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Hello Girl Scouts and troop leaders! 

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We at GLOBE are very excited that you have chosen to use the GLOBE Observer app to work on your Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey. 

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This video can be used as a plug and play (with pauses for activities, so pay attention and pause the video while you work). 

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Alternatively, troop leaders, service unit or council volunteers, can use this video as an example of how you might run your own program. 

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However you choose to use this video, enjoy your Journey as you learn to Think Like a Citizen Scientist.

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Welcome to the first step in being a critical part of a growing citizen science project.

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Today you will learn about what it means to Think Like a Citizen Scientist, 

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learn about the Clouds Tool on the GLOBE Observer app 

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and practice identifying different types of clouds.

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But first let me tell you about GLOBE and GLOBE Observer.

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GLOBE is an international science and education program

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that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process

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and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment.

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GLOBE Observer app is the data entry tool that allows citizen scientists

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to enter their data and share observations.

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GLOBE Observer is part of GLOBE.

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Okay, speaking of the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey,

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learning about what it means to observe is the first step in thinking like a citizen scientist.

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Let’s get started by practicing our observation skills.

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When we observe, we use our senses (taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight).

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Since we can’t really taste, smell, hear, or touch these pictures,

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we are going to use our sense of sight.

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If you decide to do this experiment on your own, you can use some of your other senses.

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Today we are going to practice your observation skills.

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I'm going to show you a science demo (Cloud in a Bottle)

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and I’m going to ask you to observe what happens.

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You can write down any observations you made in your science journal or on a piece of scratch paper.

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Observations are anything that you notice with your senses,

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so today, you probably won’t notice any tastes, touches, or smells,

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but I bet you will see something change. 

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Leaders, once your Girl Scouts have finished watching the demonstration

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and noting their observations,

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ask them to share their observations and discuss. 

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Hi! And so now we are going to do Cloud in a Bottle!

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A science demonstration. And we are going to make a cloud form inside a bottle.

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To do this experiment you are going to need a few things.

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First you need a two-liter bottle (just an empty one).

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And I used a little thermometer that I attached to it, that would be  like a fishtank thermometer, as you can see here.

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And so right now, we can see

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that the temperature inside this bottle

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looks like its about, or between 64 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit or between 18 and 20 degrees Celcius.

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The next thing I need is a pump.

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So this is a special kind of pump ah... that you can ah, buy online.

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Othwerwise, if you just have like a bicycle pump with a cork

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That you put in the microwave for about 10 to 15 seconds

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until is gets a little bigger, so that it actually fills 

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the inside of your bottle

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and then take like a pin that you would use to fill up a basketball

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and then use that to poke through the cork

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and then put the cork inside the bottle so you have a nice seal

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and you still have a way for the air to get in.

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And so what we're going to do is pump air in side my bottle

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And so, I have a little rubbing alcohol here.

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And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to add a little bit inside the bottle

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and then I just swish it around a little bit.

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so that it coats the inside of my bottle.

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And as you can see, we're still measuring somewhere between 64 and 68 degrees Fahrenheith, or 18 and 20 degrees Celcius.

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and then I'm going to put my cap back on with my pump, my little hand-held pump here.

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And I am going to start adding air

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into my bottle and we are going to observe

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You can see that I can really squish it right now.

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Let's see what happens when I add some more air.

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Okay, here we go. I'm going to add more and more air.

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( pumping noises)

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I feel like I should be counting.

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Maybe you can count with me.

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what the thermometer is now reading.

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It looks like we are getting almost closer to the 71 mark.

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So it's really bright on the 68. So it looks like the temperature has

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Hmm... interesting.

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I'm just going to, for fun, shine a light through my bottle.

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Do you see anything through there?

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They are very dangerous, if that happens.

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all that air into it.

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Since we're NASA, we're going to count down.

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And there you have it. That's a cloud in a bottle!

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Has it gotten...colder again?

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So, I hope you made some great observations.

