Why Care About GLOBE

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Why Care About GLOBE
Elena Bautista Sparrow, Ph.D.
University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska,
USA
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WHY CARE ABOUT GLOBE

• It is unique
• It is sustainable
• It is good for science and education
• It is a community builder

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GLOBE is unique

• It has developed standardized science
  measurements being used locally and globally
• It involves both young and old
• It provides opportunities for all students in a
  classroom to learn about science by doing science
  research

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GLOBE is sustainable

• GLOBE provides
• Long term availability of websites that are
  portals for both data/info access and data/info
  input
• Mechanism for long term support through GLOBE
  partnerships, help desk,etc.

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GLOBE is good for Science and
Education

• For science it provides
• A means of starting scientist training early in
  the pipeline
• A model for effective science education and
  outreach
• A way of increasing research capacity through
  citizen scientist efforts worldwide

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GLOBE is good for Science and
Education

• For education it provides
• A way of meeting curricular needs in K-12
  classrooms through hands-on/minds-on activities
  that can be integrated in science, math, language
  arts, and social studies
• Opportunities for students to develop science
  process, collaborative, presentation, and
  leadership skills, and to travel to other
  countries
• A means of jumpstarting other science education
  programs

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GLOBE is good for Science and
Education

• For education it provides
• Opportunities for students to develop science
  process, collaborative, presentation, and
  leadership skills, and to travel to other
  countries

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Skills in
Science process
Technology
Collaboration
Presentation
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GLOBE is good for Science and
Education

• For education it provides
• A means of jumpstarting other science education
  programs

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Bonanza Creek Schoolyard Long Term Ecological
Research (SLTER) Program
High school student mentored by LTER scientists
won top awards at state and nationwide science
symposiums.
Students make clinometers for measuring
tree height.
Students are engaged in long term
ecological studies at/or close to their schools.
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Alaska Rural Research Partnership engages
rural students in university research Projects,
e.g. genetics.
UAF Genetics Lab
Collecting whale samples
and GLOBE investigations
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Global Change Education Using Western Science and
Native Observations Program (OLCG)
www.uaf.edu/olcg
Teachers and students conduct climate/environmenta
l change studies based on local observations and
knowledge, work with Native elders, scientists
and educators, and use GLOBE methods and best
teaching practices. More than 60 Alaska teachers
and over 1200 students have participated in this
program.
.
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Alaska Ice and Snow Observation Network
Ice Snow
Students
Teachers
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Kodiak High school
Polaris K12 School
Chief Zzeh Gittlet School
Old Crow
Samuel Hearne Secondary High School
GLOBE Arctic POPs
15 schools
Attagoyuk School
Pangnirtung
The Murmansk Vocational Maritime lyceum 6
Honningsvåg fiskarfagskole og vg skole
Gymnasium 1
Kjøllefjord
Vannareid skole
Vannareid
Apatity
Laestadiusskolan
Vestvågøy videregående skole
Pajala
Pudas School
Leknes
Kiruna
Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri
Hjalmar Lundbohmsskolan
Akureyri
Tornio
Barnaskoli Vestmannaeyja
Vestmanneyjar
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As a Community Builder

• Globe facilitates a common language for
  communication and collaborative work among
  different peoples, that transcends country
  borders and cultures
• GLOBE evokes a strong feeling of belonging to and
  being a contributing member of a family

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Locally
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and globally
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Thats why I care about GLOBE.