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Loree Griffin Burns offers tips on how children can get involved in nature research

By Jan Gardner

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  April 08, 2012

In her new book “Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard’’ Loree Griffin Burns, a former research scientist, provides instruction for children interested in joining hands-on research efforts and highlights the contributions children have made in studying monarch butterflies, birds, ladybugs, and frogs.

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