1. A daily “Practice” at the Zoo your students can do
Observation
A daily “Practice” at the Zoo your students can do
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2. An Observation Task Practice some scientific observation at the IOC
Record your observations
Focus on OBSERVING, not INFERRING
3 possible themes for your observations
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3. 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.
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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