GLOBE Across the Curriculum

Students use STEM protocols when learning scientific research methodologies and analyzing data sets. The GLOBE investigation areas include Earth science and biology topics in atmosphere/climate, hydrology, soil, land cover and phenology. Technology classes utilize GLOBE data sets to create elaborate charts, graphs. Students can then use these visualization to compare and examine their data with other students' findings  from around the world.

Students also build weather stations in industrial technology classes, while agricultural education students can actively assist scientists and farmers in the field to better track environmental events affecting crop production.

GLOBE strives to facilitate the study of geography and social studies through various scientific literacy programs around the world. Through hands-on mapwork, multicultural interaction, foreign language instruction and lectures on global environmental issues, GLOBE helps strengthen the connections between students in its worldwide network. GLOBE participants also benefit in expanding their view outside of their own national borders to see how global problems are interconnected in complex ways.
 

Mapwork

By working with NASA satellite data provided through GLOBE, students experientially learn geography skills by working with latitude and longitude coordinates, scale, mapping elements and spatial analysis. They also learn how to implement these skills with satellite-dependent programs like the Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). 

When GLOBE participants combine all these lessons together, they can start mapping their own environments. By observing, classifying, measuring and recording data on identified study sites, GLOBE participants provide valuable information to scientists. Researchers can then use this ground-truth data to check the accuracy of their satellites, verifying measurements like land cover and terrain. 

Tip: To find visualizations of GLOBE data overlaid on a 3D Earth model, visit the NASA WorldWind program.
 

UNEP

To create a thorough documentation of the nature and extent of the many ways humans impact our planet, the United Nations Environment Programme created the Atlas of Our Changing Environment project. Using a combination of ground photographs, satellite images and scientifically verified narratives, the program aims to create a visual representation of how humans have altered their surrounding environment over time. These works underscore the importance of developing, harnessing and sharing technologies that help provide deeper understanding of the dynamics of environmental change. 

Learn more about the Atlas of Our Changing Environment project.

Through The GLOBE Program, GLOBE Students can learn about other languages and cultures through projects and collaborations with one another, students in other countries and other professionals. Because GLOBE is a worldwide program, materials are available in the six United Nations languages (Arabic, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish), as well as German, Japanese, Thai and a number of indigenous languages. Additional materials in other languages are also available through GLOBE's international partners.

GLOBE also provides English Language Learners with access to high quality science information and opportunities to assume leadership positions in their classrooms. Additionally, Elementary GLOBE introduces early primary students to the study of Earth System Science through narratives focused on various scienctific topics.
 

GLOBE in Action

Many language teachers have incorporated GLOBE activities into their daily classroom activities since 1995. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) endorsed GLOBE in February 2005 as a model program promoting content-based language study around the world, featuring the GLOBE Program during their 2005 Year of Languages campaign. In 2009, Concordia Language Villages began incorporating GLOBE into their curricular activities.

The GLOBE Program provides prime opportunities for participants to incorporate the arts and humanities into STEM research. For example, students in art education classes can work with contour maps, draw landscape diagrams and study the different shades of soil. Additionally GLOBE Students have opportunities to integrate their photography skills into research projects by taking photos of their study sites.
 

Sounds of GLOBE

The Sounds of GLOBE project brought together music classes from around the world to create a CD celebrating The GLOBE Program. Listen to the tracks created below:

• GLOBE's for children (mp3) 
  • Finland
• GLOBE homepage, here we come (mp3) 
  • Instrumental (mp3) 
  • The Netherlands
• We all live downwind (mp3) 
  • Alaska, USA
• Save our planet, save the Earth (mp3) 
  • Arkansas, USA
• Alaska's worth more (mp3) 
  • Alaska, USA
• Moder Jord (Mother Earth) (mp3)
  • Instrumental (mp3) 
  • Norway
• We have all the instruments (mp3)
  • Finland
• Temiz bir dnya (For a clean world) (mp3) 
  • Turkey 
• The ship called Earth (mp3) 
  • The Netherlands
• Factory ships (mp3) 
  • Alaska, USA
• One (mp3) 
  • Portugal
• Destination unknown (mp3) 
  • Norway
• Mission Earth (mp3) 
  • Finland
• The wish - New York State (mp3)
  • New York, USA
• GLOBE's for children (mp3)
• The ship called Earth (mp3)