West Virginia GLOBE Program

What is GLOBE?

GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.

WV GLOBE represents a partnership between GLOBE, NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource Center and over a dozen affiliated organizations and County Schools in West Virginia.

GLOBE provides students the opportunity to learn by:

• Taking scientifically valid measurements in the fields of atmosphere, hydrology, soils, and land cover/phenology - depending upon their local curricula
• Reporting their data through the Internet
• Creating maps and graphs on the free interactive Web site to analyze data sets
• Collaborating with scientists and other GLOBE students around the world

GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools, led in the United States by a federal interagency program sponsored by NASA, NSF, EPA and the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with over 140 colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United States and over 100 other countries.

Over a million primary and secondary students in more than 12,000 schools have taken part in the program since its creation in 1995; there are more than 20,000 GLOBE-trained teachers and those numbers are growing!