We have been practicing our sketching skills as we get ready to undertake creating the digital guide for the nature trail. In order to learn what real naturlists and scientists do when they sketch we have been looking at exmaples in the book Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie. In this book we noticed that naturalists don't just sketch but they also write what they notice and record questions they have. Understanding this has helped our own sketching improve. For homework on Monday night students were invited to choose one leaf from around their house to sketch. Here are some examples of those leaf sketches from Anna Grace, Will, and Hannah. Our work is really starting to look like real naturalists.
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