About TGCP

The Global Classroom Project (TGCP) is a unique, research project where children from 15 countries will be researchers during 10 days.

In the ancient Egypt, people believed that the tears of God Geb filled the oceans of the world and in the Nordic Mythology people believed that it was the God Frej, who was the master of the rain. There are a lot of myths about rain, since rain has been an essential part of human survival during the last thousand years.

All over the world, scientists are researching to get a wider knowledge of rainfall because the amount of rainfall is very important for the existence of humans and the earth. It requires a lot of discipline and precision to do research on rainfall.

The Global Classroom Project is a unique, global, research project, where children will become scientist during 10 days. 300 schools from countries such as USA, China, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, South America, Bolivia, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Australia, Great Britain, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden will be invited to participate in one of the world’s largest scientific projects for children. In 10 days from the 28. September to the 7. October 2009, all the children’s homes will be transformed to scientific measuring stations. We are going to measure the rainfall in more than a thousand different places around the world. The children should measure the amount of rain every day with the same discipline as if they were scientists and afterwards they should put their results up on the project’s web page. Here it will be possible for the children to compare their results with the other children – both with the children that they go to school with and the children from the schools around the world.

The purpose of The Global Classroom Project is to give the children a research exercise that requires discipline, and which give them an understanding of how scientists work and how their own effort will be part of a bigger whole.

At this web page it is possible for the children to compare their results and learn more about how it rains in different parts of the world. By involving the children in a global, research project, we hope to arouse the children’s curiosity towards natural science and to tie the children from all over the world together in this global cooperation.

First and foremost we would like to show that it is possible for everybody, old and young, to research, you just have to be disciplined and focused.