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Understanding Weather & Climate

Fall or spring, summer or winter—there is always something to investigate in GlobalLab. When fall and winter come and you to spend more time indoors, you can collect samples and analyze data in your classroom (CLUs: Secrets of Fallen Leaves, Snow in Our Life, Feeding Birds, Plants in Winter, and other units).

And when spring blossoms at your study site, you can solve the Riddle of a Bird House.

 

Recommended timeline: all school year.

 

This stage includes the following CLUs (Collaborative Learning Units)

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    №7 The Riddle of a Bird House
    We all know that plants grow. But how do they grow?
     
    Do they stretch themselves like a piece of dough?
    Or do they grow on layers like silt that piles up on the bottom of a pond?
     
    Or maybe they grow in some other way? And do all the plants grow in the same way?
     
    If you were to build a bird house on a tree, would its height above the ground increase over time?
    You do not need any special tools to find the answers—just take a good look at branches and leaves in the spring.
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    №8 Traces of the Past in the Present
    You can see traces of past events everywhere.
     
    Sometimes the traces show us what happened an hour ago, a few days ago, or months and years ago.
     
    Sometimes they show what happened decades, centuries, and even thousands or millions of years ago.

    Some traces are easy to see. But some require more attention and work.

    The secrets of the past can be revealed to you in the form of a river shore, the color of leaves, or barks.

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    №9 Secrets of Fallen Leaves

    Each autumn, the soil in the woods is covered with a thick layer of leaves.

    What happens to these leaves in a month or six months, in a year or two years?

    What is hiding under them? Is this important?

     

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    №12 The role of snow in our life

    Snow helps farmers and  disturbes drivers,  protects plants and animals from severe frosts and breaks the roofs. What are the occupations depending on snow?

    GlobalLab members will compare the amount of snow in their schools neighborhood and discuss the ways of  accumulation of snow in the fields and protecting roads from snow .

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    №14  Plants in Winter

    Is a cold winter good or bad for plants? 

    Is a winter thaw a blessing or a deadly catastrophe for plants?

    What happens to the different organs and tissues of plants in autumn and winter? 

    What helps plants survive the winter in the tundra, taiga, mountains, or humid subtropic climates? 

    What tricks and tips can people learn watching plants survive the cold?

    How do gardeners and farmers get ready for winter in different regions?

    You will learn how plants on your study site survive through the winter. 

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    №16 Feeding Birds
    This CLU is special—it was proposed by one of our devoted GL teams in Russia (known as the Ethnographers).

    Joins us in this unit and maybe you will think of a topic you want us to develop into a new CLU!

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    №21 Forces that Change the Landscape

     

    Raindrops fall on the ground, the wind breaks tree branches, branches bend under the weight of snow, rivers become shallow, and floodwaters create gullies. 
    You can see things move and change shape at your study site. These changes are constant and can happen slowly or nearly instantly. They can be visible or unseen.

    What moves objects, bends and breaks them, and turns them into dust and debris? 
    In this CLU, you will focus on forces that change the landscape and will learn to look for their traces.

     
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