ST27-Smart eco-agriculture-EN

Initially, students are taught together by the biology teacher, who introduces them to the importance of organic farming and the need for precision irrigation and fertilization. Then, with the assistance of the school management, a meeting is organized with representatives of ecological farming companies in the area, as well as with parents who are engaged in growing vegetables. With the support of the school management, a small experimental greenhouse is provided in the school yard and they decide what vegetables will be planted. The students are divided into small groups of 3-4 people each, who study the technology of growing individual vegetables – tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, etc. Together with the biology teacher and the support of the parents, separate groups of students plant the vegetables in the greenhouse. In parallel, with the computer science teacher, the students are introduced to the possibilities of sensor devices through which they can observe the development of plants. Appropriate temperature and humidity sensors are provided and placed in appropriate locations in the greenhouse with the vegetables.

In the next stage, the informatics teacher helps the students to use an appropriate online environment to receive and analyze the data received from the sensors. Together with the biology teacher, the data from the sensors is summarized and analyzed. Conclusions are made about the need for watering, fertilizing, spraying or other agro technical activities related to increasing the efficiency in the technology of growing vegetables. Together with the entrepreneurship teacher, individual groups of students design, predict and report the economic effect of precision agriculture. They analyze costs and plan potential revenues. In the final stage, students present the results of their work. The work on the topic lasts 15 hours (about 4 months) in a period suitable for the vegetation of vegetables.