In one, a country like Ecuador, its political leaders are observing their environment, thinking about their observations and creating a plan and enacting the plan.
To supplement that literature, I (along with graduate student Jonathan Ogas) identified ten prominent anthropologists who, among them, had studied seven different hunter-gatherer cultures on three different continents and questioned them extensively, with a written questionnaire, about their observations of children's lives in the cultures they observed.
When nurses feel uncertain about their observations they are instructed to call another specialized nurse, experienced in observing pressure ulcers.
Moreover, asking nonaffected people about their observations of affected people may favour mentioning phenomena that are easily observable rather than internal cognitive or emotional states, which are less easily observed by outsiders.
Once you have shown the video clip, engage students in a brief discussion about their observations.
Working in small teams they gather information to think critically about their observations, then develop questions, problems, and possible solutions.
Though both had written about their observations, neither report was published or publicized for more than a century.
Perversely, for a medium that normally thrives on the visual, this black hole felt most alive in the pieces to camera in which the scientists and astronomers were allowed to speak enthusiastically about their observations without any distractions.
Or, taking a page from City Room's Hawk Cam project, they monitor a local family of birds or other species and blog about their observations and provide tips for how local people can help animal and plant life thrive.
