–All new, inquiry-based projects from GlobalLab help students around the world develop creative, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills–

–Unique virtual reality experiences and new content from leading educational publishers added to Discovery Education Streaming Plus and Techbook™ Series–

Silver Spring, Md. (September 1, 2016) – Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today the addition of innovative inquiry-based projects, virtual reality experiences, and approximately 1,500 new digital assets to its award-winning digital services. This content from leading educational publishers further empowers K-12 educators using Discovery Education Streaming Plus and Discovery Education Techbooks to create compelling cross-curricular lessons.

To further support educators using Discovery Education’s digital services to grow their students’ creative, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills, 10 collaborative projects will be added to all Techbooks and Discovery Education Streaming and Streaming Plus. Powered by GlobalLab’s unique web-based platform, these projects help students explore data with their peers, learn content, and build skills like data analysis, reasoning, and teamwork. In addition, these new resources support educators’ efforts to integrate authentic investigations into classroom instruction. Among the new GlobalLab projects available beginning today through Discovery Education’s services are:

• Make Your Mark – Created in honor of International Dot Day, this project helps students design and create their own “dot” by selecting an area of service and identifying a project they can lead to impact their community on a local, national, or global level. This project also connects students worldwide as they identify positive role models they look up to and learn who other students around the world admire.
• What’s For Lunch? – In this collaborative project, students share with a global audience the contents of their lunch, look for similarities and differences of their lunch to their global peers, and examine the distribution of the main food groups needed to create a well-balanced meal.
• Plant Population: By participating in this collaborative project, students will observe one type of plant in or near their school and record non-living (abiotic) and living (biotic) factors that might impact its development. Using these data, they will make comparisons to other classrooms around the world.

We are pleased to partner with Discovery Education to give classrooms worldwide access to GlobalLab projects to integrate into their curriculum and/or extracurricular activities,” said Dr. Tatsiana Krupa, President, GlobalLab. “Our collaboration with Discovery Education combines dynamic, high-quality digital content with GlobalLab’s collaborative activities to foster the development of investigation skills in students as well as critical, soft skills such as creativity, collaboration and communication.”

About GlobalLab (https://globallab.org/en/)

GlobalLab is an e-learning environment that supports collaborative inquiry based activities. It is a new type of educational tool that integrates three major features:

• a crowdsourcing network where real-life data collected by many participants from all over the world are transformed into new or re-discovered knowledge.
• a purposeful community where users are united by views and insights arising from viewing and analyzing peer-generated data sets. They can place their data into regional and global contexts for a fun, innovative way to explore the world.
• sophisticated, web-based authoring system that allows users to create investigations, inquiries, and surveys.

GlobalLab eliminates the difficulties of delivering inquiry-based learning, all in a safe and moderated environment. Students explore with their peers, learning content and building skills like critical thinking, data analysis, evidence-based reasoning, and teamwork. With GlobalLab learning is rooted in the real world, thus it becomes motivational, relevant, and engaging.

About Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. Serving 3 million educators and over 30 million students, Discovery Education’s services are in half of U.S. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the UK, and more than 50 countries. Discovery Education partners with districts, states and like-minded organizations to captivate students, empower teachers, and transform classrooms with customized solutions that increase academic achievement. Discovery Education is powered by Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the number one nonfiction media company in the world. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.

Source: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/aboutus/newsArticle.cfm?news_id=1055

Discovery Education and GlobalLab are excited to bring you a collaborative project allowing community members to examine their favorite holidays and invent new ways to celebrate people, places, things, and events they love.

Learn more about holidays everywhere!

GlobalLab extends a warm welcome to the first 12 ORT network schools from the FSU countries that have joined the GlobalLab project in June 2015. 

Become a philatelist (one who studies and collects stamps)! This week, the intrepid Professor Bober, famous for great engineering feats like dams, invites you to discover stamps.

We have reached our long-awaited summer vacation, a time of interesting trips, long walks, and all kinds of new learning. To celebrate, Global Lab announces a haiku contest on the theme of summer and summer vacations. 

GlobalLab asked users about the strengths and weaknesses of the GlobalLab platform, and how can we make it better. We received 520 very good suggestions.

Now is the time for summer holidays, a time of good weather, friends and plenty of spare time. You can make your summer amazing and memorable taking great scientific expeditions with GlobalLab!

At this joyful time our thoughts turn gratefully to our wonderful community of learners: students, teachers, parents and all our friends.

Hello! or It’s so nice to finally meet you!

If you haven’t registered on our website yet, you are missing out on a lot!

Yes, we are close to 100,000 participants!

Are your friends bored with school assignments and missing the thrill of discovery?

GlobalLab is proud to partner with project developer Forrest M. Mims III, a renowned scientist, known for his series of electronics books, scientific publications, and many science experiments, especially in the areas of ecology and environmental science.

We continue to experience growth: The GlobalLab community celebrates its continued expansion! We just surpassed the 8,000 participants mark and continue to grow daily. 

This year, GlobalLab presented its products for the first time at the British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT). During the four days of the trade show our modest exhibit caused no small stir!

We are happy to present this new and highly anticipated feature.

GlobalLab community is growing!

GlobalLab Team wishes all of our participants joy and peace for the holiday season and the New Year.

glCoin is a special app to determine how often heads will appear and how often tails will appear. It’s an easy and fun way to verify the Theory of Probability. You flip a coin and the app transmits your results to the Heads or Tails? project. Check the project Findings page and the results from all over the world. Presently, it looks like heads are winning!

GlobalLab is always looking for more engaging ways to learn and make discoveries. Our glSound is an easy way to measure noise levels anywhere any time. How loud is your school bus engine? How loud is your little sister? Or your friends singing the Fox song? Try our app and find out.

The GlobalLab leadership team presented our innovative educational platform at Raising the Standards of Apprenticeship and Vocational Training for Metal and CNC-technology in Europe conference in Austria. Signing the partnership agreement with ecoMEDIAeurope marks the beginning of collaboration between GlobalLab and ecoMEDIAeurope to promote innovative educational learning strategies and deliver tools and resources to learners from around the world.

All projects now give you seriously cool charting and graphing capabilities. See, compare, and figure out what all the numbers mean. Play with the data to discover what they say. One graph is worth a thousand words!

Meet GlobalLab 2.0. Your site for investigations and discovery is now better, smarter, and more complete. Explore it and give us your feedback.