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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 construct and compare cubes of different volumes to gain insight into small concentrations such as a part per million and a part per billion.
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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  • Protocol(s): Biometry (including Tree Height), Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12
  • Type of Activity: Language Arts: Express & Communicate
  • Language: English
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Students play a dice game to follow a carbon atom as it travels through the Earth's carbon pools.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Carbon Cycle
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
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Through explorations of GLOBE temperature data from two nearby locations in Germany, students learn how temperature varies with altitude.
  • Protocol(s): Air Temperature, Atmosphere
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: In Class Activity (1 or more periods), 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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  • Protocol(s): Carbon Cycle
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12
  • Type of Activity: Multimedia: Innovate & Share, Language Arts: Express & Communicate
  • Language: English
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  • Protocol(s): Soil pH, Soil Characterization
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Middle: 6-8, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Type of Activity: Research: Inquire & Discover
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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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  • Protocol(s): Biosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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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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