Year 8 at Arrowtown School en-route to becoming air quality experts!
As a part of Unlocking Curious Minds project , NIWA scientists spent their day at Arrowtown School with Year 8 students performing air quality experiments and learning about connections between air quality, weather and health in Arrowtown, New Zealand and around the world. Students observed particles in the air, measured air quality and weather and found out about their own lung capacity. Highlight of the day for students One of the things they learned was about how the cilia in our lungs help us breathe easily by keeping the particles out (to be honest though, they practiced the art of throwing paper balls at their teachers, while teachers failed miserably to defend themselves!!) - as is obvious from their facial expressions, they loved it.. Highlight of the day for scientists and teachers: All the little activities during the day and 5-minute discussions around them triggered a huge variety of questions in their creative minds, some of them below: Does