Find GLOBE protocols and learning activities that complement exploration of solar eclipses.

GLOBE protocols and learning activities that complement exploration of Earth's Energy Budget are outlined.

This activity will help students better understand and practice estimating percent cloud cover.

Students will examine air temperature data collected through The GLOBE Program during the 2017 US solar eclipse.

This hands-on activity is the construction of an extended coverage area of eclipse glasses to provide extra protection for safely viewing a solar eclipse. This makes it harder to look outside the lenses on the eclipse glasses.

Students will investigate the role of clouds and their contribution (if any) to global warming. Working in cooperative groups, students will make a claim about the future role clouds will play in Earth’s Energy Budget if temperatures continue to increase.

In this activity, students will model the geometry of solar eclipses using quarters to represent the Sun and Moon (not to scale).

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Students will analyze and interpret maps of the average net atmospheric radiation to compare the flow of energy from the Sun toward Earth in different months and for cloudy versus clear days. Students will draw conclusions and support them with evidence.

Students will analyze and interpret graphs to compare the flow of (shortwave) energy from the Sun toward China over the course of a year on cloudy versus clear days. Students will draw a conclusion and support it with evidence.