1. Mission Earth: Fusing GLOBE with NASA Assets to Build Systemic Innovation in STEM Education Monthly Status (December)
Updates/Changes Updates/Changes (con’t)
EVALUATION:
Reviewing the feedback received at the yearly meeting from Mary Sladek
Collaboration with all teams about the classroom observation protocol that will be used (given the additional options that have been provided after the evaluation plan was submitted)
Decision and planning for the evaluators to be trained in the HORIZON protocol in order to use it for the classroom observations for all teams
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO:
Engaging the community in the bi-weekly webinars. Webinars 5, 6 & 7 can be found at
Doing school visits; assisting their teachers in student trainings and collecting data for GLOBE
Presented a poster on GME at AGU Conference in San Francisco
WestEd/UC BERKELEY:
Doing school visits; assisting their teachers in student trainings and collecting data for GLOBE
Connected with teachers on December 15 via internet using Blue Jeans
Recruiting schools in New Mexico for GLOBE training
BOSTON UNIVERSITY:
Problem solving issues with the Davis Weather Stations
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY:
Planning the professional development for area high school teachers to take place next year
Celebrated GIS day via LIVE on Facebook
NASA Langley Research Center
Provided GLOBE training for after school programs
Presented to our team their work with vertical integration of NASA Data
Provided updates on the new GLOBE Cloud Protocol
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/SUPPORT WORKING GROUP:
Provided input to UT on GLOBE Mission EARTH spring webinar series
Working on vertical integration of GLOBE and NASA into the curriculum with STEM as the framework
Identifying where GLOBE and NASA fit in the Career Tech Ed Standards
EVALUATION WORKING GROUP:
Discussing classroom observation protocols
ENGINEERING WORKING GROUP
Provided a summary of the Implementation the engineering projects at Boston University and the University of Toledo
Working on engineering practices for K-12
PRE-SERVICE WORKING GROUP
Provided a summary of what was done this semester and shared plans for the next semester on implementing GLOBE into pre-service and graduate education
Co- PI Meetings
Weekly on Thursdays via Zoom
Langley

2. Mission Earth: Fusing GLOBE with NASA Assets to Build Systemic Innovation in STEM Education Monthly Status (December)
Areas to Watch Cross-Collaboration Status
Establishing web presence on GLOBE website
Increasing the number of webinars on YouTube channel
Disseminating GLOBE and NASA information on our Facebook page:
UT Professional Development (July 10-14)– recruiting teams of teachers (grades K – 8) from the same school or feeder pattern to do Elementary GLOBE and to explore and develop the vertical integration piece
Updated Cloud Protocol with NASA Satellite Match to start in January
2017 Solar Eclipse – preparing equipment boxes with IRT and air temperature thermometers (with instructions) to be sent out to libraries and schools to collect GLOBE data during the solar eclipse
Look Ahead
GLOBE Mission EARTH Webinars starting up again on January 25 at 8:00 pm EST
GLOBE Professional Development for Nashville teachers
GLOBE Mission EARTH Partners attending TTT and/or NARM in Fayetteville, AR in January, 2017
GLOBE Mission EARTH yearly meeting with Advisory Committee on January 13 and 14, 2017
UT presenting at UT’s Saturday Science Series in Spring 2017
Langley