Part 1—Navigate to the Data

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Step 1-
Enter the GLOBE Web site.

Go to GLOBE's HOME page (www.GLOBE.gov).

Home page of the GLOBE Web site.

Step 2-
Set Up the GLOBE Search Engine for Graphs

From the top menu bar For Students selection, click on Maps & Graphs from the drop down menu and then choose Graphs.

  • From the top menu bar For Students selection, click on Maps & Graphs from the drop down menu and then choose Graphs.

  • Link on the GLOBE Web site where the Maps and Graphs section is selected

Step 3-
Select a Country and State

In the SCHOOL LOCATION: Country Search window, scroll down to the United States, select it, and then click the button immediately below the window labeled State /Province Search. In the same window, now named SCHOOL LOCATION: State/Province Search, scroll down to US PA-Pennsylvania, select it, and click the GO button that is immediately to the right. It may take awhile for all the schools to be listed on your screen.

Clicking the GO button will take you to the top of the list of all Pennsylvania GLOBE schools. The schools that have submitted the most data are at the top of the list.
  • In the SCHOOL LOCATION: Country Search window, scroll down to the United States, select it, and then click the button immediately below the window labeled State /Province Search.

  • Window on the GLOBE Web site where the country of interest is selected
  • In the same window, now named SCHOOL LOCATION: State/Province Search, scroll down to US PA-Pennsylvania, select it, and click the GO button that is immediately to the right. It may take awhile for all the schools to list.

  • Window on the GLOBE Web site where the state of interest is selected.

Step 4-
Finding the Reynolds Jr. Sr. High School

Scroll down the screen of GLOBE schools in Pennsylvania. Near the top of the list you will see the Reynolds Jr Sr High School in Granville. It is near the top because it has submitted many data measurements. Click the box next to the name of the school. Now you are ready to make some graphs in Part 2.

  • Scroll down the list of GLOBE schools in Pennsylvania. Near the top of the list you will see the Reynolds Jr Sr High School in Granville. Click the box next to the name of the school.

  • Link on the GLOBE Web site that leads to Reynolds Jr. Sr. High School

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