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Phase III of the GLOBE ENSO Campaign is Now Live

Sep 18, 2017

The GLOBE Program is proud to announce the continuation of the GLOBE ENSO Student Research Campaign as Phase III: “Water in Our Environment." As this campaign has evolved over the past few years, we have been fortunate to have had so many amazing teachers, students, and scientists giving us feedback and guiding us. This has enabled us to respond by trying out some new things that we think we will allow everyone to join us in some way, shape, or form. Anyone, everyone, everywhere should get involved because we all need water! We welcome existing ENSO teachers and students, as well as those teachers and students new to the campaign.

Water—the main reason for life on Earth—continuously circulates through one of Earth’s most powerful systems: the water cycle. Water flows endlessly between the ocean, atmosphere, and land. Earth’s water is finite, meaning that the amount of water in, on, and above our planet does not increase or decrease.

This campaign uses a set of guiding investigative questions that enable students to meaningfully explore water in their local environment and collaborate to consider the influence of water on a global scale. Each question is aligned to a suite of suggested GLOBE measurement protocols that will help investigate different aspects of water. As each classroom is different, teachers can choose between many options when deciding which protocols to use with their students. A major focus of this campaign will be collaboration. Collaboration allows us to see what other schools are doing across the globe. By collaborating, students can learn what’s happening in environments across the globe through the data collected by the same protocols. We will assist with this process in a variety of ways!

To enable everyone to be included worldwide, we have a few big changes. There will be two types of webinars; “Monthly Science and Research Webinars” and “Short Observation & Data Analysis (SODA) Webinars.” The “Monthly Science and Research Webinars” will be an hour long with the first 30 minutes focused on the science and research behind the question. The next 30 minutes will involve sharing resources that can be used in all educational settings to teach students about the guiding question. Participants will have time to try out online resources as well as be engaged in discussion to maximize collaboration efforts. The time for this webinar will change monthly to allow teachers in different time zones to attend in “real time”

The “SODA” webinars will focus on the data collected during the SODA protocol measurement period. Several schools (teachers and students) would present their data collection and what the data has told them about Water in Our Environment. Each school presenting at a SODA webinar would then collaborate with another school or schools
taking some of the same measurements, answering the same questions. Schools can participate in more than one SODA event during the campaign. There is no limit on data collection.

Once again, we are partnering with the H2yOu Project. The H2YoU Project is all about water, water stories to be exact. With our ever-changing environment, water is at the forefront of these changes. Sharing your water stories with others across the planet will bring forth a stronger consciousness and appreciation of just how important water is and how it molds our planet's dynamic processes.

We hope that you will join us for this exciting campaign. Please visit: (http://www.globe.gov/water-in-our- environment-src) for more information and to join the campaign.

Sincerely,