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Abstract: Provide a more effective learning environment in order to benefit teachers and students alike. This includes monitoring and decreasing outside distractions (in the form of noise), monitoring and providing a solution in regards to excess CO2, optimizing the cafeteria, and introducing classroom airflow solutions.
Introduction and Goals: School is already something many students see as a chore. Waking up early, sitting through classes boring and interesting. Why make their learning environment also part of the problem? Kids get distracted easily, having doors open (though currently this is necessary for ventilation) and long blocks do little to tame the ever decreasing attention span of the modern student. Stiff air only contributes to the problem causing uncomfortable CO2 levels, decreasing brain function. Also measure temperature of classrooms and comparing them with the ideal. Lastly, during a time where students are supposed to take a break from the academic day, lunch, seems rushed and uncomfortable as long lines and poor noise isolation make the experience not live up to the hype as it might have once done during our formative years. After seeing what factors most negatively affect students, there would be an extensive ideation phase that would try and reach a balance of ideal and feasible in terms of solutions for the issues. Like a perfect ven diagram, not too much not too little, because even salt looks like sugar. Unless it’s sea salt, but, perhaps there is a form sugar with relatively large granules. All these factors are not impossible to change, and through a thorough research process, and ideation phase, the current issues regarding the academic day don’t have to be permanent.
Implementations and Challenges: Nothing will be changed with just unsupported ideals. Using sound analysis, we can get a glimpse of how bad the acoustic situation truly is, for the classroom and cafeteria alike. Monitoring of CO2 levels can be done to evaluate if the extent of how much CO2 is in the average classroom. Timelapsing the average lunch block in the cafeteria can help identify chokepoints in the current layout, leading to a new and refined layout. As far as research, I haven’t been able to conduct much so far as this is a very new idea. I plan to find the ideal metric for each of the areas I mentioned and compare them to ours here at HPA. Challenges of this project would be collecting data for a variety of categories as well as thinking of feasible solutions.
Appendix A:
https://energyalliancegroup.org/sick-classrooms-require-energy-efficient-solutions-2/
Dangers of high CO2 and ideal levels.
https://energyair.com/classroom-temperature-affect-learning/
Temperature of classrooms and how it affects learning.
https://www.airtesttechnologies.com/support/reference/CO2&SchoolClassrooms.pdf
Another CO2 article.
Appendix B:
Critical Resources:
Dr. Bill and acoustics hardware.
Scientific grade thermometer?
CO2 monitoring hardware.
Camera for cafeteria timelapse.
Necessary:
Luigi Balbo’s and Savannahs article on acoustics
Director of Flick to understand the limitations of potential layout changes and reasoning behind the current one.
Optional
Any other teachers who might be able to help. Student survey to see what they perceive is negatively affecting them in regards to classroom life.
temp+Humidity and lighting+
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