1. Mission Earth: Fusing GLOBE with NASA Assets to Build Systemic Innovation in STEM Education Monthly Status (April)
Updates Updates (con’t)
Webinar #13 / Exploring Careers occurred on April 5
Meeting with Advisory Committee on April 20 via Zoom
Reviewing the recommendations of the Advisory Committee
Submitted GLOBE related sessions to NSTA National Conference 2018 in Atlanta, GA
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO:
Participated in Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Boys STEAM Day for students & their parents on April 13
2017 Solar Eclipse boxes for Matt Penn sent out
Assisted with John Moore’s teacher professional development
UT Professional Development (July 10-14)– recruiting teams of teachers (grades K – 8) from the same school or feeder pattern to do Elementary GLOBE
Promoting our students to submit their projects to the SATELLITES Student Conference (May 3) and the GLOBE Midwest Regional Symposium on May 19-20, 2017 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY:
Doing weekly school visits; assisting their teachers in student trainings and collecting data for GLOBE
Promoting the GLOBE Northeast / Mid-Atlantic Science Symposium on May 19-20, 2017 at Palmyra Cove Nature Center, Palmyra Cove, NJ
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY:
Planning the professional development for area high school teachers to take place next summer
Promoting the GLOBE Southeast Regional Science Symposium on April at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL
WestEd/UC BERKELEY:
Doing weekly school visits with classroom observations; assisting their teachers in student trainings and collecting data for GLOBE
Staff securing materials in preparation for Eclipse
Promoting the GLOBE Pacific Science Symposium on June 2-3, 2017 at JPL in Pasadena, CA
Submitted three proposals for disseminations through conferences.
Work with NM to engage teachers and plan for STEM symposium.
NASA Langley Research Center
Attended GLOBE Strategic Planning Meeting
Submitted GLOBE related NSTA sessions
Had meeting with some folks at NASA GISS regarding Visualization tool options, potentially for MY NASA DATA
Updated the GLOBE Learning Progression and discussing it with the PD and Curriculum Working Group
Participated in Earth Day GLOBE Event at local library
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/SUPPORT WORKING GROUP:
Identifying where GLOBE and NASA fit in the Career Tech Ed Standards
Working on one pagers matching high school NGSS to satellite missions
Discussing the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee
EVALUATION WORKING GROUP:
Finalization of the questions to be included in the teachers' interview protocol
Collaboration with  Boston University  for the planning of classroom observations and the teacher interviews
West /Ed UC Berkeley stared their classroom observations using the protocol the group has created
UT is planning their  classroom observations
Rubrics have been shared with all for review and finalization of the ones to be used (with possible variations for different  audiences)
ENGINEERING WORKING GROUP
Met on April 25 to discuss the final engineering products produced this year and the Virtual GLOBE Engineering Challenge
Would like to have a session at GLOBE Annual Meeting to discuss possible ways of connecting to other colleges of engineering
PRE-SERVICE WORKING GROUP
Met on April 21 recapped what was done during the semester.
Would like to have a session at GLOBE Annual Meeting to discuss possible ways of connecting UG students
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2. Mission Earth: Fusing GLOBE with NASA Assets to Build Systemic Innovation in STEM Education Monthly Status (April)
Cross-Collaboration Status
Areas to Watch
Establishing web presence on GLOBE website
Increasing the number of webinars on YouTube channel:
Disseminating GLOBE and NASA information on our Facebook page: and Twitter @globemissionear
Summer Teacher Professional Development
Classroom Connections with Elena Sparrow’s teachers in Alaska: On April 27, Carol Scott from Randy Smith School in Fairbanks, Alaska and Connie Atkisson from Thirkell Elementary-Middle School from Detroit, Michigan connected their science classes together over the internet.
Working with AREN Project on Engineering Design Challenge.
Look Ahead
GLOBE Training for Partners in Education (after school programs) on May 5 – a combination of F2F and eTraining. PIE will be using the afterschool program developed by Langley RC.
Webinar #14 / 2017 Solar Eclipse occurring on May 20
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