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Featured Learning Activities

This months 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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To investigate the idea that every dynamic system has energy and matter in several different forms. Inputs and outputs will vary depending upon the physical components of the site, the plant and animal life, the determined boundaries or scale of the study and the season.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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  • Protocol(s): Biosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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Students collect, describe and compare soils from their own backyards.
  • Protocol(s): Soil Characterization
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.), Multiple days
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  • Protocol(s): Pedosphere (Soil)
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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  • Protocol(s): Pedosphere (Soil)
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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  • Protocol(s): Soil pH, Soil Characterization, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Soil Temperature, Soil Particle Size Distribution, Soil Particle Density, Soil Fertility, Soil Moisture - SMAP Block Pattern
  • Language: English
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Students will understand the geologic phenomena of weathering and erosion. These processes, along with deposition, shape our landforms and contribute to the development of parent material in the soil formation process.
  • Protocol(s): Pedosphere (Soil), Soil pH, Soil Characterization, Bulk Density, Soil Moisture - SMAP Block Pattern, Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Soil Infiltration, Soil Particle Size Distribution, Soil Particle Density, Soil Fertility, Soil Temperature
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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  • Protocol(s): Pedosphere (Soil)
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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Students simulate environmental conditions in order to determine the key factors that affect the decomposition of organic material in soil.
  • Protocol(s): Soil Characterization
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8, Lower Primary: K-2
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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Students explore soil moisture by weighing and drying sponges and then they explore their soil samples in the same way.
  • Protocol(s): Soil Moisture - Gravimetric, Soil Moisture - SMAP Block Pattern
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 2 periods (approx. 90 min.)
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