2. AIM: What is Observing? Vocabulary: Objective Bias Quantitative Qualitative

3. What is Observing? What is the most exciting thing about going to a party? Who is there? … Who was invited?… What kind of food is there? … Is there a DJ or a Band?…Where am I sitting? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? MAKING OBSERVATIONS!

4. What is Observing? How does one make observations Five Senses sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell

5. What’s the Difference: Flowers Green Red Attracts bees “for girls” Ugly Pretty happiness

6. What’s the Difference: Bush? 56 years old From Texas President Bad president Good president “war monger” OBJECTIVE BIASED

7. What is Observing? What does being OBJECTIVE mean? “ having a prior point of view” (which may be wrong) “based upon facts rather then opinions!” “free of bias” What does BIAS mean?

8. What’s the Difference: Classroom 16 students were on time and 3 were late for class One-quarter of the class was later Accurate Inaccurate

9. What’s the Difference: Flowers Roses at the store come in red, white, yellow Roses come in all types of colors Accurate Inaccurate

10. Are these accurate and objective The friendliest people arrive to class first. Half the class was late Sixteen students were on time, 3 were late for class

11. What’s the Difference: Flowers Are green in color Have a good smell Have smooth leaves There are 3 flowers These flowers live for 4 months The Crocus blooms first

12. What’s the Difference: Bush Looks old Talks with an accent Warm person Served 2 ½ years 56 years old 2 Daughters Qualitative Quantitative

13. What is Observing? Qualitative versus Quantitative: What is the difference? Qualitative Observations include properties, colors, smells, textures Quantitative Observations refer to numbers or measurements

14. Use your senses Are your observations accurate? Are your observations free of bias? TIPS FOR MAKING GREAT OBSERVATIONS

15. Quantitative Observations must have proper units! Make sure observations are not explanations or opinions TIPS FOR MAKING GREAT OBSERVATIONS

16. What is Observing? Class Handout Activity

19. What is Observing? Homework: INTERNET QUESTIONS WRITE A PARAGRAPH SUMMARIZING THE AIM USING THE VOCABULARY

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21. Grandfather supervises the October rice harvest, drawing slowly on a water pipe, while a teenager prepares tea for their weary kin near Srinagar. Family farms and orchards support some 80 percent of Kashmir’s population.”

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23. Fox River, Michigan 1996 Jay Dickman “Fall sets maple and birch aflame along the Fox River’s east branch.” —From “Hemingway’s Many Hearted Fox River,” June 1997, National Geographic magazine

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25. “For a [female] cheetah the real danger is not losing a kill but losing her cubs. Ninety-five percent of cheetah cubs die before reaching independence. Hyenas kill them out of hunger, lions apparently out of bad habit.... “Female cheetahs deal with the threat by constantly moving, preferably before their rivals even know they’re around. They coexist as phantom species, slipping into temporary vacancies between prides of lions and packs of hyenas.”

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27. "Losing the peace as well as the war, veterans who fought with the South African Army against Namibian independence languish in 'a place of stones and thorns,' a tent city in Schmidtsdrift. At the camp clinic a girl bundles a child sick with TB against the cold. Originally from Angola and Namibia, the veterans hope for homes on a nearby farm." —

28. Zebra

29. Zebras drink and graze near a river in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. Millions of animals spend the rainy season in this grassland reserve. When the rivers dry at the end of the rainy season, the animals migrate to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park, where more abundant water conditions enable them to survive the dry season. Established in 1941, the Serengeti is one of Africa’s largest nature reserves.

30. Lions