The document discusses various tools and online platforms that can be used to facilitate global science projects between teachers and students, provides examples of existing global science projects involving collaboration between multiple schools and countries, such as GLOBE and the International Energy Challenge, and outlines the SHOUT Tree Banding Project which has students internationally collect and upload tree growth data.

1. Science Across the Globe
Building a PLN, tools that can be
used and examples of projects.
Britt Gow, Hawkesdale P12 College

2. Composite satellite image of the Earth at Night.

3. How can you find teachers willing
to work together to create global
projects?
• Science Blogs
• Twitter (#scichat)
• Skype for Education
• Nings (Classroom2.0)
• Conferences (online and F2F)
• Facebook for Educators

5. What tools can you use to allow
students to learn collectively?
• Google docs (upload to spreadsheets)
• Edmodo (create classes online)
• Wikispaces (Wetpaint or PBwiki)
• Skype
• Voicethread
• Blackboard Collaborate

6. Some Global Science Projects...
• Google Science Fair
• Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment (GLOBE)
• The Moon Project
• SHOUT Tree banding program
• Online Science Fair
• International Energy Challenge
With varying degrees of collaboration.

7. http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/how.html

8. “The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
(GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary
school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes
and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-
based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in
close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science
Projects (ESSP’s) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's
environment.”

9. GLOBE Earth System Science Projects
http://globe.gov/science

10. http://www.worldmoonproject.org/
http://www.worldmoonproject.org/

11. http://onlinesciencefair.wikispaces.com/

12. Online Science Fair
• Students chose individual projects using the
“Science Buddies” site.
• Teachers set up a wiki in which each student had
a page with a template.
• Template showed which parts of the project need
to be completed each week.
• The aim was to upload a digital product
(slideshow, video or Voicethread) that explained
their hypothesis, results and an explanation.

13. International Energy Challenge
http://energychallenge.wikispaces.com/

14. International Energy Challenge
• A Seimen’s STEM project, initiated by teachers in
USA.
• Five schools in four countries each looked at
Renewable and Non-renewable Energy sources.
• The main focus was a wiki, with all resources
linked or embedded to pages for each school and
energy source.
• Students worked together in groups around 12
different forms of energy.

15. International Energy Challenge
• Each group produced a wiki for research and
discussion and a Voicethread.
• The conclusion of the project was an online
“Town Meeting”, using Blackboard Collaborate,
moderated by older students, in which each
group nominated a spokesperson who outlined
their case for that particular form of energy,
stating the positive case and outlining why other
forms of energy where inferior.

16. http://shoutlearning.org/treebanding.html

17. SHOUT Tree Banding Project
• An international project sponsored by the
Smithsonian Institute.
• Resources available online (YouTube videos,
website and downloads)
• A tree-banding kit is sent out, which contains
all the necessary materials and equipment to
measure tree growth using dendrometers.
• Data is uploaded to the website for scientists
to use in climate change analysis.

20. Contact Details:
Britt Gow
Hawkesdale P12 College
Hawkesdale, 3287
Victoria, Australia
Email: brittgow@gmail.com
Twitter: @brittgow
Skype: britt.gow