During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project participated in a specialized Community of Practice led by NASA Langley Research Center to refine how students interact with NASA’s land cover data ( MODIS , Landsat , and Sentinel-2 ). Their collaboration focused on four key areas:
在 2025-2026 学年，来自 NASA 科学激活计划的 GLOBE（全球学习和观测以造福环境）地球任务项目的教育工作者参加了由 NASA 兰利研究中心领导的专门实践社区，以改进学生与 NASA 土地覆盖数据（MODIS、Landsat 和 Sentinel-2）的交互方式。他们的合作集中在四个关键领域：
Through GLOBE, communities can contribute meaningful environmental data to a long-term data record. When participants make observations of land cover via GLOBE Observer, the team at NASA Langley compares their observation with satellite data for a similar time and location and sends a satellite comparison email, which includes a data table that shows how their GLOBE observation and the corresponding satellite data compare.
通过 GLOBE，社区可以为长期数据记录贡献有意义的环境数据。当参与者通过 GLOBE Observer 进行土地覆盖观测时，NASA 兰利的团队会将他们的观测结果与相似时间和地点的卫星数据进行比较，并发送一封卫星比较电子邮件，其中包括一个数据表，显示他们的 GLOBE 观测结果与相应卫星数据的比较情况。
Key Community of Practice Findings : The Community of Practice included a total of 14 educators, with six actively collecting land cover observations with their students using the GLOBE Observer app. These land cover observations were collocated to MODIS, Landsat, and Sentinel-2 data with educators receiving a satellite comparison email.
实践社区的主要发现：实践社区共有 14 名教育工作者，其中 6 名教育工作者使用 GLOBE Observer 应用程序积极与学生一起收集土地覆盖观测数据。这些土地覆盖观测数据与 MODIS、Landsat 和 Sentinel-2 数据进行了搭配，教育工作者收到了卫星比较电子邮件。
Within the scope of this Community of Practice, 10 of the educators developed student research plans for the 2026-2027 school year focused on land cover data, addressing questions such as:
在该实践社区的范围内，10 名教育工作者制定了 2026-2027 学年的学生研究计划，重点关注土地覆盖数据，解决以下问题：
The educators were extremely excited to have the opportunity to interact and learn from each other as a community, as well as to connect with NASA subject matter experts. Based on lessons learned from the Community of Practice, the team has a better understanding of how NASA land cover data can be incorporated in the classroom, what types of research questions educators might present to their students, and resources that could be developed to assist educators in the implementation of their research plans.
教育工作者们非常高兴有机会作为一个社区进行互动和学习，并与 NASA 的主题专家建立联系。根据实践社区的经验教训，该团队更好地了解了如何将 NASA 土地覆盖数据纳入课堂、教育工作者可能向学生提出哪些类型的研究问题，以及可以开发哪些资源来协助教育工作者实施其研究计划。
Within the scope of the Land Cover Community of Practice (COP), educators were asked to provide feedback for the GLOBE Mission Earth GLOBE Nature Notes Guide that was developed by the NASA Langley team, leveraging the Nature Note model created by the NASA Science Activation program’s Learning Ecosystems North East (LENE) project, which is led by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. The GLOBE Nature Notes aligned with GLOBE protocols were developed to assist educators in integrating the Nature Notes process with their students’ GLOBE observations. One of the COP educators is currently developing an example of a land cover GLOBE Nature Note that will be shared with the GLOBE and NASA Science Activation community, once completed.
在土地覆盖实践社区 (COP) 的范围内，教育工作者被要求为由 NASA 兰利团队开发的 GLOBE Mission Earth GLOBE Nature Notes 指南提供反馈，该指南利用了由缅因湾研究所领导的 NASA 科学激活计划的学习生态系统东北 (LENE) 项目创建的 Nature Note 模型。开发与 GLOBE 协议一致的 GLOBE Nature Notes 是为了帮助教育工作者将 Nature Notes 流程与学生的 GLOBE 观察相结合。一名 COP 教育工作者目前正在开发一个土地覆盖 GLOBE Nature Note 示例，一旦完成，将与 GLOBE 和 NASA Science Activation 社区共享。
Educators can join the GLOBE Program and contribute observations of Land Cover and other environmental conditions by downloading the GLOBE Observer app and learning more about Land Cover .
教育工作者可以加入 GLOBE 计划，通过下载 GLOBE Observer 应用程序并了解有关土地覆盖的更多信息，贡献对土地覆盖和其他环境条件的观察。
GLOBE Mission Earth is supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC54A and is part of NASA’s Science Activation Portfolio. Learn more about how Science Activation connects NASA science experts, real content, and experiences with community leaders to do science in ways that activate minds and promote deeper understanding of our world and beyond: https://science.nasa.gov/learn/about-science-activation/ .
GLOBE 地球任务由 NASA 根据合作协议奖励号 NNX16AC54A 提供支持，并且是 NASA 科学激活组合的一部分。详细了解 Science Activation 如何将 NASA 科学专家、真实内容和经验与社区领袖联系起来，以激活思维并促进对我们的世界及其他世界更深入了解的方式开展科学研究：https://science.nasa.gov/learn/about-science-activation/。