Trees are beautiful
They wake up again each spring.
Select a tree
Find a tree close to your school or home.
Observe buds
Select four buds. Observe how the buds swell and open.
Measure leaves
Check your tree at least twice a week. Measure the length of the four leaves.
Take pictures
Take pictures with GrowApp that directly transforms pictures to animation.
Share
Talk about your tree to other students around Europe.
Upload data to GLOBE
Contribute to the worldwide GLOBE Program database.
“I love being part of the campaign. Students enjoy and we spend a lot of time outdoors.”
GLOBE school, Czech Republic
Select one of the 7 species
that GLOBE students around Europe follow in spring
Why should teachers join?
Because students will:
Enjoy meaningful time outdoors
Touch seasons
Become tree guardians
Make connections
Learn about vegetation cycle
Collect data for research
Joining the spring tree observation is easy.
You will get 4 short activities that will guide you through the observations.
The activities are suitable for distance learning.
Activity 1
- find a suitable tree
- describe the site where the tree grows
- collect data for further research with GLOBE
- learn to take pictures of
tree with GrowApp
Spring observations
About the GLOBE Program
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific
There are 40,000 GLOBE schools in 127 countries around the world. GLOBE students, teachers and citizen scientists have participated in GLOBE contributing more than 247 million measurements to the GLOBE database for use by scientist and school inquiry-based science projects.
