Introduction to the GLOBE Green Down investigation for K-3 kids. The leaves are changing! What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Learn how to set up your GLOBE Green Down site to track the changing leaves with children grades K-3. Join GLOBE Grandma investigate fall leaves with NASA's GLOBE program. Adapted for early primary from GLOBE Green Down.
Join GLOBE Grandma as she guides young learners in observing leaf color in the GLOBE Green Down investigation. Early primary students can do GLOBE, too! They are NASA's microexplorers through the GLOBE program!
Join GLOBE Grandma as she goes back out with her family to check on how their leaves are changing. Will the adopted leaves be still green, or have they changed colors? What other surprises do they find at the site, and what should Grandma do when she accidentally pulls a leaf off?!
GLOBE Grandma explores with her family why leaves change color in the fall with a demonstration using pigments. Just as leaves lose their green chlorophyll pigments, Grandma and Simone use a simple chromatography experiment to understand how colorful pigments can be hidden behind other colors. To learn more, they call plant ecologist Dr. Christa Mulder from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology.
This lesson is an early primary grade adaptation of the GLOBE learning activity "Investigating Leaf Pigments."
GLOBE Alaska - Leaf Green-Down data entry
This first lesson in the Grandma GLOBE winter series gets children ready to learn about snow and how it changes through time or across different places. After watching the video, use the activity sheets to give the children the chance to observe snow, think of what they know and notice, and what they wonder about snow.
Where would be a good spot for you to monitor snow in your yard, neighborhood or schoolyard? Join GLOBE Grandma in thinking about and mapping the best spot to make GLOBE snow depth measurements.
Join GLOBE Grandma as she guides children in this early primary grades adaptation of the GLOBE total snowpack monitoring protocol. The snowpack data collected can help scientists using GLOBE data understand how much water is on the landscape in the form of snow.
Join GLOBE Grandma as she revisits her GLOBE snow site and sees that big changes have occurred! Observing changes in snow depth helps children observe and understand changes through time, and the data collected can help scientists using GLOBE data understand how the timing and amount of snow is changing.
Join GLOBE Grandma and her early primary aged grandchildren discover the differences in snow depth on the river and on the land using GLOBE protocols. They call on University of Alaska snow and ice scientist Dr. Chris Arp to discuss their results. Join in the fun and try it yourself using the activity sheets below.
After a long winter spring is here! Join GLOBE Grandma and the grandkids get ready for exploring spring green-up by making observing and making predictions about spring buds.
Join GLOBE Grandma and the grandkids as they mark their branches and buds for the GLOBE green-up protocol.
Join GLOBE Grandma as she guides young learners in observing the phenology of tree or shrub buds and leaves using the GLOBE Green Up investigation. Early primary students can do GLOBE, too! They are NASA's microexplorers through the GLOBE program!
Join GLOBE Grandma as she goes back out with her family to check on how their spring buds have changed. They are surprised to see the beautiful spring leaves emerged! Learn how to continue green-up observations as the leaves grow to their full size. This video is a great review for young learners on collecting GLOBE tree and shrub green up data as a part of NASA's youth-centered citizen science program.
GLOBE eTraining is required for access to the data entry of green down, green up and snow:
On the Biosphere eTraining page, complete the eTrainings for
· Introduction to Biosphere
· Green Up-Green Down—Tree and Shrub Green-Down
On the Atmosphere eTraining page, complete the eTrainings for
· Introduction to Atmosphere
· Precipitation - Snow
NOTE: If you aren't a trained GLOBE educator, you will also need to complete the Introduction to GLOBE eTraining (scroll down the page to find the eTraining).