GLOBE
http://www.globe.gov/

GLOBE is a worldwide partnership of teachers, students and scientists participating in hands-on activities to learn more about the environment.  The program offers teachers training at professional development workshops, detailed teacher's guides, extensive "how-to" videos, and other materials, continuing support from a help desk, scientists, and partners and contact with other teachers, students, and scientists worldwide.

For Students, GLOBE provides the opportunity to learn by: taking scientifically valid measurements in the fields of atmosphere, hydrology, soils, and land cover/phenology - depending upon their local curricula, reporting their data through the Internet, creating maps and graphs on the free interactive website to analyze data sets and collaborating with scientists and other GLOBE students around the world.

René Kajava, a GLOBE teacher from Suomussalmi High School in Finland has this to say about the GLOBE program:

I work as a biology teacher in a small secondary school in the northeastern
part of Finland near the Russian boarder. I have been involved in the GLOBE
Program since 1996 and have been very proud of it.

In my opinion the best thing about the GLOBE Program is that students get a
better, long-term chance to study outside instead of theoretical studies inside
the classrooms. That makes it much easier for me to motivate the students to
study the environment around them.

Because students have to make regular observation about clouds, rainfall and
air temperature every day, they get used to it and automatically observe the
weather even on their holidays. I think it helps them to learn more about the
nature around and even respect it more. If it works out, so I have succeeded in
achieving my main purpose as a teacher.

If you are a teacher and would like to contribute to the scientific understanding of
the Earth and help students from the ages of five through eighteen reach higher levels of achievement in science and mathematics by collaborating with other students and scientists worldwide, go to http://www.globe.gov/ and find out more about this exciting and educational program.

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