| Lab Name |
Indoor Air Pollution
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| Subject Area |
Science
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| Grade |
7
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| Topic |
Minimizing Human Impact Through Engineering Design.
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| Experiment Title |
Indoor Air Pollution
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| Hardware |
COSMOS Toolkit, IoT Nodes with sensors (i.e., temperature, humidity, polluting dust, luminocity, CO2)
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| Software |
COSMOS Toolkit Framework, Chronograf.
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| Number of Sessions to teach the topic |
1 - 2 days
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| Educational standards to be addressed |
New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards (NGSS)
- MS-ESS3-3
Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Common Core Standards
- SL.8.5
Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
- RST.6-8.9
Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text or prepared information on the same topic.
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| COSMOS concepts to be used for the lab |
Detecting, recording and converting environmental data into electronic data and displaying such data in a usable format.
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| K12 Educational Goals (How the educational goals are achieved through teaching using the experiment, how the topic is connected to the COSMOS concepts used) |
Indoor air pollution is a major cause of illness in humans. Identifying the major causes of this kind of pollution can help to alleviate incidences of sickness in humans. Environmental sensors linked to the COSMOS Technology Toolkit can detect and record levels of pollutants in the air thereby allowing us to take corrective actions to fix the problem.
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| Short Description and Walk-through of the experiment |
- Students are arranged in 4 heterogeneous groups each with a COSMOS mobile node and sensors. Ensure that the sensors are connected to the mobile node and functioning properly.
- Students will go with the functioning mobile node and sensors to the prescribed rooms and take the readings. Each of the 4 groups will go to a different room initially but will continue on to the other rooms so as to take readings in them as well.
- Students will also observe and take physical observations/readings about their perception about the quality of the air quality in the rooms they visit. i.e. does it feel hot, stuffy, dusty, moist, dry, cold etc. or does it feel normal.
- Students would then record their findings in the appropriate table provided for the respective rooms.
They will then answer questions on their handout about the activity they just did.
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| Testbed mapping of the experiment |
The experiment can be extended by executing it into a testbed (ORBIT/COSMOS) through the following steps:
Testbed nodes-sensors can provide real-time data on temperature, humidity, and CO2 and help manage certain fragile or threatened ecosystems.
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