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Chabot Space & Science Center - Professional Development

Event Date: 03/04/2017 - 03/04/2017
Event Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Chabot Space & Science Center 10000 Skyline Blvd. Oakland, CA

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment. Announced by the U.S. Government on Earth Day in 1994, GLOBE launched its worldwide implementation in 1995.

The GLOBE program promotes teaching and learning of science, enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote scientific discovery. Through filed investigations in the areas of atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere and earth systems, students engage in scientific data collection and analysis. GLOBE use technology for data collection, includes data analysis & interpretation, allows students to connect with other schools & cultures, identifies changes over time, prepares students for research reports, uses Internet applications and GIS to communicate findings, searches for and accesses information, enables students to take scientific measurements, and makes connections between communities and science.

This professional development will show the following connections to the classroom:

NGSS Science & Engineering – asking questions, defining problems, planning and carrying out investigations, develop and use models;

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas – matter, energy, ecosystems, molecules, biological evolution, earth systems, earth & human activity, engineering design

NGSS Cross Cutting Concepts – patterns, stability and change, cause & effect, energy & matter, scale, properties, structure & function, systems and system models