EduStation 

(FreeStation for Educators)

Introduction

EduStation aims to increase the use of measurement and monitoring in geography, STEM, engineering and environmental education from primary, through secondary, sixth form and university by reducing the challenges to build, deploy and use low cost sensing techniques based on Arduino and Internet of Things technology. This will also help to develop research-ready, high density and long-term environmental monitoring networks based in schools.  Such networks are critical to better understand our changing environment whilst, at the same time, enabling valuable information technology and environmental training for the next generation of environmental scientists.  

The global distribution of schools according to Open Street Map


How EduStation works

A video introduction to FreeStation for Education

Before you start building

Consider the following:

Building your first FreeStation will be time consuming and error prone.  After the first, others will be easy.

The EduStation classroom demonstration unit 

Our EduStation classroom demo datalogger is the cheapest and easiest build for  classroom teaching.  It has no enclosure and is for indoor (classroom) use only

100+ FreeStation research questions for fieldwork investigations and non-examined assessments 

Our FreeStation fieldwork project ideas document  provides ideas for how FreeStations can be built and deployed to answer >100 research questions for dissertations, field course projects, fieldwork investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs).

Non-examined assessment (NEA) support documentation (GCSE and A level)

These support documents provide information on research questions, data collection methods, analysis instructions and further context for a range of research studies relevant to non-examined assessment relevant to the GCSE and A level specification.  Development supported by EC H2020 ReSET project.

Biology lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Biology

Chemistry lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Chemistry

Computer science lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Computer science

Design and technology lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Design and technology


Geography lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Geography

Mathematics lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Mathematics

Physics lesson inserts

These lesson inserts provide GCSE or A-level curriculum references, a learning objective and teacher and student instructions for using FreeStation equipment or data for topics in Physics

FreeStation data for education

Active stations measuring rainfall (map, list) 

Active stations measuring temperature (map, list) 

Active stations measuring humidity (map, list) 

Active stations measuring wind (map, list) 

Active stations measuring solar radiation (map, list) 

Active stations measuring river stage (map, list) 

Active stations measuring air quality (map, list) 

Active stations measuring environmental noise (map, list)