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I'm going to shine the light through.

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I'm not sure you can see that. Oh! There you go.

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If you look at the top there is no clouds, but down here, there is cloud.

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And I hope you marked down a lot of your observations in your journal or in your notebook.

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discuss those with your troop.

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And when you're done, resume the video.

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Welcome back! I bet you made some really great observations.

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But what does this have to do with Thinking Like a Citizen Scientist?

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Let me ask you, what do scientists do? 

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Pause the video and discuss what a scientist does.

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I bet you had a great discussion on what it means to be a scientist.

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There are lots of different types of scientists out there,

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but one thing they all have in common in their research is that scientists

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rely on the scientific method to learn new things. 

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You are going to be citizen scientists,

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where you use the scientific method to help gather data for NASA scientists

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and other researchers including students or scouts like you.

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The first part of the scientific method is to observe. 

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You all did a great job of observing the cloud appear in a bottle.

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The next part of the scientific method is to create a question and make a hypothesis.

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That's your best guess at the answer to your question based on your observations

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Pause the video and discuss. 

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You can come up with your own question 

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The question for the cloud in a bottle could have been:

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What happens when pressure decreases abruptly inside a closed container with water vapor?

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The hypothesis is your answer to that question.

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My hypothesis was that when pressure decreases, the temperature decreases, and a cloud will form.

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And I was right.

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We could see from the thermometer that the temperature actually went down.

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While the pressure inside the bottle went down as well.

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And when that happened the cloud formed.

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But, how do scientists know if their hypothesis is correct?

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They have to collect and analyze data. 

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The more data they have the better their results will be

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because it helps filter out some of the outliers

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(the mistakes, errors, or just oddball data).

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Kind of like if I was measuring Favorite girl scout cookies.

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The more people I sell cookies to, the better my data.

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For example, here is a pie chart showing real data from my troop sales.

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This Girl Scout made a single sale to one family

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(who love Samoas and don't like Thin Mints).

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But are Samoas the most popular cookie sold by Girl Scouts nationwide?

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With this data my hypothesis should be yes!

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But is it?

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How could I get a better data set?

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I could collect more data.

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The pie chart on the right is the data for my entire troop’s sales.

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This is a much better data set because it has 1,559 packages of cookies sold

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1,554 more boxes than my single sale.

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than if I’d only sold 1 or 2 boxes or to only one family.

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The more data that is collected, the better.

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So are Samoas the most popular according to this data?

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Your troop can do this same exercise with your troop sales!

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If you added your data to this data, we’d have an even better data set!

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NASA scientists rely on a lot of data.

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And this is where you can come in.  

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You can be Citizen Scientists.

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All these pictures and circles on this map are data points

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where citizen scientists have taken observations of clouds around the world.

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You can also take these observations and add to this robust data set.


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Let's watch this video and learn about how GLOBE Observer contributes.

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(background music)

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Before we dive into collecting observations as citizen scientists,

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let’s watch this video where Jessica Taylor, cloud scientist and education specialist at NASA,

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explains a little more about the science behind and the different types of clouds that are in our sky.

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You’ll be using this information to classify clouds in the next activity, so pay close attention. 

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(background music)

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and citizens from more than
100 countries around the world.

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Their efforts in collecting
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us to better
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And now we need your help in
collecting data so we can better

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understand the different types
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have on our Earth's climate.

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At any time, over 70% of the
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control the Earth's temperature.

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For example, have you ever been
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when a cloud rolls overhead
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Did you notice that the
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That's because these clouds are
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energy back into space.

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Clouds like these, that help
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are lower to the ground and
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cloud or thick
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crystals, and are
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For scientists to understand
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data on clouds.

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NASA has a number of satellites
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collecting data about
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they sometimes have
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Plus we need data from your
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Satellites only see the top of
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I'm really excited for you to
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the GLOBE program.

