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2025 Spring Tree Campaign🌳

Colorful picture of trees, grass and flowers in a forest.

 

Trees are beautiful. They awaken from their winter sleep each spring. Observe your tree from buds to leaves and share your findings in the GLOBE database, contributing to a global understanding of our environment. Discover the vital role trees play in the carbon cycle and in cooling our cities.

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REGISTER HERE to join the Campaign.

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What can you expect?

🌿  4 simple and fun activities to guide you through Green-up observations

🌿  4 engaging activities for those curious about the role of trees in the global carbon cycle

🌿  Tree-height measurement activity

🌿   Activity exploring how trees help cool our cities

🌿  Sharing results and photos in the campaign discussion forum

🌿  Webinars on phenology and trees with scientists, with schools sharing their inspiring projects

🌿  Opportunity to collaborate with partner schools locally or internationally

🌿  Certificates and virtual badge for active schools

 

💡Questions or ideas? Email us at csilla.barkasz@terezanet.cz.

 

 

How to start?

Choose one of the 7 species that GLOBE students across Europe follow in spring:
Hazel, Fig, Lime, Oak, Sour Cherry, Birch, Beech.

 

 

What else can you do?

  • Create a time-lapse video of your tree with GrowApp
  • Share photos and findings in the discussion forum
  • Complete the online e-training for Green-up observations.
  • Explore other students' projects and research
  • Connect with international schools through the discussion forum.
  • Discover how trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle - read more.

 

"During observations, the students tend to be more perceptive as they were interested in how the weather temperature affected the budburst. They’ve found out which tree burst earliest and which latest, which tree’s leaves grew fastest during the same weather conditions."

Rasa Gaidiene, Anyksciai distr. Troskunai Kazys Inciura Gymnasium, Lithuania

 

🌳Activities for students

GLOBE program ruler measuring a leaf.

  • Activity 1: My Tree + carbon activity: Tree Growth Game
  • Activity 2: Look at the Buds + Data Sheet + Carbon Around Me
  • Activity 3: First Leaves + carbon activity: Carbon in my tree + Data Sheet
  • Activity 4: My Green Up Data + carbon activity: The Case of Missing Carbon + Data Upload Guide

  • Bonus: How Tall Is My Tree? — Measure your tree's height!

Explore how your tree affects its surroundings and cools the urban environment:
🌳 Air-Conditioned by Trees

 

 

🎖️ Earn Virtual Badge!

In the year 2025, the GLOBE Program turns 30 Years. To celebrate this milestone, the year-long "30 Years of GLOBE Campaign"  encourages participants, to consider what environmental changes are emerging in their local ecosystems through collecting and analyzing environmental data via GLOBE protocols exploring GLOBE learning activities and using GLOBE databases. 

By your active participation in the 2025 Spring Tree (Phenology) Campaign you can earn a "30 Years of GLOBE Badge". All you need to do is:

Fill out the 30 Years of GLOBE Campaign Participation Form

 

 

 

🤝 2025 Spring Collaboration

Four students outside, examining a branch on a tree.

Alongside learning about phenology, your students will develop key 21st-century skills, such as international communication and teamwork.

How to start a collaboration?

Go to the campaign discussion forum and invite partners to collaborate by post. Wait for a post to reach other schools registered on the forum and get ready for new partnerships.

After finding a partner school, what can members do?

  • Regularly exchange data and pictures by email
  • Plan a call and discuss their experience and results
  • Plan a student research project together