Team 2: Teacher Reviews of the Kit
After figuring out the pack contents we got a group of Primary and Secondary school teachers to come in and review the pack and the idea of our service. We got some really great feedback on how this could be rolled out into schools and also what kind of engagement the students might have, whether they would want to engage with this at all. Our chat with the teachers reinforced our selection of the 5th/ 6th class age group.
Meanwhile we also arranged to go to a local school to speak to a 6th class teacher and to run the Vaseline and card/ jar activity with the class.
We divided ourselves up: 3 people would run the activity with a group of students and one person would be filming. We prepared a pack for each of us to take. Each pack contained vaseline, jars, card and string.
The teacher introduced the activity to the class by asking what they thought the phrase "a breath of fresh air" meant. The way we ran the activity was we got each student to put their names on their card/ jar and tie a piece of string on the card. We then went outside into 3 different areas of the school playground and here the students put vaseline on their cards and jars. They then found a spot to hang the cards and place the jars, noting down their locations. The children were all curious as to what we were doing and why, and some of them, surprisingly enough, knew a lot about air quality already.
We are hoping to go back to the school before our final presentation to get the cards back and see if they collected any data. Overall both the students and teacher enjoyed the activity. It did not take up too much time and it was great for us to see it in a real life context.
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