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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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Students explore how the placement and design of instrument shelters can influence temperature measurements taken from thermometers located inside them.
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Air Temperature
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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Take a Tree Height observation, and then send NASA a screenshot of your observation's latitude and longitude. You will receive data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission that gives you the amount of precipitation that fell for the location of your observation. Then you can use this data and tell a story about your tree- and this will become part of a global virtual project. This is a great opportunity for IVSS investigations!
  • Protocol(s): Atmosphere, Earth As a System, Biosphere
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Type of Activity: Multimedia: Innovate & Share, Research: Inquire & Discover, Data Collection: Observe & Measure, Data Exploration: Analyze & Chart, Outdoor: Explore & Connect
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Have you ever experienced flooding or drought in your location? Do you wonder how climate change might affect sea-level where you live? Join this project and learn about how water impacts people's lives around the world. NASA has an international satellite mission- Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission that is able to measure how much precipitation falls from the clouds to the ground- all around the world! This data is updated every 30 minutes, and we now have a 23 year record of precipitation. In this activity, you will take a GLOBE cloud observation, and then send a screenshot of your data to NASA's GPM Outreach coordinator. She will send you the past 23 years of precipitation data- yearly, seasonally, and monthly- along with questions you can use to analyze this data for your location. If you write a paragraph or two, she will add your story to this international project that is hosted on NASA's GPM website.
  • Protocol(s): Clouds, Hydrosphere, Earth As a System, Precipitation, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Middle: 6-8, Secondary: 9-12
  • Type of Activity: Multimedia: Innovate & Share, Language Arts: Express & Communicate, Research: Inquire & Discover, Data Collection: Observe & Measure, Data Exploration: Analyze & Chart, Outdoor: Explore & Connect
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: In Class Activity (1 or more periods)
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Students correlate graphs of vegetation vigor with those of temperature and precipitation data for four diverse ecosystems to determine which climatic factor is limiting growth.
  • Protocol(s): Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
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Teams of students play a game in which they gather data and distort the values of certain measurements. They then estimate the values of the measurements taken by other teams and try to detect their errors.
  • Protocol(s): Soil Characterization
  • Grade Levels: Lower Primary: K-2, Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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  • Protocol(s): Pedosphere (Soil)
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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Students will create mixtures of water samples, soil samples, plants and other natural materials to better understand the importance of pH levels.
  • Protocol(s): Hydrosphere, pH
  • Grade Levels: Upper Primary: 3-5, Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: 1 period (approx. 45 min.)
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Students find another GLOBE school that reported the same MUC class and systematically compare the other GLOBE measurements that they each reported.
  • Protocol(s): Biosphere, Land Cover Classification
  • Grade Levels: Secondary: 9-12, Middle: 6-8
  • Language: English
  • Time Requirements: Multiple days
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  • Protocol(s): Biosphere
  • Language: Spanish (español)
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