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09/26/2024
WestEd/UC Berkeley Partnership Celebrates GLOBE Since 2011
The WestEd/UC Berkeley GLOBE partnership has been supporting educators and students in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Michigan and Alaska for more than a decade.
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03/04/2022
Science From the Rooftops
Not far from the Oakland shoreline, where you can catch a dreamy, distant glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge, is the middle school where Jess Kunz teaches science. It’s in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland: only a fifteen-minute drive away from the shore, but a world apart. Here, the mists of the San Francisco Bay give way to the gas fumes of cars; the blossomy seashore paths give way to pavement, concrete, and dense urban living.
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11/09/2021
GME-West Partners with Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI)
The GME-West team expands its K-12 reach with Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) through their San Francisco Bay B-WET grant from NOAA. The two-day event trained high school science and social science teachers throughout the Bay Area on watershed management and GLOBE hydrosphere protocols.
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02/10/2021
2021 GLOBE+ Virtual Student Symposium
The GLOBE Pacific Region is gearing up for GLOBE student research projects. The 2021 GLOBE+ Virtual Student Symposium will take place on Friday afternoon, 30 April, and Saturday morning, 01 May. This event will include peer-to-peer project sharing, and student teams will have the opportunity to present their projects to scientists related to their project’s field of study.
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07/21/2020
GLOBE-at-Home Strategies for Success!
Although schools around the world have paused in-person learning, that hasn’t stopped GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) teachers Jessica Kunz and Zulema Gonzales from providing GLOBE-infused STEM learning for their students. During a recent round-table virtual presentation hosted by GME, these teachers shared examples of their lesson plans and strategies to engage students' STEM (distance) learning.
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05/18/2020
LOOK UP - Here Comes the Clouds!
April Johnstone's 2nd grade students captured a few clouds and our hearts recently. As a GLOBE teacher at Skyridge Elementary in Auburn California, Ms. Johnstone engaged her 2nd grade students in STEM learning by studying clouds and taking air temperature readings throughout the year.
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02/14/2020
GLOBE at Home-Strategies for Success!
Although schools around the world have paused in-person learning, that hasn’t stopped GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) teachers, Jessica Kunz and Zulema Gonzales, from providing GLOBE-infused STEM learning for their students. During a recent round-table virtual presentation hosted by GME, these teachers shared examples of their lesson plans and strategies to engage students STEM (distance) learning.
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02/07/2020
Data Challenge 2018-2019
Congratulations to all GLOBE Mission Earth-West schools who participated in the 2019 data challenge. There were over 900 entries!
A special congratulations to Met Sacramento’s teacher, Jon Thackery, who’s class entered 518 data measurements with the GLOBE Observer App. As entering the most data, students will receive a pizza party and the class receives a customized GLOBE kit worth $250.
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10/17/2019
Fall North American Regional Meeting (NARM) 2019
The WestEd/UC Berkeley Partnership recently hosted the Fall 2019 North American Regional Meeting (NARM) at the University of California - Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science. A total of 42 participants from over 30 U.S. GLOBE Partnerships and the GLOBE Country Coordinators of Canada and the U.S. attended this 3-day event. The first day, October 15th, started with a Professional Development workshop followed by the 2-day meeting.
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