A daily “Practice” at the Zoo your students can do Observation A daily “Practice” at the Zoo your students can do Conservation Educator Academy 2016

An Observation Task Practice some scientific observation at the IOC Record your observations Focus on OBSERVING, not INFERRING 3 possible themes for your observations Conservation Educator Academy 2016

Three Possible Themes Take careful observations of the movements of your chose animal in its exhibit. Observe their behaviors – what what do they spend their time doing? Watch the interactions between two or more individuals, either of the same species or different species. Conservation Educator Academy 2016

Suggested Structures 1. Spend some time at the exhibit, and every 3 (or 5?) minutes, record what the orangs are doing TIME (min) OBSERVATIONS 5 10 15 20 Conservation Educator Academy 2016

Suggested Structures 2. Make a list of expected behaviors, and check off the ones you see at each time interval Behavior 0 min 5 min 10 min 15 min Climbing Feeding Watching visitor Swinging from “vine” Interaction with another orang Conservation Educator Academy 2016

The Plan Collect your observations Try to writes some inferences you can make based on the evidence you collected Return to River Garden room at… We will discuss the observation task after lunch on Thursday Conservation Educator Academy 2016