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Discover the Wonders of the World’s Forests!
Greetings, middle and high school educators! Are you ready to bring
the wonders of forests into your classroom? Dive into this blog series
that bridges the resources of Natural Inquirer and the GLOBE Program,
designed to inspire curiosity, scientific exploration, and
environmental stewardship among your students.
GLOBE and Natural Inquirer Crosswalk
This series is part of the
GLOBE
and Natural Inquirer Crosswalk Project , which connects the
hands-on science of the GLOBE Program with the captivating research
found ...
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Posted in:
Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
PRECIPITATION
AIR TEMPERATURE
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
BIOMETRY (INCLUDING TREE HEIGHT)
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
CARBON CYCLE
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
Teacher's Guide:
MIDDLE: 6-8
SECONDARY: 9-12
Audience
Middle school and high school
Time
Approximately 2 class periods:
Day 1 : Explore the role of forests in the carbon cycle
through reading and analyzing charts and images.
Day 2 : Engage with GLOBE resources and interactive learning
tools for hands-on discovery.
Materials
The
World’s Forests 2 (pdf), Inquiry 4
Carbon
Travels Game (pdf)
Optional: GLOBE Carbon
Cycle protocols
Optional: My NASA Data pacing guide Trees
and the Carbon Cycle (pdf)
What do the world’s forests have to ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
CARBON CYCLE
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
Teacher's Guide:
MIDDLE: 6-8
SECONDARY: 9-12
Audience
Middle school and high school
Time
Approximately 2 class periods:
Day 1 : Analyze the Natural Inquirer inquiry, focusing on
charts and text.
Day 2 : Use GLOBE tools to explore real-world data and trends.
Materials
The
World’s Forests 2 (pdf), Inquiry 5
Data
Visualization System
Advanced
Data Access Tool
Steps
in the Scientific Process
How well are we managing our forests worldwide?
Forest managers take many factors into consideration when making
decisions. In recent ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
TEACHERS
Teacher's Guide:
MIDDLE: 6-8
SECONDARY: 9-12
Our project for SEES 2024 was "Creating a Model to Identify
High-Risk Areas for Flash Flooding in Houston, Texas." In this
blog, I will discuss how we calculated which areas are "high-risk."
There are many ways to identify the most at-risk points of flooding
in a given region. Such points are commonly identified in a flood map,
such as the one here:
For our project, we decided to look at elevation data, which is
perhaps the most intuitive: water flows downhill and will accumulate
in the lowest regions. To get our elevation data, we used ...
Posted in:
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
BIOSPHERE
LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Primary Audience:
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
Student Research Reports:
MISSION MOSQUITO REPORT
El 25 de septiembre de 2015, los líderes
mundiales adoptaron un conjunto de objetivos globales para erradicar
la pobreza, proteger el planeta y asegurar la prosperidad para todos
como parte de una nueva agenda de desarrollo sostenible. Cada objetivo
tiene metas específicas que deben haberse alcanzado para el año 2030.
Para alcanzar estas metas, todo el mundo tiene que hacer su parte: los
gobiernos, el sector privado, la sociedad civil y personas como
nosotros (ONU).
Es por esta razón que el encuentro de
hoy tuvo como propósito principal establecer con cuales de los 17 ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
EDUCATION RESEARCH
GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN):
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL STEM NETWORK (GISN)
GLOBE Mission Earth News:
STUDENT RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
Investigation Areas:
BIOSPHERE
Retomando nuevamente los encuentros luego de un corto período de
vacaciones de sus miembros.
En esta ocasión se plantearon varios interrogantes, con base en la
situación priorizada, para estructurar la pregunta de investigación a
la cual se le dará respuesta con el desarrollo de la investigación.
Posted in:
Curriculum:
EDUCATION RESEARCH
Field Campaigns:
CARBON CYCLE
GLOBE International STEM Network (GISN):
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL STEM NETWORK (GISN)
GLOBE Mission Earth News:
STUDENT RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
Investigation Areas:
BIOSPHERE
The GLOBE Clouds team is delighted to announce this new section that showcases sky and cloud photographs from around the world! We’ve also been receiving some amazing questions from students.
The featured question was asked by students from Corpus Christi Catholic School :
Question: Why can we see clouds but not evaporation?
Answer: Water vapor is invisible. However, the water in clouds is in liquid or solid state, not gas.
Do you have a favorite cloud photo or a question for the team? Use the linked form to cast your vote and ask us any question ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GENERAL SCIENCE
GENERAL SCIENCE @ES
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
News Topics:
NEWS BRIEFS
Primary Audience:
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
TRAINERS
Waleska works with in-service teachers in the teacher training programs of the Galileo University and the University of San Carlos of Guatemala. She is the founder and coordinator of the STEAM program
Question: Where are you from?
Answer: I was born in the city of the eternal Spring, Guatemala City, in Central America, several eclipses, comets, and moons ago.
Question: What inspired you to work in this field?
Answer: Since I was little I had a fascination with natural phenomena, the reason why stars shine led me to be a Physicist, and fireflies and ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
DATA INCLUDED
GENERAL SCIENCE
GENERAL SCIENCE @ES
SCIENTIST SKILLS
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
TRAINERS
Brad Hegyi is a research scientist for the NASA Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project team at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, USA. Brad develops metrics and statistics for POWER from model estimates of future climate to help support planning for future energy use by heating and cooling systems in buildings. Brad also helps create interactive data products to better visualize changes occurring in the climate data.
The energy that comes from the Sun is the basic source of energy for everything on Earth. Solar energy drives Earth’s weather and ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
TECHNOLOGY
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
DATA INCLUDED
GENERAL SCIENCE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
SCIENTIST SKILLS
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
TRAINERS
The Sun drives many processes in Earth’s atmosphere. As the Sun rises and sets, it warms the Earth’s surface at different intensities. These changes in heat lead to changes in the clouds, especially the types of clouds. To study these changes, we need observations at different times over the course of hours, days, weeks, months, and years from around the globe. It can be tricky to capture the extent of these interactions with satellites alone, which is why we need observations from your perspective on the ground as part of the GLOBE Eclipse Challenge: Clouds and Our ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
DATA INCLUDED
GENERAL SCIENCE
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. Clouds are ever changing and give you clues and information on what is happening in the atmosphere. Eclipses provide a natural experiment, in which the Sun’s light is blocked from Earth for a brief period in time, allowing us to observe the effects of that sudden change. Read the newly released blog post explaining in depth cloud formation and which ones would be impacted by the upcoming total solar eclipse over North America and how the data will be used. ...
Posted in:
Curriculum:
STEM
GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBE PROTOCOLS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
CLOUDS
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
Primary Audience:
ALUMNI
COUNTRY COORDINATORS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
TRAINERS