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Some of TerraWatch’s cast are still learning. When you teach them, YOU learn it best — catch what they get wrong, then quiz them.
Teach Note
You be the teacher — Note is still learning. Helping Note figure it out is the practice. (Note's progress stays on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.)
🎓 In a minute you'll be the teacher. Get ready to teach Note: fact vs. inference.
A field record separates what you saw from what you think it means. 'The robin pulled a worm' is an observation; 'it was hungry' is an inference.
You've helped them one at a time. The real understanding is how the ideas CONNECT — teach that next.
Spot (observation — look once, then look again, slower; the second look finds more) ×Note (structured recording — write what you saw, then what you think it means, and do not mix them)
You see a bird pecking bark and jot 'the bird is hungry.' What do Spot and Note say went wrong?
Spot then says: “It is fine to write down your interpretation as if it were the observation itself.” — is that right?
The link: notice carefully, then record what you saw apart from what you think.
See it, then write the fact and the guess apart.
Census (biodiversity counting — one bird is a moment; ten birds over ten days is a pattern) ×Trend (change over time — today is one dot; many dots make a line)
You want to know if a bird population is declining. Why do Census and Trend need each other?
Census then says: “You can prove a population is declining from a single count on a single day.” — is that right?
The link: the trend line is built from the repeated counts — dots make the line.
Count again and again, and the line appears.
Capstone — run one field study together
Three habits of a field scientist. Bring in the cast member for each.
Notice carefully — look once, then look again slower. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Record it without mixing fact and guess. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Count repeatedly to find a pattern. Who?
Who do you bring in?
The synthesis: notice slowly, record cleanly, and count patiently — and your dot helps bend the line toward hope.
