GLOBE-A Meaningful Scientific Project

GLOBE can be an astonishing scientific experience for your students through participating in genuine globe research project, as they are direct participants in real scientific research. They contribute data, which are used by scientists and they feel the first hand excitement, the rigor and the challenges of real science.

Here are something by which teachers can make GLOBE more exciting scientific experience for students

Stress that the scientists need students data

The GLOBE Program is unique for the reason that scientists actually use the data collected by students and by knowing this students will get motivated to put out the efforts to obtain quality data. Through these activities the students will learn science and mathematics concepts and skills as well as the importance of precision and accuracy. This will also encourage them in pursuing their own scientific investigations.

Personalize the GLOBE scientists for your students

You can use the photograph of the scientists who designed the investigations, an interview with the scientists and a personal letter from them to your students and scientist's corner section in the website to introduce the scientists to your students on a personal level so that your students gets inspiration from them and who knows one of your student might join these scientists in future.

Encourage students to contact other GLOBE Schools

GLOBE Program provides students with an exciting opportunity to meet, communicate and even mutually work with other schools all around the world. Using GLOBE mail, students can exchange messages with any GLOBE School and through GLOBE students data server, students can retrieve data submitted by other schools all around the world.

Use GLOBE Telecommunication

Through GLOBE website students can: obtain bulletins and updates; read background information regarding the program, the scientists and other schools; submit the data, examine and retrieve data from other schools, look at the graphic representations of data etc.

Use GLOBE Note Book

Encourage your students to keep a GLOBE science notebook in which students must record their reflections, ideas, hypotheses, questions, observations and sketches and also transcribe lab results and data as they progress through their book.

Each entry in the GLOBE science Notebook should include:

	Date
	Location
	Time
	If a field entry, environmental variables such as weather
	Questions, hypotheses, methods, observations, analysis, conclusion, ideas

GLOBE Science notebook helps in

	Follow student's developing understanding and asses their learning.
	It can be exchanged among students to learn more and comment.
	Drawing and recording in GLOBE science notebook helps students to focus and magnify their powers of observation.