"SHOWER.Living Asia» tells how to become more nature-friendly with the help of information technology. In the section "Ecofriendly» a selection of 9 free mobile applications for your phone.
DIRTY DOZEN
The EWG app not only measures pesticide levels in food, but also offers a list of “clean”—pesticide-resistant—foods.
EWG ( The E nvironmental Working Group) – An American non-profit human rights organization that annually publishes statistics on the most toxin-contaminated vegetables and fruits.
iTunes: DIRTY DOZEN
Android: DIRTY DOZEN
The development of Belarusian programmers is intended for children. By playing Ecokids, your child will learn how to properly sort waste, save water and electricity, and be more careful with the environment.
iTunes: ECOKIDS
Android: ECOKIDS
GO GREEN
For those who have started to lead a “green” lifestyle, this application will come in handy - it will help you quickly become one of those who are called ecofriendly. Each time you launch the application, it will give simple, but practical, everyday eco-advice - like the ones we give in our section.
iTunes: GO GREEN
Android: GO GREEN
SEPARATE COLLECTION
The program contains not only information about what type of waste we recycle, but also allows you to create your own schedule for collecting and disposing of garbage - by day and by week. You will receive a notification about the timely disposal of this or that type of waste.
iTunes: SEPARATE COLLECTION
EARTH-NOW
With the help of this NASA development, anyone can monitor global climate changes online, data about which comes from Earth Science satellites. A three-dimensional figure of the Earth appears on your screen, by rotating which you can get acquainted with maps of air temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, water vapor, and also find out what the fluctuations in the readings of gravity, sea level and its salinity are.
iTunes: EARTH-NOW
Android: EARTH-NOW
LEAFSNAP
Take a photo of a plant leaf, and an application developed by American universities will tell you what kind of plant it is and what its characteristics are.
iTunes: LEAFSNAP
LOSS OF THE NIGHT
By downloading the app, you can participate in a crowdsourced science project designed to evaluate star visibility and light pollution in the night sky.
Light pollution makes astronomical observations difficult and harms living organisms. Its sources are elements of the urban environment.
You need to look for constellations and make your own map of the visibility of the night sky - this data will help scientists in their research. More than 10 thousand people help science and ecology through this application - the results are described in a special blog.
iTunes: LOSS OF THE NIGHT
Android: LOSS OF THE NIGHT
ECOLOGY AND LAW
To participate in this project, it was necessary for every teacher who would like to teach such a lesson in their school to submit an application.
What are the benefits of participating in a lesson of this format?
For teachers - an exciting experience, exclusive teaching materials, certificates and letters of gratitude.
Students receive up-to-date knowledge about the “green” capabilities of mobile technologies and modern gadgets, competitions and prizes.
To see the full scale, I advise you to look at the all-Russian online map of this project. Here is a screenshot of this map:
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| Map of participants in Petrozavodsk |
And although this eco-lesson was recommended for grades 2-9, my first-graders found it interesting! When preparing for an eco-lesson, I myself discovered new possibilities of mobile technologies for the environment, what can we say about children! Therefore, the presentation was interesting and very informative even for my gavriks!
And the eco-board game, in our case, is a “floor” game, because we really like to play on the carpet, and not at the table - it caused many exclamations of surprise and admiration. At first glance, from the outside, it’s an ordinary “wandering game,” but at a second, closer look, every step, every cell is a specific task: “Situation,” “Cognitive question,” “creative task.” Yes, some of the words in the tasks on the cards were not entirely clear to my first-graders and it took us time to figure them out, but this did not weaken the interest, but only increased the time for conducting the eco-lesson. Fortunately, we are first-graders, not the busiest people at school, and we can use our time more freely than others.
And folding the package mod took us only 10 minutes! This is not the first time we have folded a book. This book - homework - has already migrated to the children's families.
The All-Russian children's drawing competition “Mobile Technologies for the Environment” has been announced. Deadline May 22, 2017.
Organizer: MTS company with the support of the ECA Green Movement.
Participants in the competition can be preschoolers and schoolchildren aged 6 to 16 years.
The goal of the competition is to draw attention to environmental problems and the importance of caring for nature and to show how, with the help of modern technologies, you can contribute to the conservation of nature.
A participant can submit one work in each of 3 categories:
- Technologies of the present and future to help nature. In their works, participants can talk about existing technologies that help reduce the ecological footprint of humanity and preserve nature (examples - alternative energy sources, video surveillance systems for detecting fires, etc.), and present their own ideas about technologies for preserving nature that may appear in the future.
- How to contribute to the fight against climate change. Although climate change is a global problem, we can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are one of the sources of this problem, through everyday actions to conserve energy and resources. The participant is encouraged to learn more (for example, using the Internet) about the problem of climate change, the human impact on it, and what actions can help reduce our harmful impact on the climate. And show it in your work!
- How can I help nature today with the help of technology. You and I spend a significant part of the day with gadgets and can hardly imagine our life without technology. How can we use our gadgets to reduce our environmental footprint (for example, electricity consumption), what web and mobile applications are there that help us do useful things - for example, find recycling points, report a fire in the forest, or find bicycle parking in your city, etc.? The participant is invited to find answers to these questions and display this in his creative works!