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You know, before I started
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 I was a GLOBE
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Okay, so now Girl Scouts and troop leaders, 
 you have a choice to make.

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You can keep watching this video and 
try the cloud classification challenge

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or you can join Marilé Colón-Robles and her girls 
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Just watch the video and dance along 
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Hello, my name is Marilé Colón Robles and I'm the project scientist for NASA GLOBE Clouds

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based at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

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It's a rainy day and I'm here with my girls and we thought why not share with you some of our favorite cloud activities

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to help you learn about cloud types.

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One of our favorite things is what we call the cloud dance.

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You girls ready to show the cloud dance?

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Before we begin, there's three main cloud types.

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There's many different types of clouds. But there's three main cloud types.

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Cumulus, stratus and cirrus. And we kind of drew a little bit of them.

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So cumulus are puffy. Kids sometimes say fluffy or cotton candy.

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Stratus are flat. Some kids say it looks like a mustache.

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And then cirrus - wavy, stretchy. We adults might say wispy, but kids don't really understand wispy.

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So they might say some words like that.

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Let's do the cloud dance. Are you guys ready, ladies ready?

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Okay, so let's see, cumulus. Now cumulus means pile, so let's pile, let's make a cumulus cloud.

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But the more we do it, the bigger it gets, the bigger it gets. STOP.

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Okay, good, because if you keep doing it, it'll be a thunderstorm, and you don't want it to rain inside right?

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Okay, now let's do stratus. Show me stratus.

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That's right, it's flat and it goes everywhere. So make sure to stretch in every direction.

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Now Madison, do you want to do your mustache. Like this. Oh, I like that.

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Okay, now let's do cirrus. Let's do wispy and nice and fluffy.

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And you can also do the dab.

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Let's do the dab because it kind of looks like the dab. Very good.

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Okay, now we're going to share with you some of the neat activities.

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Madison, can you sit down, Elizabeth can you come up.

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We looked, do you want to hold this up?

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We looked for some materials around the house, and we did this.

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So I wrote the words. Cirrus clouds again are high clouds, stratus and cumulus are low clouds.

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But if you notice they are flat and puffy.

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So Elizabeth, what material did you use for here, for the stratus cloud?

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I think this is tissue, right? Tissue paper. And what did we use for a cumulus?

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Yeah, cotton balls. And how about for cirrus?

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A string. Very good. And she wrote her name. Here you go, can you sit down. Thank you for sharing.

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Madison, do you want to come?

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Now Madison, come here next to momma. What grade are you in?

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Second grade.

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She's in second grade. So we did a journal, right?

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We found this strong material and made a hole and then we laced a rubber band.

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So what's in the front?

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On the cover, it says, "Cloud Notebook by Madison."

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We did this per day. And if you want to make this at home, it's quite simple.

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First you're going to write the date and then write the date of which the day is, down on the line.

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Then you're going to write the time now.

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Then you're going to write cloud types, a line, a line across that and the weather.

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An example for the weather. The weather is basically like, so, for us the weather was very rainy and cold.

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So for the weather we write rainy and cold, and usually during rainy and cold,

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it's usually nimbostratus, which is here on the board.

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You write in the line, you write sentence and you write a sentence.

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For us, for me today, I wrote: "Today it is rainy and cold, and today it is raining."

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Very good. So let's look at it again. This is how we chose to do our journal.

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And you can do that per day.

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That's right. So we're going to write the date, the time, the cloud type, the weather,

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and then because Madison is practicing her sentences, we're going to write a sentence about what we observed.

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Very good. Thank you. Can you sit down?

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Awesome. So this week, the Clouds team just put out a family guide, which will help you

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do some activities with your kiddos or with the rest of the family, no matter the age.

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Now there's other things that you can do.

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There is a book about clouds through the GLOBE Program called, "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?"

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It's one of our favorite books.

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You can download it in different languages. So if you speak different languages like me,

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yo hablo español y también hablo inglés,

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you can read it in different languages.

