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An appreciation for science and art

Hathaway Elementary School students create unique botanical sketches

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Hathaway Elementary School second-grader Jude Maddox proudly displays his illustration of a foxglove. The students studied botany and then created sketches of different plants.

Students in Debbie Kramer’s second grade class at Hathaway Elementary recently gained an appreciation for science and art as they studied botany.

They began by analyzing pictures on a computer of botanical illustrations by 18th century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who often sketched details of the tiny parts of flowers in his illustrations.

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