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• GLOBE 365 Poster - there is a place to stick photos of your tree as well! If you want to receive a hard copy of the poster, contact your GLOBE country coordinator.
• Why do the leaves change color? - learn why and how the autumn change of trees happens.

 

Activities for students:

Spring	Autumn
Activity 1: My Tree	Activity 1: My Tree
Activity 2: Look at the Buds + Data Sheet	Activity 2: Color Change of Leaves
Activity 3: First Leaves	Activity 3: My Green Down Data + Data Upload Guide
Activity 4: My Green Up Data + Data Upload Guide
Activity 5: Green Color Scale

 

Tree field guides

Cherry Description Field guide	Lime Description Field guide	Hazel  Description Field guide	Oak  Description Field guide	Birch  Description Field guide	Beech  Description Field guide	Fig          Description

 

GLOBE protocols

Green up Green up protocol General field guide Trees Data Sheet Trees and Shrubs

Green down Green down protocol General field guide Trees Data Sheet Trees and Shrubs

 

How to work with GLOBE data?

GLOBE Data Entry - GLOBE data can be submitted on a desktop pc or using the GLOBE data entry app.

Visualize GLOBE data - Instruction for visualizing GLOBE phenology data...

Looking at GrowApp data - Analyzing green index of GrowApp images 

 

Lesson plans

• A first look at phenology. Students explore patterns, similarities, and differences among plants at the same location.
• A sneak preview of budburst. Students observe the relationship between budburst and temperature.
• Green down (age 11-14). Students learn to ask questions while using the research cycle.
• What's hidden in tree buds (age 11-14). Students get familiar with the structure of the buds of deciduous trees, they observe the bud sprouting and changes that trees undergo in spring.
• An Alaskan Spring Mystery (Middle and high school -grades 6-12) Students learn about the timing of spring budburst and practice asking questions and analyzing and interpreting data
• Color Palette (age 11-14). Students record the color change of an observed tree.  
• Confused buds (primary school). Students learn how to record measurements, sort and evaluate data.  
• Podzimni Gloubak (age 6-11) – In the “Autumn GLOBE Researcher” lesson students learn, how to ask questions while investigating autumn leaves. Lesson only in Czech.
• Urceni plochy listu (age 12+) – Students learn how to prepare and conduct an experiment while calculating the surface area of a leaf using various mathematic methods. Lesson only in Czech.

 

Would you like to share your learning activity with the Phenology campaign community? Please let us know at lenka.kleger@terezanet.cz.