The NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative team collaborated with Scholastic on an article and activity for learners in grades 3-6: “Meet the World’s Deadliest Creature”, which appeared in the May/June 2024 issue of SuperSTEM. The magazine includes nonfiction science articles and activities that encourage learners to problem solve and investigate real-world phenomena.

In this hands-on investigation, Mosquito Habitat Survey, learners search for places where mosquitoes could lay eggs, and then, plan ways to make the areas less friendly to mosquitoes. They are encouraged to use the GLOBE (Global Learning & Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mosquito Habitat Mapper (part of the GLOBE Observer app), with a teacher’s help, to document the presence of mosquito larvae and dump out standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. The magazine reaches hundreds of thousands of learners across the U.S. through schools, libraries, and out-of-school programs.

GLOBE Observer, the mobile app of the GLOBE Program, gives anyone who wants to (in 120+ GLOBE countries) the opportunity to do NASA science by making environmental observations that complement NASA satellite observations and help scientists study Earth and the global environment. It is part of the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC), which is supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AE28A and is part of NASA’s Science Activation Portfolio. The SuperSTEM article and activity referenced here are re-posted with permission from Scholastic: https://strategies.org/products/meet-the-worlds-deadliest-creature