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Are there any classes I could observe?

I got a chance to observe how a detective actually works.

Children learn by observing their parents.

Our sniper teams observed them manning an anti-aircraft gun.

I don't. It's a phenomenon I'm very happy to observe.

In 1664 Hooke observed a reddish spot on the surface of the planet.

It was difficult to observe any change in his expression.

Her hand was observed to shake.

We have observed that you steal.

She had observed his complexion changing colour in the weeks preceding his disappearance.

And like other behaviorists, he believed that psychologists should study only the behaviors they can observe and measure.

And they are pretty active during the day, which makes them easy to observe, right?

Anaximander, observing the motions of the heavens around the polestar, was probably the first of the Greek philosophers to picture the sky as sphere completely surrounding Earth-an idea that, elaborated upon later, would prevail until the advent of the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century.

Stern also studies and observes the behaviour of babies.

The team spent months observing the chimps.

All we can do is observe bird behavior.

Then the Montessori teacher's job is to observe the child's play, because when the children play, they are acquiring the bases for later concepts.

because so far, no one's been able to actually observe what's happening that far beneath the Earth's crust.

Well, the thing is, with the radio astronomy, you can’t just set up a telescope in your backyard and observe stars.

OK, and what about the children I am supposed to observe?

Oh, OK! So I should choose a child, with the permission of the child’s parents, of course, and then observe that child a couple of times and take good notes, then?

Well, uh, if you observe a four-year-old child, uh, for example, my daughter’s four years old, you might read up on Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development.

See, your paper should compare what is expected of children at certain stage of development with what you actually observe.

Where can I find a child to observe?

All the words you know, all the scientific theories you’ve learned, the rules your parents taught you to observe, all are memes that have been passed on from person to person.

This technique allows researchers to create solutions that selectively omit certain nutrients and then observe the resulting effects on the plants.

So why can’t researchers just live there for a while until they observe the rocks’ moving?

But one thing you can observe is muscular habits.

What Watson did was to observe muscular habits because he viewed them as a manifestation of thinking.

And the reason Frantzen went there, and she later on would visit other places like dance halls, was to observe people and the ways that they moved.

His water colors were merely preparatory studies, most of which were painted while he was observing birds in the wild.

Now, the students in the library, they are going to know that you are observing them, right?

So you have to consider the effect your very presence will have on the people you are observing.

Well, in optical astronomy, using a telescope and observing the stars that way, we rely on visible light waves.

So the Polynesians could estimate their latitude just by looking straight up, by observing whether a certain Zenith star pass directly overhead at night.

You've been observing Mr. Grable’s third-grade class for your approaches to education paper, right?

Historian Frederic Lane observes that after the loss of ships in battle in the late sixteenth century, the shipbuilding industry no longer had the capacity to recover that it had displayed at the start of the century.

Many others had asked the same question before him, but Thales based his answer strictly on what he had observed and what he could reason out-not on imaginative stories about the gods or the supernatural.

He observed that the Nile River Delta was in fact a series of sediment deposits built up in successive floods.

`He is a fine young man,' observed Stephen.

`People aren't interested in spiritual things,' observed the actress.

The speaker observed that times had changed.

We observe that the first calls for radical transformation did not begin until the period of the industrial revolution.

Motorists should observe the speed limit.

The army was observing a ceasefire.

American forces are observing Christmas quietly.