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GLOBE Partnership Alder Creek Community Forest embeds GLOBE protocols in their “Story of Your Place” curriculum. This both makes GLOBE more meaningful and helps learners answer key guiding questions, such as “What are the physical and biological characteristics of this place?”.  >>

GLOBE Partnership Earth Team is a non-profit environmental education organization. Earth Team empowers urban youth to become lifelong environmental stewards through experiential education, skills development, and the building of community connections.  >>

A Q&A with GLOBE teacher Elodie Bourbon: Elodie teaches two sections of Earth science for ESL students. "What is different about GLOBE is the fact that students go outside, actually collect real data."  >>

Peter Schmidt, Queens College, shares new initiatives  >>

How GLOBE Mission EARTH at the University of Toledo is conducting professional development, student engagement, and webinars during the COVID19 pandemic.  >>

The GLOBE Mission EARTH Team at WestEd/UC Berkeley have advice and resources on how to best support teachers that are teaching virtually during 'shelter at home' mandates.  >>

The GLOBE Midwest Region Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Partnership engaged in both undergraduate GLOBE student research and collaborative Federal grant development activities to further promote GLOBE in the region and beyond.  >>

GLOBE partner Stone Child College is a tribal college located on the Chippewa Cree Rocky Boy Reservation in north central Montana. Douglas, a long time resident of the Rocky Boy community, says aspects of GLOBE fit well with the indigenous way of knowing.  >>

The California Academy of Sciences has designed a nationwide out-of-school-time program that inspires middle school youth to explore and connect with nature while achieving essential science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning goals. The name of this program? It’s called the Science Action Club (SAC). This hands-on citizen science program ignites curiosity, fosters workforce development skills, and builds STEM identity. From Anchorage Alaska to Albany New York, Science Action Club is implemented in 400-800 programs annually.  >>

The Metropolitan State University of Denver brought the excitement of student learning and research to Downtown Denver for the MULTI Student Research Showcase. One goal of the event was to inspire our “focal students”, those who have not seen themselves in a STEM career pipeline, by interactions to near-peers from similar backgrounds.  >>