Naturalist Journals
Astronaut/aquanaut Michael R. Barratt, NEEMO-7 specialist, types a journal entry in the NOAA Aquarius Underwater Laboratory.
Courtesy of NASA.
Scientists and explorers throughout history have kept naturalist journals of their investigations and observations. Download BioEd Online's guide for creating naturalist journals and have your students follow in the footsteps of John Audubon or Leonardo da Vinci by keeping notes of their investigations.
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This work was supported by National Space Biomedical Research Institute through NASA cooperative agreement NCC 9-58.
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