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f secondary schools observing CO 2 in the air, The Ne www.rug.nl/fwn/school-CO2-net . Meijer, CIO, University of Groningen ointly with the for Didactics and Educational Development (IDO) Idea: Pupils from secondary schools get hand-on experience with real CO 2 measurements: "CO 2 is for real!" Raises their interest for the global climate issues Raises their interest for science and technology
Network of secondary schools observing CO 2 in the air, The Netherlands Harro A.J. Meijer, CIO, University of Groningen Project
Network of secondary schools observing CO 2 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
CO 2 measurements: "CO 2 is for real!" Raises their interest for
the global climate issues Raises their interest for science and
technology Well-suited for exam projects
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Selection, purchase and calibration of instrumentation
Development of software Implementation at schools Teacher's group
-guided by IDO- for development of educational material Project
Contents:
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Start of the Project: Grant by the Gratama Foundation (July
2005) Funding for:(1) Instrumentation for three schools Vaisala
"Carbocap" GMP 343 CO 2 meter Davis fully-equipped wireless
Meteo-station
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(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
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History of the project so far: Instruments selected and bought
: Autumn 2005 Test run at my home: Christmas 2005
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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
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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
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First Results
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Slide 14 Pace is slow, but we are getting there.. Development
of Educational material is underway 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 Some "mid-term" remarks:
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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 Growth of the initiative: