Instead of getting worked up about it (Drought) perhaps we can join Scientific America's cover story and trend on Collaboration and get with it like the theme of George Clooney's new film ...Tomorrowland.  Like the LA River, the Future is now...a public works poster for a conceit whose time has come.  With February's launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite everyone...including girls can do higher order science with just smart phone technology and even at the public park. Wow!

Last week, the LAUSD and Globe.gov conference convenors worked together to train international teachers at Lake Balboa. There lead and learning teachers used smart phones and tablets embrace "The World Around Me" and send it to satellite as part of their 19th annual conference. 

At a local park in Esc No and County District 3, globe attendees began to upload their stats about nitrates from national sources (ducks and terns, Canada Goose and other birds including Swans at Lake Balboa park).  (Note: Write us to see a picture of Bo Lebo, Director of New Education Options, Inc. catching up to new standards in relevant and rigorous science data tabulating the calculations of the San Fernando Valley water body or click below and watch the video Kids First at Hamlin students singing.  You can write us at info@littledrip.org or we'll find a place to mount Globe scientists encouraging children to become little scientists to deal with floods and droughts.)

From looking up More Magazine's indie gogo campaign with the Peace Corps to teachers from Oman and South Africa, students are learning about place based learning through the "Far East and North Africa" Globe regional meetings to do the same research that can help grow food, deal with drought coordination and planning, and proactive technology around dry conditions, weather, and citizen science.  This trend can gather steam with new tools, new standards, new curricula, and innovative teaching.

Ten Kids First Students sang "The World Around me" to welcome in 34 countries, scientists, high school students, country coordinators, and teachers who were joined to use new resources by satellite and hand held measurement instruments that allow telephony, computers, and computer tablets to weigh in with NextGen science standards and making math, calculating, prediction and vocabulary useful, transformative, and great fun for everyone including girls!  Twenty-first century skills and the Common Core encourage work that is collaborative and based on individual and group analysis and discovery, dialogue and quantative evaluations.

MORE Magazine , owned by Meredith Corporation and made for women of style and substance, announced a new collaboration to support the U.S. government's Let Girls Learn Initiative to expand access to education for girls around the world.  Mrs. Obama has weighed in with the Peace Corps to try something new that works-Education.  Disney might say that dreams are your heart talking. Let's try creativity, collaboration, and dialogue not just in diplomacy, but in homes and classrooms.  Technology can connect us for a greater good to water science and possibilities.

On 29 June, MORE Magazine announced "Experience MORE!" – a social commerce platform established by MORE's parent company, to support the Peace Corps' Let Girls Learn Fund.

This social commerce platform launch is the first corporate supporter of the Peace Corps' Let Girls Learn program. With the Let Girls Learn program, the Peace Corps is engaging a growing number of collaborators in this initiative to help change the lives of thousands of young women and girls around the world.  Why not have the Peace Corps village classrooms join Globe in its exploration with the SMAP Nasa (Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite)?  Globe has two new Globe Elementary books that can join its elementary school library picture book series featured at BEA by New Education Options, Inc.  From soil moisture to atmosphere, kids can explore science in school gardens or in turf removal projects at home or in their schoolyards.

By singing about LA's school gardens, active student engagement with CalRecycles EEI curriculum, Bill Elliott's songs from "The Wind in the Willows" bringing the biosphere and the 4 elements together with a celebration of the LA River, 10 girls sang at the banquet sponsored by LAUSD and feted by Mayor Garcetti and Senator Hahn. 

Perhaps through triangulation (Globe, Schools, and Citizen Science), the song shared their the place ...the Universal Hilton just above the LA River and our park research in an area suffering from the impact of Drought and through this write up and the video shared what will come next in the fall...more school and exploring Globe's best practices,  By representing little girls at work learning...perhaps this will inspire new and old Peace Corps Volunteers.to discover learning by singing and science by this hands on approach. 

By remembering girls in other countries who might want such STEM and STEAM content in their coursework, they became Let Girls Learn supporters de facto and fans of the District expanding Globe to more classrooms.

If your organization is directing resources and investing in girls' education, then let the Peace Corps hear from you!  Or call Globe and join the regional coordinators in understanding the "hydrosphere" and the other four spheres and how they impact farming and the food chain …and more.  Kids First at Hamlin might be a starting link to the superior intelligence of giving children science to meet NASA's terrific mission statement on the back of the Earth- your future: our mission folder…."Our goal is to learn more about how changes in our environment affect us, and how we in turn can act as responsible stewards to ensure a healthy planet for future generations and ourselves".   For more info about the NASA/JPL Earth now go to www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps or go to www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth or www.climate.nasa.gov.  To connect up student equity to villages or to urban areas, go to Globe Elementary and/or www.Globe.gov.

P.S. Globe is administrated by NASA Official: Ming-Ying Wei and GLOBE Implementation Office Director: Tony Murphy and they were thanked by Senator Robert Hertzberg for their visit to Los Angeles, both are deeply engaged in traveling and sharing a rediscovery of science in our values and activities in and out of school in daily life.

Globe Leadership Making a Difference:

 

http://www.globe.gov/web/morocco/events/eventsdetail/globe/19th-annual-globe-partner-meeting

http://www.globe.gov/globe-community/community-map

Drought looking for solutions:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/24/historic-droughts-wreak-havoc-usa-brazil-n-korea/30513289/

http://www.jstor.org/stable/720732?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Near East and North Africa Stars:

http://www.globe.gov/news-events/globe-stars?p_p_id=commonstarsportlet_WAR_globegovcmsportlet_INSTANCE_Z0Bz&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-3&p_p_col_count=1&_commonstarsportlet_WAR_globegovcmsportlet_INSTANCE_Z0Bz_backURL=%2Fweb%2Fnear-east&_commonstarsportlet_WAR_globegovcmsportlet_INSTANCE_Z0Bz_organizationId=14044

More Magazine raises money for girl's education on indiegogo:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/experience-more--2/#/story

More about More:

http://www.more.com/about-us

http://www.magazine.org/industry-news/press-releases/member-press-releases/meredith-names-didi-gluck-deputy-editor-beauty

Ipads at Gault EL and in Verizon Foundation Sponsored Classrooms in Vista:

http://70.32.120.177/sparking-a-passion-in-students/

EdWeek 30 Million Word Challenge:

Positive Girl Educational Press from Arizona- 30 million Word TESOL Challege:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2009/05/innovation_million_word_challe.html

National Girls Collaborative Project Statistics:

http://www.ngcproject.org/statistics

http://www.fabfems.org/find?field_address_country=All&city=&location=&field_affiliation_tid=All&keyword=Allðnicity=All&age_range=All&field=All&visit=All&field_last_name_value=&field_first_name_value=&field_company_value=&field_university_value=&field_degree_value=&field_job_title_value=&field_biography_value=&field_affiliation_other_value=&field_interests_other_value=&field_participation_level_other_value=&field_additional_resources_other_value=&search=&page=11

http://www.theconnectory.org/why-stem

http://howtosmile.org/topics/ocean-literacy#principle-2

http://www.fabfems.org/resources

Odyssey of the Mind:

http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/materials/2016problems.php

Olympics of the Mind:

http://www.tnj.com/departments/headliner/olympics-mind

Globe and Peace Corps:

https://letgirlslearn.peacecorps.gov/

http://classic.globe.gov/news-events/globe-news/newsdetail/globe/peace-corps-expands-support-of-let-girls-learn-initiative

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=peace+corps+and+girls+learning+initiative&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

Mega Drought News for South Africa…. Technology Could Matter…..Cornell University Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHB11OePxug#t=55

Horn of Africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXYFvx0SAMI

NASA, GLOBE, and Students:

https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/GUIDE/campaign_documents/sage1_project.html

http://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/aerosols/story-book

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/F_Globe_Program_Sunshine_5-8_prt.htm

Aids still Required (2^nd Responders) Innovative responses to tragedy:

http://www.aidstillrequired.org/programs/awareness-campaigns/

First Lady, Michelle Obama Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xtAgFZHtA

Kids First at Hamlin (see the singers featured on video):

www.kidsfirst.la

Peace Corps Video…something to sing about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zhWU64TFk8

Playing for Change (Don't Worry Be Happy and Down by the Riverside):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXUWepSak4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ1gHm8v3ek