Environmental awareness, TEASPILS Erasmus+ project multiplier event, Barcelona 2022, UPF, TIDE https://www.upf.edu/web/tide

1. Sensors, IoT per l’aprenentatge STEAM i el
desenvolupament de consciència mediambiental
Juan Luis Moreno,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Amb exemples d’escola i institut
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Ariel Ortiz, Paula Balcells
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maker Faire
Barcelona, Juliol 2022
Aina Nadal
CE Dolmen

2. About the project
TEASPILS
The TEASPILS project focuses on creating environmental awareness towards plants and greenery,
educating young people and their teachers towards ecological learning spaces. Actions will promote
and foster awareness of environmental issues in an educational context, e.g. the sustainable
development goals (SDGs) of the UN Agenda 2030.
Participants
Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid
University College of Teacher
Education Vienna
University College for
Agrarian and Environmental
Pedagogy Vienna
Doukas School Greece Universitat Pompeu Fabra Open University
of Cyprus
www.teaspils.eu

3. About the project
Approach
Technology-enhanced approach
based on a IoT system using
sensors and visualisations, to
promote learning about plants and
their effects in classrooms, plant care
and responsibility towards them
Goal
Stimulate knowledge and
appreciation of plants close to the
people concerned, i.e. in urban
indoor and outdoor environments;
especially, the effects of plants in
classrooms
Target
students from primary, secondary
and tertiary level
+
educators: primary and secondary
school teachers, educational leaders,
lecturers and support staff

4. About the project
Outcomes
● Community of collaborators, educators and students
involved in the project
● Learning activities, workshops and projects to
share with the community
● Fully-integrated IoT system based on a spike (sensors)
and a dashboard for data visualization
● Digital Green Competences framework for
theoretical contributions and practical applications

5. IoT system: Spike
Veml7700
Light sensor SCD30
Environment
sensor
OLED Display
RGB Display
DS18B20
Temperature probe
Solar panel

6. IoT system: Spike

7. IoT system: Spike
Why so much development?

8. IoT system: How does it work?
● Values displayed are represented in the
led bar.
● Refresh time is setted to 10 seconds as a
default value. The user is able to configure
this value using the Telegram Bot.

9. IoT system: Telegram Bot
● Simple commands.
● Change settings.
● Get single read of any
of the sensors.

10. IoT system: dashboard
Collecting and displaying meaningful
information is fundamental to create
useful learning activities. TEASPILS
Dashboard allows teachers to
● Get data from internet Endpoints
● Load customized datasets
● Visualize data in a timeline
● Details of specific measures

11. IoT system: dashboard
Timeline visualization:
● Load datasets from
internet or hard drive
● Visualization of temporal
progression of the data
● Adaptable graph (Selected
measure, scale,
navigation)
● Compare two specific
variables.
● Register general
observations

12. IoT system: dashboard
Single measure screen:
● Visualize conditions for
optimal plant growth
● Configure “acceptable”
values
● Register snapshot
observations

13. IoT system: dashboard
Built-in administration site:
● Create new Plants
● Review saved data
● Configure Plant data
● Look information about
measures

14. Learning activities: Primary school
What environmental
data can we collect?
What can we observe
from the plant?
Hypothesis
(combinations)
Exploration of the spike prototipes and dashboard
Learning goal: Performing a data analysis to understand the best conditions for the plant
Session 1: Formulating hypothesis and collecting data
Creating the questions and hypothesis

15. Learning activities: Primary school
Session 2: Understanding the data and getting statistical insight
Observing the plant
Analysing and understanding the data
(interpreting the plot, max/min, watering days…)

16. Learning activities: Primary school
Session 3: Drawing conclusions and making inferences
?
True or False game
Identifying plants from their datasets
Reflection on plants

17. Activitats TEASPILS: exemples d’institut
A càrrec d’Aina Nadal
(professora de C.E. Dolmen)

18. More activities at https://ildeplus.upf.edu/teaspils/

19. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Contact
tide-info@upf.edu
TIDE-UPF: www.upf.edu/ca/web/tide
UPM: www.upm.es/observatorio
TEASPILS: teaspils.eu
Workshops at Maker Faire
Friday 1st, 17:15h - Educators
Saturday 2nd, 12:15h - Families