Hello and thank you for viewing our video!

My name is Sara Mierzwiak, I am a Research Assistant with GLOBE Mission EARTH and the media editor. I hope you enjoy this brief look at a handful of the MANY K-college students that GLOBE Mission EARTH has been proud to inspire in the last four years. In our 5-year NASA grant, we have worked with schools from coast to coast in the United States, getting teachers and their students interested in STEM by involving them in the GLOBE Program (www.globe.gov). Through GLOBE, students get hands-on experience in REAL scientific research, and help to contribute to our understanding of our global environment. As part of their work with GLOBE Mission EARTH, students are also exposed to a wide variety of materials and resources developed by NASA, helping them to make those local-to-global connections. We hope to continue this work far into the future with a renewal, and look forward to helping to contribute to our nation's future STEM professionals! 

If you have questions about GLOBE Mission EARTH or the GLOBE Program in general, please don't hesitate to ask!

Sara Mierzwiak

Research Assistant

GLOBE  Mission EARTH

www.globe.gov/web/mission-earth

Sara did a great job of putting this video together. Our NASA funded project is in its fifth year and we are now seeing what the students are doing. We hope that the students we work with continue to have success. 

We always find the teachers in these activities animated by in-the-field participation.  Frustratingly, central administration of their curriculum in their schools makes it difficult to adopt many of their new experiences into their classrooms.  But they do come away re-enthused in their STEM interests [our program is for fifth grade teachers].  How much can the teachers carry what they've learned back into their classrooms?

Thanks for the great video. I really loved seeing the trajectory of what makes great student work happen -- starting with great, "do-able" GLOBE protocols, to having teachers do and report on the science, back to the classroom, and eventually to the regional symposium. I'm curious what you find is the most challenging piece for teachers? We find many science teachers don't feel equipped to handle the misdirections, misconceptions and misunderstandings that come up during data analysis. I wonder if you likewise find that and what approaches you use for that part of teachers' experience in particular?

Hey Sara and Kevin,

Great project!  As a scientist myself who has judged posters from elementary to graduate-level work, I think this is especially necessary to train facilitators and teachers not only on a variety of STEM topics, but also on the fundamental tenants of good scientific presentations.  To that end, I have a couple of inquiries:

• The anecdotal stories of students in colleges and universities are great.  Were you or the teachers able to provide any data on whether or not the presentations improved students' overall interests in STEM, performance in other types of classroom STEM assessments, or critical thinking?

• Did you recruit any students or teachers that came from indigenous populations?  If so, what was your experience merging indigenous cultural practices of science with western traditions?

• What kind of training do the did teachers receive on how to support students devising their own research questions (i.e. creating relevant and testable questions)?

     Thank you again for the cool video! 

Hi Mission Earth Team,

I wanted to share that after hosting the Midwest SRS in spring 2019, we used the peer review resources to help prepare our Army Education & Outreach Program (AEOP) Research and Engineering Apprentice (REAP) apprentices to present their posters along side our undergraduate researchers last summer.  I think it helped them re-frame this experience from "I will be judged" to "I will learn and help others learn".

-Marcy Seavey, STEM Coordinator, University of Northern Iowa

That's a great connection. I like what you are saying about getting away from students being judged to them learning from others. It is much more collaborative.

Nice video! It is good to see many students are benefited from the GLOBE Mission Earth. 

I really enjoyed your video, Mission EARTH team! I especially enjoyed getting to hear a bit from some student participants that have gone on to pursue their science interests in college. I was wondering whether you are doing any kind of formal follow-ups with past participants like these to assess the impact of the program on how the participants learned from, or were affected by, their experience with the GLOBE program?

The GLOBE program offers a fantastic experience for students, particularly if the students engage in the research symposium. I'm wondering how you encourage and support teachers and students to collect high-quality data over the long-term? What have you learned from the teachers and students who stick with it, versus teachers and students who engage in the short-term or as a "one-off" experience?

Thanks for sharing this great project! I really like the idea of students learning by doing and having students involved with the scientific investigation process from data collection, analysis to results dissemination. Could you share more information about the following aspects of this project?

• Based on the description, “GME students show increased student agency, global awareness, "21st century" skills, and college and career readiness”, I assume some sort of program evaluation was conducted. Do you have a control group in the evaluation, and if so, how is the control group identified?
• It seems a student survey instrument was used to measure student interest in science as one construct during the evaluation. Does the survey also measure the other constructs: “21st century" skills, and college and career readiness? How was the reliability and validity of these scale instruments?
• Other than the non-academic outcomes mentioned above, are you also looking at student academic outcomes? These may include, but not limited to, student performance in state standardized tests, GPA, or some sort of end-of-course tests.

Sarah, what a great job in capturing the "mission" of GME. Thank you sharing the smiling faces of students as they walk through the process of conducting authentic research, many for the first time. For me, the "evidence" of the impact on student's lives is the obvious sense of accomplishment from the photos. Having been at some of these events myself, I am confident that we are changing student's lives! Thank you for your numerous contributions to GME!

Thanks for sharing the GLOBE project. One of the things I've seen is that students (and teachers) often need significant support in effectively communicating their science research. Is a focus on communicating science part of the professional development you have for teachers?

As we see what students from many worlds find from GLOBE it offers us hope for tomorrow's leaders in STEM work and in preserving our vital environment.

Super work and a wonderful message for all diverse populations to learn from.

Thanks so

Thank you, Mission Earth!  Well done!

Thank you, Mission Earth!  Well done!

What a great opportunity for contextualized Science learning in a collaborative environment for both students and teachers.  Everyone seems very engaged.  Is there a theoretical framework for this project? If so, could you expound a little bit on that?

Also, with such great projects that implement a number of different scientific skills, seems like there are lots of constructs that could be leveraged in this work (i.e., scientific argumentation, variable isolation, complex systems, logic, spatial skills), including metrics to track them pre to post.  Check out this resource (https://www.silc.northwestern.edu/) for getting granular with the components of spatial thinking and how this program can enhance it!  Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations on this work!  Our world needs it!

This is amazing Sara. I am proud to be associated with GLOBE Earth Mission.

This is amazing Sara. I am proud to be associated with GLOBE Mission Earth. Looks great.