we are, we note down A) the name of the plant species, B) date and C) place found. <\/p>\n\n\n

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As an activity for kids, we found this to be a nice way of combining learning and play as well as nature and digital. Except for when the mobile signal strength was weak, this worked like a charm! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other ways to use Google Lens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n