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Featured Learning Activities

This month's featured activities go with GLOBE's Clouds Protocol

Cloud Watch

Students monitor clouds and weather to begin to understand the connections between the two.

Estimating Cloud Cover- A Simulation

Students practice estimating how much of the sky is covered by clouds.

Observing, Describing, and Identifying Clouds

Students begin to learn cloud types and their names.

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Students learn about plant response to light by setting up simple investigations in the classroom.
  • Protocol(s): Green-Up / Green-Down, Phenological Gardens, Biosphere
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Students discover that soil properties such as moisture and temperature can vary considerably across a single landscape.
  • Protocol(s): Soil Characterization
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8, Lower Primary: K-2
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Students learn what to look for during budburst by observing variations in timing and appearance of leaves of different local plant species.
  • Protocol(s): Green-Up / Green-Down, Biosphere
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Students construct simple thermometers to understand how and why liquid-in-glass thermometers work.
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Air Temperature, Water Temperature
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Students monitor clouds and weather to begin to understand the connections between the two.
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Clouds
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Students use the satellite image of the GLOBE Study Site and their knowledge of remote sensing to decide where a new hospital should be located.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Students classify land cover by visually examining their site as well as mapping and recording ground cover onto graph paper as they walk across their site. Students will use a GPS to locate the site in addition to photographing their site.
  • Protocol(s): Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Secondary: 9-12, Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Students draw a visualization and learn about all the design choices involved and how these choices affect what is communicated by the visualization.
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Aerosols, Barometric Pressure, Water Vapor, Pedosphere (Soil), Relative Humidity, Precipitation, Air Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Biosphere, Land Cover Classification, Soil Moisture - SMAP Block Pattern
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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Students will make and fly a mini-kite to explore surface winds. AREN Project.
  • Protocol(s): Wind
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Type of Activity: Data Collection: Observe & Measure, Engineering: Design & Build, Outdoor: Explore & Connect
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: In Class Activity (1 or more periods), 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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Students observe and classify local plants based on their patterns of change other than growth.
  • Protocol(s): Green-Up / Green-Down, Arctic Bird Migration, Phenological Gardens
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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