Remote experiments about bioclimatic architecture, Anthoula Maidou
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Remote experiments about bioclimatic architecture and zero energy houses to be used in education for sustainable development Anthoula Maidou Stamatia Artemi Hariton M. Polatoglou
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Presentation at the 2nd Scientix Conference, 24-26 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium
Transcript of Remote experiments about bioclimatic architecture, Anthoula Maidou
Remote experiments about bioclimatic
architecture and zero energy houses to
be used in education for sustainable
development
Anthoula Maidou
Stamatia Artemi
Hariton M. Polatoglou
ESD has become a very important issue
recently
Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD)
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Food
Resources
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Water
Resources
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Energy
Resources
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The United Nations General Assembly declared 2005‐2014 the UN Decade of
ESD
Education for Sustainable
Development
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The goals of the decade are:
› to provide an opportunity and promote the vision of sustainability
› to enable the transition to sustainable development through all forms of education, public awareness and training
ESD is the practice of learning how to achieve global and local sustainable communities
Goals for the Education for
Sustainable Development
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Various approaches to ESD encourage people to understand the complexities of, and the synergies between the issues threatening the sustainability of our planet.
Through ESD students are encouraged to understand and assess their own values and those of the society in which they live in a sustainable context.
ESD goals (2)
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global
multinational
national
local
ESD approach
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In this presentation we will report a distance
education project designed by the e‐science
group of the Physics Department of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, to introduce secondary
school students and teachers into zero energy
houses and solutions of bioclimatic architecture.
Our project: Energy consumption
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This project started as a pilot project during the
year 2013‐14
4 upper secondary high-school classes in Greece,
two on remote islands, and two in the city of
Thessaloniki (one experimental and one
vocational).
Number of students involved 80
Number of teachers 8
Our project: The zero energy house
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In that project pupils had access to:
a website for an introduction to bioclimatic
architecture
a moodle environment, with weekly tasks,
questionnaires, and suggestions in order to get
familiar with issues of heat transfer, heat
capacity, ventilation, sun exposure, protection
from the sun, etc.
Our project: The zero energy house
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Physics
Basic information
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Moodle platform
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Remote real experiments
› setup of the model structures
› thermometers measuring the internal temperature of
selected model structures
› ambient temperature
Our web resources offer:
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Simulations to visualize the effect of some aspects
of the buildings
› as thick – thin walls
› with or without insulation
› single – double pane windows
› orientation of the building
› effect of the height of the sun
› the distribution of temperature
Our educational environment offers
also:
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There is no subject in the formal curriculum in Greece on ESD
New subject: Project (problem based learning)
Method: Scientific method
Formal – informal
educational
approaches
Subject: Project
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Asynchronous remote access to our website and
moodle environment
Synchronous remote teaching and discussion on
various issues whenever the teachers or students
asked for a web-meeting
Help with technical drawings and advice on
how to construct their school’s model in a
specific scale and with the most convenient
materials
Our platform offers
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The final task was for the students to prepare a model
of their school building and send it to us in order to
perform measurements on the thermal behaviour of
the model
students were asked to propose improvements to
their school building, in order to have a better
bioclimatic behaviour of the building and thus
enhancing the users’ comfort and wellbeing, while
reducing energy consumption.
Student’s task
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Snapshots of the process
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Snapshopts
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Outcomes
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Real remote experiment
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Questions: on the effect of colour, single
or double glazed windows, structures
with or without materials with thermal
capacity, Trompe walls, etc,
The new project
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we designed model structures taking a simple
polystyrene box as a reference and compare
(always) the same box
› in different colours, in order to check the influence of the
colour on the thermal behaviour of the model
› with a single, or a double glazed window, to show the
importance of double paned windows
› a box with a single glazed window and the same box filled
with a material with high thermal capacity (stones) in
order to check if the material with high thermal capacity
allows the structure be keep longer warm then the other
› The same holds for a single glazed window structure and one with a Trompe wall, etc.
The new project
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All models are equipped with digital
thermometers to measure the internal
temperature and are exposed to ambient
conditions.
Students, or anyone else interested in the
comparison of the different models, can
access the temperature readings taken 24
hours per day for 7 days per week through an
internet page:
e-science.web.auth.gr/zeroenergyhouse
The new project
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polystyrene box with a single
glazed window
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Measurements - data
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23/10/2014 10:49:52 14.9 13.4 13.8 13.2
23/10/2014 10:49:53 14.7 13.4 13.8 13.3
23/10/2014 10:49:55 14.7 13.0 13.8 13.0
23/10/2014 10:49:56 14.4 13.1 13.8 13.0
23/10/2014 10:49:57 14.4 13.2 13.8 13.0
23/10/2014 10:49:58 14.7 13.0 13.6 13.0
23/10/2014 10:49:59 14.6 13.0 13.7 13.1
23/10/2014 10:50:00 14.6 13.0 13.7 13.1
23/10/2014 10:50:01 14.7 13.1 13.7 13.2
23/10/2014 10:50:03 14.9 13.4 13.7 13.5
23/10/2014 10:50:04 14.8 13.5 13.7 13.7
23/10/2014 10:50:05 14.7 13.5 13.7 13.8
23/10/2014 10:50:08 14.5 13.7 13.8 13.8
23/10/2014 10:50:09 14.3 14.0 13.7 14.0
23/10/2014 10:50:11 14.3 14.0 13.7 14.0
We built a formal and informal platform
for ESD
The platform consists of a webpage and
a moodle environment for synchronous
and asynchronous access to the
problem – based learning environment
Remote real experiments
Simulations
Conclusions
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The pupils collaborated with enthusiasm
in the project.
From the final questionnaire we got
many positive reviews and comments
from pupils and teachers.
The overall request was for continuation
of the project.
conclusions
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http://e-science.web.auth.gr/
Thank you for your attention!
This is an ongoing project,
please participate!
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