TRAINING FORMAT
This training format includes an initial three-day workshop at which teachers receive official GLOBE certification and train in three of the five protocol areas, and two additional days of training in the Hydrology and Land Cover protocols.
Day 1
Welcome:
- Pick up materials, register
- Introduction to the GLOBE Program
Learning Activity: Just Passing Through
- Earth Systems Science
- Seasonal Change Protocols
- Which thermometer is the right thermometer?
- Atmosphere protocols and background
- GPS theory and practice
- GLOBE atmosphere measurements
Summary and group designation
Day 2
Review: Atmosphere learning activities
Laboratory and Outdoors:
- Pedagogy and Soil Protocols
- Soil moisture
- Soil site definition
- Soil characterization
- Prepare samples for lab work
Computer Laboratory:
- Introduction to the GLOBE website
- How to enter data
- Entering weather data
- Exploring the GLOBE website
Preliminary exercises Summary: Questions and Answers
Day 3
Questions and Answers: Science Building Lobby
Laboratory:
- Soils Data Entry
- Using the GLOBE Website to stimulate student inquiry
Computer Laboratory:
- Phenology protocols
- Website Practicum - data reporting and analysis
GLOBE Certificate Exercise: Science Building Lobby
- Participants receive GLOBE Teacher Certificates
- Each participating School receives GLOBE Science Instrument Kits
- Each participating School receives School ID and PIN
DAY 4
Morning: Report of application of GLOBE training to date
- data submitted to GLOBE data archive by participants’ students
- problems and solutions
- suggestions for improved application
Introduction to Hydrology protocols
Lunch: Questions and answers
Afternoon: Hydrology field site
- Site definition and mapping
- Water turbidity
- Water temperature
- Water pH
Laboratory: Enter hydrology data in GLOBE database.
Day 5
Morning: Report on application of GLOBE training to date:
- data submitted to GLOBE
- data archive by participants’
- students problems and solutions suggestions for improved application
Introduction to Land Cover protocol
- Modified UNESCO classification
- Analysis of LANDSAT imagery
Lunch
Afternoon: Land cover field exercise
