Exploring Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in the K-12 Classroom: A Plan to Integrate NASA Carbon Cycle Science with GLOBE

探索生态系统和大气在K-12教室：一个计划，以整合美国宇航局碳循环科学与GLOBE这个项目是一个合作的科学家和教育工作者从新罕布什尔州，美国宇航局的北美碳计划（NACP）的大学，捷克共和国与地球仪社区。 通过对当地环境的调查，地球仪小学和中学学生将了解全球碳循环及其对气候变化的影响。 该项目的核心活动是一个教育计划，其结构类似于一个科学计划，旨在调查碳循环。 这些调查是分层的复杂程度越来越高的学生在更高的年级水平使用。 学生和教师参与利用生态实地测量、模拟森林生态系统碳、水和氮动态的简化生态系统模型、遥感工具包和使用研究人员收集的数据的一套练习的活动。该项目正在使用三个现有的地球仪协议（土地覆盖，物候和土壤），并正在开发两个新的协议，“植物生物量和生产力”和“叶性状。“基于这些协议的几个学习活动正在创建中，新的数据分析工具将使学生能够根据他们的植物生物量测量来估计地上碳储量。 一个简化的生态系统模型（PnET-GLOBE）将允许学生操纵对碳循环敏感的变量，该模型是从科学界使用的更复杂的模型改编而来的。 此外，还在开发新的工具，以协助学生分析遥感数据和碳塔通量数据。 正在制定的城市生态系统的具体活动将有助于该项目接触到更多样化的受众。 通过这些活动，学生将提高他们的环境意识，并建立更强的分析和建模技能。

Exploring Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in the K-12 Classroom: A Plan to Integrate NASA Carbon Cycle Science with GLOBEThis project is a collaboration of scientists and educators from the University of New Hampshire, NASA's North American Carbon Program (NACP), and the Czech Republic with the GLOBE community. Through inquiry-based investigations of their local environment, GLOBE elementary and secondary students will learn about the global carbon cycle and its implications for climate change. The core activity of this project is an educational program that is structured like a scientific program to investigate the carbon cycle. These investigations are tiered with increasing levels of sophistication for use by students in higher grade levels. Students and teachers engage in activities that utilize ecological field measurements, a simplified ecosystem model that simulates carbon, water and nitrogen dynamics of forest ecosystems, a remote sensing toolkit and a set of exercises that use data collected by researchers. The project is using three existing GLOBE protocols (land cover, phenology, and soils) and is developing two new protocols for "Plant Biomass and Productivity" and "Leaf Traits." Several learning activities based on these protocols are being created and new data analysis tools will enable students to estimate aboveground carbon storage based on their plant biomass measurements. A simplified ecosystem model (PnET-GLOBE) that will allow students to manipulate variables sensitive to the carbon cycle is being adapted from a more sophisticated model used by the scientific community. In addition, new tools are being created to assist students in analyzing remote sensing data and carbon tower flux data. Specific activities for urban ecosystems being developed will help this project reach a more diverse audience. Through these activities, students will increase their environmental awareness and build stronger analytical and modeling skills.