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CO2 Monitoring in Secondary Schools: Hands-on Science Project

Engage students in real CO2 measurements to foster interest in climate issues and technology. Project includes equipment setup, software development, and educational material creation. Seeking funding for growth. (429 characters)

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CO2 Monitoring in Secondary Schools: Hands-on Science Project

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  1. Network of secondary schools observing CO2 in the air, The Netherlands www.rug.nl/fwn/school-CO2-net Harro A.J. Meijer, CIO, University of Groningen Project initiated jointly with the Institute for Didactics and Educational Development (IDO) Idea: Pupils from secondary schools get hand-on experience with real CO2 measurements: "CO2 is for real!" Raises their interest for the global climate issues Raises their interest for science and technology Well-suited for exam projects

  2. Project Contents: Selection, purchase and calibration of instrumentation Development of software Implementation at schools Teacher's group -guided by IDO- for development of educational material

  3. Start of the Project: Grant by the Gratama Foundation (July 2005) Funding for: (1) Instrumentation for three schools Vaisala "Carbocap" GMP 343 CO2 meter Davis fully-equipped wireless Meteo-station

  4. (2) Student Assistantship for software development: At schools: Automatic measurement and data collection Automatic data delivery to central database Central: Web-approachable database containing all data Extra (as part of their studies Education & Communication): Development of full web-site for the project by master students

  5. History of the project so far: Instruments selected and bought : Autumn 2005 Test run at my home: Christmas 2005

  6. History of the project so far: Instruments selected and bought : Autumn 2005 Test run at my home: Christmas 2005 Instruments and basic software delivered at the schools: February 2006 Installation at the schools: April / May 2006

  7. History of the project so far: Instruments selected and bought : Autumn 2005 Test run at my home: Christmas 2005 Instruments and basic software delivered at the schools: February 2006 Installation at the schools: April / May 2006 (+ "soon now") General website ready: June 2006 First data in web database: September-October 2006

  8. First Results

  9. Some "mid-term" remarks: A school is not a university work group: Difficulties of all kinds with "basic" technology Many people involved in a project like this: Teacher, Technical Education Assistant, ICT person... Definitely not the highest priority (obviously) => Pace is slow, but we are getting there.. Development of Educational material is underway

  10. Growth of the initiative: • Socrates grant for CarboSchools • National funding available in principle • Surplus costs are ≈ 4500 Euro per school BUT: We need a dedicated employee: Technicalities at the schools Software and web site maintenance Leading the educational development Best would be a teacher for 50% of his/her time Ph.D. degree in Educational Development would be possible

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