Discovering GLOBE: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

The globe is a program that not only connects children and instructors from all over the world, but also empowers them to become environmental stewards. Enter the GLOBE program, a global community dedicated to environmental observation, investigation, and comprehension. GLOBE, which stands for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, includes a universe of possibilities. GLOBE is a platform for promoting environmental stewardship, not just a science program. Participants become active contributors to our understanding of the Earth’s linked processes rather than passive observers. This method develops a sense of responsibility and empowers people to make educated environmental decisions.

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What Is Unique About the GLOBE Program?

GLOBE is more than a program; it is a global movement that brings together students, teachers, and scientists from all around the world. GLOBE is really about hands-on, experiential learning. It allows participants to leave the classroom and enter the globe, transforming the entire planet into their laboratory. What actually distinguishes GLOBE is its emphasis on real-world application. Rather of limiting their learning to textbooks and classrooms, GLOBE participants go outside to actively connect with their surroundings. Students develop practical skills that extend beyond academia by doing hands-on experiments and making observations in their local habitats, preparing them for a future in which environmental stewardship is an essential component of global citizenship.

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Participating in Meaningful Research

GLOBE is about more than just data collection; it’s about asking questions, seeking answers, and engaging in meaningful inquiry. Participants are encouraged to create and carry out their own scientific experiments, instilling a sense of wonder and exploration. This method turns learning from a passive to a stimulating adventure of discovery. GLOBE places a high value on student-led inquiry. Students are encouraged to generate their own questions and design investigations that match with their individual interests rather than following prescribed experiments. This student-centered approach fosters not only a sense of ownership over their learning but also the development of critical thinking skills.

Connecting Classrooms on Different Continents

One of the most enthralling parts of the GLOBE program is its ability to establish cross-continent partnerships. Students and teachers join a global network in which they share their discoveries, views, and even cultural perspectives. GLOBE’s collaborative nature transcends regional borders, resulting in a virtual classroom without walls. GLOBE encourages collaborative initiatives that bring students from many regions together. Whether it’s gathering data for a research project together or exchanging findings via virtual platforms, collaborative activities help to break down geographical barriers. Students not only share their scientific discoveries through project exchanges, but they also obtain firsthand knowledge of their peers’ distinct environmental situations.

GLOBE’s Ripple Effect: From Local to Global

GLOBE’s impact reaches well beyond the persons immediately involved. Participants contribute to a communal understanding of our planet by contributing to a global dataset. This shared information has the ability to affect local and global environmental policies, sending ripples through communities and nations. Globe’s fundamental mission is to empower local communities by transforming students and educators into active participants in environmental education. Participants who engage in hands-on observations and inquiry-based learning become change agents in their communities. This empowerment manifests itself through greater environmental awareness, community involvement, and the launch of local environmental projects. GLOBE’s rippling impact begins at the grassroots level with the fostering of global citizenship. By instilling a sense of responsibility for local environments, participants’ concerns inevitably extend to global challenges. GLOBE creates future leaders with a broader perspective by laying the groundwork for a worldview that acknowledges the interconnection of all communities and ecosystems.

Thank You

National Geographics Explorer classroom is a tool that allows students to interact with professionals such as “cutting-edge scientists, researchers, and powerful storytellers” all over the world allowing students to connect with Explorers in real-time while making ground-breaking discoveries and what goes on behind the scenes.

Explorers classrooms provide a unique learning experience, providing custom guides for each classroom completely full of fun activities and resources for the students in the classroom or even in their own households.

The useful online tool even allows students the chance to be featured in the live stream with the Explorer allowing the classroom or household to provide any questions for the explorer to answer.

As someone who is striving to become a history teacher, this feature seems like an amazing, fun, and interesting way to engage the classroom. It would be fantastic to allow my classroom the chance to interact and explore parts of history right in the classroom.

For example, students can interact with underwater Archeologist Tara Roberts who is searching for sunken slave ships.

Or Carter Clinton who is using the latest technology to better understand the lives of African Americans during the slave trade through DNA, bacteria, and soil sampling from freed and enslaved people who were buried in Manhattan New York African burial ground.

The idea of allowing my students to see discoveries unfold in real-time is something that I can not pass up.

National Geographic Explorers Classroom – https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/student-experiences/explorer-classroom/

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What is CIEE?

The Council on International Educational Exchange, or CIEE, is a nonprofit organization that focuses on global exchange and education initiatives around the world. Since its establishment in the United States in 1947, CIEE has grown to become one of the biggest and most established international education organizations in existence.

Through this organization, students are able to not only visit other countries but experience different aspects of life that create learning opportunities in culture, language, and more. In learning directly hands on from those who live their day to day lives within a specific culture, CIEE ensures that the learner receives an immersive hands-on learning experience.

Why Did I Select CIEE?

I chose CIEE because of the opportunity it offers students around the globe. It fosters an environment internationally for students to connect with one another, with distinct cultures, learn languages, establish connections and broaden their horizons of the world they live in. The opportunity to study abroad is a privilege that students and educators alike should take advantage of more frequently. Organizations like CIEE create an open classroom where the material is readily available in daily lives of others around the globe. Interactive learning can make the difference between whether learners are able to walk away with something from the experience or not, and offering a hands-on experience is often times the best way to learn. Especially in subject matters such as languages, practice is the most effective tool to ensuring a good grasp on the language. Traveling to another country where one might need to use the language being learned is a phenomenal way to practice. CIEE offers these opportunities through their exchange programs, study abroad programs and more.

How Will I Use CIEE?

As a future Spanish language educator, it has become crucial to me already the importance of practice, but even more so the opportunity to practice. As a teacher, being able to inform my students about the opportunities that are available to them through organizations such as CIEE will provide to them a great resource. Often times traveling to a foreign country is intimidating and difficult to organize, but by organizing educational trips to Spanish-speaking nations through organizations like CIEE it becomes less and less of something to worry about, and more and more of a great chance for students to expand their knowledge and increase their practice in the language.

Global Educator toolbox

National Geographic Kids K-12

Why did I choose this?

I chose this because when i was younger I loved to watched National Geographic and how it intertwined with my current life. In my future career of business this is a great tool to use to educate all about the world and different kinds of things. If I was ever to teach business to students I would use this tool to benefit all.

What I found?

I found that National Geographic can help kids of all age get educated on different animals and parts of the world. There is also a certain program where people who currently work for them will come in and talk with students, answer any questions and educate them. This is amazing because it offers kids the opportunity to “look up” to someone and look towards something.

How I would use this

I would use this in the business world if I owned a travel businesses to find destinations to take people across the world to see different animals to educate them in advance. I think that this would be a good website to get a lot of information off of.

THANK YOU!

Paul Mancini