Turbine Motion

This video is of a farm seven miles south of Woodward, Oklahoma.  It is a peaceful place and has been made even more relaxing with the addition of a wind farm.  Like many places, it can generate many questions.  Questions generated through patient observation.  

1. Take up the challenge.  Among your peers take turns making as many observations as possible (one at time) making sure to list each.  Challenge others to be the last to make the last observation.  Maybe before you start you want to "define" what qualifies as an observation.
2. Once all observations have been made, try to make as many questions as possible based on the list of observations.  Again maybe, as a group, you want to define what makes a good question.  
3. Consider any visual (e.g., photograph, diagram, video, graph) that is uploaded to this Science Collaborative Virtual Locker could be considered a wealth of possibilities for practice making observations and questions based on them.  

This Google Earth file contains some sample questions hopefully to model divergent thinking to get students to ponder questions about a place.  Discussion is turned on in order to collaboratively brainstorm other ideas for questions.

Science starts with a question.  Questioning starts with observation.

This video is of a farm located in Woodward County located in NW Oklahoma.  It is a peaceful place and has been made even more relaxing with the wind farm.  New things are learned about a "place" by asking questions based initial through observations.

1. Consider challenging yourselves and make as many observations as possible, being sure to list each of them.  Challenge others to be the last to make the last observation.  Maybe before you start you might want to "define" what qualifies as an observation.
2. Once all observations have been made, try to make as many questions as possible, based on the list of observations.  Again maybe, as a group, you want to define what makes a good question.  

This movie file is the one used on the turbine location resource.  One may upload images, sound, video, and other multimedia sources  and load them in most of the resources on this site.

This video is an example of possible options of teachers sharing content.  Some may simple upload various files that others may run with.