During the evaluation, works will be assessed in 3 different categories according to the following age categories:
- from 6 to 9 years;
- from 10 to 13 years;
- from 13 to 16 years old.
The competition accepts drawings in 2 types:
- drawings made by hand, scanned and uploaded to a special project website (drawings can be made in different techniques - watercolors, pencils, etc.);
- digital drawings made by participants using various graphics programs (drawings must be original).
The competition accepts drawings in JPEG, TIFF, PDF formats, file size - no less than 1 MB and no more than 10 MB.
Rewarding of participants and prizes:
- Winners are determined in each category (both age and thematic).
- The three authors of the best works in each category will receive unique chargers powered by solar batteries.
- All competition participants will receive electronic diplomas confirming their participation in the competition.
- The winners will receive special diplomas indicating their victory.
According to the All-Russian Study of Digital Competence of Teenagers and Parents (Internet Development Foundation, 2013), 76% of Russian schoolchildren spend an average of 3 hours a day on the Internet. Every seventh teenager aged 12 to 17 years spends almost a third of their life online (8 hours a day). 56% of teenagers access the Internet using mobile devices. On the one hand, children growing up in the era of the total Internet are at risk of excessive “virtualization,” “erosion of childhood,” exposure to unwanted content, and the development of gaming and other addictions. On the other hand, these same children have a chance to become conscious consumers, progressive active citizens, solving global problems of society - including environmental problems. In this dual situation, it is very important to motivate children to use the constructive, developmental capabilities of the Internet, and to show that virtual activities can bring real results.
The eco-lesson “Mobile Technologies for Ecology” introduced the children to current, convenient web services and applications that help solve problems related to protecting the nature of their hometown and region, as well as begin to practice a more responsible and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
This lesson helped solve one of the most pressing problems of modern education - environmental education of schoolchildren with an emphasis on everyday environmentally friendly practices.
During the lesson, the children learned about the involvement of Russian residents in the use of mobile and Internet technologies, about technology to protect nature: protecting forests, animals, planting trees, fighting garbage, energy saving with the help of gadgets, about environmentally friendly gadgets created by Russian innovators, about the opportunity for young innovators: competition “Telecom Idea Junior” (mobile application “Take care of the forest!”, monitoring systems “Lesnoy Dozor”, website Posadiles.ru.)
We played the board game “The Adventures of Ekoneshka and Her Friends.” The students were divided into 3 groups. Each team comes up with a name related to the Internet and gadgets. To move around the playing field, each
the team received one of the heroes - Ekoneshka, Interneshka or Smartik. The game continued at recess.
And at the end of the lesson - awarding the winners with a Certificate from Ekoneshka and collecting a reminder book.
The kids really enjoyed the lesson and were surprised by some of the information.
Use gadgets for your development and solving environmental problems!!!
Class teacher 5/6
Demchenko Lyudmila Vladimirovna
We invite you and your school to become participants in the project “Mobile Technologies for the Environment”
and conduct an All-Russian Eco-Lesson!
The lesson can be taught by a teacher at your school,
MTS volunteer or activist of the ECA Movement.
Join
school for the project I am ready to conduct
eco lesson
This unusual and useful project is organized within the framework of the “Green Schools” program of the All-Russian ECA movement with the support and direct participation
MTS company.
Your children will not part with their mobile phones, tablets and other
devices (or gadgets)?
Let's make them part and subject of an exciting educational process,
in which your students - I am sure - will participate with great interest.
A teacher or volunteer does not need to have special knowledge or training to conduct an All-Russian eco-lesson - the project organizers have prepared teaching materials and a video tutorial to help, where everything is laid out down to the details.
All you have to do is teach the lesson!
All schools where the lesson will be held will receive project diplomas, and students will receive pocket books on how to protect nature.
The participating school will be included on the all-Russian online map of the project, and the best photos from the lessons will be included in the project’s online album.
Eco-Lesson “Mobile technologies for the environment” is dedicated to International Earth Day on April 22.
From April 21 to 27, during the Spring Week of Kindness, thousands of progressive and nature-loving teachers and volunteers will conduct an eco-lesson.
Other project activities
Events will also be held in 20 regions during April, which will be supervised by regional project coordinators:
City-wide eco-festivals
"Second life of things" where, during exciting practical master classes, students will learn how to save the resources of the planet by sending household waste for recycling or giving a second life to their favorite things.
Game-competition “Green Economy.
Technologies for ecology" The game will take place in several stages (two qualifying rounds, a semi-final and a final) between school teams of high school students, the winning team will not only expand their knowledge about the “green” economy - the nature-preserving economy of the future, but will also receive prizes from the MTS company!
Vologda Region,
Voronezh region,
Irkutsk region,
Krasnodar region,
Leningrad region,
Moscow and Moscow region,
Novosibirsk region,
Orenburg region,
Penza region,
Pskov region,
Republic of Bashkiria,
The Republic of Mordovia,
Republic of Udmurtia,
Chuvash Republic,
Ryazan Oblast,
Samara Region,
Saratov region,
Sverdlovsk region,
Tula region,
Ulyanovsk region,
Yaroslavl region.