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Of course, you can use the GLOBE Observer app if you feel so inclined to make observations.

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Within the app, within the GLOBE Observer app, you can find some cloud charts that can help you along,

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And figure out what cloud type are you looking at.

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So we're hoping that this will help you out, do some fun activities at home, especially if it's a rainy day like it is for us.

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So, Madison, do you want to come here?

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From our NASA family to you, we want to say bye and have fun (making) cloud observations.

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Bye!

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Now it’s your turn to analyze some data collected by GLOBE Observers.

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We are going to use the Cloud Identification Chart and the Cloud Window Viewer

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to identify and classify different types of clouds.

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You can keep watching the video and go through the Cloud Classification Presentation 

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or you can do this activity as a troop,

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logging the different types of clouds that you see.

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Troops can keep a weekly log

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or log conditions on days when you have
 troop meetings throughout the year.

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Your trrop leader should be able to download and print the Cloud Classification Presentation and the Cloud Window Viewer.

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Both links are in the script on slide 17 (and listed on the instructions on the next slide).

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So here is the instructions.

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Each slide will show you a different picture in the “window” of the Cloud Window Viewer.

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Use the viewer to identify which type of cloud is in the window.

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You can write down your answers on a piece of paper.

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After all 8 photos, continue watching the video to see how many you got right?

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Okay, and now, here are your answers.

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This is a cirrocumulous cloud high in the sky.

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This is a cirrus cloud. Also, high and wispy in the sky.

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Here is a cumulonimbus cloud, or a storm cloud.

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Here we have a cumulus or altocumulus. It's hard to tell because I don't know how high they are.

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Here are cumulus clouds.

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This is a nimbostratus, or rain cloud.

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Here we have stratus clouds, covering the sky.

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And here we have a trick question.

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There is no clouds! It's clear skies!

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Congratulations and thanks for playing 
the Clouds Classification Challenge.

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Now that you are familiar with how to classify clouds, 

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let’s learn how to use the GLOBE Observer Clouds Tool.

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If you want to get started as a GLOBE Observer,

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ask your troop leader to register your troop through SciStarter, 

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then send you the link to set up your accounts. 

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Once you have a troop scistarter account, you will choose which citizen science opportunity interests you.  There are a lot of different citizen science projects (including others with NASA) and others with GLOBE Observer, including: Trees, LandCover, and Mosquito Habitat Mapper, in addition to clouds.

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you will choose which citizen science opportunity interests you.  

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There are a lot of different citizen science projects (including others with NASA) and others with GLOBE Observer, 

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You could try: Trees, LandCover, or Mosquito Habitat Mapper, in addition to clouds.

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Then you need to download the app.

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Register as a GLOBE observer and start collecting your data.  

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The nice part about clouds is that they change and can be observed almost anywhere

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(except inside, of course,  if there aren't any windows).

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So now you’ve learned to Think Like a Citizen Scientist, by observing and collecting and analyzing data,

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the next step is to collect and analyze your own data by using the app.

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Then, consider how you might use your data to take action.

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What kind of take-action projects can you think of doing?

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Here are some options.

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You know visibility can tell us a lot about how clean our air is.

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You could educate some other Girl Scouts or people in your community about air quality and teach them what is in our air.

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You could also track frequent storms to help neighbors to know what kind of weather to expect and be able to prepare.

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You can also create a storm kit to help when severe storms hit or work to create these kits and distribute them to people within your community.

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Or create a team of other Girl Scouts and contribute to citizen science.

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If you have any questions for me about NASA, GLOBE Observer, or the Clouds tool

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please feel free to contact us or follow us on social media.

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We love seeing your take action projects, so please don’t forget to share!

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What I love about Girl Scouts is that you all leave the world a better place.

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I for one am really excited that you are leading the future for us.

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Thank you Girl Scouts for joining me today and learning to Think Like a Citizen Scientist with 

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The GLOBE Program and GLOBE Observer.