Events - United States of America

During this webinar, Rebecca Katsh-Singer (Boston College) will focus on strategies for using the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) Framework with middle and high school students as they write conclusions and critique each other.  >>

Roller from the Community Support Team demonstrates how to find and download GLOBE data using the website tools and carry out comparisons between different schools' data. This webinar also features Jackie Wilson from Hubbard Brook Research Foundation sharing tips for assisting students in choosing the best visualization or graph for different types of data.  >>

During this webinar, Dr. Kevin Czajkowski will help participants develop grade-appropriate research questions and discuss ways to incorporate narrower but more frequent field investigations throughout the school year.  >>

This webinar is an open Q&A session regarding the U.S. Regional Science Fairs and funding support available to teachers.  >>

This workshop includes three academic year workshop days and 4 days this summer at New Hampton School in NH. The theme this year is Water and Watersheds which will include field investigations using the GLOBE Hydrosphere protocols, learning activities and Elementary GLOBE.  >>

Please join us in this first session of Teacher Professional Development webinars leading up to the GLOBE Science Fairs. This first one, Conducting Field Investigations, features Pat Otto, Washington's Project Learning Tree coordinator, from the Pacific Education Institute.  >>

Students from across the United States have the opportunity to come together at one of six face-to-face regional science fairs to share the results of field investigations using GLOBE Program protocols. Leading up to the science fairs, GLOBE teachers can attend live webinars (or view the archive) providing professional development on field investigations and enhancing scientific practices of the natural scientists in classrooms.  >>

GLOBE is hosting a new data entry challenge from 11-17 October 2015! Data collection is at the heart of The GLOBE Program – and it takes a world to contribute the scientific and environmental measurements that help GLOBE fulfill its vision of a worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists, and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and improve Earth's environment at local, regional, and global scales. GIO is calling on you to dig in even deeper and continue to make your data count! With your help, it all adds up!  >>

To support the SMAP satellite mission, NASA has initiated a 7-month-long Soil Moisture Measurement Campaign and invites GLOBE schools to participate. The SMAP Campaign begins 1 October 2015 and will be ongoing through 30 April 2016.  >>

Since 2008, an international team of GLOBE scientists, teachers and students have been trekking to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to evaluate the evolving ecosystem of the largest freestanding mountain in the world. The 2015 Mt. Kilimanjaro Xpedition begins on 24 September.  >>