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North America Phenology Campaign

Collaboration

The resources below support students and educators in engaging and collaborating around phenology with another school/organization. 
 

How does it work?

  1. Indicate that you are interested in collaboration on the Campaign registration form.
  2. The GLOBE U.S. Coordination Office will match you with another educator who is also interested in collaboration and works with a similar age group.
  3. Contact the educator you have been matched with to decide what type of collaboration(s) you would like to do.

GLOBE Virtual Exchange Toolkit

An excellent resource with guidelines, principles, and technical guidance to help you design and implement a virtual exchange with other GLOBE participants. This toolkit was developed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Collaboratory to support virtual exchange programming for members of the GLOBE Program. 

Phenology Collaboration Ideas

A simple way to share with another school/organization.

For example, each group starts by sharing five pictures: 
  • Your school
  • Your cafeteria
  • Your playground/school grounds
  • Your study site and tree(s)
  • Students collecting data
After looking at the pictures, email (or write!) back with questions or comments to start an exchange. 

The following tools have free accounts and are easy ways to share photos, data, and information about your school/culture. 
  • Padlet - Share a space to upload photos, videos, links, text and add comments or questions.
  • Wakelet - Create a collaborative "collection" and upload content. 
  • Bookcreator - Create an online book about your phenology data collection and experience to share. 

Have a few students from each group share about their school and research using pre-determined questions. Leave time at the end for questions or comments!


Example questions:

  1. Names of students speaking
  2. What time of day is it? What meal did you just eat?
  3. What is your school like? (How many students, something special your school does, what is your playground/school grounds like?)
  4. What is it like where you live? (Rural/suburban/urban? What does the land look like? What is a local or culture activity: sports, a festival, fruit picking, etc.?)
  5. What species of tree(s) did you study?
  6. What stage are the trees in now?
  7. What surprised you about your research?

Have student teams create a short presentation on their phenology research and experience. Share the presentations synchronously or asynchronously and have other students provide feedback and questions. 

What questions can you ask and answer with your collective data? Use the GLOBE Virtual Exchange Toolkit for ideas on timelines and activities to facilitate project collaboration. 

When you are done, share with the GLOBE community!