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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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Learning Activities preview for J. Simple Global Carbon Cycle Model Teacher Guide

J. Simple Global Carbon Cycle Model Teacher Guide

Students use the global carbon cycle diagram to make pencil and paper calculations of changes to carbon pools after a few years. They then explore a computer model to look at changes in carbon pools and fluxes over hundreds of years.
        Model Materials:        Link to Online Computer Model
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Carbon Cycle
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12
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Learning Activities preview for Just Passing Through

Just Passing Through

Students are introduced to the basic concepts of how water passes through soil in an activity which illustrates the scientific method. More advanced students investigate the effects of soil characteristics on water infiltration and the chemistry of water that has passed through soil
  • Protocol(s): Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Soil Infiltration, Soil pH, Soil Characterization, Soil Moisture - SMAP Block Pattern
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.), Multiple days
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Learning Activities preview for K. Global Carbon Cycle Model with Feedbacks Teacher Guide

K. Global Carbon Cycle Model with Feedbacks Teacher Guide

This model builds on the Simple Carbon Cycle Model by including feedbacks in the global carbon cycle that modify the movement of carbon into and out of the atmosphere.
        Model Materials:        Link to Online Computer Model

Plant-A-Plant Classroom Experiments
Hands-on cultivation experiments for the classroom, with options for structured, guided, or open levels of inquiry.

Plant-A-PlantTeacher Guide (pdf)
Materials List (xls)
What Do Plants Need to Grow? (pdf)
Seed Germination Lab Guide (pdf)
Structured Experiment: Light (pdf)

Basic Experiments (Guided Inquiry)
    Temperature (pdf)
    CO2 Decrease (pdf)
    Water (pdf)
    Mineral Nutrients (pdf)

Advanced Experiments (Open Inquiry)
    Photosynthesis (pdf)
    CO2 Increase (pdf)
    Soil Respiration (pdf)
    Mineral Nutrients II (pdf)
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Carbon Cycle
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12
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Learning Activities preview for Land Cover Change Detection

Land Cover Change Detection

Using MultiSpec, students compare two images of their GLOBE Study Site; one from the 1990's and one from the 2000's, to determine how the land cover has changed in that time span.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Learning Activities preview for Land, Water, and Air

Land, Water, and Air

Students measure temperature change in soil, water and air as they are exposed to the heating action of the sun.
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Pedosphere (Soil), Precipitation, Air Temperature, Surface Temperature, Water Temperature, Soil Temperature, Wind
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Learning Activities preview for Leaf Classification

Leaf Classification

Students make a collection of leaves and then discover how a hierarchical classification system is developed by sorting and organizing their leaves according to a set of labels and rules which they specify.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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Learning Activities preview for Learning to Use Visualizations - An Example with Elevation and Temperature

Learning to Use Visualizations - An Example with Elevation and Temperature

Students use visualizations to explore the relation between elevation and temperature and begin learning how to make important patterns evident in visualizations.
  • 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: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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Learning Activities preview for Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC1- Connecting the Parts of the Study Site

Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC1- Connecting the Parts of the Study Site

Students visit the study site, observe the different components of the Earth system and predict how they are connected to and affect each other.
  • Protocol(s): Earth As a System
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Learning Activities preview for Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC2- Representing the Study Site in a Diagram

Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC2- Representing the Study Site in a Diagram

Students, either individually or in small groups, use their knowledge of their study site develop a diagram that illustrates the most important connections between the different components of the Earth system.
  • Protocol(s): Earth As a System
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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Learning Activities preview for Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC3- Using Graphs to Show Connections

Local Connections- earth systems in the Local Study Site LC3- Using Graphs to Show Connections

Students use GLOBE student data to explore, understand, and communicate the connections between the components of the Earth system exist at the study site they are investigating.
  • Protocol(s): Earth As a System
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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