Exploring The Globe Program

What is the Globe Program?

The program advocates for the Earth and systems science by collecting data and volunteers analyzing it. The program's main goal is to help advance Earth science systems and applications. 

GLOBE Visualize Data

As I was searching on their website, I came across a tool, Visualize Data. This tool allows one to interact with a map and many different settings and filters that can show you many things. For example, you can interact with the different layers and types of our atmosphere, interact with their filters, move anywhere on the map, etc. When you click on the atmosphere button, it drops down into a huge list of different interactions. With the atmosphere dropping, there are interactions from clouds the whole way to the surface temperature. There ar simular drop downs for biosphere, hydroshpere, pedosphere (temperature and moisture), and pedoshere (soil characteristics).

There is also a section where you can interact with different filters. There are filters like choosing a site, elevation, and observer. These filters allow you to personalize and get very specific when trying to find and look at data. 

Why Does it Matter?

This matters bevcause exploirng these tools will allow us to better teach content to our students. With this program, you can not only create so many lessons around what it offers, but also you can use this tool to help students visualize what they are learning. By visualizing and interacting with the programit allows students to do it for themselves, but also they get to play with the different filters and interactions that show them what happens at different temperatures, elevations, sunny, rainy, etc.