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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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  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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Through explorations of GLOBE atmosphere data from Croatia, students will build understanding of two climate zones. **This activity has an option to get students analyzing data in spreadsheets. The spreadsheet file (and answer key) can be found here: https://www.globe.gov/do-globe/globe-teachers-guide/atmosphere/data-exploration-learning-activities
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Precipitation, Air Temperature
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: In Class Activity (1 or more periods), 1 period (approx. 45 min.), 2 periods (approx. 90 min.), Multiple days
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Students use MultiSpec to perform unsupervised clustering of their Landsat TM image and then assign MUC classes to every cluster to create a land cover map.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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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: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • 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: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
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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): Atmosphere, Air Temperature
  • 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): Relative Humidity, Precipitation, Air Temperature, Surface Temperature, Water Transparency, Water Temperature, pH, Conductivity, Salinity, Alkalinity, Nitrates, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil pH, Soil Characterization, Soil Fertility, Phenological Gardens, Biometry (including Tree Height), Land Cover Classification, Wind
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12, Upper Primary: 3-5
  • Type of Activity: Data Exploration: Analyze & Chart
  • Language: English
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