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Highest Outdoor Observation: The Flowering of Chinese Architecture
When global audiences tune in to watch the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the world's fastest and strongest athletes won't be alone in striving for superlative achievements -- a new generation of innovative architecture is rising in China. Fueled by a surging economy, China will soon be home to the world's largest airport, the world's first fully sustainable city, and the world's highest outdoor observation deck, to name just a few of its innovative architectural feats. With spending on China's residential building construction growing at 7.1% annually and nonresidential construction activity increasing by 7.4 %, the world's most populated country is experiencing a building boom of unprecedented scale.
Observation is the process through which we come to take notice, to became conscious of things and happenings.
Observation is an important aspect of the scientific process and crucial to children's learning about the world. The whole of science depends upon scientists making accurate observation of aspects of the real world. Scientists look for similarities and differences about natural and man-made phenomena. They look for patterns within their results of investigations which help them to draw valid and reliable conclusions. There is an obvious link between observation and the development of concepts. Developing skills of observation, it is recognised, enable children to seek consciously for information which will extend their ideas.
Ollerenshaw and Richie (1997) regard observation as the starting point for science. So it could be argued, observation could be the starting point for young children's science. Young children observe the world around them and use their observations to try to make sense of what they see. Observation in science involves, where appropriate, the use of all the senses. Young children are frequently asked to touch an object and to describe how it feels. 'Observation tasks enable children to look at objects or events in a scientific way' (Gott and Duggan 1995, p. 55). |
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