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Everyone Can Be a Naturalist!
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The Kansas Wetlands Education Center gives students and the public opportunities to develop their observational skills, recording skills, and enthusiasm for nature. These students from Ellinwood Middle School spent an afternoon observing life in the KWEC pond, while having fun together. Photo Credit: Kelsie Harmon
For thousands of years, science was focused on something called “Natural History.” Science had yet to be broken down in to the dozens of specialized fields that we know today, zoology, botany, chemistry, physics, and so many more. Ancient scientists were concerned about how everything on earth fitted together – the first naturalists studied everything from art to human anatomy to astronomy.